Switching from Maple: what to do before December 31
Maple, the all-in-one family organizer, announced that it has been acquired by Wander and will shut down on December 31, 2026. If your family used Maple, this guide covers what to save before the deadline, where each piece of your setup can land, and how to keep school emails organized without missing a beat.
What’s happening, exactly
According to Maple’s announcement on growmaple.com:
- Maple has been acquired by Wander, a vacation-rental company. There is no successor family product.
- Accounts stay active until December 31, 2026, then become closed and inaccessible.
- Your data stays fully accessible until December 31. After the shutdown, Maple says all data is deleted with no way to recover it — including connections to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and TeamSnap.
- Annual subscriptions no longer renew; monthly subscriptions remain active until December 31.
- Maple says it will share guidance, resources, and recommendations to help families transition.
The date sounds far away, but December is a terrible month to migrate a family’s organizational system. Doing it now — before the school year ramps up — is the calm version.
Step 1: Get your data out (do this first)
Everything in Maple disappears on December 31, unrecoverably. Before anything else:
- Calendar events. If you connected Maple to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, check that your events actually live in that calendar — synced events usually survive in the connected calendar even after the sync connection is deleted, but verify before assuming. If your events exist only inside Maple, get them into a calendar you control now.
- Tasks and lists. Copy out anything you’d miss — recurring to-dos, gift lists, packing lists. Screenshots work in a pinch; text you can paste elsewhere is better.
- Meal plans and recipes. Save the recipes you actually cook. These are often the most painful thing to lose because they’re the least backed-up.
- Watch for Maple’s transition emails. Maple has said it will provide export guidance. If an official export tool appears, use it — and if you’re unsure what’s available, ask them at maple@growmaple.com.
Step 2: What maps to what
Maple was an all-in-one. Honestly, no single app replaces all of it — the practical move is to match each job to a tool that does that job well.
School emails → Schoolcase
This is the piece we build. Schoolcase turns forwarded school emails into organized tasks by kid, keeps both parents in sync, and feeds dates into a calendar you subscribe to. If Maple’s school-email inbox was the feature holding your family together, Schoolcase is the dedicated version of exactly that.
Shared family calendar → a calendar you already have
A shared Google or Apple family calendar covers most families, free. If you liked having a dedicated family-calendar product, Cozi is the long-standing free option, and Skylight and Hearth Display make wall-mounted calendar displays the whole family can see.
Meal planning → not us
Schoolcase doesn’t do meal planning, and we don’t plan to. Cozi includes meals and shopping lists, and Ollie is an AI assistant that started meals-first.
Sports schedules → TeamSnap directly
If you used Maple’s TeamSnap connection, TeamSnap itself keeps working — only the connection to Maple goes away.
Step 3: Forward one email
Getting started with Schoolcase takes one email, not an afternoon of setup:
- Sign up and you get a private @schoolcase.app address.
- Forward one school email to it — the next newsletter, permission slip, or teacher note that lands in your inbox.
- Schoolcase extracts the tasks and dates, organizes them by kid, and both parents see the same dashboard.
Unlike apps that ask to connect your entire inbox, Schoolcase never sees email you don’t forward. You choose what we read — that’s the whole model.
An honest note on fit
Schoolcase does one thing: school-email overload. If that was your main Maple use, you’ll feel at home here. If your family leaned on Maple mostly for meals, trips, or general household coordination, one of the tools above is a better landing spot — and we’d rather point you there than oversell.
Questions about switching, or something you’re not sure how to migrate? Email us at hello@schoolcase.app — a real person answers.