Cozi, FamilyWall and TimeTree set out to do the same thing: give the whole family one place to see the week. Cozi is the long-established family organizer, FamilyWall puts family chat and location sharing next to the calendar, and TimeTree is a shared calendar and nothing else. Each has a catch in its free version. Cozi says its free version takes events for the next 30 days, FamilyWall charges for syncing with the calendars you already have, and Cozi and TimeTree show ads.
So before you pick one of the three, look at the fourth. EpiHem is our own app, and in it the whole shared calendar and the shared lists are free for up to four people, with no ads. With Premium the week's dinners sit on the calendar, and when you scan a receipt EpiHem reads the items and works out who owes whom. Receipts and shared costs are something none of the three has.
The short version
The four apps, and what you get in each:
EpiHem: the calendar, the lists, dinner and the receipts in one app
EpiHem is built so that the week holds together. Tuesday's practice, the shopping list for Friday's dinner and the receipt from Saturday's big shop are in the same app, on the same days, for the same people. It runs on iPhone, on Android and in any web browser, so everyone in the house sees the same week, and a change shows on everyone's screen as it is made.
Free for up to four people
The shared calendar and the shared lists are whole in the free version:
- The school's and the club's calendar, added once with a link. Term dates and fixtures show next to the family's own events, and nobody types the fixture list in by hand. Our guide to calendar links shows how.
- A face on every event, so you see at a glance who Thursday's practice is for.
- Recurring events and reminders, in a week, a month and an agenda view.
- Shared shopping and to-do lists. One of you adds milk on the way home, the other sees it in the shop, and what is ticked off is ticked off for everyone.
- Roles, for who can edit and who can only look.
- Your calendar out again, exported to Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
- No ads, on any plan.
Premium adds dinner, the receipts and who owes whom
On Sunday evening you plan the week's dinners. They land on their days in the calendar, under the events, so what is for dinner on Wednesday is already answered. The meal plan writes the shopping list. When the shopping is done you scan the receipt: EpiHem reads the items, puts the receipt on its day and works out who owes whom. Scanning a receipt and working out who owes whom is what neither Cozi, FamilyWall nor TimeTree does.
Recipes come in from a link, a text or a photo, or you describe a dish and EpiHem writes the recipe. Premium also holds projects with budgets, for a renovation for instance, and statistics.
Premium costs EUR 6.99 a month or EUR 49.99 a year, and one subscription covers the whole household, up to 8 people. Try it free for 14 days, with no card. EpiHem is made in Sweden, and your household's data is stored in the EU.
Cozi
What you get: The long-established family organizer. Cozi has a colour-coded calendar that works with Google, Outlook and Apple calendars and brings in school calendars and sports team schedules, plus shopping lists, to-do and chore lists and a recipe box, and dinners can be planned on the calendar. It runs on iPhone, on Android and on the web, and one account holds up to 12 people.
Where it stops: The free version shows ads and, Cozi says, takes events for the next 30 days only. To plan further ahead you pay for Cozi Gold, a subscription at about USD 40 a year, which also removes the ads. Cozi Max, a subscription at about USD 80 a year, adds AI features. Cozi does not scan receipts, split costs or share locations, so the household's money ends up in another app, and the app is in English only. There is more in our guide to Cozi alternatives.
FamilyWall
What you get: The broadest of the three. The free version has a colour-coded calendar, shopping lists, to-dos you can assign, chores, a recipe box, family messaging and a photo gallery, on iPhone, on Android and on the web, and there is a Windows app. FamilyWall has the same owner as Cozi: both belong to In Tandem, a company that also owns OurFamilyWizard and Custody Navigator. So Cozi or FamilyWall is a choice between two apps from one owner.
Where it stops: Much of what a family comes 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 Premium, a subscription at about USD 8 a month or USD 45 a year. The budget records what you spend. It does not work out who owes whom, and there is no receipt scanning.
TimeTree
What you get: A calendar app through and through, from TimeTree, Inc. in Tokyo, which is independent of the other two. You can keep as many shared calendars as you need, for the family, a hobby or school, and every event has its own comment thread. 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 chores, nothing for shared costs and no family chat outside the events. The free version shows ads, and removing them is a paid subscription, Premium, at about USD 4.50 a month or USD 45 a year.
Side by side
We read each vendor's own site and its App Store listing in September and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone, Android and web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 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 the AI meal planner is paid | Yes paid | No |
| Receipt scanning that reads the items | Yes Premium | No | No | No |
| Splitting costs: who owes whom | Yes Premium | No | No budget only | No |
| Chores | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Location sharing | No | No | Yes paid | No |
| Family chat | No | No | Yes | Partial comments in each event |
| Swedish language | Yes | No English only | Yes | No |
| Free version | Calendar and lists for up to 4 people, no ads | With ads; events 30 days ahead, Cozi says | Calendar, lists and messaging; sync, meal planner and location sharing are paid | The whole calendar, 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.
Which one should you pick?
- You want the family's week in one app, 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.
- The whole family already lives in Cozi: stay, and count on paying about USD 40 a year for Gold, its paid subscription, if you plan further ahead than the 30 days Cozi says its free version takes.
- Family chat and location sharing matter most: FamilyWall, and count on its paid Premium for the location sharing, the meal planner and the school calendar.
- You want a calendar and nothing else: TimeTree, free with ads.
For a wider field, with Google Calendar and Apple Calendar in it, see our comparison of family calendar apps. If lists, meals and shared costs matter as much as the calendar, our comparison of family organizer apps covers them too.
