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One subscription covers everyone. Cancel from the App Store. Free during the beta.
Prices in USD. Your own store shows local pricing at checkout.
Free for everyone during the beta. Waitlist members get three months of Compass — Vela's mid-tier — free at launch. Nothing is charged until we ship. The prices above are what's coming.
An action is one thing you ask Vela to do in a message — file an event, parse a flyer, add a shopping item, set a reminder, answer a question about your week. What's always free: anything you do in the app yourself — opening it, scrolling the calendar, checking off a shopping item — and any nudge Vela sends on her own.
Here's an illustrative week for the Reyes family (Maya, Mateo, Noah, Oma when she visits):
If your family looks like the Reyes, the free plan tops out around the 11th of the month. Compass (500/mo) is the realistic floor for households with two adults and at least one school-age kid. Atlas is for families who'd rather not count.
Every message you send Vela — filing events, tasks, shopping, and reminders, or asking about your week.
Anything you do in the app yourself — opening it, viewing the calendar, checking items off — and nudges Vela sends on her own.
Vela keeps answering questions — what's on the calendar, what's on the list. What waits is changing things, until your month resets or you upgrade. Doing it yourself in the app is never affected.
If you'd ask a person, ask us. support@vela.family
You can still ask Vela anything. What's on the calendar, what's left on the list, when practice starts — she answers those exactly as before. What waits is changing things: ask her to add, move, or delete something and she'll say it has to hold until your month resets or you upgrade to Compass, and roughly when that reset lands. Doing it yourself in the app is never affected, and you're never cut off mid-task — the request you're on finishes.
Really. One $4.99 covers Maya, Mateo, Noah, Oma when she visits, the babysitter when she's over. There's no add-a-seat fee because there are no seats — Vela works for the whole household, not per-user pricing baked in.
The unit-economics absorb this because Vela's costs scale with action count, not headcount. A family of six who file 200 actions costs us the same as a family of two who file 200 actions.
Free gives a real product to households that want to try us — not a 14-day trial that pressures you to upgrade. Compass is what most families need. Atlas exists for two cohorts: families who outgrow the Compass action budget, and families who'd rather support the work — priority support is a thank-you.
Two tiers would have forced "trial-then-pay" on visitors who genuinely fit at 50 actions/month. Four would have been one too many.
You email support@vela.family and your message goes to the front of the queue. Compass and free users get the same reply quality — Atlas is just read first.
No hour-count promises — we'd rather under-promise and over-deliver.
Yes, and no. Cancel in the App Store / Play Store in two taps. We don't get an interstitial, don't get to ask why, don't get to offer you a "50% off" save-flow. You also keep access until the end of your paid period — no clawback. Your data stays exportable; if you want it deleted, email us and we'll take care of it.
No newsletter. No drip campaign. Just a note saying it's open.
Free during the beta. Waitlist members get 3 months of Compass free at launch.