Cozi's 30-Day Calendar Limit Explained (and How to Get Your Whole Year Back)

If you've used Cozi for a few years and recently opened the app to add an event for next semester, you may have run into a wall. The free version of Cozi now stops you from adding anything more than 30 days out. Cozi's own FAQ confirms it: "With the free version of Cozi, you could enter events from the Agenda view for the next 30 days."

This change rolled out in May 2024 and a year later, the Trustpilot rating sits around 2.1 stars with the phrase "bait and switch" appearing repeatedly in reviews. We make a family organization app called Sense, so we compete with Cozi. We'll be upfront about that. But this is one of those situations where the facts matter more than the pitch, so let's start there.

What Exactly Changed

Before May 2024, Cozi's free version gave families essentially unlimited calendar access. You could plan the school year, drop in summer camp dates in March, and see anniversaries six months out. It worked well enough that many families used the free tier happily for nearly a decade.

After May 2024, the free tier rules are:

• You can only add events from the Agenda view (no Month view, no 3-Day view on mobile)
• You can only add events within the next 30 days
• Events beyond that window are visible to you only if Cozi imported them from a connected iCal feed
• The free experience now includes ads
• Reminders are limited to one per attendee per event

To get the original Cozi behavior back, you upgrade to Cozi Gold at $39 per year.

Why a 30-Day Window Doesn't Work for Families

This isn't a small inconvenience. Family calendars are inherently long-range:

School calendars are released months ahead

Most schools publish term dates, vacation weeks, and exam schedules well before the start of term. If you try to enter early dismissal dates for the next semester in August, the free version simply won't let you.

Sports seasons span months

Travel soccer, gymnastics meets, swim seasons, hockey schedules. Coaches send 12-week schedules at the start of a season. With a 30-day window, you're entering the same schedule four times.

Summer camps register in winter

Most popular camps fill up by February or March, but the camps themselves are in July and August. You can't put deposit deadlines, parent meeting dates, or session start dates on a calendar that won't accept events more than 30 days out.

Birthdays and anniversaries live on a yearly cycle

This is the most basic case. A family calendar that can't tell you about your sister's birthday in three months is missing something fundamental.

Your Options

Three things you can do.

Option 1: Pay $39/year for Cozi Gold

The straightforward fix. You get unlimited future calendar access, Month view on mobile, 3-Day view, Calendar Search, Birthday Tracker, Shopping Mode, and no ads. Per Cozi's FAQ, one Gold subscription covers everyone in the family across devices. If you've used Cozi for years and don't want to migrate your routines, this may be the path of least resistance.

Option 2: Stay free and live with the limit

If most of your scheduling is short-range and you mostly rely on Cozi for the shared shopping list and meal planner, the 30-day window may not bite you often. Connected iCal feeds (school calendars, sports schedules) still pull in events past 30 days; you just can't manually add new ones into that range.

Option 3: Switch to an app where unlimited calendar is still free

This is where we'll mention our app. Sense gives every family unlimited future calendar access, shared with everyone in your household, on the free tier. There's no 30-day cap, no ad layer on top of your calendar, and no upsell to see next semester.

The other thing Sense does that Cozi doesn't: forward a school newsletter, sports schedule, or camp email to your Sense address and the AI extracts every date, time, and location and adds events to your shared family calendar automatically. So the long-range scheduling that a 30-day cap makes painful, Sense does for you from emails you were already receiving.

Honest Comparison: Cozi Free, Cozi Gold, and Sense

Feature	Cozi (Free)	Cozi Gold ($39/yr)	Sense (Free)
Future calendar window	30 days	Unlimited	Unlimited
Month view on mobile	No	Yes	Yes
Shared family calendar	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ads	Yes	No	No
Reminders per event	1	Up to 3	Up to 3
Google Calendar sync	One-way, read-only, ~hourly	One-way, read-only, ~hourly	Two-way Google Calendar sync
Email-to-calendar AI	No	No	Free tier (limited), unlimited on Premium
Shopping lists	Yes	Yes	Yes
Meal planner	Yes	Yes	Premium

What Long-Time Users Are Saying

We've spent time reading recent reviews on Trustpilot, the App Store, and Google Play. The pattern is consistent. The most common complaint is from people who used Cozi for years on the free tier and felt the rug pulled out when the 30-day limit appeared with little warning. The second most common complaint is the widget, which several recent App Store reviews describe as going blank or failing to refresh.

None of this means Cozi is a bad app. The shared calendar, shopping list, and meal planner concepts are still solid and many families happily pay the $39 once they've grown attached to them. But it does mean the original deal that earned Cozi those long-time users no longer exists on the free tier.

The Bottom Line

The 30-day calendar limit isn't a bug. It's the new free tier. If you remember Cozi as "the family app that just worked and stayed out of your way," that version is now Cozi Gold at $39 per year.

That's a fair amount of money for what you used to get for free, and that's the part that's frustrating long-time users. The right answer depends on your situation. If you're deeply invested in Cozi's workflows, paying may be the lowest-friction option. If you're already debating switching, this is a clean moment to evaluate alternatives that don't lock unlimited future calendar behind a paywall.