Maple alternatives: an honest guide for families
Maple announced on July 30, 2026 that it has been acquired by Wander and will shut down on December 31, 2026. We make Schoolcase, so read this knowing where we stand — but Maple did more than any single app on this page does, including ours, and the honest answer to “what replaces Maple?” is: it depends which part of Maple your family actually used.
The facts of the shutdown
From Maple’s own announcement at growmaple.com:
- Maple has been acquired by Wander, a vacation-rental company. Wander is not continuing a family product; this is a wind-down.
- Accounts remain active until December 31, 2026, then are closed and inaccessible.
- Data remains fully accessible until December 31. After shutdown, Maple states that all data will be deleted with no way to recover it — including connections to external services: Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and TeamSnap.
- Maple recommends families export or transfer their data to other apps before the shutdown.
- Annual subscriptions no longer renew; monthly subscriptions stay active until December 31.
- Maple says it will provide guidance, resources, and recommendations for transitioning.
Credit where due: this is a graceful wind-down. Five months of notice, full data access to the end, and a stated commitment to helping families land somewhere. Not every shutdown looks like this.
What Maple actually did
Maple was a genuine all-in-one: a shared family calendar, a school-email inbox, meal planning with recipes and shopping lists, shared tasks, and trip planning — with an AI layer across it. That breadth is exactly why there’s no drop-in replacement. The practical approach is to pick a tool per job.
If school email was your Maple
This is us. Schoolcase ($9/month) does one thing: parents forward school emails to a private @schoolcase.app address, and Schoolcase extracts the tasks and dates, organizes them by kid, keeps both parents looking at the same dashboard, and publishes a calendar feed you can subscribe to from any calendar app.
Two things worth knowing about how it differs from Maple’s approach:
- You forward; we never connect to your inbox. Schoolcase only sees the emails you choose to send it. There’s no OAuth grant to your email account and nothing scanning your mail in the background.
- It’s school-only, on purpose. No meals, no trips, no general household features. If school-email overload is the problem, depth beats breadth; if it isn’t, keep reading.
We’ve written a step-by-step Switching from Maple guide — what to export before December 31, what maps to what, and how to start.
If the shared calendar was your Maple
- Google Calendar or Apple Calendar family sharing — free, already on everyone’s phone, and if Maple was syncing to one of these, your events may already be there. For many families this is the honest answer.
- Cozi — the long-standing dedicated family organizer: shared color-coded calendar, lists, and meals, with a free tier. The closest single app to Maple’s shape, though without Maple’s school-email inbox or AI layer.
- Skylight Calendar and Hearth Display — wall-mounted family calendar displays. A different bet than an app: the calendar lives where the whole family walks past it. Real hardware cost, but families who go this route tend to love it.
If the AI assistant was your Maple
- Ollie — an AI family assistant that lives in text messages: connect your calendar and email, then ask it things like you’d ask a friend. Started with meal planning and is expanding into general family logistics. The closest thing to Maple’s AI ambitions in one place.
- Ohai — an AI assistant for household logistics that also parses emails, aimed at the family mental load.
A trade-off to weigh with assistant-style apps: most work by connecting to your full email or calendar accounts, so look closely at what access they request and decide what you’re comfortable granting.
If sports schedules were your Maple
Maple connected to TeamSnap; TeamSnap itself is unaffected. Only the connection disappears — your teams, schedules, and rosters stay right where they are.
The one thing not to put off
Whatever you pick — even if it’s “decide later” — export your Maple data before December 31, 2026. Maple has been clear that deletion is permanent and unrecoverable. Calendar events synced to Google, Apple, or Outlook should be verified in those calendars; anything living only inside Maple (recipes, lists, tasks) needs to be copied out by hand or with whatever export tools Maple provides between now and then.
Our honest bottom line
If your family’s Maple habit was mostly the school-email inbox, we built the dedicated version of that, and we’d love to have you — start with the switching guide. If your Maple habit was mostly meals, the calendar, or trips, one of the tools above will serve you better than we will, and we’d rather say so than waste your December.
Corrections or additions? This page is maintained by the Schoolcase team — if something here is out of date or there’s an alternative we should list, email hello@schoolcase.app.