Maple Family Assistant

Name: Maple Family Assistant
Rating: 4.3 (1161 reviews)
Author: Grow Maple Inc.

AI Assistant for busy parents

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

1.2K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Grow Maple Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

100.5
MB

Staying organized as a busy parent is hard. Maple makes it easier. Maple is a free, all-in-one family assistant, family organizer, and family planner built to reduce the mental load and help your household operate better, together. Maple combines everything families need in one place: a shared family calendar, family email inbox, to-do lists, task manager, chore tracker, meal planner, grocery lists, and shared notes. With built-in AI and the Maple Assistant, Maple helps you plan faster by automatically organizing schedules, turning emails into tasks, and keeping your family on the same page. Whether you are managing a busy household, coordinating a co-parenting schedule, meal planning days in advance, or trying to stay ahead of school events and sports practices, Maple makes family life easier.

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

1.2K Ratings

So much improvement, room for more!
03/15/2024

LeeNadine
I used maple when it first came out, i wrote a review and subsequently deleted the app and returned to Cozi until recently when I tried the app and found the improvements great, great work on the roadmap productivity, I paid for the app this time and we now use it for about half of our workflow for managing our household- 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 adults and our nanny. The main issue we have is that it doesn’t integrate with Alexa, (though we do appreciate the Google calendar integration so can explore ways to use this in other ways), and because we add all our to do items and shopping items to Alexa lists via the voice commands from devices around our house we continue to have to manually update those before doing anything in maple. I would love to be able to update the app on a desktop somehow as the adults in our family don’t have phones on us that much through the day. I looked to see if there were any API docs to be able to add items to lists via postman but don’t see anything that would make this app more extensible. We like the UI, it’s pretty, the billing is a little confusing for a household as the membership appears to be for a person not a household and I wouldnt pay twice to enable our nanny or husband to access the premium app if I have paid for it for myself. We are still exploring ways to use the app to streamline our day to day use of it, more integrations would really help here.

Developer Response
Wow, so happy to hear you are enjoying the improvements. We are truly doing our best over here! The integration idea with Alexa is a really cool idea and I'm sure something our team will explore in the future. In the meantime, we have some really really exciting updates coming over the course of the next few months that we hope will continue to make managing day-to-day life way easier. Thank you for taking the time to write this review. It means a lot to hear you can see and feel the improvements we've been working so hard to make.
So much improvement, room for more!
03/15/2024

LeeNadine

I used maple when it first came out, i wrote a review and subsequently deleted the app and returned to Cozi until recently when I tried the app and found the improvements great, great work on the roadmap productivity, I paid for the app this time and we now use it for about half of our workflow for managing our household- 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 adults and our nanny. The main issue we have is that it doesn’t integrate with Alexa, (though we do appreciate the Google calendar integration so can explore ways to use this in other ways), and because we add all our to do items and shopping items to Alexa lists via the voice commands from devices around our house we continue to have to manually update those before doing anything in maple. I would love to be able to update the app on a desktop somehow as the adults in our family don’t have phones on us that much through the day. I looked to see if there were any API docs to be able to add items to lists via postman but don’t see anything that would make this app more extensible. We like the UI, it’s pretty, the billing is a little confusing for a household as the membership appears to be for a person not a household and I wouldnt pay twice to enable our nanny or husband to access the premium app if I have paid for it for myself. We are still exploring ways to use the app to streamline our day to day use of it, more integrations would really help here.
Developer Response 03/19/2024
Wow, so happy to hear you are enjoying the improvements. We are truly doing our best over here! The integration idea with Alexa is a really cool idea and I'm sure something our team will explore in the future. In the meantime, we have some really really exciting updates coming over the course of the next few months that we hope will continue to make managing day-to-day life way easier. Thank you for taking the time to write this review. It means a lot to hear you can see and feel the improvements we've been working so hard to make.
Love the app but…
08/10/2024

KTbeth2011
I love the app, the design, and the simplicity of how to use it. It is great for managing a large household with lots of activities. It’s extremely handy to be able to share folders with babysitters, other family members, and create chore charts, and to do lists and really so much more. I love all the updates that continue to stream in and it feels like Christmas when I see they have added a new ability to this app. I did however give this app 4 stars because I am struggling with when I add information to any list, note, meal plan, or folder it sometimes pops up with a Error updating message despite being connected to the internet or cell data service. Then it will either crash losing all my inputted data or the item I’m creating will delete all info I have just loaded. I have tried deleting app and reinstalling and it still doesn’t work. I still use it and still love it and I still HIGHLY recommend it for all the moms struggling for a home management system but just be aware of that tiny glitch as your creating folders/files/lists. Double check it adds it so your info doesn’t delete when you close the app.

Developer Response
Hi KTbeth2011 - Thanks for the review. So happy to hear you are enjoying Maple! Super sorry you keep getting that error message. We're looking into the issue and hopefully will get that error to stop popping up in the future. Please feel free to write us at support@growmaple.com if you have any other questions or issues!
Love the app but…
08/10/2024

KTbeth2011

I love the app, the design, and the simplicity of how to use it. It is great for managing a large household with lots of activities. It’s extremely handy to be able to share folders with babysitters, other family members, and create chore charts, and to do lists and really so much more. I love all the updates that continue to stream in and it feels like Christmas when I see they have added a new ability to this app. I did however give this app 4 stars because I am struggling with when I add information to any list, note, meal plan, or folder it sometimes pops up with a Error updating message despite being connected to the internet or cell data service. Then it will either crash losing all my inputted data or the item I’m creating will delete all info I have just loaded. I have tried deleting app and reinstalling and it still doesn’t work. I still use it and still love it and I still HIGHLY recommend it for all the moms struggling for a home management system but just be aware of that tiny glitch as your creating folders/files/lists. Double check it adds it so your info doesn’t delete when you close the app.
Developer Response 08/15/2024
Hi KTbeth2011 - Thanks for the review. So happy to hear you are enjoying Maple! Super sorry you keep getting that error message. We're looking into the issue and hopefully will get that error to stop popping up in the future. Please feel free to write us at support@growmaple.com if you have any other questions or issues!
Nice looking but not so great UI
02/27/2025

beergotmeripped
All it took was 30 mins signing up, messing with the app, testing it out… there’s literally a typo on the first form field when signing up. Calendar screen is cluttered, and barely viewable in modes like weekly view. And I couldn’t scroll to see other days. The calendar tab shows all tabs, menus, account info, so much so that there’s only like 30% screen real estate left for the actual calendar. Plus, for the free version they hold back weekend planning! Ridiculous, it makes it that much harder to try it out. So I thought, OK, we’d be using it on a family iPad mostly, so I installed it there… even more unusable. Wow… calendar view would not even show the full week and Friday was hanging off the right side of the screen. Again, scrolling left or right didn’t work… so I rotated it, and then the left menu bar (which again, takes up an unnecessary 25% of screen space) overlaps the Monday/Tuesday in a glitchy way, with text all crashing together. Then no buttons worked, and seems the app has frozen. Granted, this was an iPad Air that’s 5+ years old, but it has no problems with any other apps. Maybe this is why the App Store only shows 2 images and barely shows you what the calendar screens look like. Deleted apps, deleted account, sorry Maple… going elsewhere.
Nice looking but not so great UI
02/27/2025

beergotmeripped

All it took was 30 mins signing up, messing with the app, testing it out… there’s literally a typo on the first form field when signing up. Calendar screen is cluttered, and barely viewable in modes like weekly view. And I couldn’t scroll to see other days. The calendar tab shows all tabs, menus, account info, so much so that there’s only like 30% screen real estate left for the actual calendar. Plus, for the free version they hold back weekend planning! Ridiculous, it makes it that much harder to try it out. So I thought, OK, we’d be using it on a family iPad mostly, so I installed it there… even more unusable. Wow… calendar view would not even show the full week and Friday was hanging off the right side of the screen. Again, scrolling left or right didn’t work… so I rotated it, and then the left menu bar (which again, takes up an unnecessary 25% of screen space) overlaps the Monday/Tuesday in a glitchy way, with text all crashing together. Then no buttons worked, and seems the app has frozen. Granted, this was an iPad Air that’s 5+ years old, but it has no problems with any other apps. Maybe this is why the App Store only shows 2 images and barely shows you what the calendar screens look like. Deleted apps, deleted account, sorry Maple… going elsewhere.
Robust, but lacking a few key features.
04/09/2024

UnBrieLievable
So far I really like this app as a competitor to FamilyWall. However, it misses out on a few things that I personally find very valuable—I cannot customise the defaults on the Calendar, so every time I input a new event I have to take the time to adjust the notifications, and make sure the event doesn’t get added to my food prep list (seriously?). The calendar also doesn’t include public holidays, and there’s no option to set task events (like recurring bills) to not show on the main calendar. This clutters my scheduling calendar quite a lot and makes the various event lists less desirable to use. It outshines FamilyWall in the impressive offerings for tools and including the meal prep and budgeting options inside the paywall. However, the calendar pitfalls are (to me) major drawbacks, considering the calendar is the most important function for a busy family. Event lists? Awesome addition. Not being able to customise those key functions? Not awesome. My final gripe—no swipe to delete function on to-do lists, and no “delete all completed tasks” option. You have to manually select, scroll, and click delete on every list item to clear them away completely after they’ve been checked off. I want to love this app! It has some awesome features and is beautifully robust—but these little functionality features make it hard to want to switch from my current workhorse.

Developer Response
Hi Brie!Thank you for your feedback. Calendar is a biggie! We are currently outlining work to make huge improvements to the Maple calendar, so your feedback comes at the perfect time. I've relayed all your requests and frustrations to the product team and they're digging into them to figure out how to make the app better so we can make your life easier. If you have any other feedback about how Maple can better serve your family, please email us at support@growmaple.com -Lauren
Robust, but lacking a few key features.
04/09/2024

UnBrieLievable

So far I really like this app as a competitor to FamilyWall. However, it misses out on a few things that I personally find very valuable—I cannot customise the defaults on the Calendar, so every time I input a new event I have to take the time to adjust the notifications, and make sure the event doesn’t get added to my food prep list (seriously?). The calendar also doesn’t include public holidays, and there’s no option to set task events (like recurring bills) to not show on the main calendar. This clutters my scheduling calendar quite a lot and makes the various event lists less desirable to use. It outshines FamilyWall in the impressive offerings for tools and including the meal prep and budgeting options inside the paywall. However, the calendar pitfalls are (to me) major drawbacks, considering the calendar is the most important function for a busy family. Event lists? Awesome addition. Not being able to customise those key functions? Not awesome. My final gripe—no swipe to delete function on to-do lists, and no “delete all completed tasks” option. You have to manually select, scroll, and click delete on every list item to clear them away completely after they’ve been checked off. I want to love this app! It has some awesome features and is beautifully robust—but these little functionality features make it hard to want to switch from my current workhorse.
Developer Response 05/31/2024
Hi Brie!Thank you for your feedback. Calendar is a biggie! We are currently outlining work to make huge improvements to the Maple calendar, so your feedback comes at the perfect time. I've relayed all your requests and frustrations to the product team and they're digging into them to figure out how to make the app better so we can make your life easier. If you have any other feedback about how Maple can better serve your family, please email us at support@growmaple.com -Lauren

Meet Maple Assistant, your always available AI-powered helper for family life. You can ask Maple to handle anything: plan meals, create grocery lists, organize your family schedule, summarize school emails, and build to-do lists instantly. Maple Assistant helps you stay organized, save time, and keep everything running smoothly at home.

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