Alternatives
Maple is shutting down. What should you switch to?
Maple sunsets December 31, 2026, and your data goes with it. The right replacement depends on which half of Maple you actually used. Here's the map.
Rohit, founder of Remy ·
Maple the shared family calendar → Cozi (free, AI import in Max), Skylight (wall screen), or Ohai (forward-to hub).
Maple the inbox reader (whitelisted senders, dates pulled from school emails) → Remy. It reads Gmail on its own, and then does the thing.
Move before December 31, 2026. Maple says all data is deleted at shutdown with no way to recover it.
I’m the founder of Remy. Maple was the one family app besides Remy that connected to your inbox instead of making you forward things, so a lot of people who liked it will like Remy. But Remy is not a shared calendar, and I’ll say plainly where Cozi or Skylight is the better move.
What’s happening to Maple
From Maple’s own site (August 2026): “Maple has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026.” Annual subscriptions won’t renew; monthly ones run to the end of the year. “All data will be deleted and there will be no way to recover it once Maple is officially shut down.” The iOS and Android listings are already gone. Export what you need now.
First, which Maple did you use?
Maple was two products in one:
- A shared household calendar with lists, folders, meal planning, and chores, synced with Google, Apple, Outlook, and TeamSnap, for up to five people.
- An inbox reader. You connected Gmail, Apple Mail, or Outlook, whitelisted senders (the school, the coach, the utility), and Maple’s AI pulled dates and deadlines out of those emails into the family calendar, each suggestion accepted by you.
Most apps in this category only do the first. Pick your replacement by which half you’ll miss.
If you used Maple as the family calendar
Cozi - Free, ads-supported, the classic shared family organizer (calendar, lists, shopping, to-dos), up to 12 members, on iPhone, Android, and web. The free tier only shows the next 30 days of events since 2024, which annoyed long-time users. Cozi Max ($79.99/yr) adds “AI Event Import”: forward an email or a photo of a flyer to your Cozi address and it becomes an event. Closest like-for-like to Maple’s calendar, cheapest, no inbox connection.
Skylight Calendar - A touchscreen for the kitchen wall ($299.99), syncing Google, Apple, Outlook, Yahoo, and Cozi calendars. The Plus plan ($79/yr after a free first month) unlocks Sidekick: forward emails and PDFs or photograph flyers and it adds the events. Pick this if the real problem is the kids not looking at the calendar.
Ohai - A household hub with an assistant “O” you text, forward emails to, or send screenshots; it turns them into a shared Circle calendar, lists, and reminders. iPhone, Android, SMS; free tier, premium from $9.99/mo. Its own help page says “I am unable to view your inbox,” so it’s forwarding, not reading; and its privacy policy says it trains on your interactions and that human assistants may review a subset of emails. Full comparison: Remy vs Ohai.
If you used Maple as the inbox reader
This is the half almost nobody else does, and it’s the half Remy was built around.
Remy - the AI assistant for your life, not your job. Sign in with Google and Remy reads your Gmail and Google Calendar on its own, no whitelisting, no forwarding. The PTA newsletter arrives at 6:12 AM; at 7:00 Remy says “Nathan’s soccer registration closes Friday. I pulled the form for you.” Then it keeps going where Maple stopped: it calls the pediatrician and comes back with “Thursday at 3:40” and a transcript, fills in the county renewal form, drafts the reply to the coach, tracks the gutter quotes over a week. Every outward action is shown first and happens only when you press and hold. Your data trains nothing; the AI providers are zero-data-retention, listed at /ai-model-providers. iPhone, Gmail, free during beta.
What Remy is not: a shared family calendar. It writes to your Google Calendar, which Cozi and Skylight both sync from, so a common setup is Remy for the reading-and-doing and whatever wall or shared calendar you already have for the seeing.
Side by side
| Reads inbox itself | Shared calendar | Acts (calls, forms, drafts) | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple (sunsetting) | Yes, whitelisted senders | Yes, 5 members | No | $3-5/mo, ending |
| Cozi / Cozi Max | No (forward, Max only) | Yes, up to 12 | No | Free / $79.99/yr |
| Skylight + Sidekick | No (forward, photo, voice) | Yes, on the wall | No | $299.99 + $79/yr |
| Ohai | No (forward, text, screenshot) | Yes, Circles | Reminders, lists | Free / from $9.99/mo |
| Remy | Yes, Gmail, no whitelist | No, one person’s assistant | Yes, with press-and-hold | Free in beta |
Before you leave Maple
- Export or screenshot recurring events and the lists you’ll want; Maple says nothing survives the shutdown.
- If school and activity emails were the point, check your Google Calendar has the events Maple created, so your new tool starts from a full calendar.
- Don’t adopt three apps. Calendar-for-the-house plus assistant-for-you is the most anyone needs.
Remy is not for you if
- You need a shared household calendar and nothing else: Cozi.
- You’re on Android or don’t use Gmail: Cozi, Skylight, or Ohai.
- You want work features: none of these; look at Motion or Reclaim.
iPhone · free during beta · sign in with Google, nothing to configure