Best family organiser apps UK (2026)

The short version

• For a couple or family who want the lot, free: OurSpace (mine, so check the reasoning below rather than taking my word).
• For the most proven name, if you'll pay: Cozi with Gold, about £29 a year.
• For the closest all-rounder to Cozi with one subscription: FamilyWall Premium, about £4.99 a month.
• For a shared calendar and nothing else: TimeTree, or Google Calendar's own sharing, which is free and advert-free.
• For chores-for-points with kids: OurHome if it still installs happily for you, with the caveat below.
• For UK vehicle and home paperwork: SimpliHome, the other British one.

The apps, one by one

OurSpace · free, no adverts, made in Buckinghamshire

OurSpace is a shared household app for couples and families, and it's the one I make. Each adult connects their own Google Calendar (read-only) and the two diaries sit side by side in one view; around them go shared shopping lists and tasks, an AI meal planner that drafts the week's dinners and sends the ingredients to the list, budgets and a net-worth picture, contract renewal reminders, bin-day reminders on your own rotation, birthdays with gift ideas, an optional kids' week with who's dropping off and collecting, and a short AI-written catch-up of what your partner changed since you last looked. It's free on iPhone, Android and the web, with no adverts and no paid tier.

Where it loses: the calendar view needs each adult to have a Google account, so an Outlook-and-iCloud household won't get its best trick. It's built for a two-adult household rather than giving gran and three teenagers their own logins. And it's young, from a one-person firm; you're trading Cozi's twenty-year track record for a developer who answers his own email.

Cozi · the famous one, now properly paywalled

Cozi (American, going since 2005) is still the name people know: shared family calendar, shopping and to-do lists, recipe box and meal planning. The free version carries adverts and, since May 2024, only reaches about 30 days ahead in the calendar; the month view and long-range planning need Cozi Gold at $39 a year (about £29). Paid for, it's polished and dependable. Free, it's no longer really an organiser, which is why Cozi alternatives is a search term in the first place.

FamilyWall · the closest thing to everything-in-one, for a fee

FamilyWall (French, since 2011) gives you a shared colour-coded calendar, shopping and to-do lists and chore checklists free, with adverts. Premium at about £4.99 a month (or about £39.99 a year) removes the adverts and adds the meal planner, a budget section, location sharing and Google/Outlook calendar sync. For a bigger family wanting one app with individual profiles for everyone, it's the strongest paid all-rounder here, and honestly the app I'd point a five-person household at if mine doesn't fit.

TimeTree · the calendar specialist

TimeTree (Japanese) does shared calendars superbly and doesn't pretend to do the rest: unlimited calendars with their own members, chat on every event, and a notes area people use for lists. Free with adverts; Premium at about £3.50 a month or £35 a year removes them. Pair it with whatever you already use for lists and money, and it's a fine minimal answer.

OurHome · free and advert-free, but showing its age

OurHome (Australian) is the chores-and-rewards specialist: kids earn points for jobs, plus a shared grocery list and calendar, all free with no adverts. The honest caveat is that it appears to have had no meaningful development for years and its Google Play availability has been patchy, with reviewers reporting sync trouble. Worth a try for the chores system alone; I wouldn't make it the household's single source of truth.

SimpliHome · the other British one

SimpliHome describes itself as designed around British household life, and the UK details bear that out: vehicle records that pull MOT and tax dates, UK school terms and bank holidays baked in. There's a free plan for up to three household members, with paid plans from about £3 a month. If your pain point is the paperwork side (cars, home records) more than the shared day-to-day, it's the most UK-literate alternative to mine, and it deserves the "British" label it claims.

Also seen in UK searches

Sense pitches itself at UK school parents specifically: it reads the school apps (ParentMail, Arbor, Class Dojo and the rest) and turns the deluge into one family feed. It's solving the school-comms problem rather than the whole-household one, so I've left it out of the table, but if your inbox is 40% school newsletters it's worth a look.

Side by side, in pounds

Why "UK" is worth putting in the search box

It isn't flag-waving; the apps genuinely differ on it. A family organiser built for America prices in dollars, starts its week on Sunday, and has never heard of a bin rota, a fortnightly recycling collection, an MOT or an energy price cap. British household admin has its own furniture: renewal season on the insurance, Ofcom's end-of-contract letters, the school run, and the nightly question of which bins go out.

OurSpace is made in the UK (designed and built in Buckinghamshire), which shows up in unglamorous ways: bin-day reminders on weekly, fortnightly or monthly rotations; contract categories that match a British filing drawer (home insurance, broadband, the TV package, the mortgage); money in pounds; support from the person who built it, in your own time zone. SimpliHome, to its credit, plays the same card with vehicles and school terms. The big names are built elsewhere, and it shows in the same small ways, the other way round.