Coming from Maple
Maple's team joined Wander in July 2026 and the app sunsets at the end of the year — annual subscriptions have stopped renewing and growmaple.com now opens with the goodbye (checked 13 September 2026). Maple was the only other product built on a shared family email address that organises itself. household.email is that same idea, still being built, by a team building nothing else.
Free early access. No spam, ever.
Everything in the Maple column comes from Maple's own published pages, checked 13 September 2026. Where they're better, we've said so.
| Maple | household.email | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it's headed | Sunsetting 31 December 2026. Annual subscriptions no longer renew; monthly subscriptions run until the shutdown, then the app closes. | In early access and being built in the open, with the waitlist shaping it. The household inbox is the whole company, not a feature we might sunset. |
| Family email address | A smart inbox for the family: one address showing mail from approved senders like schools and sports leagues. | Every household gets its own address too — and anything can land there. Forward one-off emails, or connect Gmail, iCloud, Outlook or most other email accounts and let household mail arrive on its own. |
| Email to calendar & todos | "Email that organizes itself" — AI pulled dates, times and deadlines out of family email and put them on the calendar. | The same idea, with you in charge of it: we suggest the events, todos and reminders hiding in each email and you confirm or dismiss before anything sticks. And you can reply and send from the household address — it's a real inbox, not just a drop box. |
| AI assistant | Maple Assistant, with unlimited AI on the Maple+ plan. | A household assistant you can ask plain-English questions — "what's on this weekend?", "did anyone buy milk?" — answered from your own email, calendar, todos, chores and lists. Rolling out during early access. |
| Chores and fairness | A chore tracker as part of the all-in-one family organiser. | Chores rotate automatically between the adults and children in the household, with a record of who actually completed what. |
| Shared shopping lists | Yes — grocery lists were part of the free tier. | Yes, on every tier. Shared in real time across web and mobile, with labels and tick-off built in. |
| Meal planning and recipes | A meal planner and recipe box, free. Genuinely good, and much loved. | A recipe book and a week planner, both new: type recipes in or import them from a link, plan Monday to Sunday, and turn the days you planned into a shopping list. Recipes that arrive in the household's email become drafts to review. When pricing starts it's part of Pro rather than the free tier, there's no library of recipes to browse, and if Maple's planner is the part you'd miss most, you'd be trading down. |
| Price | Generous free tier; Maple+ at a few dollars a month for external calendar sync, unlimited AI, group chat and external email. | Free while we're in early access. Planned pricing is a free-forever tier plus Pro at $49.99/year — about $4.17 a month, in the same range as Maple+, or $5.99 a month if you'd rather pay monthly. One price for the household, with unlimited members on both. |
This one isn't about shortcomings. Maple's families need somewhere to go, and most of the market isn't built for them.
growmaple.com now opens with "Maple is joining Wander" and a farewell FAQ. Annual subscriptions have stopped renewing, monthly ones run until 31 December 2026, and then the app closes. Waiting doesn't change the date.
The usual alternatives — shared calendars, chore apps, kitchen-wall screens — all start with an empty box you type into. Maple and household.email are the only two products where the household has an email address and the mail becomes the plan. Soon it's one.
A migration that starts with an empty calendar puts the invisible manager right back where they started. Here, the school newsletters and booking confirmations you already receive do the setup — forward them and confirm what we found.
Maple was excellent and it still ended with the team hired away — the team was the prize, not the app. Fair enough; that's startups. But the next home for your household's plan should be a product whose company depends on it.
Maple deserves better than a competitor dancing on its shutdown. It was the best-executed family organiser of its generation — native apps, a meal planner and recipe box, group chat, and the same family-inbox insight we're building on. We have a meal planner of our own now, but it is newer, thinner and headed for the Pro plan rather than the free tier, and it would be silly to pretend that's the same thing. Its founders proved thousands of families want the mail to become the plan. If you loved Maple, nothing here is gloating: we're trying to be the place that idea keeps living, and we'd rather earn its families than inherit them.
There's no way to copy your Maple data over, and honestly you wouldn't want one. Half of what's in there is stale. Instead, your household gets its own email address, and the emails you already receive do the setup for you.
One inbox the whole household shares, instead of school newsletters landing on one person's phone and nobody else's.
The class newsletter with three dates in it, the swimming term confirmation, the dentist reminder, the Airbnb booking. Forward them across, or connect your Gmail, iCloud, Outlook or most other email accounts and let them arrive on their own.
We read the dates, times and actions out of each email and suggest them back to you as calendar events and todos. You confirm or dismiss — nothing lands on the family calendar without a human saying yes.
Chores rotate between the people in your household automatically, so the bins aren't quietly one person's job forever. That part takes about five minutes and it's the last time you'll set it up.
Nothing to export. Nothing to re-type. Your old Maple account can sit there until you're sure.
That's a lot to ask. Here's what we will and won't do with it.
There are no ads in household.email and no plans to add them. It's free while we're in early access and paid for by subscriptions after that — never by selling your attention.
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your household's email, calendar and lists are yours — we're a subscription, not a data business.
We use AI to pull dates and tasks out of your mail. The AI companies we use are bound by their terms not to train their models on what we send them. We don't train models on it either.
Disconnect Gmail or any other email account you've connected, at any time, and we stop reading. When you want to go entirely, there's a delete button on your account page that removes your household and everything stored in it — email, attachments, calendars, todos, chores and lists — for good. No email to write, no waiting on us.
The details are in our privacy policy, written in plain English.
household.email is in early access. Join the waitlist and you get in free while we build. No card, no trial clock, no export to untangle later. If it isn't for you, keep what you've got — nothing lost.
One email when your invite is ready. No spam, ever.