patchio vs. Famanice
German family calendar with to-dos, shopping list, school planner and family chat (FAMANICE GmbH).
What Famanice does well
- Very low price: €29.99/year for the whole family, plus a 4-week trial
- German provider with data hosted in Germany (per its own FAQ)
- Its own school module (homework, timetable, assessment dates) that many international apps lack
- Subscribe to external calendars (PRO) and import ICS files; the school module also includes grades
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.
Famanice
Free tier: Free with basic features (basic calendar view, to-dos, shopping list, chat, school module), with ads; many views and convenience features are PRO only. Premium: PRO €2.99/month or €29.99/year for the whole family (4-week trial).
Features compared
| Feature | patchio | Famanice |
|---|---|---|
| Shared calendar | Yes month/week/agenda, visibility per entry, subscribing to other calendars, ICS import/export, attachments, checklists, printing | Yes reminders; year/month/week view and date search in PRO |
| Tasks & lists | Yes rotation, first come first served, points & rewards, advance reminder, declining a task | Yes to-dos with priorities; assignment and due dates PRO only |
| Shopping list | Yes automatic categories, tile view, offline | Yes with about 500 preconfigured standard products |
| 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 | No |
| 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 |
| Several households, one account | Yes one account, several households, visibility per entry | No one family login per family |
| Ad-free | Yes always – no ad-supported tier, no selling data | Partial ad-free is a PRO feature |
| EU servers & privacy | Yes hosted in the EU in Ireland, no third-party trackers | Partial data held on certified servers in Germany per its own FAQ; its App Store privacy label names third-party tracking |
| Data export | Yes a complete export any time; import from TimeTree, Google, Apple & Outlook; account deletion in the app | Partial PRO: calendar sharing to Google/Outlook; a full export is not documented |
| 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 PRO: subscribe to external calendars; ICS files can be imported since app version 3.17.1 |
| School (timetable, school letters, grades) | Yes timetable, events, grades, school letter scanner, study tasks for tests, school bag reminder | Partial school module with homework, timetable, exam dates and grades plus a message board per class; parent-letter scanner unknown |
| 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 | No the App Store listing names German only; 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 according to the website usable in the browser on PC or Mac; installable desktop app not clearly documented |
| 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 |
patchio details as of: 18/10/2026. Details on Famanice as of: 06/07/2026. All details on Famanice 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 Famanice were checked again against the pricing page or App Store listing on 18/10/2026. The rows on Famanice 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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No card needed · cancel monthly · then €4.99/month per household (VAT included)