The Short Answer

Maple closes permanently on December 31, 2026. Accounts stay usable until that date, then they are closed and the data is deleted with no way to recover it, according to Maple's own shutdown notice. The trigger was an acquisition: on July 29, 2026 the vacation-rental company Wander announced it had acquired the team behind Maple, not the product. Annual subscriptions have stopped renewing and monthly ones run to the end of December. You lose the shared calendar, the lists, the meal planning and the reminders in one go, along with Maple's connections to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and TeamSnap. No single app picks all of that up, so the move that works is to split Maple's job in three: the shared calendar, the lists, and the part that actually made a person do the thing. Export first, choose second, and do both before November 30: Maple's website says December 31, but a reviewer who checked the app reports the notice inside it saying November 30, 2026, and the earlier date is the one to plan around.

What Happened, and What Did Not

Maple was a family organizer: one app holding a shared family calendar, lists, meal planning and reminders, pitched squarely at the mental load that usually sits on one parent. It had a team of two well-known founders behind it, Michael Perry and Mike Taylor, who previously built Kit (acquired by Shopify in 2016) and held senior roles there before leaving in 2020 to start Maple.

On July 29, 2026, Wander announced it had hired them. The press release describes a team acquisition, with Perry joining as vice president of product to work on WanderOS, Wander's platform for property managers. Dealroom's write-up makes the shape explicit: this was an acqui-hire, financial terms were not disclosed, and the Maple app itself was not the thing being bought.

That distinction matters for you, because it decides what happens next. When a product is acquired, it usually gets absorbed, rebranded, or kept running badly. When a team is acquired, the product has nobody left, and the honest outcome is the one Maple chose: a date, a notice, and a shutdown. Several family-app makers have published migration pages since, including one from Sense, and they agree on the date and the data deletion. They are also, of course, selling you their own app. So is this post, further down, for one part of the job. Read all of them with that in mind.

One detail we could not pin down: exactly when the shutdown itself was announced. Dated write-ups disagree by about two weeks, and Maple's own site was unreachable from our network on October 6, 2026, so we are not stating an announcement date. The shutdown date itself has one wrinkle. Maple's website says December 31, 2026, but a reviewer who checked the app on September 21 reports the notice inside it saying November 30, 2026, and Maple has not explained the difference. Plan around November 30: if the later date holds you gain a month, and if the earlier one does you lose everything.

What You Lose on December 31, and What You Keep

Maple's notice is unusually clear about the consequences, which is to its credit. Working through it:

  • The account closes and becomes inaccessible. Not read-only, not archived. Closed.
  • The data is deleted with no way to recover it. There is no stated grace period afterwards, so treat December 31 as the hard wall rather than the start of a wind-down.
  • The external connections go too, specifically the ones to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and TeamSnap.
  • Annual subscriptions no longer renew, and monthly subscriptions stay active until December 31.

What you keep is anything that was never really Maple's to begin with. If a birthday or a school event originated in a Google, Apple or Outlook calendar that Maple was reading, that event belongs to that calendar and lives on in it. The risk is the other direction: anything created inside Maple may exist only inside Maple. Do not assume the sync carried it out. Open the other calendar, look for a handful of Maple-created events by name, and find out.

We could not verify Maple's export mechanics ourselves, because its site would not load for us on October 6, and the notice as indexed says only that families should export or transfer their data before the account closes. So treat the step below as manual until the app shows you otherwise.

Get It Out First: a 30-Minute Checklist

Do this part before you choose anything new, because picking an app is a pleasant decision you can make in January, and exporting is a deadline you cannot. In rough order of how much it hurts to lose:

  • The recurring stuff, written down as rules. Bin day, the monthly standing order, swimming on Tuesdays, the filter that needs changing twice a year. These are the items nobody remembers until the week they are missed, and a screenshot of a calendar month does not capture the rule. Write the rule, not the next instance.
  • Dates with a one-time cost attached: renewals, insurance, passports, school deadlines, medical reviews. Each of these has a real price for forgetting.
  • The lists that have history in them: the recurring grocery list, the packing list, the household to-do list that has been accreting for two years.
  • Meal plans and recipes, which are usually the hardest to reconstruct and the easiest to forget to take.
  • Who was in the account, and which family member each colour or calendar belonged to, so the new setup can be rebuilt in the same shape.
  • Check the synced calendars as described above, before you disconnect anything.

A plain text note or spreadsheet is a perfectly good destination for all of it. The goal today is that nothing lives only in an app that may have as little as 55 days left on it.

Where Each Part of Maple's Job Can Go

Maple did three jobs that happen to be sold by three different kinds of company, which is why no single replacement feels right. Split them.

The shared family calendar. Cozi is the closest thing to Maple's overall shape: a shared colour-coded calendar plus lists and recipes, with a free tier. Two caveats worth knowing before you invest an evening in it. The free tier carries ads, and reviewers in 2026 report that free accounts now see only a 30-day window of the calendar, with anything beyond next month behind the paywall (Calendara and OurCal both describe this, dating the change to May 2024). Cozi Gold is listed at $39 a year on Cozi's own FAQ, covering everyone in the account, and a higher Cozi Max tier with AI features is reported at $79.99 a year. If what you want is purely the schedule, TimeTree is free with ads, with unlimited shared calendars and members and a chat thread on each event; Premium, which removes ads and adds attachments, is listed at $4.49 a month or $44.99 a year. And a plain shared Google or Apple calendar costs nothing, syncs everywhere, and does the schedule and only the schedule. For a family that mostly needed a calendar, that is often the honest answer.

The lists. Whatever the family will actually open. Cozi keeps lists next to the calendar, a shared note in Apple Notes or Google Keep is free and already on everyone's phone, and a shared shopping list in a grocery app beats a beautiful list nobody opens. There is no clever answer here, only the one your household will not abandon in February.

The nudging. This is the part that quietly broke when Maple died, and the part a calendar does not do. A calendar shows a date to whoever opens the calendar. It does not put the thing in front of a specific person at the moment it needs doing, and in most families the whole reason one app existed was that one person was tired of being the reminder system for everyone else.

The Part a Calendar Does Not Do

This is where NagMeLater fits, and it is worth being precise about the boundaries, because we do not replace Maple. There is no shared family calendar here, no meal planner, and no two-way sync that writes into Google, Apple or Outlook. If those were the features you used daily, one of the apps above is your answer and we are a complement at best.

What we do is the nagging. NagMeLater is a WhatsApp contact: you text it a sentence, and it texts you back at the time you named. No app to install, no account to create for anyone, which is the difference between a plan the family adopts and a plan one parent maintains alone. The first 7 days are free and unlimited.

Three pieces of it map onto what families used Maple for. Recurring reminders carry the rules you just wrote down: remind me every Tuesday at 7pm to put the bins out, or remind me on the 1st of every month at 9am to change the AC filters. Group reminders move a task onto somebody else's phone: once two people are in a group, remind @Priya on Monday at 8am to take the car for service lands on Priya, and the person who set it is told when she replies done, or told that nobody replied. And a morning briefing, set with morning briefing at 7am, sends the day's reminders and open tasks in one message, which is the "what is happening today" question a family calendar gets opened for.

The first thing to set, though, is the export itself:

Your first 7 days are free and unlimited

No app, no account. Save the number, send a message, done.

Two smaller commands earn a place in a shutdown. note Maple closes Dec 31 2026, all data deleted, exports saved in Drive/family-2026 keeps the facts somewhere you can retrieve with notes about Maple. And todo rebuild the meal plan in the new app #house keeps the leftovers of the migration on a list rather than in your head. More on both in notes, reminders and group reminders.

The Order That Avoids a Bad January

Families that have done one of these migrations before tend to follow the same sequence, and it is worth copying:

  1. This week: export. Rules, dates, lists, meal plans, who was who. Nothing fancy, just out.
  2. This week, five minutes: set a reminder for mid-December to check that nothing is left behind. The export you do today will miss something, and the only question is whether you notice in December or in March.
  3. Then take your time: trial one calendar app with the whole household for a fortnight. A family app chosen by one person and announced to everyone else is the failure mode that produced Maple's market in the first place.
  4. Rebuild the recurring items first in whatever you pick, because they are the ones that pay the app back. One-off events can be added as they come up.
  5. Before December 31: disconnect the calendar integrations deliberately, after confirming the events you care about exist in the calendar you are keeping.

If you have been through this with a Google product, the shape will be familiar: we wrote up where Google's own reminders went and the Yahoo Notepad shutdown, which closes on January 15, 2027, two weeks after Maple. The lesson from both is the same: the export is urgent, the replacement is not.

Frequently Asked Questions

When exactly is Maple shutting down?

December 31, 2026 according to Maple's own website, which says accounts remain active until that date and are then closed and inaccessible. One reviewer reports the notice inside the app giving November 30, 2026 instead, and Maple has not explained the difference, so plan to be out by November 30. The shutdown follows Wander's acquisition of the Maple team, announced on July 29, 2026.

Will my Maple data be deleted?

Yes. Maple's notice states that all data will be deleted and there will be no way to recover it once the app is shut down, including the connections to external services such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and TeamSnap. There is no published grace period after December 31, so export before then.

Will my Maple subscription keep charging me?

No. According to Maple's notice, annual subscriptions no longer renew, and monthly subscriptions remain active until December 31, 2026. If you are unsure which you are on, check the subscription in the app store you bought it through rather than in Maple, since that is where a renewal would be billed.

Why is Maple shutting down if people were paying for it?

Because the team was acquired, not the product. Wander announced on July 29, 2026 that it had hired Maple's founders Michael Perry and Mike Taylor, with Perry as vice president of product working on WanderOS. Dealroom reported it as an acqui-hire with undisclosed terms. An app whose team has moved on has no maintainers, and a dated shutdown is the honest end of that story.

Is there one app that replaces everything Maple did?

Not really. Maple combined a shared family calendar, lists, meal planning and reminders, and the apps that cover most of it, such as Cozi, are calendar-first with lists attached. The practical answer is to place the three jobs separately: a shared calendar app or a plain shared Google or Apple calendar for the schedule, whatever the household will actually open for lists, and something that messages a named person for the reminders.

Does NagMeLater replace Maple?

Only one part of it, and we would rather say so. NagMeLater has no shared family calendar, no meal planner and no two-way calendar sync. It is a WhatsApp contact that sends reminders at the time you name, including recurring ones, and it can send a reminder to another family member in a group and tell you whether they replied done. If what you miss is the nagging, that is us. If what you miss is the calendar, it is not.

What happens to the calendars Maple was synced with?

The connection ends with the account, but a calendar you own is not Maple's to delete. Events that originated in your Google, Apple or Outlook calendar stay in those calendars. Events created inside Maple may exist only in Maple, so check for a few of them by name in the calendar you plan to keep before December 31, and do not assume the sync carried them across.