Maple Is Shutting Down: 7 Best Maple App Alternatives

If your family runs on Maple, you have a deadline. Maple — the Maple Family Assistant and Maple Family Organizer app — is shutting down on December 31, 2026, after its team was acquired by Wander. Accounts stay live until then; afterward all data is deleted and the Google, Apple, Outlook, and TeamSnap connections are severed. That gives families the rest of 2026 to export, pick a replacement, and rebuild the shared calendar and lists. Here's what to do first, then the seven best Maple alternatives ranked by how much of Maple's job each one covers.

A disclosure up front: our own app, Calendara, is first on this list, and it's iPhone and iPad only. Maple ran on both iOS and Android, so mixed-device households should weigh picks 2 through 7 more heavily — all of them work with Android.

What Maple did, and what you need to replace

Maple's free tier was unusually complete: a shared family calendar with a side-by-side member view, a meal planner, a recipe box, grocery lists, shared to-dos, shared notes, a family email inbox, and project folders. Maple+ (about $40/yr, or $5/mo) added external calendar sync with Google, Apple, and Outlook, Gmail import into events, unlimited AI, up to five users, an ad-free experience, and group chat.

That's a lot for one app, and no single replacement matches every module. The table maps Maple's features to the alternatives that cover them best.

The short answer

How to move off Maple before December 31

1. Export your data now, not in December. Maple has said all data will be deleted at shutdown with no recovery. Pull your calendar, recipes, and lists out while the account is active.
2. Reconnect calendars directly. If you synced Google, Apple, or Outlook through Maple, that link dies with Maple. Connect the same accounts inside your new app — Calendara's two-way Google Calendar sync, Cozi's one-way Google sync, or Google/Apple's native sharing.
3. Rebuild the shared calendar from the source documents. The fastest route is to photograph them: the school year calendar, the camp packet, the team schedule. Calendara reads a photo or PDF of a schedule and adds every event to the shared calendar in one pass.
4. Recreate lists from a photo. Print or screenshot your Maple grocery and to-do lists, then photograph them into a shared list. Recipes work the same way — photograph the recipe card or page.
5. Invite the household and check permissions. Confirm every family member sees the shared calendar and that kids' access is view-only if that's what you had.
6. Cancel or let Maple+ lapse. Annual subscriptions won't renew, but check that you're not billed for a partial period.

1. Calendara — best for iPhone families who hated typing into Maple

Maple's AI could turn Gmail into events on Maple+. Calendara starts one step earlier: the schedule itself. Take a photo of the school flyer, the printed sports schedule, the camp PDF, or the coach's handwriting, and AI extracts every event — title, date, time, location — into a shared, color-coded family calendar. Forty dates take about twenty seconds; you review before saving.

Calendara also has two-way Google Calendar sync and an Apple Calendar connection on iPhone (Maple gated external sync behind Maple+; Calendara includes both), shared grocery, to-do, and chore lists with photo-to-list capture, recipes from photos, family invites by QR code, and per-member view/edit permissions. No ads. It's free during early access — a 7-day full-access preview, then $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr once pricing begins — and families who join during early access keep their access.

What it doesn't replace from Maple: the meal-planner module, the family email inbox, group chat, and Android. Calendara is iPhone and iPad only; Android relatives can see and edit the shared calendar through Google Calendar via the two-way sync.

Best for: iPhone households that want the calendar to fill itself from a photo.

2. Cozi — closest cross-platform all-rounder

Feature for feature, Cozi is the most Maple-like app still standing: shared color-coded calendar, shopping and to-do lists, a recipe box, and a meal planner, on iPhone, Android, and the web. The Sunday digest email is a Maple-inbox-adjacent touch some families will appreciate.

Know the tiers. Cozi Free ($0) shows ads and caps the forward calendar view at roughly 30 days. Cozi Gold ($39/yr) removes ads and adds month view and search. Cozi Max ($79.99/yr) adds AI Event Import from your email inbox — the nearest thing to Maple's Gmail import — plus an AI recipe creator and meal planner. Cozi's Google sync is one-way (Cozi → Google). Our Calendara vs Cozi comparison and Cozi pricing guide have the detail.

Best for: mixed-device families who want calendar, lists, and meals in one familiar app.

3. FamilyWall — best for messaging, chores, and location

If you used Maple's group chat and want more household coordination, not less, FamilyWall bundles a shared calendar, lists, a meal planner, chore charts with assignments, and family messaging, and adds real-time location sharing and budgeting on Premium ($44.99/yr, monthly options offered). Google and Outlook sync are Premium-only. It runs on iOS, Android, web, and Windows.

The caveat is reliability: users report sync lag and missed notifications. No AI at any tier. See our FamilyWall review.

Best for: families who want chat and location in the same app as the calendar.

4. Skylight Calendar — best if you want the calendar on the wall

Skylight isn't a like-for-like Maple replacement, but many Maple households were already eyeing a kitchen display. The 15-inch Calendar 2 is $299.99 and the 27-inch Max is $599.99; the planner features — meal planning, chores and rewards, and Magic Import of emails, PDFs, and photographed flyers — need Skylight Plus at $79/yr. It syncs Google, Apple, Outlook, and Cozi calendars. Our Skylight alternatives roundup compares it with other displays.

Best for: households where visibility is the problem and budget isn't.

5. Google Calendar + Google Keep — the free cross-platform fallback

Create a Google family group (up to six people) and Google auto-creates a shared Family calendar everyone can edit, on every platform. Google Keep handles shared grocery and to-do lists. It's free and it will never shut down on you. What you lose: family-member colors beyond separate calendars, recipes, meal planning, and any photo or PDF import — Google Lens creates one event at a time. Pair it with Calendara's two-way sync and the photo problem goes away; our Google Calendar for families guide explains the setup.

Best for: families who want free, cross-platform, and simple.

6. Apple Calendar + Reminders — the free all-iPhone fallback

Family Sharing (up to six people) auto-creates a shared Family calendar in Apple Calendar, and shared Reminders lists cover groceries and chores. Free, built in, private. Limits: Android relatives can't edit an iCloud calendar, there's no photo import beyond Live Text's one-event-at-a-time, and no recipes or meals. Our shared family calendar on iPhone guide walks through it.

Best for: all-Apple households that want zero new apps.

7. TimeTree — best if you mainly used Maple's calendar with a partner

TimeTree is a free shared calendar with a comment thread on every event, cross-platform, with more than 70 million users. If you and a partner mostly used Maple to see each other's week, TimeTree covers that well. It has no lists, recipes, or meals; the free tier has ads (Premium is $4.49/mo or $44.99/yr); Google integration is display-only plus one-way export; and its Event Scan photo feature works only in English and Japanese and not in the EU or UK. See our Calendara vs TimeTree comparison.

Best for: couples and small groups replacing only the calendar.

How we evaluated

Maple users are replacing a bundle, so we scored each alternative on coverage of Maple's modules (calendar, sync, lists, recipes, meals, chores, chat), data-entry effort (typed, emailed, or photographed), platform reach (iPhone, Android, web), and cost over three years. Calendara is our own app; it scores highest on data entry and cost, and lowest on platform reach and meal planning — weigh that honestly against your household.

How to choose

• All iPhone, tired of typing: Calendara.
• Mixed devices, want one app for calendar + lists + meals: Cozi Gold.
• Need chat and location too: FamilyWall Premium.
• Want it on the kitchen wall: Skylight with Plus.
• Want free and don't need extras: Google Calendar + Keep, or Apple Calendar + Reminders.
• Just a shared calendar with a partner: TimeTree.

For the broader field beyond Maple's shutdown, our best family planner apps and 7 best family calendar apps rankings compare everything side by side.

Bottom line

Maple's shutdown on December 31, 2026 is a hard deadline with permanent data loss on the other side, so export now and move before the holidays. If your household is on iPhone, Calendara replaces Maple's calendar and lists with less typing than Maple ever required — free during early access, then $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr once pricing begins. If you need Android or a meal planner, Cozi is the closest all-rounder.