patchio vs. TimeTree
Free shared group calendar (iOS/Android/web) with chat right on the event – purely calendar-focused, not a family organiser with household modules.
What TimeTree does well
- A very large, active user base and top ratings on the German App Store
- The core feature is fully usable for free – Premium is mainly ad-free plus convenience, and cheap at €29.99/year
- Chat right on the event, and a clean split between areas of life via separate calendars
- Interface in 13 languages, plus a web version in addition to the apps
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.
TimeTree
Free tier: Core calendar free (several shared calendars, chat on events, shared notes), with ads; no file attachments and some convenience features missing. Premium: €2.99/month or €29.99/year (German App Store, as of October 2026).
Features compared
| Feature | patchio | TimeTree |
|---|---|---|
| Shared calendar | Yes month/week/agenda, visibility per entry, subscribing to other calendars, ICS import/export, attachments, checklists, printing | Yes the app's core: several shared calendars, chat on events |
| Tasks & lists | Yes rotation, first come first served, points & rewards, advance reminder, declining a task | Partial shared notes and simple task lists |
| Shopping list | Yes automatic categories, tile view, offline | No can only be improvised through notes |
| 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 | Partial can be mapped through separate calendars, no dedicated parenting-schedule feature |
| Several households, one account | Yes one account, several households, visibility per entry | Yes several shared calendars in one account |
| Ad-free | Yes always – no ad-supported tier, no selling data | Partial free tier with ads; ad-free only with Premium |
| EU servers & privacy | Yes hosted in the EU in Ireland, no third-party trackers | No data held in Japan per its privacy policy; 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 | No no export of your own calendars; the official interface/API was shut down on 22 December 2023 |
| 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 | Partial events from the device calendar, e.g. from Google, can be imported into a shared calendar; according to the help center the import does not update automatically; subscribing by web address unknown |
| School (timetable, school letters, grades) | Yes timetable, events, grades, school letter scanner, study tasks for tests, school bag reminder | unknown |
| Document vault | Yes IDs and certificates per person, set to “Only me” by default, reminder before expiry; no end-to-end encryption | unknown according to the vendor, file attachments on events are Premium only; a separate documents area is not documented |
| 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 | Yes interface in German and English among 13 languages in total according to the 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; installing as a desktop 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 the help center, Premium is cancelled in the store where it was bought, not in the app; cancelling without signing in is not documented |
Switching to patchio? We'll bring your events over.
Coming from TimeTree? With most apps that's a real ordeal – TimeTree offers no export, so your events are effectively stuck there. In patchio, you move them yourself in a few minutes with your TimeTree login (Calendar → Menu → “Move from TimeTree”). If the login doesn't work – say, sign-in via Apple, Google, or two-factor – we'll move you over personally. Just let us know.
patchio details as of: 18/10/2026. Details on TimeTree as of: 10/07/2026. All details on TimeTree 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 TimeTree were checked again against the pricing page or App Store listing on 18/10/2026. The rows on TimeTree 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.
Sources checked
- https://timetreeapp.com/intl/en/premium
- https://timetreeapp.com/intl/en/terms/privacy?country=other
- https://apps.apple.com/de/app/timetree-gemeinsamer-kalender/id952578473
- https://support.timetreeapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205954655-Can-you-export-events-and-sync-TimeTree-to-OS-calendars-Google-Calendar-etc-
- https://timetreeapp.com/intl/en/newsroom/2023-12-14/connect-app-api-202312
- https://support.timetreeapp.com/hc/articles/360000639742
- https://support.timetreeapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4648420496025-I-want-to-cancel-TimeTree-Premium
The best way is to compare for yourself.
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