Fami vs Our Life

Fami combines shared family scheduling with chores, budgeting, meal planning, shopping lists, and saved places. Its calendar offers day, week, month, and agenda views, color-codes events by family member, and supports recurring events. Families can import an existing Google Calendar and export events to a device calendar. Chores can be assigned by person, day, or rotation; completed chores can earn rewards, and the site says allowance is credited automatically. The AI meal planner suggests meals based on household needs and can add planned meals to the shared shopping list. Kid Mode shows children their chores, rewards, and allowance balance without the household budget or family calendar. Fami is available on Android, iOS, and the web. The free plan includes a shared calendar, chores, shopping list, budget, and family places. Premium costs $4.99 a month or $44.99 a year; both paid plans add AI meal suggestions and advanced task tools, and the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Fami says it does not sell personal data, and users can request data deletion through the app.

Our Life is a shared family calendar that turns photos of paper flyers, invitations, and appointment cards into calendar events. Families can also add events in natural language, plan meals, import recipes, and receive conflict warnings. The app includes a curated family recipe collection and a guided cooking mode with step-by-step instructions and automatically detected timers. Shared tasks and shopping lists support household coordination, while sitter share links provide a read-only agenda for a specific night and expire automatically. Calendar connections include Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, Microsoft 365, and iCal feeds. Our Life is available on iOS and the web; its web app works in modern browsers and provides a desktop layout on screens at least 1024 pixels wide. The free plan supports up to six household members, 10 AI photo-to-events per month, and read-only Apple Calendar sync. Plus costs $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year, and Plus Pro costs $7.99 a month, or $79.99 a year.