For WhatsApp families
The class WhatsApp group shouldn't be your safety net.
Every class has the group, and every parent knows why it exists: the school emails everything, and everybody misses emails. So you stay in it “just in case” — own-clothes day, trips, the thing due tomorrow — and wade through 47 messages about a lost jumper to find the one date that matters.
Quiet Loon is the safety net, automated. We read the school emails and WhatsApp you the dates — day-before, morning-of, both parents in sync.
14-day free trial. Cancel any time. You will not be charged until day 15.
Sound familiar?
You're in the group for the one message that matters.
Reminder lands in your inbox at 9am. You see it at 7pm, alongside 47 other unread messages. The deadline was 4pm.
You silenced email notifications years ago to stay sane. Now you cannot rely on them either.
Forty-seven messages since lunch. A lost jumper, two memes, a poll about the teacher’s present — and, somewhere in there, what time the coach leaves tomorrow.
You forwarded the club email to your partner. They forwarded it back. Nobody knows what is now true.
“Just checking — is it own-clothes day tomorrow?” Asked in the group at 9pm. Every term. By someone. Because the email went out three weeks ago.
You’d love to leave the group. You never will — because the one time you mute it, that’s when the trip gets cancelled.
Keep the group for the human stuff. Let Quiet Loon carry the dates.
The real reason
The group exists because everyone misses emails.
Ask any class rep. The group wasn't set up for chat — it was set up because the school sends everything by email, and no parent catches everything. So the group became the human backup: someone re-posts the trip letter, someone asks about PE kit, someone confirms the deadline. Useful — but it only works if someone else read the email.
Quiet Loon does the same job without depending on the most organised parent in the class. It reads your school's emails directly and sends what needs doing to your WhatsApp — the reminder arrives whether or not anyone in the group noticed.
How it works
Forward an email. Get a WhatsApp.
Set it up once, in under five minutes. The reminders just start arriving.
Step 01
Forward one email
School newsletter, club update, nursery letter, party invite. Forward it to your unique Quiet Loon address. Or set up auto-forwarding once — see the step-by-step forwarding guide.
Step 02
Opt in to WhatsApp
Add your phone number and confirm the verification message. Each family member can opt in separately so reminders go to the right parent.
Step 03
Reminders arrive on WhatsApp
Day before and morning of, by default. Tap the link to see the original email. No login needed to read it.
Step 01
Forward one email
School newsletter, club update, nursery letter, party invite. Forward it to your Quiet Loon address. Or set up auto-forwarding once — see the step-by-step forwarding guide.
Step 02
Opt in to WhatsApp
Add your phone number and confirm the verification message. Each family member can opt in separately.
Step 03
Reminders arrive on WhatsApp
Day before and morning of, by default. Tap the link to see the original email. No login needed.
What you get
Quiet, useful, hard to miss.
Event reminders
“Year 3 trip tomorrow, pickup at 4pm.” Lands the night before. Morning-of reminder follows for the time-critical ones. The same events can sit in your own calendar too — see the guide to adding school dates to Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar.
Task and payment deadlines
Permission slips due. ParentPay balance low. Sports kit money. Reminders fire before the deadline, not after — see how Quiet Loon organises ParentPay emails, or what to do when there are too many school apps.
Weekly recurring rules
“Library book Wednesday night” type things. Set them up once, they fire every week, on WhatsApp.
Per-parent routing
Tasks assigned to your partner get sent to their WhatsApp, not yours. No more “I thought you were doing that”.
Verified WhatsApp sender
Reminders come from our verified WhatsApp Business number — not a personal account, not a group. They arrive reliably, look professional, and never get buried under 47 lost-jumper messages.
Email and WhatsApp side by side
Use one, the other, or both. Each family member picks their own preference in settings.
Families already live on WhatsApp.
School gate chats. The family group. The football team. The places where coordination actually happens are on WhatsApp, not in email.
Quiet Loon meets you there. The reminder looks like any other WhatsApp message, just usefully timed and accurate. And unlike the class group, it never needs the right parent to have read the right email at the right time.
Pricing
WhatsApp reminders are on Premium
£9.99/month or £79.99/year for Premium. Both tiers include the full email-reading and calendar features — take a look inside the Quiet Loon dashboard. Premium adds WhatsApp delivery alongside email. Try free for 14 days, no card charged until day 15.
Leave the group on mute. Keep the dates.
Forward one email. We'll WhatsApp you when it matters.
14-day free trial. Cancel any time. You will not be charged until day 15.