Switching from Maple

Maple is closing. Your family's year isn't.

Maple says it will sunset on December 31, 2026. Here's what that means for the schedule you built, what to move before the lights go out, and how to choose what comes next — including when the answer isn't us.

Do this part first — it takes ten minutes

Maple recommends moving your data out, but as of today it doesn't publish a step-by-step export tool, so start by looking in the app's own settings. Then work in this order, because it puts the irreplaceable things first:

• Check what was never yours to lose. If you connected Google, Apple, or Outlook Calendar, those events still live in that calendar. Open it directly — not through Maple — and confirm you can see them. That's the bulk of most families' year, already safe.
• Find what exists only inside Maple. Scroll the calendar forward through the school year and look for anything that isn't in your own calendar: birthdays typed straight in, recurring chores, the pickup rota. Those are the ones that disappear.
• Copy the soft stuff out as plain text. Lists, notes, and meal plans move fine as text — into a note, a document, or straight into whatever you use next. Screenshots work for anything stubborn.
• Do it before December. There's no earlier deadline we could find, but December is the worst month to be rescuing a calendar.

Then decide what the app was actually for

Most families replacing Maple find they were using it for one of three different jobs, and the best replacement depends on which:

• A shared calendar everyone can see. Cozi and TimeTree do this well and cost little or nothing. If that's all Maple was, don't overbuy.
• The schedule on the kitchen wall. Skylight sells a screen for exactly that. It's hardware money, but it's the one thing an app on a phone can't do.
• Somebody to do the remembering. This is the one Maple reached for with its AI, and it's the one a plain calendar can't replace — because a calendar only holds what someone already thought to type in.

If it's the third one, that's the job Kynlo does

Kynlo is an AI family assistant built around a single idea: the exhausting part of running a household isn't the driving or the cooking, it's being the person who has to remember it all. So Kynlo keeps the family's books and writes you one short letter each morning — who's where, what's due, where two plans collide — instead of handing you another dashboard to check.

You can forward it the school email, text it a photo of the flyer on the counter, or paste in the week's mess, and it files what matters: the fee with its due date, the practice that moved, the form that needs signing before Friday. What Maple started, told plainly.

Questions Maple families are asking

Is the Maple app really shutting down?

Yes. Maple's own site states that it has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026, that accounts will be closed and inaccessible after that date, and that all data will be deleted with no way to recover it. Verified on growmaple.com on August 11, 2026.

When exactly does Maple stop working?

December 31, 2026 is the only date Maple has published. Accounts stay active until then. Maple also says annual subscriptions will no longer renew, while monthly subscriptions remain active through the sunset date. There is no earlier export deadline that we could find — but waiting until December means doing it in the busiest month of the year.

How do I get my family's data out of Maple?

Maple recommends exporting or transferring your data before it shuts down, but as of August 11, 2026 it does not publish a step-by-step export tool, so check inside the app first. The reliable part: anything that came from a calendar you connected — Google, Apple, or Outlook — still lives in that calendar, so connecting your next app to the same account brings it along. Items created only inside Maple, along with lists, notes, and meal plans, need to be copied out by hand before December 31.

What is the best Maple alternative?

It depends on what Maple was doing for you. If you mostly used the shared calendar, Cozi or TimeTree cover that free or cheaply. If you want the schedule on a kitchen wall, Skylight sells the screen. If what you actually miss is Maple's attempt to carry the mental load — the remembering, not just the displaying — that is the job Kynlo was built for.

Will Kynlo shut down too?

We cannot promise you a company will exist forever; anyone who does is guessing. What we can tell you is how Kynlo is built to make leaving survivable: the morning letter is free forever, your calendar events stay in your own Google or Apple calendar rather than only inside ours, and the household book is readable and correctable by you at any time.