For families leaving Cozi
In May 2024, Cozi capped its free tier at 30 days of calendar and added ads. Lately it's worse: 2026 reviews are full of lists losing items and events that never reach the rest of the family. Sense gives every family an unlimited shared calendar with no ads - plus AI that reads school emails and creates events automatically.
Side by side
Where each one lands on the things families actually do every week.
| Sense | Cozi free | Cozi Gold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future calendar window | Unlimited | 30 days only | Unlimited |
| Ads on the calendar | None | Yes | None |
| Forward emails to calendar | Yes | No | No |
| AI chat assistant | Yes | No | No |
| Meal planning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chores with rewards | Yes | No | No |
| Routines (bedtime, morning prep) | Yes | No | No |
| Custom rewards kids redeem | Yes | No | No |
| Tablet display mode | Yes | No | No |
| Google Calendar sync | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free, $6.99/mo Premium | Free with ads | $39/year |
Sound familiar
Through late 2025 and 2026, Cozi reviews filled with sync complaints: list items vanishing, events saving on one phone but invisible to everyone else, blank widgets, login loops - many from multi-year Gold subscribers. A shared calendar the family can't trust isn't shared. We wrote a fix checklist if you want to try saving it first.
Per Cozi's own FAQ, free now only shows events within 30 days. School terms, sports seasons, summer camps, birthdays - all the things families plan ahead - require Cozi Gold at $39/year. Sense keeps the future unlimited, free.
Cozi has never read your email. Every newsletter, every practice schedule, every field trip - you read it and type it. Gold doesn't change that. Forward the email to Sense and AI extracts every date, time, and location.
The Cozi free tier added ad placements in 2024. Removing them costs $39/year - and reviewers say the Gold upsell prompts keep coming even after you pay. Sense has no ads on the calendar - not on the free tier, not anywhere. We make money from Premium, not your attention.
How to switch
Cozi doesn't let free users export their calendar, so most families don't migrate - they start fresh. Sense fills the calendar back up from your inbox in a few days, without typing.
Step 02
Forward last week's newsletter, the practice schedule, the field-trip permission slip. Each one becomes a batch of calendar events. A handful of emails fills most of the next month.
Step 03
Everyone sees the shared calendar on their own phone. The calendar keeps building itself as you forward more.
Cozi Gold gives you a shared calendar URL. Turn on sharing in Cozi, copy the link, and paste it into Sense's Connected Calendars screen with the Import option - your existing events come over as your own, editable Sense events that no longer depend on Cozi, so you can cancel Gold afterward without losing anything. Follow the step-by-step guide to import your Cozi calendar, or read the full rundown of what can leave Cozi and what can't.
Beyond the calendar
Forward newsletters, sports schedules, or activity emails. Sense reads them and pulls out every event, deadline, and detail.
Ask "what's happening this week?" or "give me a dinner idea with what we have." It knows your schedule and your family.
Plan the week's dinners, get AI suggestions, stop having the "what's for dinner" conversation every night.
Assign chores, set recurring schedules, let kids earn feathers they can redeem. The app does the nagging.
Bundle bedtime, morning prep, or after-school into one named routine. Kids work through the steps in order, and the routine celebrates when they finish. Cozi has chores; Sense has the sequence kids actually follow.
Cozi has no rewards system on free or Gold. Sense lets you set the rewards you'd give anyway - screen time, pick the movie, friend over - with feather costs you control. Kids redeem on their own, the bargaining stops.
Connect your Google Calendar so work events and family events live in one place. No double-booking.
Turn any old tablet into a kitchen hub. Everyone sees what's happening today at a glance.
Try Sense free for 5 days. If it doesn't save you time, go back to Cozi - no hard feelings.
