patchio vs. Cozi Family Organizer
Established US family organiser (since 2005, part of OurFamilyWizard) with a shared calendar, lists, a recipe box and a meal planner.
What Cozi Family Organizer does well
- Very established and mature – on the market since 2005, excellent ratings on the US App Store
- Fair family pricing: one Gold subscription covers every family member on every device
- A well-rounded meals area: recipe box, meal planner and shopping list all work together
- Other calendars (e.g. school or team) can be added via an iCal link, plus a web version
patchio
€4.99/month or €39/year per household (VAT included) – every module, every member, babysitter access included. No free tier, but never any ads. Try free for 30 days.
Cozi Family Organizer
Free tier: Free with ads; core features included but limited (e.g. no month view on the phone, limited reminders). Premium: Cozi Gold US$39/year, Cozi Max US$79/year (euro prices: unknown).
Features compared
| Feature | patchio | Cozi Family Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Shared calendar | Yes month/week/agenda, visibility per entry, subscribing to other calendars, ICS import/export, attachments, checklists, printing | Yes a shared family calendar; some views Gold/Max only |
| Tasks & lists | Yes rotation, first come first served, points & rewards, advance reminder, declining a task | Yes shared to-do lists |
| Shopping list | Yes automatic categories, tile view, offline | Yes shared shopping lists; “Shopping Mode” Gold/Max only |
| Loyalty cards for everyone | Yes scan barcode/QR, shared across the whole household, works at the till offline too | No |
| Meal plan & recipes | Yes a week plan with who's home, recipes, ingredients onto the list | Yes recipe box + meal planner; AI features Max subscription only |
| Finances & cost splitting | Yes splitting & balances, budgets, savings goals, contracts with a cancellation radar, insurance folder, bank statement import | No |
| Health & medication | Yes medication with reminders, routines, sport, readings, private journal | No |
| Vehicle management | Yes deadlines, fuel consumption, costs/TCO, service-book PDF | No |
| Polls & votes | Yes anonymous too, with a share link for people outside | No |
| Parenting schedule (blended families) | Yes a parenting schedule per person with exceptions, who's home visible everywhere | No no dedicated parenting-schedule feature |
| Several households, one account | Yes one account, several households, visibility per entry | No one shared family account |
| Ad-free | Yes always – no ad-supported tier, no selling data | Partial ad-free only from Gold/Max |
| EU servers & privacy | Yes hosted in the EU in Ireland, no third-party trackers | Partial a US provider; processing includes the US; tracking per its App Store privacy label |
| Data export | Yes a complete export any time; import from TimeTree, Google, Apple & Outlook; account deletion in the app | Partial a calendar feed to Google/Apple/Outlook; no general export documented in the app |
| Subscribe to other calendars | Yes subscribe to calendars from Google, Apple, Outlook or your school, checked every 30 minutes; the family calendar with due tasks as a feed for other calendars | Yes according to a Cozi help article from 2023: subscribe to external calendars, e.g. from Google, Apple or Outlook, and school calendars, via an iCal link; subscribed events are read-only in Cozi |
| School (timetable, school letters, grades) | Yes timetable, events, grades, school letter scanner, study tasks for tests, school bag reminder | Partial school calendars can be added as a subscription; timetable, parent-letter scanner or grades are not documented |
| Document vault | Yes IDs and certificates per person, set to “Only me” by default, reminder before expiry; no end-to-end encryption | unknown |
| Bank statement import | Yes read a bank statement as CSV, XML or Excel; Sparkasse, N26 and Revolut are recognised; no bank connection, the file stays in your browser | No no finance module |
| English & other currencies | Yes interface in German and English; currency per household, e.g. Swiss francs or pounds, without conversion; public holidays for Germany, Austria and Switzerland | Partial interface in English only according to the US App Store listing; currencies not relevant, no finance module |
| Mac/PC as an installable app | Yes as an installable web app on Mac and PC with its own window; also in the Mac App Store | Partial web version in the browser; Windows app listed in the Microsoft Store; Mac app unknown |
| Push notifications in the browser | Yes notifications in the browser and in the installed app, switched on once in your profile | unknown |
| Cancelling without signing in | Yes at patchio.de/kuendigen without signing in, confirmation of receipt straight away; withdrawal at patchio.de/widerruf | unknown according to Cozi, a Gold subscription bought through Apple is managed in the App Store; cancelling without signing in is not documented |
patchio details as of: 18/10/2026. Details on Cozi Family Organizer as of: 06/07/2026. All details on Cozi Family Organizer come from publicly available official sources (website, pricing page, App Store listing, privacy policy) and were checked to the best of our knowledge – without claiming to be complete; “unknown” means not clearly verifiable. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. The prices for Cozi Family Organizer were checked again against the pricing page or App Store listing on 18/10/2026. The rows on Cozi Family Organizer for calendar subscription, school, documents, languages, desktop app, browser notifications and cancellation were checked on 18/10/2026 against help pages, vendor pages and App Store listings. Something out of date or wrong? Let us know.
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