Customer Reviews

Cozi Family Organizer

5 star:		(97)
4 star:		(38)
3 star:		(26)
2 star:		(28)
1 star:		(32)

 

 

The Cozi calendar works as billed. I thought it would be great for our family, but ditched it within a week in favor of Google. My main complaint is that you can only get reminders via email or text. I get so much email that my phone would never stop ringing if I had it set up with a tone; ditto for texts. With Google calendar, I can use the phone tone of my choice so I have that physical reminder, without adding to my overstuffed in-box. And adding family members was as easy as entering their email addresses. Cozi just isn't the calendar for us.

I don't understand the animosity in some of the reviews.

Overall I like the app a lot. There is functionality that I wish it had, however, I have found I can do most things, including adding google calendars and more to it very easily from the website. For those complaining about functionality there is actually a lot of what you are complaining about available it just has to be set-up on the site instead of your phone.

Here is what I like:
- Pre-made lists for emergency preparedness, Flylady zones, recipes, etc that can be imported into my calendar, to-do list, or shopping list with just a few clicks and then edited to fit my needs.
- The ease with which my husband and I can add appointments for our family and keep track of them.
- The family journal and ability to share is fun and has encouraged us to keep track of some family moments more.

What I don't like:
- The site is a bit glitchy, although this may be due to Amazon traffic.
- I wish there was one widget that shows each aspect of the organizer as a tab or page you can scroll too.

As a whole this is exactly what it says it is an app that helps families get more organized.

I've tried a few other apps that claimed to organize and share schedules and lists between people (family) and they failed to even come close to the functionality that Cozi does. Specifically I wanted to be able to keep track of our boys soccer, school, doctor appoints, etc. all on one calendar, easily. Cozy does an excellent job of allowing both my wife and I to see when our appoints and times are. Also, my wife typically does the grocery shopping and Cozi makes it easy for me to add items to the shopping list and they show up right on her phone. Both of these features are excellent. There are a couple of other features (to-do & journal) I have yet to explore. Looking forward to doing that soon.

One of the frustrating things with other calendar/organizer/list programs is that each person has to sign up for their own accounts and then attempt to sync items between them. It never works. Cozi has created a system that consists of one account with the ability to add multiple family members simply by adding their email addresses to the account. It just works.

No reminders and lack of calendar sync are huge for me. Honestly I don't know why anyone would choose to design acalendar app without those features. I find it way easier to use calendar sync in gmail between my wife and I and that way I can organize what needs to be done. If I had kids, I would add a separate calendar for each and make it so that my wife and I could both change the events via my account settings, and you'd have a far superior "family calendar."

The only good thing about this app is that it looks clean and it does work... Just not well enough to use.

i dont understand a paid app with adds . and the cozi gold is 3bucks a month . with a bit of time to set up groups in googles natve stuff you can do everything this does .

This is basically an app written as a front interface for their web page. The layout is clean, but again everything is done in the cloud, so if your on Verizon's network and trying to update the calendar while on the phone, you get forced into a limited "offline mode". It is NOT an organizer that syncs to an online website it's an organizer that connects and runs from an online website with minor offline features.

Speaking of features, no calender notifications, no sync with Google, no batch import or export, nothing. I am sure mini van driving soccer moms are rating it high because that's the caliber of app it is and who will probably use the thing. I got it free as the app of the day, there is no way this is worth $6 when there are other full featured organizers for that price.

kind of pointless when you can't access your shopping list because you don't have wi-fi! who needs wi-fi for groceries?

this app doesnt update like every other app out there. it says it needs an critical update and wont allow u to use it. when u click updae now it doesnt work. if u look in app store at updates it doesnt show cozi app...?

I paid $6 for this app and now it has ads in it! Why did I pay for the premium version if it's going to have ads anyway! They want you to pay $6\/month in addition to the $6 for the app to remove the ads. If that's the case I want my $6 back for the app! I hope they come to their senses and remove the ads for *paying* customers.

Installed on 2 different HTC phones (mine and the hubby's). Both phones shut down when trying to open. My phone was fine on reboot but his had a distorted home page and font after. CRAP!