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Famileze and Cozi,
honestly compared.
Cozi is the household-calendar incumbent — a dashboard for the family's week. Famileze is a private family archive with a calendar inside it. They start from different questions: Cozi asks what's happening this week?; Famileze also asks what will your family want to have kept, twenty years from now?
Facts checked 18 August 2026, from Cozi's public material and 2026 reviews. Their pricing and features move — check theirs before deciding.
| Famileze | Cozi | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A private family archive: captioned timeline, calendar, health records, newsletter, keepsake letters | A shared household calendar with shopping/to-do lists, a meal planner and a recipe box |
| Price | $6.99/mo or $49.99/yr, everything included, first 30 days free | Free tier (ads-funded); Cozi Gold $39/yr; a Max tier at $79.99/yr adds AI features |
| Ads | Never — no ads, no analytics, no tracking | The free tier is funded by ads |
| Free calendar | Full calendar during the 30-day trial and on the one plan | 2026 reviews note the free calendar is limited to a 30-day window |
| School email → calendar | Yes — forward the email, Famileze reads out the dates and offers them; you approve | Not advertised |
| Photo archive | Yes — a captioned, searchable timeline; photos are the point, not incidental | Photos are incidental; no captioned timeline |
| Health records | Yes — immunisations, growth, appointments, sickness notes, medication logs | Not advertised |
| Family newsletter | Yes — emailed to the people you choose; an inbox, not a feed | Not advertised |
| Meal planner | No — declined deliberately | Yes — a genuine strength |
| End-to-end encryption | Yes — AES-256-GCM on your device; we hold no key | Not advertised |
| Ends as files you own | Yes — the free desktop companion walks the archive onto your own computer as ordinary files | Not advertised |
What Cozi does better
Meal planning, honestly and completely — Famileze declined that feature on purpose and won't pretend otherwise. Cozi is also the simplest possible shared calendar with a household-name brand in family logistics; if a week-view dashboard is the whole job, Cozi does that job well.
Where Famileze differs
Famileze keeps the coordination — a shared family calendar, lists by voice or text, both parents in step — and adds the half Cozi doesn't have: the archive. A captioned photo timeline, per-child health records, a newsletter the grandparents receive by email, keepsake letters, and a school-email inbox that turns notices into calendar entries you approve.
Underneath it is a different architecture: family content is encrypted on your device before it is uploaded, and we hold no key — so nobody, including us, can read it. And the story ends on your terms: ordinary photo and text files on a computer your family owns, readable with or without Famileze.
Questions families ask
Is Cozi free?
Cozi's free tier is funded by ads, and 2026 reviews note it now limits the calendar to a 30-day window. Cozi Gold ($39/yr) removes the ads and the window; a Max tier ($79.99/yr) adds AI features. Famileze has no ads and no free tier — a full-featured 30-day trial instead, then $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year with everything included.
Does Famileze have a meal planner?
No — deliberately. That's Cozi's half of the job. Famileze's recipe book is about keeping the family's recipes as shareable, printable cards, not planning Tuesday's dinner.
Can I take my family's data out of Famileze?
Yes — at any time, as ordinary photo and text files. That's the point: the archive is yours outright, and deleting the account never deletes the copies on your family's own devices.