Maple is closing
Maple's team was acquired by the travel company Wander in July 2026, and the app closes on 31 December 2026. Accounts stay live until then. After that they close and the data is deleted, so anything you want to keep has to come out before the date. Here's what happened, what to get out, and how to work out what you need next.
Maple's own notice says accounts stay active until 31 December 2026, after which the account is closed and inaccessible, and all data is deleted with no way to recover it.
Maple recommends moving your data to other apps or services before then, and doesn't name a replacement. The choice is yours to make.
Verified 7 August 2026 against Maple's own shutdown notice at growmaple.com and Wander's acquisition announcement of 29 July 2026.
On 29 July 2026, Wander, a travel technology company, announced it had acquired the team behind Maple. It bought the team, not the product: the founders and the rest of the staff moved across to work on travel software. Maple itself isn't being sold on or folded into anything else. It's closing, and neither company has given a reason why.
Maple's notice recommends exporting or transferring your data, but it doesn't point to a single export button, so check what's available inside the app first. Anything that won't come out cleanly is worth copying into a document or screenshotting by hand. Tedious, but better than losing it. Worth going through:
One practical note: if you're paying for Maple+, check when it renews. A subscription only runs until the app closes, so it's worth making sure you're not billed for time past the closure date.
Do it early rather than in the last week of December. Shutdown weeks are when servers get busy and support queues stop being answered.
Most apps that close point you somewhere. Maple's notice says to move your data to other apps or services and leaves the choice to you, which means the work of picking is yours.
The instinct is to look for whatever most resembles Maple. It's worth pausing there, because for a lot of households Maple solved one problem and left a second one sitting underneath it. Organising the week isn't the same thing as sharing it, and if the second one is what's been grinding, a closer copy of Maple won't fix it.
Maple was good at absorbing volume: more emails, more forms, more schedules than two people can track by hand. What it never did was say who carries any of it.
A chore tracker inside an organiser still needs the two of you to agree, informally, on who does what. That's a conversation that has to happen again every few weeks, and it tends to land on the same person: the one who noticed it needed having. Nothing in Maple weighed how much effort a job takes, gave a job a lasting owner, or showed whether the load had drifted onto one partner over a year.
So if you were organised and it still felt uneven, that wasn't a gap in how you used Maple. It's that Maple was never trying to answer that question. You're rebuilding your setup anyway this year, which makes it a reasonable moment to ask whether the thing that broke in your house was the tracking or the split.
Every job in the house, from the school forms to the bins to who remembers the dentist, gets one owner. Not shared, not rotated. That owner carries the noticing and the planning as well as the doing, weighted by how much real effort the job takes, not how it looks from the outside. The split is fused with the shopping list and the meals, so it's something you run the week on, not a chart you check once and forget. There's no scoreboard and no points. Free while in beta.
The quickest way to see whether it's for you is the free Split Check: two minutes, no sign up, and it shows how your own household's work divides right now.
The honest flip side. Maple was an AI organiser, and a capable one. Its Assistant read email and turned a school newsletter or a sports schedule into calendar entries and tasks, alongside a shared calendar, a family inbox, meal planning, grocery lists and a chore tracker, all in one app. If that's the part your household ran on, you want another organiser, and Lyven isn't one.
Lyven has no calendar, no AI inbox and no email scanning, and none of them are planned. We'd rather say that here than have you find out a fortnight in.
We keep a running comparison of the household apps we've checked, organisers included, with what each does well and where it falls down. If an organiser is what you're replacing, start there: compare household apps.
| Lyven | Maple | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Live, in beta, taking households a few at a time | Closing 31 December 2026. Data deleted after that date |
| Core purpose | Splitting household work fairly between two adults, one owner per job | AI powered family logistics: calendar, inbox, meals, lists and chores in one place |
| Fairness mechanism | Single owner per job, weighted by real effort, no rotation, no scoreboard | None. Maple organised tasks; it didn't measure or assign who carries them |
| Calendar and AI | Neither, and neither is planned | Shared calendar plus an Assistant that turned emails into tasks |
| Platform | Web / PWA, any phone or computer | iOS, Android and web, until the closure date |
| Price | Free while in beta, full system | Maple+ was about US$4.99 to US$9.99/mo. Any subscription now runs only to 31 December 2026 |
| Built for | Two adults running a home together | Parents managing high volume family logistics, AI assisted |
Curious how your own household splits?
Find your fair →A single owner per job, weighted by real effort, fused with the shopping list, the meals and the running list of what the home needs, so the split is something you live in rather than something you check on.
An AI family organiser. Its Assistant read email and turned school notices and schedules into calendar entries and tasks, alongside a shared calendar, family inbox, meal planner, grocery lists and a chore tracker. It closes on 31 December 2026, with account data deleted after that date.
Yes. Maple closes on 31 December 2026. On 29 July 2026 the travel technology company Wander announced it had acquired the team behind Maple, and Maple's own notice at growmaple.com confirms the app will sunset on 31 December 2026. Accounts stay live until that date. After that they close and Maple says the data is deleted with no way to recover it.
Neither company has given a reason. What's known is the shape of the deal: Wander acquired the team rather than the product. The founders and the rest of the staff moved across to Wander to work on travel software, and Maple is being closed rather than sold on or handed to anyone else to run.
Maple says accounts stay active until 31 December 2026, after which the account is closed and inaccessible, and all data is deleted with no way to recover it. Maple's notice recommends exporting or transferring your data to other apps or services before then, though it doesn't point to a single export button, so check what's available inside the app. Anything you can't export cleanly is worth copying out or screenshotting by hand. Don't leave it to the last week.
It depends which part of Maple you'd miss, and that's a more useful question than which app looks closest. If it's the organising, the shared calendar, the AI Assistant turning emails into tasks, the family inbox, then you want another organiser, and Lyven is not that: Lyven has no calendar and no AI inbox, and neither is planned. If what was still broken while you used Maple was who carries the work rather than how it was tracked, that's a different problem and it's the one Lyven is built for. Our comparison of household apps is the place to start either way.
Not a like for like one, and it's worth being straight about that. Maple was an AI organiser built to absorb the sheer volume of family logistics. Lyven is built for the two adults running the home: every job gets one owner, weighted by the real effort it takes, so you can see who's carrying the load rather than just what's on the list. Lyven has no calendar, no AI inbox and no email scanning. If you're rebuilding your setup anyway, the question worth asking is whether the thing that broke in your house was the tracking or the split.
No, and Maple never claimed to. It was an organiser, not a fairness app. The chore tracker inside it still needed the two of you to informally agree who does what, which is the renegotiation that quietly lands on the same person every few weeks. Nothing in Maple weighed effort, assigned lasting ownership, or showed whether the load had drifted onto one partner over time. Lyven's answer is a single owner per job, weighted by the real effort it takes, with no scoreboard and no points.
Any Maple+ subscription only runs until the app closes on 31 December 2026. Maple+ was priced from about US$4.99 to US$9.99 a month, with the exact figure only confirmed inside the signup flow. Check what you're currently being billed and when it renews, so you're not paying past the closure date.
Not for beta households. If you join during the beta, Lyven stays free for your household for life, with the whole system and no per person tier. When Lyven opens to everyone there will be paid tiers adding extra depth, such as projects and outsourcing, but beta households keep what they have and don't move onto them.
Yes. Lyven is private by design with Australian hosting. The Split Check requires no account, and beta data is handled under Lyven's privacy policy.
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