Six TimeTree alternatives, for when the free calendar stops being enough
Where to go from TimeTree: Google Calendar for free, Cozi or FamilyWall with a family plan, Calendara for flyers, Skylight for the wall, or ours.
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Quick answer
Google Calendar if every adult already lives in Google and the problem was a second calendar. FamilyWall if TimeTree's per-account Premium was the problem. Cozi for another free calendar with a grocery list. Calendara for flyers into a calendar that syncs both ways. Skylight for a display on the wall. Chickadee Bandit if the family calendar has to sync with everyone's own calendars and carry chores and lists too.
TimeTree is a good free shared calendar, and for many families it is all they will ever need. People leave it for a handful of specific reasons, and each reason points somewhere different, so this list is ordered by reason rather than by how much we like each product.
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 household whose family calendar has to meet the calendars the adults already keep
TimeTree keeps its events to itself: a shared calendar does not update from Google or Outlook on its own, and nothing exports. We connect Google, Apple, Outlook and any CalDAV or ICS calendar and keep them synced into the family calendar, then send the family's events back out — into a calendar of their own in iCloud or Outlook, or as a subscribe feed for Google — so an adult who never opens the hub still sees the pickup. Around the calendar sit chores, grocery and task lists, meals and a wall display, with no ads for anyone. Against it: we cost money where TimeTree is free, and a household tops out at ten members where a TimeTree calendar holds 500.
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 family where every adult already lives in Google
If the reason you are leaving TimeTree is that the family calendar never meets the work calendar, the simplest fix may be to drop the second calendar. A Google family group of up to six people gets a shared Family calendar automatically, every member's own reminders apply to it, and it is already on every Android phone. Against it: there are 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 and when it is not.
Cost: Free with a Google Account.
Best for: A free shared calendar and grocery list, ads accepted
The other long-running free family calendar, with a grocery list and meal planner built in rather than memos. Like TimeTree it carries ads on the free tier, and the free tier also restricts how far ahead the calendar shows; Cozi Gold removes both. Its connections to other calendars are one-way feeds, so it does not solve the edge-of-the-calendar problem either.
Cost: Free with ads; Cozi Gold to remove them and unlock the full calendar view.
Best for: A large family that wants calendar sync, location and everything else for one price
The closest thing to TimeTree with a family plan: Premium covers unlimited members for about what one TimeTree Premium account costs, and adds Google and Outlook sync, location with place alerts, meals, budget, documents and Magic Import from forwarded email. If TimeTree's per-account pricing is the problem, this is the like-for-like swap.
Cost: Free tier with calendar, lists and messaging; Premium $4.99/mo or $44.99/yr for unlimited members.
Best for: Photographing flyers straight into a calendar that syncs both ways
If you liked Event Scan and wanted the result to land in Google or Apple Calendar too, this is that and little else: photograph a flyer or a note, and events sync both ways with Google and Apple. No ads, and one price for everyone. iPhone only, though — no Android, no web.
Cost: $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr, unlimited members. Seven-day trial, no ads.
Best for: A kitchen wall display you can buy today
TimeTree lives on phones. If the family calendar needs to be on the wall where the children can see it, Skylight is the appliance: a touchscreen that works out of the box, with a companion app. You are buying hardware, and meal planning and chore rewards sit behind Plus. Our wall-display mode is the bring-your-own-tablet route.
Cost: $150 to $600 for the display, plus about $79/yr for Skylight Plus.
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.
Why people look for a TimeTree alternative
The most common reason is the edge of the calendar. TimeTree reads your phone's calendar onto a private view, but a shared calendar does not update from Google or Outlook on its own, and its help centre says events cannot be exported or reflected in another calendar. An adult whose working life is in Google ends up checking two places, and one of them goes stale.
The second is ads. The free tier carries them, and Premium removes them per account at $44.99 a year, with no plan that covers the family.
The third is that the household outgrew a calendar: chores, a grocery list someone else can tick off, a screen on the wall. TimeTree's memos and checklists stretch a long way, but they have no owner and no due date.
Choosing between them
- If every adult already uses Google, try Google Calendar's Family calendar before paying anyone.
- If you want a family plan rather than per-person Premium, FamilyWall.
- If you want another free calendar and can live with ads, Cozi.
- If Event Scan was the feature you loved, Calendara, on iPhone.
- If the calendar belongs on the kitchen wall, Skylight, or our wall-display mode on a tablet you own.
- If the family calendar has to sync with everyone's own calendars and carry the rest of the household too, ours.
What you give up by leaving
Price, first: TimeTree is free and most of this list is not. Scale, second: a TimeTree calendar holds 500 people, which suits an extended family or a club in a way none of the household products here do.
TimeTree has no export, so nothing on this list can import its events. Connect the adults' own calendars first, re-enter the recurring family events by hand, and keep TimeTree open for a few weeks until nothing new lands there.
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 TimeTree, not a ranking of merit.
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