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HomeHQ vs Cozi

HomeHQ vs Cozi.

Cozi has been a default app-first family calendar for over a decade. Its free tier now hides events more than 30 days out behind Cozi Gold, which sent a lot of longtime users looking around. Cozi costs less than we do, and it is worth being clear about why: it is a list app with a calendar attached, built for a phone screen and largely unchanged in years. HomeHQ is built for the kitchen counter.

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Our verdict

Cozi is the cheaper app, and it is cheaper for a reason. You get ads on the free tier, a calendar that stops at 30 days unless you pay, one-way iCal sync with Google, and an interface built for tapping through menus on a phone. If anyone in the house is on Android or needs the calendar in a browser, Cozi is the one that runs there today.

Choose HomeHQ if you want family life sitting on top of the Google Calendar you already use, with chores, an assistant you can talk to, and an iPad on the kitchen wall.

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Tej Tandon · Founder, HomeHQ
Building HomeHQ from Vancouver — bootstrapped, no investors. I write these guides from running my own family on the same tools.
Verified September 2026
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HomeHQ vs Cozi: the rows that decide it.

The honest comparison — including where Cozi wins. Prices and features verified September 2026.

FeatureHomeHQCozi Gold
Yearly cost$144 (annual)$39 Gold, $79 Max, or free with ads
3-year total$432$117 (Gold)
Free tier30-day trialFree with ads, 30-day calendar limit
Scan a paper flyer into the calendarIncludedAI Event Import on Max
ChoresFixed, rotating or up for grabs, with points and streaksShared to-do lists
Assistant you type or talk toCasa, included
Native Android appComing soon✓
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TypeAppApp
PlatformsiPhone & iPad appiOS, Android, web
Google CalendarTwo-way on one shared calendarOne-way in each direction via iCal
Per-member kid viewsKids see their own choresLimited
Always-on iPad displayWall mode and ambient mode
Home Screen widgetsFour, iPhone and iPad
Shared shopping list✓
AdsNoneYes on the free tier
Readable from across the room✓
Family member limitWhole householdUp to 12
Track recordNew in 202615+ years, millions of users
The yearly math

What you actually pay over 3 years.

HomeHQ
Hardware$0
Year 1$144
Year 2$144
Year 3$144
3-year total$432
Cozi
Year 1 Cozi Gold$39
Year 2 Cozi Gold$39
Year 3 Cozi Gold$39
Hardware$0
3-year total$117
Decide quickly

When Cozi wins, when HomeHQ wins.

Choose Cozi if…

  • →You want the cheapest thing that puts a shared calendar on everyone's phone and you can live with ads and a 30-day window on the free tier.
  • →You have an Android phone, or your partner does, or your kids do.
  • →You need web access to the calendar from any computer.
  • →A shared shopping list is the feature your household opens most. HomeHQ has no list feature.

Choose HomeHQ if…

  • →You already run the family on Google Calendar and would rather keep it as the source of truth than copy events into another system.
  • →You want an iPad on the kitchen wall showing today, not only a calendar on phones.
  • →You want chores that rotate or go up for grabs, with points and streaks behind them.
  • →You want to say "move swimming to Thursday" out loud and have it happen.
Keep the calendar you have

One calendar. Everyone sees it.

HomeHQ runs on the Google Calendar your family already uses. Connect it once and every change shows up everywhere — the kitchen iPad and every iPhone show the same plan. Nothing to migrate, nobody to convince.

  • ✓Change it on any phone — it's right everywhere, including Google Calendar itself.
  • ✓Color-coded per person, automatically.
  • ✓Add an event on your phone; the kitchen display picks it up within a minute.
  • ✓Or snap a paper flyer — HomeHQ reads it and proposes the events; you tick the ones to add.
  • ✓It's your real Google calendar — your data stays in your own account.
The HomeHQ app runs on iPhone and iPad, with a native Android app coming soon. The calendar itself lives in your own Google account.
One source of truth
Add "Lina — judo, Wed 3:30" once. It's on every iPhone in the house.
Synced via Google Calendar
Kitchen iPad · Mom's iPhone · Dad's iPhone — the same plan on all three
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HomeHQ vs Cozi

What people ask before they pick.

The free tier caps the calendar at 30 days ahead. Anything further out sits behind Cozi Gold, which is awkward when you are booking summer camp in March. Cozi confirms the limit in its own FAQ. Paying the $39 lifts the cap, but it does not change what Cozi is: lists and a calendar on a phone, with sync to Google that only goes one way.

If you used Cozi for the calendar and the chores, yes. Both have a home in HomeHQ, the calendar lives in your own Google account rather than ours, and you get things Cozi does not do at all: an iPad on the counter that the whole house reads, an assistant you can talk to, and per-kid views. What we do not have is a shopping list or a recipe box, and the Android app is still coming. HomeHQ is iPhone and iPad today.

Yes, by a wide margin. HomeHQ is $12/month billed annually or $14.99 monthly. Cozi Gold is $39 a year and Cozi Max is $79. Over three years that is $432 against $117. The gap is the difference between a list app with a calendar and a system built to run the household from the kitchen counter: two-way Google sync, chores that rotate, Casa, Family Insights, widgets, and an interface you can read from across the room.

A tier above Gold at $79 a year, adding AI event import, an AI recipe creator and an AI meal planner. HomeHQ includes the flyer scanner in the one plan; meal planning and recipes are not something we do.

Cozi lets you publish your calendar as an iCal URL, print it, and email lists out. Subscribe Google Calendar to that iCal URL and HomeHQ reads it from there, since HomeHQ reads whichever Google calendar you point it at. It is a subscription rather than a one-time import, so the events stay owned by Cozi until you move them across.

No. There is no list feature in HomeHQ at all. If a shared list is the one thing your household opens every day, Cozi still has one and we do not.

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