Leaving FamilyWall? Here's what moves with you.
FamilyWall's free tier stops at the calendar and lists; sync, meals, budget and documents all sit behind a $4.99-a-month or $44.99-a-year Premium plan. Plannie's free plan already includes two-way calendar sync, and moving over mostly means reconnecting accounts you already use, so you don't start from a blank calendar.
A free family organizer, until you need it to do more
FamilyWall started as a free, ad-free way for a household to share a calendar, a shopping list, a to-do list and a contact book, all inside a private family group you invite people into. The built-in messenger keeps chat inside that same group instead of a regular text thread, and none of it costs anything at the free Standard tier.
Premium is the paid upgrade. It adds calendar sync so outside accounts feed in, a drag-and-drop meal planner with a recipe box, a budget tracker, shared documents and timetables, plus location sharing with safe zones. It costs $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year on familywall.com, or $7.99 a month and $44.99 a year through the App Store, with a 30-day trial either way.
The parts that stay locked, or stay a waitlist
Calendar sync itself sits behind Premium, so the free tier's shared calendar only ever holds what someone typed in by hand. Pay for Premium and FamilyWall's own pages still never say whether the Google or Outlook connection runs both directions, and iCloud isn't listed as a connection at all, so an iPhone household can still end up copying events across by hand.
FamilyWall has no AI features. None is mentioned on the site, in the support articles or in the store listing, so every school email, sports schedule and photographed flyer still has to be typed in one line at a time. The dedicated Home Hub tablet families ask for instead of propping up an old iPad is still waitlist-only, with no published price and no launch date beyond a promise that the eventual price will include a year of Premium.
The subscription doesn't have one price either. $44.99 a year on familywall.com is the cheapest way in, but through the App Store the same Premium tier is $7.99 a month, with a separate $44.99 annual option there too. What you pay depends on which store you subscribed from.
The bill, side by side
FamilyWall's Standard tier is free, but the calendar sync, meal planner, budget tracker, shared documents and location sharing that make it worth keeping around all sit behind Premium: $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year on the web, or $7.99 a month and $44.99 a year through the App Store. Plannie is free to start too, and Premium is a single $99-a-year price for the whole household with no separate app-store markup. Two-way calendar sync is already in the free plan, and Premium adds chores, unlimited meals, the assistant and kiosk mode from day one. The table shows what a family of four pays each way.
| Plannie | FamilyWall | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay to start | $0, free plan | $0, free Standard tier |
| Subscription | $99/yr Premium | $44.99/yr web (or $4.99/mo) · $7.99/mo + $44.99/yr App Store |
| What it unlocks | Two-way Google & Outlook sync, chores with tickets & rewards, the meal grid, Family Inbox & Magic Import, kiosk mode, open API | Calendar sync, meal planner, budget tracker, shared documents, recipe box, location sharing |
| Year one, family of four | $99 | $44.99 |
| Every year after | $99 | $44.99 |
| Three years | $297 | $134.97 |
FamilyWall prices from familywall.com's Premium page, support.familywall.com's Premium article and the App Store listing, checked 18 September 2026. Paying monthly instead of annually costs more over three years: $179.64 on the web, $287.64 through the App Store.
Sources: familywall.com: Premium, support.familywall.com: what's included in Premium, FamilyWall App Store listing
What you get back
- Your calendar, synced both ways with Google and Outlook by default, without needing a paid tier
- Family Inbox, your household's own email address, for the school newsletters and PDFs FamilyWall makes you type in by hand
- Kiosk mode on any tablet you already own, instead of waiting on FamilyWall's unpriced Home Hub
- Chores that pay out in tickets and rewards instead of a plain checklist
- A weekly meal grid with a recipe library and a shopping list that fills itself
- An open API and MCP server, if you want to build your own automations on top
What Plannie doesn't do
- There's no family messenger; keep using texts or FamilyWall's chat for that
- No budget tracker; Plannie doesn't touch household finances
- No shared document storage; keep using whatever you already use for that
- No real-time location or safe-zone alerts; Plannie only knows about your calendar, not your phone's GPS
Your calendar probably isn't in FamilyWall at all
If your family's events live in a connected Google or Outlook account, FamilyWall was only ever displaying them, and the actual data has been in that account the whole time. Reconnect the same account in Plannie and the schedule reappears, two-way, with nothing to re-type. One caveat, since FamilyWall doesn't document whether its own sync runs both directions: any event that only ever lived inside FamilyWall itself, typed straight into its app rather than pulled from an outside calendar, won't come across automatically. You'll need to recreate those by hand, or photograph FamilyWall's screen and let Magic Import read the dates in. The same goes for chore checklists, budget notes and shared documents. There's no export, so plan to rebuild the ones you still need.
THE MOVE, STEP BY STEP
- Create your household at app.plannie.io and give each member a colour.
- Connect Google or Outlook under Settings → Family & access → a member → Sync & calendars → Connect a calendar, or subscribe an ICS feed if that's what fed FamilyWall.
- Recreate any FamilyWall-only chore checklists as Plannie habits, with tickets and rewards attached.
- Forward or photograph anything that only lived in FamilyWall, budget notes, shared documents, so Magic Import can read it in.
- Set up kiosk mode on a spare tablet if a Home Hub was the plan.
Frequently asked
Can I export my data from FamilyWall?+
FamilyWall doesn't publish a data-export tool for calendar events, chores or documents, so the practical move is reconnecting the calendar account you already sync (Google, Outlook or an ICS feed) rather than exporting from FamilyWall itself. Anything typed only into FamilyWall, a chore checklist, a budget note, a shared document, needs to be photographed or forwarded into Plannie's Magic Import by hand.
Do I need to cancel my FamilyWall Premium subscription?+
Yes, separately. Signing up for Plannie doesn't touch a FamilyWall subscription; cancel it through whichever store you subscribed from, familywall.com's account settings or the App Store's subscriptions page, so you're not paying for both.
What happens to my FamilyWall messages and documents?+
They stay in FamilyWall unless you copy them out yourself. Plannie has no messenger or document storage, so save anything you need, a shared file, a chat thread, before you stop paying for Premium and lose access to it.
Do I need to buy anything to switch?+
No. Plannie's kiosk mode runs on any tablet your family already owns, so there's nothing to buy to replace FamilyWall's waitlist-only Home Hub. Plannie has a free plan too, so you can try the move before paying for Premium.
What does Plannie cost compared to FamilyWall?+
Plannie Premium is $99 a year for the whole household, $297 over three years. FamilyWall Premium is $44.99 a year (or $4.99 a month) on the web, $134.97 over three years, but $7.99 a month and $44.99 a year through the App Store. Plannie's single price includes calendar sync, chores, meals, the assistant and kiosk mode; several of those need FamilyWall's paid tier, and others, a messenger, a budget tracker, location sharing, aren't things Plannie does at all.