Six Maple alternatives before the app closes on December 31
Maple sunsets at the end of 2026. Where to move: FamilyWall, Cozi, TimeTree, Calendara, Google Calendar or ours, and what to save from Maple first.
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Quick answer
Save what you need from Maple first: its notice says data is deleted after December 31, 2026. Then: Chickadee Bandit if you used the calendar, school email, meals and chores together. FamilyWall for the nearest all-in-one with email import and unlimited members. Cozi or TimeTree for a free calendar. Calendara if reading school flyers was the point. Google Calendar if the calendar was all you used.
Maple's own site says it has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026. After that date, its notice says, accounts close and all data is deleted with no way to recover it. Every Maple family has to move somewhere, and the right place depends on which part of Maple you used.
We make the first entry and it is marked. Every claim about another product is restated from the head-to-head page linked from its name, or from our guide to Google Calendar.
The list
Chickadee Bandit
That's usBest for: A Maple household that used the calendar, school email, meals and chores together
The closest in shape: a shared calendar that syncs Google, Apple, Outlook and any CalDAV or ICS calendar in and sends the family's events back out, a Family Inbox you forward school emails to (or photograph the flyer), meal plans from your own recipe book that fill the grocery list, and chores with kid-friendly checklists. Capture proposes and you confirm, with an undo, rather than linking your mailbox. Against it: it costs more than Maple+ did, there is no free tier, and there is no assistant you talk to that reorganises the week for you.
Cost: $6/mo or $60/yr for the whole household, up to 10 members, every feature included. 30-day trial, no card, no ads on any plan.
Best for: A larger family that wants email import, meals and location in one price
The most complete of the traditional organizers, and the nearest to Maple's feature list: Magic Import adds events from a forwarded email and its attachments, and Premium adds meal planning, Google and Outlook sync, budget, documents and location. Unlimited members, where Maple+ covered five. No AI suggestions beyond the import.
Cost: Free tier with calendar, lists and messaging; Premium $4.99/mo or $44.99/yr for unlimited members.
Best for: A free calendar, grocery list and meal planner, ads accepted
If Maple's free tier was what you used, Cozi is the long-running free equivalent: a shared calendar, shopping lists and a meal planner with a recipe box. The trade is ads, a restricted forward view on the free tier, one-way calendar feeds, and no email import or chore system.
Cost: Free with ads; Cozi Gold to remove them and unlock the full calendar view.
Best for: A free shared calendar for a family that mostly used Maple's calendar
Widely used, free, and good at the calendar itself, with comments and photos on events and Event Scan for photographed flyers. It is narrower than Maple: memos instead of meal plans and chores, and events from Google or Outlook only reach a shared calendar by manual import. Nothing exports.
Cost: Free with ads. Premium $4.49/mo or $44.99/yr, bought in the app, per account.
Best for: Photographing school flyers into a calendar that syncs both ways
If the AI reading school paperwork was the part of Maple you will miss, this does that one job: photograph a flyer or note and the events sync both ways with Google and Apple. iPhone only, with no meals, chores or email link.
Cost: $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr, unlimited members. Seven-day trial, no ads.
Best for: A family that only used Maple's calendar and already lives in Google
Maple read from Google Calendar for many families, so the events are already there. A Google family group of up to six gets a shared Family calendar automatically. Against it: no meals, no chores, no assignee on an event, and members are not told when someone else changes one. Our guide sets out when it is enough.
Cost: Free with a Google Account.
Prices and features are restated from our head-to-head comparison pages and reflect each product's published pricing as of August 2026. Products change — always check the other product's site for current details.
Before you choose: save what you need
The notice recommends exporting before the date but describes no export tool. Events synced into Maple from Google, Apple or Outlook are still in those calendars. Everything created in Maple itself — recurring events, recipes, notes, the chore chart — has to be copied by hand. Do that first, whichever product you pick.
Choosing between them
- If you used the calendar, school email, meals and chores together, ours is the closest in shape.
- If you want unlimited members and email import in a traditional organizer, FamilyWall.
- If you were on Maple's free tier and want to stay free, Cozi for meals and lists, or TimeTree for the calendar alone.
- If reading school paperwork was the job, Calendara, on iPhone.
- If you only used the calendar and every adult is on Google, Google Calendar may be enough.
What none of them replace
Maple's assistant read across the family's data and suggested what to do about conflicts and meals. Nothing on this list does quite that. Our capture reads an email or a photo and proposes events, groceries and tasks for you to confirm; FamilyWall and Calendara read emails and flyers; none rearranges the week on its own.
The feature list is not fixed
Every other product on this page is a fixed set of features: it does what it does, and a need it did not anticipate gets a no. Chickadee Bandit is built from small apps, and a household can add one of its own. An admin describes the app in a paragraph on the Apps page and the hub builds and installs it, using the AI credits that come with every plan; someone who writes code can start from any of the open-source apps and install their own version from a URL. A custom app gets the same checks as the ones we ship: it declares what it reads and writes, keeps its data in your household's own database, and the hub refuses anything it did not ask for.
Where this list comes from
We make one of the products on it, and it is marked. Every claim about another product is restated from the head-to-head page that links from its name, where it was checked against that product's own site on the date shown there — nothing on this page was researched separately. The order is how close a like-for-like replacement each one is for someone leaving Maple, not a ranking of merit.
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