The best family calendar and organizer app
Every shared calendar shows the week. The hard part is reading the emails, planning the homework and typing it all in.
By the Fivey team, a parent-run company · Updated September 2026
What shared calendars do well
One grid, color-coded, on every phone. Cozi or TimeTree will fix that this afternoon, for free. But a grid only holds what someone already knew — it doesn't open the field trip letter, notice PE moved, or decide what tonight's reading should be.
Side by side
| Cozi | FamilyWall | Skylight | TimeTree | Fivey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone sees the same week | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turns a school email into an event | paid tier | paid tier | paid tier | photo scan | Yes |
| Reads the mail itself — nothing to send on | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Tells each person only their part | daily agenda | daily agenda | daily agenda | notifications | Yes |
| Homework planned from what's actually set | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Chores tied to who's actually home | chore chart | chore chart | chore chart | No | Yes |
| Re-plans the day when something moves | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Drafts the reply to school | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Camps and appointments watched and booked | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Works in your existing group text | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | app free, screen $299 | Yes | Yes |
- Cozi
- Yes
- FamilyWall
- Yes
- Skylight
- Yes
- TimeTree
- Yes
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- paid tier
- FamilyWall
- paid tier
- Skylight
- paid tier
- TimeTree
- photo scan
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- daily agenda
- FamilyWall
- daily agenda
- Skylight
- daily agenda
- TimeTree
- notifications
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- chore chart
- FamilyWall
- chore chart
- Skylight
- chore chart
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- No
- FamilyWall
- No
- Skylight
- No
- TimeTree
- No
- Fivey
- Yes
- Cozi
- Yes
- FamilyWall
- Yes
- Skylight
- app free, screen $299
- TimeTree
- Yes
- Fivey
- Yes
Checked against each company’s own feature pages, plan comparisons and help centers on 14 September 2026: Cozi (Free / Gold / Max), FamilyWall Magic Import, Skylight Calendar Plus and Sidekick, TimeTree event scan. These products change often — if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it.
A real Thursday
Thursday
A shared calendar — someone typed this
Fivey · 7:00am
Thursday, here's the shape of it.
PE for Sophie — kit is in the blue bag.
Swimming: Sophie 4:30, Nora and William 4:45.
You're on pickup. Homework text goes out at 4.
Fivey — nobody typed a word
Why Fivey is different
All four will hold the week for you, and three of them will now turn an email you forward into an event. The part none of them do is the part that takes the time: reading the mail as it arrives, deciding what it means for Thursday, and finishing the job.
- Fivey reads — school emails, letters and club updates. The event is on the calendar before you've opened the message.
- Fivey plans — homework one small step a day, chores matched to who's home, the day re-worked when something moves, the reply to school already written.
- Fivey acts — camps and appointments booked the day they open, if you said it could. Nothing else is sent or booked without your tap.
Which one suits you
Pick Cozi or FamilyWall if you want a shared calendar and a list everyone can see, and you're happy doing the organizing yourself.
Pick Fivey if you're the one reading the school emails, and you'd like the week to arrive already worked out.
Questions people ask
What is the best family calendar app?
If you just need one grid everyone can see, Cozi or TimeTree will do it this afternoon, for free. If the calendar is fine but the reading, planning and typing all land on one person, you need something that fills the week in for you.
What is the best family organizer app?
The one that runs the jobs instead of storing them. Homework, chores, school replies, dinners and bookings are the real work — most organizers hand you empty boxes and you fill them in.
Is there an app that plans the homework?
Fivey reads what's actually set that week — the spelling list, the times tables, the reading book — builds the plan one small step a day, and texts it to the family at 4pm.
Does everyone in the family need the app?
No. The other adults get their part as a plain text — time, place, what to bring — and reply to it.