Shared calendar
One family calendar everyone sees on their own phone, with agenda, 3-day, week, and month views. Connect Google, Apple, or Outlook so work and family events live together.
For families leaving Maple
Looking for a Maple alternative? Meet Sense.
Sense helps families turn scattered emails, flyers, screenshots, recipes, calendar changes, lists, chores, and reminders into one shared family system.
The short version
Maple is shutting down. Your family doesn't have to.
Maple announced it will sunset on December 31, 2026, after being acquired by Wander, and it recommends exporting your data before then. Sense is a good place to land: the shared calendar, lists, reminders, recipes, and chores your family already runs on, plus AI that keeps them filling themselves in instead of you typing everything by hand. See how forwarding a school email turns into calendar events.
For Maple families
Everything you leaned on in Maple, already here.
The parts of family life you were coordinating in Maple have a home in Sense from day one.
Reminders
Keep the appointments, permission slips, and pickups from slipping. Set them for yourself or the whole family, and get a nudge before they matter.
Lists
Folder-based to-do lists, shopping lists, and notes the whole family can add to and check off, in sync across every device.
Recipes and meal planning
Save recipes, plan the week's dinners on a shared meal calendar, and stop having the "what's for dinner" conversation every night.
Chores and routines
Assign chores, set recurring schedules, and bundle bedtime or morning prep into named routines kids work through step by step.
Family hub and tablet mode
Turn any tablet into an always-on kitchen display that rotates through today's events, reminders, and chores at a glance.
iOS, Android, and web
Sense runs on iPhone, Android, and the web, so every parent and caregiver stays on the same page no matter what they carry.
How Sense is different
Where Sense goes further.
Sense was built AI-first, so the family system fills itself in from the things already landing in your inbox and camera roll.
AI-native intake
Sense reads what you send it and pulls out the events, dates, times, and details on its own. You forward or share; the calendar and lists update themselves.
Email, PDF, screenshot, and photo capture
School newsletters, camp PDFs, a screenshot of a group chat, a photo of a flyer on the fridge, a forwarded WhatsApp message. Send any of it and Sense turns it into events and reminders.
Shared family workflows
Calendar, lists, chores, meals, and reminders aren't separate silos. They work together as one shared system the whole family runs on.
Family hub mode
A dedicated always-on display for the kitchen or hallway that keeps the day's plan visible to everyone, no phone required.
How to switch
How to move from Maple to Sense.
Maple stays live until December 31, 2026, so you can move at your own pace. Six steps, most of them a couple of minutes each.
Step 01
Export or preserve your Maple data
While Maple is still live, download or save anything you want to keep, and export your calendar as an ICS file if Maple offers one. Do this before December 31, 2026, when Maple deletes everything.
Step 02
Connect your calendars
Add your existing Google, Apple, or Outlook calendars to Sense and those events come straight across. A Maple ICS export imports directly too.
Step 03
Recreate your active lists, chores, recipes, and routines
Set up the ones you actually use now, not a year of history. It's quick, and Sense's AI can help fill them in rather than making you type from scratch.
Step 04
Invite your family
Everyone joins on their own phone and sees the same shared calendar, lists, and reminders.
Step 05
Forward your first school email or PDF
This is where Sense earns its keep. Forward a newsletter or a camp PDF and it becomes calendar events and reminders automatically.
Step 06
Set up tablet hub mode
If you used Maple on a display, turn any tablet into an always-on family hub for the kitchen or hallway.
What comes over directly
Your external calendars - Google, Apple, and Outlook, plus any calendar with a share link like TeamSnap - reconnect in a tap, since that data never lived inside Maple. An ICS calendar export imports straight in.
What you recreate, fast
Lists, chores, routines, recipes, reminders, and family members start fresh. You're not retyping them, though - AI rebuilds them from your inbox. Historical data, completed tasks, and old notes generally don't export from Maple in a reusable format.
A few honest notes
Before you make the switch.
- Sense is not affiliated with Maple or Wander.
- Sense is not a 1:1 replacement for every Maple feature - here's everything Sense does so you can compare before switching.
- We're building migration support based on what Maple families need most, so tell us what you relied on and we'll prioritize accordingly.
- Coming from another app too? We wrote up switching from Cozi and a roundup of the best AI family organizer apps for 2026.
Join the Maple transition list
Tell us what you need from Maple.
Start now on any device, or leave your email and we'll share migration guidance for Maple families as we build it. Tell us the one thing you'd miss most, and we'll use it to decide what to build first.
Maple questions, answered
What Maple families ask us most.
Is Sense affiliated with Maple or Wander?
No. Sense is an independent AI family organizer, not connected to Maple, Grow Maple, or Wander. We built this page because Maple families started asking where to go next.
When is Maple shutting down?
Maple announced it will sunset on December 31, 2026, after its team was acquired by Wander. Your Maple account and data stay accessible until that date, then the account closes.
What happens to my Maple data?
Maple recommends exporting your data before December 31, 2026. Export what you can while the app is live. In Sense, you don't have to retype it all by hand: forward a few school emails and the calendar fills itself back in, and if you can export events as an ICS file, Sense can import that ICS file directly.
Does Sense do what Maple did?
The core of it, yes: a shared family calendar, lists, reminders, chores and routines, meal planning, and recipes. Where Sense goes further is AI intake, turning emails, PDFs, screenshots, and photos into events automatically. See everything Sense does.
Is Sense free?
Sense is free to try, no credit card required. Premium is $6.99/month or $59.99/year and unlocks chores rewards, meal planning, medications, and more. See pricing.
Bring your family over. Start with one email.
Forward a school newsletter or a camp PDF and watch Sense fill in the calendar. Free to try, no credit card required.