If you are looking for a Cozi alternative, the free version is usually the reason. It shows ads and, by Cozi's own account, takes events for the next 30 days only. A family calendar is mostly about what lies further ahead: the school holiday, the tournament, the trip. In Cozi, planning that far now means paying.
EpiHem is our own app, and it is our answer. The whole shared calendar and the shared lists are free for up to four people, with no ads. With Premium, the week's dinners, the receipts and who owes whom are in the same app. This page shows what your household can do with EpiHem, and then goes through TimeTree and FamilyWall: what you get, what it costs and where it stops.
EpiHem: the whole calendar free, and the rest of the week with it
In EpiHem the calendar is whole from the first day. Put the summer holiday in while it is still winter, and the tournament that is three months away: it is all there, in the free version. EpiHem runs on iPhone, on Android and in any web browser, so the whole family is in it, and a change shows on everyone's screen as it is made. There are no ads, on any plan.
Free for up to four people
The shared calendar and the shared lists cost nothing for a household of up to four:
- Practice every Tuesday goes in once. Recurring events and reminders, in a week, a month and an agenda view.
- A face on every event, so you see at a glance who it is for.
- The school's, the club's and your Google calendar come in with a link or from an .ics file, so the fixtures sit next to the family's own events. Our guide to calendar links shows how.
- Your calendar out again, exported to Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
- Roles, for who can edit and who can only look.
- One shopping list for everyone. The person in the shop sees the milk that someone at home just added. Type "2 l milk" and the app reads the quantity and the unit.
- A safety net: what someone deletes by mistake can be restored for 30 days.
- No ads, on any plan.
With Premium, dinner and the receipts are in the same app
Plan the week's dinners and they sit on their days in the calendar, under the events. The meal plan writes the shopping list. When the shopping is done you scan the receipt: EpiHem reads it item by item, puts the receipt on its day and works out who owes whom. Nobody has to keep the tally in their head.
The recipe book takes a recipe from a link, from a text or from a photo, and leftovers from one day can be planned into another. Bigger things get a project with a budget: the bathroom renovation, the holiday, the birthday party. The receipts go to the project they belong to, and the statistics show where the money went.
Premium costs EUR 6.99 a month or EUR 49.99 a year. One subscription covers the whole household, up to 8 people, and you can try it free for 14 days, with no card. Your household's data is stored in the EU.
What happened to Cozi?
Cozi is the long-established family organizer, and it still does what it always did: a shared calendar, shopping and to-do lists, chore lists and a recipe box. What changed is the free version: Cozi says it takes events for the next 30 days, and it shows ads. To plan further ahead you pay for Cozi Gold, a subscription at about USD 40 per year, which also removes the ads. Cozi Max, a subscription at about USD 80 per year, adds AI features.
The change also reached families who had kept their schedule in Cozi for years. In reviews on Trustpilot, users write that it came without warning, and that they could no longer see their own events more than a month ahead without paying.
Money is the other gap. Cozi does not scan receipts or split costs, so who paid for what has to live in another app.
Is Cozi still worth it?
Cozi still works, and if you pay, the calendar is whole again. So the question is what you pay for. About USD 40 per year for Cozi Gold buys back the calendar beyond 30 days and takes the ads away. In EpiHem that part is free for up to four people: the whole calendar, the shared lists and no ads.
And if you are going to pay for a family app anyway, look at what the money adds. EpiHem Premium puts the week's dinners, the receipts and who owes whom in the same app as the calendar, on one subscription for the whole household. Cozi does not do receipts or shared costs, in the free version or in the paid ones.
TimeTree, if the calendar is enough
What you get: A calendar app through and through. You can keep as many shared calendars as you need, for the family, a hobby or school, and talk about an event inside the event. It runs on iPhone, on Android and on the web, and the free version is a whole calendar.
Where it stops: At the calendar. Lists exist only as memos and to-dos, and there is no meal planning, no receipt scanning and nothing for shared costs. The free version shows ads, and removing them is a paid subscription, TimeTree Premium, at about USD 4.50 a month or USD 45 per year.
FamilyWall, if you want breadth
What you get: A family organizer whose free version has a calendar, shopping lists, to-dos you can assign, recipes, family messaging and a photo gallery, on iPhone, on Android and on the web.
Where it stops: Much of what families come for is paid. Syncing with Google and Outlook calendars, adding a school calendar by link, the meal planner, the budget and location sharing all belong to FamilyWall Premium, a subscription at about USD 8 a month or USD 45 per year. The budget records what you spend. It does not work out who owes whom, and there is no receipt scanning.
Ownership: FamilyWall and Cozi are owned by the same company. Both sit under In Tandem, formed in September 2024, which also owns OurFamilyWizard and Custody Navigator. Cozi names In Tandem as its parent organization and FamilyWall as a sibling brand in its own structured data. Moving from Cozi to FamilyWall is a move within the same ownership group, not to an independent competitor.
Looking for a FamilyWall alternative?
FamilyWall and Cozi have the same owner, so many people look for an alternative to both at once, and the answer is the same: EpiHem, with the calendar, the lists and the week's dinners in one app and the receipts and the household's money in it too. In FamilyWall, calendar sync, calendar links and the meal planner belong to the paid subscription, and its budget does not read receipts. EpiHem reads every line of the receipt and works out who owes whom. If a shared calendar is all you use, TimeTree is the other way to go. Prices and features side by side are in Cozi vs FamilyWall vs EpiHem vs TimeTree.
EpiHem versus Cozi, side by side
We read the vendors' own sites and their US App Store listings in October 2026. A check means the feature is there, a half mark that it comes with a condition, and a dash that it is missing. Where a vendor does not say, the table says "Not stated". On a phone the table scrolls sideways.
| Feature | EpiHem Our app | Cozi | FamilyWall | TimeTree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The whole calendar free | Yes up to 4 people | Partial events 30 days ahead, Cozi says | Partial sync and calendar links are paid | Yes with ads |
| A school or club calendar from a link | Yes free | Yes from TeamSnap, SportsEngine and more | Yes paid | Not stated |
| Shared shopping and to-do lists | Yes free | Yes | Yes | Partial memos and to-dos |
| The week's dinners on the calendar | Yes Premium | Yes | Yes paid | No |
| Chores | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Receipt scanning that reads the line items | Yes Premium | No | No | No |
| Splitting costs: who owes whom | Yes Premium | No | No budget only | No |
| Free version | Calendar and lists for up to 4 people, no ads | With ads, events 30 days ahead | Calendar, lists and messaging | With ads |
| Paid subscription, per year | EUR 49.99 (EUR 6.99 a month) for the whole household | Gold about USD 40, Max about USD 80 | About USD 45 (about USD 8 a month) | About USD 45 (about USD 4.50 a month) |
The other apps' prices are rounded from what each vendor published in US dollars in October 2026. Prices change, so check the vendor's page before you pay. EpiHem's price is our own, in euros, and the app stores show it in your currency.
In short: all four keep a family calendar. EpiHem is the one where the whole calendar is free and without ads, and the only one of the four that scans the receipt and works out who owes whom.
Which alternative fits you?
- You want the family's week in one place, with the calendar, the lists, dinner and the receipts: EpiHem. Start free with the calendar and the lists, and add Premium when the meals and the money should be in it too.
- You want a calendar and nothing else: TimeTree, free with ads.
- Family chat and location sharing matter most: FamilyWall, which has the same owner as Cozi. Count on its paid subscription for location sharing and calendar sync.
- You want to stay with Cozi: count on paying for Cozi Gold, a subscription at about USD 40 per year, if you plan more than a month ahead.
If it is Cozi against FamilyWall and TimeTree you are weighing, we set them directly against each other in Cozi vs FamilyWall vs TimeTree. If a schedule is all you need, our comparison of family calendar apps covers Google Calendar and Apple Calendar too. To see the whole field, there is our full comparison of household apps, and we expand on the idea of gathering everything in one app in our guide on the all-in-one household app.
