Cozi Alternatives: 7 Apps Like Cozi, Compared (2026)

Quick answer: the closest all-round replacement for Cozi is Homsy — it covers the shared calendar and shopping list, and takes chores past the checklist Cozi stops at, with rotation and a record of who did what. If you want location sharing, FamilyWall Premium. If you want to motivate young children the usual answer is OurHome, and it is no longer installable as of 27 August 2026 — see below. If all you ever used Cozi for was the calendar, TimeTree or a shared Google Calendar will do it for nothing. And if ads are your only complaint, Cozi Gold is the cheapest fix.

Cozi has been the default family organizer since the mid-2000s. Millions of households run their week on it, and for a shared calendar and a shopping list it still works. People go looking for alternatives for narrow, specific reasons — usually one feature Cozi never built, or the ads.

This page is the list. If you want the one-on-one detail instead, Homsy vs Cozi puts a single app against Cozi feature by feature; this page puts seven of them side by side so you can find the one that fixes your particular complaint.

Why People Look for Apps Like Cozi

Four complaints come up again and again.

The ads. Cozi's free tier is ad-supported. In an app you open five times a day, that wears thin. Cozi Gold removes them, and that changes the math — once you are paying, you may as well compare what else the money buys.

Chores that stop at a checklist. This is the real gap, and it is narrower than most comparisons claim. Cozi's Chores feature will assign the bathroom to a named person and set it to repeat weekly. What it will not do is rotate it between two teenagers, show you who actually did it last month, or appear anywhere except the iOS and Android apps. Households arguing about whose turn it is get no help from that.

The interface shows its age. Cozi works. It does not feel like an app built recently, and next to anything designed in the last few years the gap is obvious.

Feature gaps that feel basic now. Month view on a phone, calendar search and extra reminders sit behind Gold, and the free version enters events only 30 days ahead, by Cozi's own FAQ.

If none of those bother you, stay where you are. Switching family apps costs you an evening and a round of persuading everyone in the house, and that is not worth paying for a change you do not need.

The 7 Alternatives at a Glance

1. Homsy — the closest full replacement

Homsy covers everything most people used Cozi for and carries the chore half properly.

The calendar gives each household member their own color and offers week and agenda views. Homsy does not take iCal feeds; with Homsy Pro it imports events from the Google calendars you connect, and on iPhone from Apple Calendar, so a school or league feed has to go through one of those first. Cozi takes iCal feeds by URL, read-only. On feeds, the point goes to Cozi. If those two calendars are the real choice you are making, Cozi vs Google Calendar runs that head-to-head properly.

The chores are the reason to switch. Every task has a named owner, a schedule, and a completion record. Rotations cycle a job between people automatically, so the same task never lands on the same person twice, and it all works on the web as well as on a phone. That is the three things Cozi's checklist stops short of.

The shared shopping list syncs in real time, which matters when one person is already in the aisle. It all works offline and catches up when signal returns.

Honest trade-offs. Homsy is newer and has fewer years of polish behind it. There is no family messaging and no location sharing — if you want either, this is the wrong app. Meal planning is newer, added in version 1.0.15; Cozi's recipe box and meal planner have years more behind them. The free plan covers two members with no ads, and caps the rest at 3 repeating chores, 10 active tasks, 2 shopping lists, 5 recipes and 3 notes; three or more members, and the calendar imports, need a paid plan, the same shape of deal as Cozi Gold.

Best for: households whose actual argument is about who does what, not about who is where.

2. FamilyWall — if you want location sharing and messaging

FamilyWall is the broad one. The free tier has the shared calendar, lists, family messaging and a contact book; location sharing, the meal planner, the budget tracker and calendar sync are Premium. Its Google Play listing showed more than 5 million downloads and a 4.7 rating on 24 September 2026, so the approach lands for a lot of families.

Location sharing is the genuine differentiator, and it is the reason to pick FamilyWall over anything else on this list — no other app here offers live location. It is a Premium feature. Built-in messaging keeps family logistics out of the general group chat.

Where it does not beat Cozi. Task management is basic — no rotation, limited recurring logic — so if chores were your Cozi complaint, FamilyWall does not fix it. Subscribing to a calendar by URL is Premium, and the free tier shows ads. Premium is $44.99 a year on FamilyWall's own plan page and in the App Store. It does have a web version as well as the phone apps.

Best for: families with teenagers, where knowing where everyone is matters more than knowing who cleaned what.

3. OurHome — the answer everybody gives, and you cannot install it

Read this before the rest of the section. Checked on 27 August 2026: Apple returns nothing for OurHome's bundle, the Google Play link printed on its own website returns a 404, and that website loads over plain HTTP only. Nobody has announced a shutdown, so this is what we found rather than a verdict. Worse for anyone shopping, the name is taken: a different developer, Elusios, ships an unrelated app called OurHome in both stores — version 1.8.0, updated 15 July 2026, by its own description a shopping list and task list for roommates. What follows describes the app the old reviews mean, so you know what you are looking for if it returns. Our OurHome alternatives page compares what is left.

OurHome turns chores into a points economy. Kids complete tasks, earn points parents have set, and spend them on rewards parents have defined. Leaderboards, a reward shop, a bright kid-facing interface. For children roughly five to twelve it genuinely works.

It also includes shared grocery lists and a basic calendar, so it covers some of Cozi's ground.

Where it does not beat Cozi. The calendar is thin next to Cozi's. It assumes a parent-child household, so two adults splitting housework get very little from it. And the gamification is a double-edged tool — external rewards can crowd out the habit you were trying to build, so points that work at eight may do nothing at fourteen.

Best for: nobody today, because it cannot be installed. Kept here as the description of what the roundups are recommending.

4. TimeTree — if you only ever used Cozi's calendar

TimeTree does one thing: group calendars that several people write to, with comments on events and a clean split between your personal view and the shared one. If your Cozi use amounted to "we all need to see the same schedule," TimeTree is a lighter, tidier version of that.

Where it does not beat Cozi. It is a calendar first — to-do items live on it, but there is no shopping list and no chore assignment. It cannot subscribe to a feed URL; it can copy events in once from a calendar on your phone, and that copy does not update. No per-member color coding in the household sense; events have colors, people do not. And the free tier carries ads, so you have not escaped that either — Premium, $44.99 a year, removes them for the one account that pays.

Best for: two people who want a shared schedule and nothing else.

5. Google Calendar (plus Keep or Tasks) — the free-for-everyone option

Shared Google Calendars are free, unlimited in members, work on every device, and everyone already has an account. Layer Google Keep on top and you have shared lists as well.

For a large household with no budget, this is the most functional free answer on the list — Cozi's free tier gives you more household features but charges you in ads, and Homsy's free tier stops at two people.

Where it does not beat Cozi. It is a calendar with household uses, not a household app. Google has no chore management at all. Colors attach to calendars, not to people, so per-member coloring means building a calendar per person and maintaining them. The lists live in a different app from the schedule, which is exactly the patchwork Cozi was invented to replace. Homsy vs Google Calendar covers where that patchwork gives out.

Best for: big households that need a shared schedule and refuse to pay anything.

6. Apple Calendar plus Reminders — if the whole house is on iPhone

Family Sharing gives you a shared iCloud calendar; Shared Reminders lists work well enough as a grocery list. Free, reliable, and already installed.

Where it does not beat Cozi. One Android phone in the household and the whole plan collapses — Cozi at least works everywhere. No chore assignment, no rotation, no household context.

Best for: all-Apple households with simple needs and no intention of installing anything.

7. Fami — the newer entrant

Fami combines chore tracking with an allowance, a shared calendar with a colour per member, a budget and a map of saved family places, and its meal planning is the standout: an AI planner builds a week from your preferences and dietary needs, which is a Premium feature. That is the one place it clearly beats Cozi's recipe box. It is on iPhone; Premium is $9.99 a month or $44.99 a year in the App Store, checked 24 September 2026.

Where it does not beat Cozi. Smaller user base, a feature set still filling in, and meal suggestions that can miss. Cozi's decade-plus of refinement counts for something against a newer app.

Best for: people who want the meal planning to do the thinking for them and do not mind an app that is still maturing.

A note on the specialists

If your household's one real problem is cleaning rather than organizing, Tody is worth a look — it tracks how dirty each room has got and tells you what to clean next. It is excellent at that and does nothing else, so you will still need one of the seven above for the calendar and lists.

Which One Should You Actually Pick

Work backwards from the complaint that sent you looking:

• "Nobody does their share." Homsy. It is the only app here built around that problem.
• "I need to know where my kids are." FamilyWall.
• "My children won't do chores without a reason." OurHome was the answer and is not installable as of 27 August 2026; nothing here replaces its points economy, so the honest options are a paper reward chart alongside a household app, or Greenlight and BusyKid if real money is the incentive.
• "I only ever used the calendar." TimeTree, or a shared Google Calendar for nothing.
• "Everyone here has an iPhone and I want zero setup." Apple Calendar and Reminders.
• "I want the app to plan our meals." Fami, or stay on Cozi.
• "It's just the ads." Cozi Gold. Switching a whole household onto a new app to dodge advertising is a lot of work for one year's subscription.

Then apply the only test that matters: install two, use each for a week, and keep whichever one your household actually opens without being asked. A simple app everybody uses beats a rich app one person maintains.

The full family organizer roundup scores the same apps on price and feature depth, and the free family organizer comparison works out what each free tier really gives away.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best Cozi alternatives in 2026?

Homsy is the closest full replacement — it does Cozi's calendar and shopping list, and its chores rotate between people and keep a record, which Cozi's do not. FamilyWall is the pick if you want location sharing, on its Premium plan, and family messaging. OurHome used to be the pick for parents motivating young children and can no longer be installed — checked 27 August 2026. TimeTree, Google Calendar and Apple Calendar cover the calendar only, for free.

Are there any free apps like Cozi?

Yes, several. Google Calendar with Google Keep is free for any household size and works on every device. Apple Calendar with Shared Reminders is free for all-iPhone households. Homsy is free and ad-free for households of up to two members, with caps on the rest — 3 repeating chores, 10 active tasks, 2 shopping lists, 5 recipes, 3 notes. TimeTree is free with ads. All of them avoid Cozi's ad-supported free tier, though each trades something away for it.

What is the closest app to Cozi?

Homsy, on feature overlap: shared calendar, shared shopping list, cross-platform, real-time sync between everyone in the household. The differences are that Homsy adds chore assignment and rotation and per-member calendar colors, while Cozi's recipe box and meal planner have years more behind them than Homsy's, which arrived in version 1.0.15.

Is there an app like Cozi with proper chore management?

Homsy for whole-household chores including adults, with per-person assignment and automatic rotation; its free plan covers 2 members, 3 repeating chores, 10 active tasks and 2 shopping lists, and Pro at $19.99 a year lifts those. OurHome was the answer for children specifically, using points and rewards, and it is no longer installable — checked 27 August 2026. Cozi's Chores give each person a list and repeat a job daily or weekly, but they never rotate it between people or keep a record, which is why this is the most common reason people leave it.

Should I switch from Cozi or just upgrade to Cozi Gold?

If the ads are your only complaint, upgrade — a year of Gold is cheaper than the effort of moving a household onto a new app, and it unlocks month view on a phone and calendar search while it is at it. Switch if you need something Cozi does not do at any price, and chore rotation with a record of who did what is the usual one. Homsy vs Cozi walks through that decision in detail.

Can I move my Cozi data to another app?

Partly. Cozi shares the calendar as a read-only iCal feed, which nearly every calendar app can subscribe to. Shopping lists and to-do lists have no export path, so those get retyped. Rebuilding them by hand takes fifteen to thirty minutes and is a decent excuse to drop the recurring tasks nobody has done since last year.