Who should choose Maple
Maple fit busy parents who wanted a broad family operating system across calendar, email, tasks, meals, chores, and planning. Existing Maple families now need to plan around the announced shutdown.
Short Answer
Familia vs Maple
Maple was an AI family assistant for shared calendars, email, to-dos, chores, meals, and household planning. Maple now says it has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026.
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FamiliaWho should choose Familia
Familia fits families who want a grounded iPhone-first planning board for Today, Plans, reminders, attachments, and smart capture, without depending on a product that has announced its sunset.
Maple
Maple publicly describes the product as acquired by Wander and says accounts remain active until December 31, 2026, after which accounts will be closed and inaccessible. Its earlier product story included shared calendars, family email, to-dos, chores, meal planning, grocery lists, and notes.
Familia
Familia is not a one-to-one replacement for every Maple module. The strongest overlap is the family planning layer: daily visibility, tasks, reminders, responsibility, attachments, and smart capture for practical household work.
Feature Comparison
Their approach
Familia
Core model
Broad family assistant with calendar and household modules; public notice says Maple will sunset on December 31, 2026.
A family planner for days that need more than a calendar: Today, Plans, tasks, reminders, responsibilities, attachments, and calendar context.
Tasks and responsibilities
To-dos, chore tracking, meals, grocery lists, notes, and family email were part of the product story.
Clear next actions, shared responsibilities, reminders, and follow-ups live in the same planning flow.
Attachments and context
Household context was spread across modules such as email, notes, meal planning, and folders; Familia keeps note and photo context close to tasks and plans.
Photos and attachments stay with the task or plan they explain, so the reminder still makes sense later.
Smart / AI features
Maple positioned itself around AI-powered household help; Familia uses Smart capture and assistant access to speed up planning without making AI the whole surface.
Smart capture turns voice, text, and photos into useful family actions. Smart also supports compatible AI assistants through MCP.
AI assistant / MCP
Not presented as a family context layer that can be connected to AI assistants.
Smart can connect compatible AI assistants through Familia MCP with authorized household context.
Pricing
Maple says annual subscriptions will no longer renew and monthly subscriptions remain active until the December 31, 2026 sunset.
Free to start and useful for everyday planning. Smart is $5.99/month for the whole family and unlocks advanced features; the exact local App Store price is shown before purchase.
Registration
Account-based family product; users are advised by Maple to export or transfer data before shutdown.
No registration required to start. One parent can open Familia on iPhone and begin planning right away; sharing and paid features add identity only when the family needs it.
Platforms
Previously mobile and desktop-oriented; current public status is transition and shutdown planning.
Mobile-first. Familia is available on iOS now, includes a QR-paired web companion for Smart families, and Android is planned.
When Familia Is The Better Fit
You are a Maple user looking for a planning home before December 31, 2026.
You care most about daily plans, tasks, reminders, attachments, and ownership.
You do not need a full replacement for every Maple module, such as meal planning or family email.
Which should you choose?
Maple deserves to stay in the comparison set because existing families may be looking for where to go next. Familia is a practical candidate when the family wants the planning board and capture workflow more than a full email-and-meals suite.
Last checked: 2026-08-18Maple acquisition and sunset notice
Familia is the family planner for real life.
A family planner and organizer app for tasks, plans, shared responsibilities, reminders, and the things a calendar cannot hold.
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