If you organize your family in Maple, you have until December 31. As of October 16, 2026, Maple's website says it “has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026.” Trade coverage of the deal (July 30, 2026) described it as an acquisition of Maple's team rather than of the app. The app is not moving to a new owner. It is closing.
That is an annoying position to be in. You already did the hard part: you got a system working and, if you were lucky, got someone else in the house to use it. Now you have to do it again, on a deadline, in the middle of the school year.
Get your data out before December, not in December
Maple's notice is plain about what happens. Accounts stay active until December 31, 2026. After the shutdown, all data is deleted with no way to recover it, and any calendars or services you connected to Maple lose that connection. Annual plans will not renew; monthly subscriptions stay active until December 31. Maple recommends exporting or transferring your data now.
Do it early, while support still answers email. Move your events into a calendar you will keep, and copy out anything that only exists in Maple: lists, notes, recurring reminders.
The calendar is the easy part to move. The harder part is the small stuff that built up around it: which child needs what on which day, the reminder you set once and forgot about, the shared list. Calendars port. Context does not.
Choose by the job it was doing, not by the feature list
Family organizers list roughly the same features, which makes comparison charts close to useless. A better question is which of these jobs Maple was actually doing for you.
If Maple was your shared calendar
You need something both adults will open. The plain option is a shared calendar on the phones you already carry: usually free, already installed, and boring in the way infrastructure should be. The other is a family organizer app with a calendar built in. If you try one, check what its free plan covers before you move a year of events into it, and whether the parts you rely on sit behind a subscription.
If Maple was where you put things so you could stop holding them in your head
This is the mental-load job. Almost anything with a shared list will technically do it. What matters is whether the other adult in the house looks at it without being asked. If they never did, the app was not the problem, and a new app will not be the fix.
If Maple was reading your school email and pulling dates out
This is the hardest job to replace. It is also where the newer tools are: some family organizer apps now take a forwarded email and turn it into calendar entries, and some AI tools do only that, reading the email you forward and pulling out what is coming up. Two things to check before you commit to any of them:
- Can you see what it read? If a tool tells you there is a field trip on Friday, can you get back to the email that said so? If not, you have swapped doing the work for checking the work, which is not obviously better.
- What happens when it is wrong? Ask whether it fails where you can see it, or quietly, by never creating the event you were counting on. DayFlo can misread details or miss items, so check important information against the original.
The failure mode to avoid
Switching is a good moment to notice something uncomfortable: a lot of family software moves work rather than removing it. You stop keeping the dates in your head and start keeping them in an app, but you are still the one typing them in, and still the only one who looks.
One test cuts through the feature charts. After a month, ask:
Does the other adult know what’s coming up without asking you?
If yes, keep it. If no, you are still the only person who knows where anything is.
Where we stand
We make DayFlo, so we are not neutral, and it would be strange not to say so. DayFlo is one of the tools that reads forwarded email. It is in early access and we approve families by hand, so it is not a guaranteed landing spot for everyone leaving Maple by December.
If the school-email and calendar job is the one Maple did for you, that is the job DayFlo is built for. You forward school and activity email to a private DayFlo address, or set a filter in your email to forward it for you. DayFlo pulls out the dates, deadlines, changes and things to bring and shows what’s coming up for each child. You can subscribe to those dates in Google or Apple Calendar, set reminders, and get a short note each evening. Items link back to the email they came from, so you can check them rather than trust them. A second adult in the household can use it too.
It has no shared lists, and what it shows comes from the email you send it, not from events you type in.
Ask us the same two questions you would ask any other tool, and hold us to the same one-month test.
Whatever you choose, get your data out of Maple first. If the school-email and calendar job is the one you need filled, join the waitlist and tell us what you are moving away from.
Sources
- Maple, home page shutdown notice, accessed October 16, 2026.
- Short Term Rentalz, “Wander acquires Maple” (July 30, 2026), accessed October 16, 2026.