Labels your whole family can print — even the ones who can't do computers.
Laberty turns a Brother label printer into a family appliance: talk to it and — now — it talks back, food labels from a barcode photo, appointment cards, grocery runs. Everyone in the household gets exactly what they need: a simple screen for whoever prints, a full console for whoever runs the house.
Runs on the Brother QL series · source code available with the Founder license · your data stays yours
One printer. A whole household of jobs.
🗣 Ask Laberty — now it talks back
"Send a birthday card to the Hendersons." The assistant finds the household, picks the right name style, and shows one big print button. Hold the microphone or type — both are always sitting right there — with tap-to-answer chips for every question. New: turn on "Speak replies" and it reads its answers out loud too, in a calm voice, in a house where reading the screen isn't always the easy option. The words are always on screen first; speech is only ever an extra way to get them.
- Adds and fixes addresses just by talking it through
- Offers to remember birthdays — then mails the labels itself next year
- Works with JavaScript switched off — every button is a real, working form
- Nothing ever happens without an explicit tap on a real button
🥫 Food labels with a brain
Scan a barcode — or just photograph the product — and two AIs search the web, cross-check each other against a UPC database, and hand you a finished label: name, use-by date, nutrition, cooking directions, a real scannable barcode. Wrong directions on the box lookup? Photograph the box panel and it transcribes the real thing.
- Custom house barcodes for your own cooking
- Day-month-year dates that can't be misread
- Long content flows onto extra labels instead of shrinking to nothing
🛒 Grocery mode
A no-login page made for one hand in a store aisle: scan as you shop, and every lookup, expiration date, and label happens later from the couch. Speak the dates — "the milk's good for two weeks" — and it files them onto the right items.
- Every household gets its own personal grocery link, set up on your phone in a minute
- Camera, barcode gun, or plain typing
- Full history of what you bought and when
📅 Appointment cards & calendar strips
Corkboard-ready appointment cards — big bold name, time, and date — plus a compact strip sized to fit a paper wall calendar square with room left to handwrite. Dictate a week of appointments in one breath and the AI splits it into cards for you to check.
- Saved, editable, and reprintable any time — a tapped link, not a form
- Either size, same saved appointment: the card or the calendar strip, whichever you need this time
- Long appointment names get smart automatic abbreviations
- Print one, or select a whole stack at once — and it self-cleans after the date passes
🖨 Printing that doesn't jam and wait
A printer fed the wrong roll doesn't just print wrong — a die-cut printer jams and sits there until someone walks over and clears it. When a Laberty device at the printer confirms which roll is loaded, or the printer reports its own media, Laberty refuses a job that needs a different roll before it's ever sent. When only a person has answered “this roll is in”, Laberty trusts that answer for 12 hours; after that the printer's own error is the check again. Some printers, including the Brother QL-820NWB over the network, don't report what's loaded, so without a device there is no automatic check for them.
- When the roll is confirmed by a device or the printer, a wrong-roll occasion label waits in "Ready to print" instead of jamming the printer; other jobs are refused with a clear message
- Not sure which roll is in? Laberty asks whoever presses Print, once, before anything is sent
- When a printer reports its own roll, that report always counts; no setting can override what it says
🎛 Laberty devices — a button by the printer
A touchscreen, a round knob, an e-ink sign or a button box with one big Print button: small ESP32 devices (DIY: you buy the parts and flash the board yourself) that sit next to the printer, so nobody needs to open the app to print the labels that are waiting. Design one in Admin → Devices and press its buttons in the live simulator before you buy a board.
- Birthday and anniversary labels can wait in Ready to print until the right roll is loaded
- A light blinks while labels are waiting; one press prints them
- DIY build: Laberty draws the wiring and supplies the firmware; you buy the board and parts and put it together
Home includes 1 Laberty device with 2 buttons and 2 lights. Business: unlimited Laberty devices, plus advanced commands — relays, analog and 4–20 mA triggers, webhooks. A board's built-in knob or touchscreen never counts.
AI proposes. You decide. Code does the math.
Laberty uses AI where language lives — understanding what you said, finding products, transcribing a box panel — and deterministic code where mistakes hurt: dates, barcodes, and printing. Every AI suggestion is validated against your real data and waits for your tap. Two models cross-check each other on product lookups, and disagreements are shown, not hidden.
Home and Business include a monthly allowance of AI actions on our keys — assistants, lookups, vision, all counted transparently in your analytics. Free gets 10 trial actions, then runs AI on your own key.
Add your own Anthropic or OpenAI key and your AI runs on your account — uncapped, at cost, and your usage never touches our meters.
Built-in analytics show each AI call, its tokens, and its estimated cost. No mystery meat.
Tell a friend about it without handing over your address book.
Yes, of course your data is separate from everyone else's — that's the floor, not a feature. What's worth knowing is how completely separate: when someone else signs up, they get their own everything. Their own people and addresses, their own food catalog, their own printers, their own logins, even their own name for the app and their own assistant personality. There is no shared directory, no "family network" to join, nothing of yours to accidentally expose.
The boring but important part: your data is here to print your labels. It is not sold, not shared, and not used to train anything.
Everyone gets exactly what they need — nothing more.
Same data, different screens on purpose: an admin who runs everything, a caregiver who prints and keeps the day-to-day things going without touching billing or security, and a simple mode for someone who should just see what's ready to print — no settings, no other people's stuff, no clutter. Pick a template when you add someone, adjust any one thing after, and both the console and the member screen obey it on the very next page load.
A simple-mode screen only ever shows the buttons an admin chose for it — never a setting, never someone else's household, never a page it doesn't need. Hiding a button isn't the only lock: the same rule is checked again on every single page, so there's nothing left to stumble into.
Start free. Add what you need.
Free gets you printing, with the Laberty Bridge for your first printer. Home is $6 a month for the whole household, with a 14-day free trial (a card is required to start it, and you can cancel before it ends). Every price, add-on and the full comparison are on one page.
- Address labels, notes and the assistant
- The Laberty Bridge for your first printer
- Bring your own AI keys
- Everything in Free
- Food labels, grocery, appointments, occasions
- Two printers, the bridge, wrong-label alerts
- 500 AI actions a month
See all plans, add-ons and the comparison → Running a business? Laberty for business
Questions people actually ask
Which printers work?
Laberty is built around the Brother QL series (QL-820NWB, QL-810W and QL-1110NWB by network; QL-600 by USB) on die-cut address stock and 2.4" continuous rolls. With no setup, Laberty makes the labels as a PDF at the exact size and hands them to your phone or tablet's Share menu, so any printer that shows up when you tap Print there works; check the printer maker's instructions for your model. For pressing Print and having it print on its own, you run the print bridge (the QL-600 has to be plugged into that computer by USB). Beyond that, the desktop print agent — a small Docker container you run on any computer near your printers — drives everything else through two universal paths: your operating system's own print system (Brother QL and PT, Dymo, Rollo, TSC, and any ordinary inkjet or laser printer) and raw network printing for Zebra ZPL label printers and Epson/Star ESC/POS receipt printers. Nothing needs an inbound port: the agent reaches out to Laberty, claims jobs, and prints them.
Is it really usable by someone who "can't do computers"?
That's who it was built for. The member screen is one purpose-built page: talk or tap, huge buttons, one print button, no settings, no menus, only the buttons an admin picked. If anything ever breaks, they see a calm "your admin has been notified" — and the admin really does get an email about it, right away.
Can the assistant read its answers out loud?
Yes. Turn on "Speak replies" and it answers out loud, right after showing the same words on screen — the words come first either way, so an audio hiccup never means a lost answer. There are two voices to pick from, and it only ever speaks after a real tap on this screen, never on its own. Works with the sound off exactly the same: type or hold the microphone, either way.
How does the AI pricing really work?
Home and Business include a monthly allowance of AI actions on our keys — an action is one assistant reply or photo read, and a full web-search product lookup counts as five. Free includes 10 trial actions to try it, then AI runs entirely on your own key. Three ways to go further, all optional: buy a pack of extra actions (they never expire), switch on pay-as-you-go with a monthly spending limit you set yourself, or add your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key so all of your AI runs on your account instead — uncapped by us, billed by the provider at their rates, usually pennies. Analytics shows every call and its estimated cost either way.
How do I sign in? Is there two-factor?
Two ways, and no passwords: a link we email you (it works once and expires in 20 minutes), or a passkey (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, or a hardware security key — nothing to type or remember). Turn on authenticator-app two-factor and you'll be asked for a six-digit code after the email link; you get one-time recovery codes at the same time, so a lost phone is an inconvenience rather than a lockout. Passkeys count as strong authentication on their own, and they're the easiest option by far for anyone who finds typing on a tablet a struggle.
Can my company sign in with its own accounts?
On the Business plan, yes. Connect Duo Single Sign-On, Microsoft Entra, Okta, Google Workspace or any OpenID Connect provider, claim your email domains, and your people sign in through your own login, with whatever multi-factor you already require. You can also require Duo two-factor for people who use an email link. Passkeys keep working, and an admin can always get in to fix a provider problem.
Can other families see my data?
No. Every family is a separate workspace and every database query is scoped to it — people, labels, food catalogs, printers, branding, even the assistant's personality are per-workspace. Workspace admins can't see other workspaces. Anyone can start their own workspace by signing up; the deployment's domain admin can also create them.
Is it open source? Can I self-host?
Laberty is not open source today. It runs on Cloudflare Workers with a D1 database and no proprietary services beyond the AI keys you choose. Self-hosters bring their own keys. The one-time Founder license gives you the source code, premium modules included, to run on your own Cloudflare account and modify for your own household or organization — with 12 months of updates and no support. It isn't for resale or for hosting Laberty for other people; the terms are short and plain.
What happens if I cancel?
Your workspace drops to the Free plan: address labels and the assistant keep working, the premium tabs pause but nothing is deleted. Come back any time; your data is exactly where you left it.
Do you sell my data or train on it?
No and no. Your data lives in the app's own database, is used to print your labels, and that's the whole story. AI calls go to the provider you chose (Anthropic/OpenAI) under their API terms, which don't train on API data. Full detail in the Privacy Policy.