Plenty of families are split across phones — one parent on iPhone, another on Android, a grandparent on whatever their carrier sold them. If that's your household, an iPhone-only calendar app leaves someone out. Here are five family calendar apps that run on both iPhone and Android in 2026, with honest trade-offs for each.
A disclosure up front: we make Calendara, which isn't on this list because it's iPhone and iPad only, with no Android app and none planned. If your family is all-iPhone, Calendara vs Chickadee Bandit compares it against the closest AI-photo-capture pick below. For everyone else, here's what actually works across both platforms.
1. Chickadee Bandit — best AI photo capture on Android
Chickadee Bandit is a family organizer built cross-platform from day one: iPhone, Android, web, and a wall-display mode for a shared kitchen tablet. Its AI reads flyers and handwriting into calendar events, the same core job Calendara does — but it runs everywhere, and it bundles more than 100 mini-apps for meals, pet care, location sharing, messaging, and projects into one household plan.
Its calendar sync works by importing Google Calendar events into the hub and publishing hub events back out as read-only feeds for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook — so anyone can subscribe and see the schedule, but edits still happen inside the Chickadee Bandit hub rather than flowing back automatically from Google or Apple's own calendar apps.
Price: $6/mo or $60/yr (Family plan, up to 10 members), 30-day free trial, no credit card required.
Honest trade-off: if you want an edit made directly in Google Calendar or Apple Calendar to flow back into the shared hub automatically, Chickadee Bandit's feeds don't do that — they're one-way.
Best for: mixed iPhone-and-Android households that want AI photo capture and a shared kitchen display, without picking a side.
2. Cozi — the veteran, still cross-platform
Cozi has been the default family calendar app since the iPhone 3G era. It runs on iOS, Android, and the web, with color-coded family members, shared shopping lists, a recipe box, and a weekly email digest.
Price: Free with ads and a roughly 30-day calendar view; Cozi Gold $39/yr removes ads and the view cap; Cozi Max $79.99/yr adds AI Event Import, which reads your email inbox for events — it can't read a photo of a flyer or the coach's handwriting.
Honest trade-off: Cozi's Google Calendar sync is read-only, and its only AI feature is gated behind the most expensive tier, and even then it works from email, not photos.
Best for: families who've used Cozi for years and mainly need shopping lists alongside the calendar.
3. TimeTree — best free option
TimeTree is popular internationally, with tens of millions of users. Its standout feature is event-level chat, so you can discuss logistics inside a specific calendar entry instead of a separate group thread.
Price: Free with ads; Premium $4.49/mo removes them.
Honest trade-off: TimeTree's OCR event scanning is basic compared to full AI photo extraction, and it has no shopping-list feature.
Best for: budget-conscious mixed-device families who don't mind ads and want event-level discussion threads.
4. FamilyWall — best for location sharing
FamilyWall goes beyond the calendar with location tracking, check-ins, and secure messaging, on iOS, Android, and the web.
Price: Free tier; Premium $4.99/mo, required for full calendar sync.
Honest trade-off: calendar sync sits behind the paid tier, and FamilyWall has no AI or photo extraction at any price.
Best for: families who want location tracking and check-ins bundled with the calendar.
5. Google Calendar — free and native everywhere
If your family already lives in Gmail, Google Calendar's Family group feature covers up to six people at no cost, on every platform, with no separate app to install.
Price: Free.
Honest trade-off: no shopping lists, no AI photo import, and no per-member colors beyond keeping separate calendars.
Best for: Google households that just need basic shared scheduling without extra tools.
If everyone has an iPhone: Calendara
Every app above earns its spot because it runs on Android. If your household turns out to be all-iPhone after all — no Android holdouts, no one you need to reach on the web — Calendara is worth a look instead: it syncs two-way with both Google Calendar and Apple Calendar, so nothing you edit in either one gets stranded, and AI photo capture is the core of the app rather than one feature among a hundred. New families get a 7-day full-access preview, then $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr. See the full Calendara vs Chickadee Bandit comparison for how the two stack up directly.
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