Leaving TimeTree? Here’s what moves with you.
You’re on TimeTree free with ads, or paying Premium per account for a sync that only ever copies events in, never out. Plannie brings the shared calendar, two-way sync, chores and meals into one $99/year plan for the whole household.
A free, shared calendar with a social layer
TimeTree is a free, cross-platform group calendar for iOS, Android and the web. Anyone in a shared calendar can add events, comment on them, drop in photos from the day, and keep a running memo for the whole group, so it works as much like a group chat with dates attached as it does a scheduler.
Its one AI feature, Event Scan, turns a photographed flyer, poster or newsletter into calendar events, and it ships in the free app on iOS and Android rather than being held back for Premium. With the social layer and the scanner, TimeTree does a lot for a calendar that costs nothing to start.
The gaps show up once the family gets busier
TimeTree’s own help says there is no way to export events from TimeTree: you copy each one out by hand. What comes in only moves one way too: it can display your phone’s native calendar (say, a Google Calendar already synced to your phone) on your own private Home Calendar, or import those events into a shared calendar once, after which they stop updating. The web version can’t display an outside calendar at all. A shared calendar that only receives, and never sends, ends up being two calendars to keep straight instead of one.
Premium removes the ads for $4.49 a month or $44.99 a year, first month free, but TimeTree’s pricing page has no family or sharing option: it’s priced and billed per account. An ad-free household of four means four separate subscriptions, $539.88 over three years. Colour per member, which a family calendar ought to have, is a naming convention on a fixed label palette. TimeTree’s own tip is to rename a label “Member A: Red” yourself, because the app doesn’t know that a colour belongs to a person.
The free tier’s App Store privacy label lists identifiers and advertising data used to track you, and there’s nothing for chores, routines, rewards or meal planning at any tier. An event can carry a to-do checklist, and a shared calendar gets one memo, and that’s as close as it gets.
What TimeTree costs a family
TimeTree is free with ads. Removing them means Premium, and Premium is priced per person rather than per household, so the bill grows with every person you want ad-free. Plannie prices the household once, at $99 a year, with no ads on the free plan either. Here’s what that difference adds up to for a family of four over three years.
| Plannie | TimeTree | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs per person | Not applicable, one household plan | $44.99/yr Premium Or $4.49/month, first month free. TimeTree’s own pricing page has no family or sharing option. |
| What a family of four pays, ad-free | $99/yr, everyone included | $179.96/yr (4 × $44.99) |
| Every year after | $99 | $179.96, or $215.52 billed monthly |
| Three years, family of four, ad-free | $297 | $539.88, or $646.56 billed monthly |
| Three years, two parents only, ad-free | $297 covers the whole household anyway | $269.94 |
| Free plan | No ads, ever | ✗ Ads remain Ads only go away on Premium. |
TimeTree prices from timetreeapp.com and the App Store, checked 18 September 2026. In fairness, TimeTree’s comments, photo albums and memos on events have no equivalent in Plannie, and its flyer scanner, Event Scan, is free in the app.
Sources: timetreeapp.com: Premium, TimeTree App Store listing
What moves over
- Your shared calendar, where each person has their own colour that the app keeps track of, instead of a label you renamed yourself.
- Two-way sync with Google and Outlook, so a change on either side reaches the other.
- Chores that pay out in tickets toward rewards, for kids who’ve outgrown a plain checklist.
- A weekly meal grid with a recipe library, so dinner isn’t invented at five o’clock.
- A Family Inbox, your household’s own email address, that reads a forwarded email or PDF the way Event Scan reads a photographed flyer.
- One $99/year plan for the whole household, instead of Premium billed per account.
What Plannie doesn’t do
- TimeTree’s comments, photo albums and per-calendar memo have no Plannie equivalent; Plannie events don’t carry a comment thread.
- Event Scan is free for anyone on TimeTree; the same photo-to-events reading in Plannie, Magic Import, is a Premium feature.
- TimeTree runs in a browser tab with nothing to set up; Plannie’s kiosk mode expects a tablet you leave mounted.
How to move from TimeTree
TimeTree doesn’t offer an export, so start with the calendar underneath it. If the events you see there came from a Google or Outlook calendar synced to your phone, that calendar is untouched. TimeTree only ever displayed or copied it. Reconnect the same account in Plannie and every event you already have shows up with two-way sync, and you don’t retype anything. Anything that only ever lived inside TimeTree, a comment thread, a photo dropped on an event, a memo, can’t be carried over, because there is no export. Screenshot or photograph what’s worth keeping and let Magic Import turn the ones with a date back into events. The rest is a keepsake and stays out of the calendar.
FIVE STEPS
- Create your household at app.plannie.io and give each member their colour.
- Connect Google or Outlook under Settings → Family & access → a member → Sync & calendars → Connect a calendar. Sync runs two-way, so nothing gets retyped.
- For anything that only lived in TimeTree (comments, photos, memos), screenshot or photograph it and let Magic Import read the dates back into events.
- Recreate any to-do checklists as Plannie habits, with tickets and rewards for the kids.
- Cancel each TimeTree Premium subscription once everyone’s moved. There’s one per account, so check for more than one.
Frequently asked
Can I export my data from TimeTree?+
No. TimeTree’s own help says there is no export, and events have to be copied out one by one. What you can do is reconnect the calendar underneath it: if TimeTree was only ever displaying a Google or Outlook calendar synced to your phone, that account is untouched and picks up two-way sync the moment you connect it in Plannie.
Will I lose the comments and photos on my TimeTree events?+
Yes. Nothing in Plannie reads them, and there’s no export to carry them over. Screenshot anything worth keeping before you stop using TimeTree; a comment thread or a photo album isn’t tied to a date the way an event is, so Magic Import can’t recover it afterwards.
Do I need a Plannie subscription per person like TimeTree Premium?+
No. Plannie Premium is $99 a year for the whole household, unlimited members, one bill. TimeTree Premium is priced and billed per account, so an ad-free family of four is four separate subscriptions.
What happens to my TimeTree flyer scans?+
They stay in TimeTree. Event Scan doesn’t export either. Plannie’s equivalent, Magic Import, reads a photographed flyer, an emailed PDF or a forwarded email the same way. It’s a Premium feature, though, where Event Scan is free in TimeTree, so budget for that if flyer scanning is why you liked TimeTree.
What does Plannie cost compared to TimeTree Premium for a family?+
TimeTree Premium is $44.99/year per account with no family plan, so an ad-free household of four runs $539.88 over three years. Plannie Premium is $99/year for the whole household, unlimited members, $297 over three years, and the free plan has no ads either.
Does TimeTree still work while I switch to Plannie?+
Yes, switching doesn’t touch your TimeTree account. You can run both for a week or two while everyone reconnects their calendar in Plannie, then cancel each TimeTree Premium subscription once you’re sure the move stuck.