Coming from TimeTree
TimeTree is one of the best shared calendars there is — separate calendars for family, couples and work, a chat room attached to each one, memos with shared to-do lists, and "App loved by 75 million users worldwide" on its own App Store listing (timetreeapp.com and TimeTree's App Store listing, checked 13 September 2026). What it doesn't have is anywhere for email to land. Every event in it got there because a person typed it, photographed it, or copied it across.
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Everything in the TimeTree column comes from TimeTree's own published pages, checked 13 September 2026. Where they're better, we've said so.
| TimeTree | household.email | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A shared calendar, and a very good one. "Create a calendar, send an invite, and you're done" — plus a chat room for each calendar, comment threads and photos on each event, shared albums, separate calendars for different groups, and memos with shared to-do lists. | A shared household inbox that produces the calendar. Mail arrives at your household's own address and comes back out as events, todos and reminders you approve. |
| Track record | Launched 24 March 2015. TimeTree's own newsroom put it past 60 million registered users in October 2024 across more than 200 countries; its App Store listing now says 75 million, at 4.8 stars from over 90,000 ratings on the US App Store. This is a settled, proven product. | Early access, small, and new. If what your household wants is a decade-old shared calendar that everyone's phone already handles, TimeTree wins that on the record and we'd say so. |
| Email to calendar & todos | There's no address to send anything to. TimeTree's published feature list covers typing an event in, scanning a photo or printout, and copying events across from your device's calendar — email isn't one of the routes in. | It's the whole point of the product: your household gets its own address, forwarded or synced mail is read for events, todos and reminders, you confirm before anything sticks — and the original email stays readable and answerable in a shared inbox. |
| The school newsletter | Photograph it. TimeTree's App Store copy suggests exactly that — "Keep the printouts from school easily accessible in the app" — and their generative-AI schedule scan pulls up to ten events out of a single image. | Forward it, or connect Gmail, iCloud, Outlook or most other email accounts and let it arrive on its own. We read the dates and the actions out of the text and suggest them back as events and todos for a human to confirm. |
| Sync with Google, Apple or Outlook | Your own device calendar shows in TimeTree's home view and edits flow back. The shared calendar is different: their help centre says automatic syncing is not available on shared calendars, only on the home view — so you import a copy, and import again each time the original changes. | Two-way sync with Google Calendar, a connection to your iCloud calendar, and a link that puts the household calendar in any calendar app on your phone or computer. |
| Cost, and what the free tier costs you | Free with ads. Premium is 4.49 USD/month or 44.99 USD/annual, first month free, and buys an ad-free app, file attachments on events, a vertical view, event priority and dedicated support. TimeTree's own press release describes its ad platform as using "appointments and life events that TimeTree users have saved in their calendars, to predict future user behavior." | Free while we're in early access. Planned pricing is a free-forever tier plus Pro at $49.99/year — dearer than Premium, and it buys sync, meal planning and the AI rather than buying ads back out. There are no ads on any tier and none planned. |
| Shared shopping lists | Memos with shared to-do lists, so the groceries can live there and anyone on the calendar can tick items off. | Yes, on every tier. Shared in real time across web and mobile, with labels and tick-off built in — and on Pro, a week's meal plan can generate one for you. |
| Chores and fairness | TimeTree's feature list stops at calendars, chat, albums and memos. A repeating event or a shared to-do is the nearest thing to a rota. | Chores rotate automatically between the adults and children in the household, with a record of who actually completed what — "whose turn is it" has an answer that isn't an argument. |
| AI assistant | A generative-AI schedule scan that reads events off an image, and a September 2025 capital and business alliance with SK Telecom — whose A.Dot assistant team joined TimeTree's development — pointed at more of it. | 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. |
These are the things TimeTree's own pages and listings make true. Whether they matter depends on your household.
TimeTree solved visibility — everyone sees the same week, and that's genuinely most of the problem. It didn't solve who reads the newsletter, finds the date in paragraph six and enters it. That job still belongs to whoever the household's invisible manager is.
The scan feature is clever and it works on paper. But most of it arrives as email now — with a link to click, an attachment to keep, a form to return and a reply expected. Scanning hands you the date and drops everything around it.
Displaying your own device calendar inside TimeTree works well. Getting those events into the calendar your family actually shares means importing a copy by hand, and doing it again whenever the original moves — which is exactly when a missed change hurts.
TimeTree is free because it sells advertising, and its ad platform is built on what its users have written down as their future plans. That's a straightforward trade and Premium buys you out of it for $44.99 a year. Some households would rather the calendar simply wasn't an advertising surface.
TimeTree has been doing this since 2015 and it shows: 4.8 stars, tens of millions of households, and a free tier that's a real product rather than a trial. Putting the chat room on the calendar instead of in a separate group chat is a genuinely smart piece of design that most of this category still hasn't copied — the argument about Saturday sits next to Saturday. If your household's problem is "we can't see each other's schedules," TimeTree solves that today, for nothing, on a product with a decade of polish behind it, and you should stay where you are. Our argument only starts to matter when the problem is that the plan arrives by email and one person is doing all the reading.
There's no way to copy your TimeTree 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 TimeTree 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.
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