Freeish vs Cozi
A family organiser: shared calendar, shopping lists, meal planning and to-dos, colour-coded per family member.
What Cozi does well
- Much more than a calendar — lists, meals and chores in one place.
- Colour-coded per person, which families find genuinely readable.
- Long-established and stable, with a free tier that is actually usable.
- Built for the whole household rather than one person.
- Good for parents coordinating children’s activities.
Choose Cozi if…
If you want one app for the family — the calendar plus shopping lists, meals and chores — Cozi does considerably more than Freeish and is the better buy for that. Freeish has no lists, no meal planning and no intention of adding them.
Choose Freeish if…
Choose Freeish when the difficult part is a work schedule that changes weekly and arrives as an image. Cozi is designed for planned family life; a rotating roster still has to be typed into it every month, and there is no way to keep an individual event private from the household.
Side by side
| Cozi | Freeish | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a posted schedule in | Typed by hand. | Read off a photograph. |
| Lists, meals, chores | Yes — the main reason to choose it. | No, and not planned. |
| Per-event privacy | A family calendar is visible to the family. | Per event, enforced server-side. |
| Sharing outside the household | Built around one household. | Invite anyone — grandparents, a friend, a co-parent in another house. |
| Rotating shift patterns | Manual. | Set once, generated forward. |
| Cost | Free, with a paid tier. | Free to start; Pro for the extras. |
Questions people actually ask
Is Freeish a family organiser?
Can I use both?
Which for co-parenting across two homes?
Try it against whatever you use now.
Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start, and nothing to migrate — import one week from a photo and see whether it sticks.