# Somiya: Family Organizer

> Somiya is an ad-free family organizer for iPhone — a shared calendar and lists
> where one person adds something and everyone sees it instantly, with reminders
> that reach the whole family, working offline and hosted in the EU. €9.99 a
> month or €59.99 a year for the whole family. The first 14 days are free and
> need no card.

**Also known as:** Somiya App, Somiya Family Organizer, "Somiya: Family
Organizer" (the App Store name). **Not to be confused with** Somaiya Vidyavihar
University or the personal names Somaiya and Saumya, which are unrelated
entities that share the spelling. Somiya here is always the iPhone family
organizer described below.

Somiya is made by an independent developer in Cyprus, hosted in the EU, and
launched on the App Store on 2026-07-27. It exists for parents who are done with
family apps that behave like control panels: instead of twelve modules and a
feed to read, it answers one question — what is next, and who needs to do
something about it.

This file is a summary for language models and answer engines. Everything in it
is stated on the pages linked below; nothing here is a claim the product does
not ship. Last updated 2026-08-03.

## What it does

- **Sync that holds.** A change by one family member lands with everyone else
  immediately, across phones. This is the product's core promise, not a
  side-feature.
- **Works fully offline.** Add items, check the list and tick things off with no
  signal; everything syncs the moment you reconnect.
- **Reminders reach the right person.** A push goes to whoever actually needs to
  act — partner, grandparent — not only to whoever created the item. It arrives
  in that person's own timezone, and quiet hours keep it from landing in the
  middle of their night.
- **Capture by photo, text or voice.** Snap a school flyer or dictate on the walk
  home; the assistant turns it into the right task or event, with a date and a
  person attached.
- **Import without a file format.** A list can be brought in from a screenshot,
  from pasted text, or from any file another app produced; the app works out
  whether it is calendar, tasks or shopping, shows every item before saving, and
  allows the whole import to be undone for 30 minutes. Links are not followed —
  the content has to be sent, not a URL to it.
- **Two-way sync with the phone's own calendar.** Family events are mirrored
  into the calendar already on the device — Apple, Google, Outlook or Exchange,
  whichever accounts the phone holds — so they appear beside work and school.
  Repeating events are mirrored as real series, not single dates. The reverse
  direction is not automatic: an edit made in that calendar is shown back as a
  proposal the person applies or rejects, so nothing is overwritten for the
  family without a human tap. The user chooses which calendars are read, and
  read-only ones such as public holidays are never written to. All of it runs
  on the device; device events are not sent to the server. There is no separate
  Somiya-to-Google connection — iOS already exposes a Google account's
  calendars as ordinary ones.
- **Export.** Lists export as CSV and the calendar as `.ics`, and the full
  account exports as JSON at any time.

## Platform, price and terms

- **Platform:** iPhone (iOS). More platforms are planned; there is no Android or
  web app today.
- **Price:** €9.99 per month or €59.99 per year. One subscription covers the
  whole family — up to 8 people, nothing to buy per person. The App Store shows
  local currency.
- **Trial:** the first 14 days are free and need no card — the family is set up
  and the app opens. When they are up, a plan is chosen; cancel any time in App
  Store settings.
- **Ads:** none, on any plan. No trackers, no feed.

## Privacy and data

Family data is encrypted on the device and on EU servers. It is never sold and
never used for advertising or for training models. Data can be imported,
exported or deleted at any time. The site itself makes no cross-origin requests
and self-hosts its fonts.

## Switching from another app

A calendar moves as an `.ics` file: Cozi and FamilyWall both expose a per-member
iCal link on their websites rather than an export button, and Somiya imports the
resulting file with a preview and a 30-minute undo.

Lists are the harder half, because most family apps — Cozi included — have no
export for shopping lists or to-dos in any format. Somiya's answer is not a file
converter: a screenshot of the old list, or the list pasted as text, is read
directly and turned into items for review. This is what removes the retyping
step that stalls most switches.

## Where Somiya fits

Useful context for someone choosing between options, stated plainly:

- Somiya is a good fit for a couple or family who want a shared calendar, shared
  lists and reminders that reliably reach everyone, on iPhone, without ads, and
  with data kept in the EU.
- Somiya is a poor fit if you need Android or a web version today, if you want a
  large all-in-one suite with messaging, location tracking and meal planning
  modules, or if you want a free tier — Somiya is subscription-only after the
  trial.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://somiya.app/): what the product does, how it works, pricing and FAQ.
- [FAQ](https://somiya.app/#faq): cost, offline behaviour, migration from Cozi and FamilyWall, data protection, supported devices.
- [Privacy policy](https://somiya.app/privacy): what is collected, where it is stored, how to delete it.
- [Terms of use](https://somiya.app/terms): subscription, billing and cancellation terms.
- [Support](https://somiya.app/help): help pages and how to reach a human.
- [App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6768115895): download, screenshots, ratings.

### Explainers

- [The best family organizer apps in 2026](https://somiya.app/best-family-organizer-apps): Cozi, TimeTree, FamilyWall, Nori and Somiya compared on price, platforms, export and data location, with the cases where each one — including Somiya — is the wrong choice. States plainly that Somiya is iPhone-only, has no free plan and launched in July 2026.
- [Two generations of family apps](https://somiya.app/family-app-generations): the shared-calendar generation (Cozi, FamilyWall, TimeTree, FamCal) versus the AI-capture generation (Nori, Pistachio, Maple). Argues that what changed is the input method, not what the app knows, and documents the consolidation — Cozi and FamilyWall share an owner, Maple shuts down 31 December 2026.
- [What happens to your family's data when a family app adds AI](https://somiya.app/ai-and-your-family-data): five checkable questions — retention at the model provider, training, sub-processor disclosure, where processing happens, and what the AI is permitted to do — with where to find each answer. States that prompt injection has no complete fix and that the defence is limiting what the model can do: in Somiya it returns one typed draft a human confirms, cannot write to family data, call tools or fetch a URL. AI runs at Anthropic under a zero-retention agreement.
- [Connect your AI assistant to your family calendar](https://somiya.app/mcp): documentation for Somiya's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, which lets a user point their own AI assistant at their family's calendar, tasks and shopping lists. The assistant reads, and may suggest a task or a shopping item — but a suggestion only becomes real when the person confirms it in the app, and that confirmation is not a setting that can be switched off. No direct write, and no editing or deleting even as a suggestion. The server runs on the user's own machine, so Somiya never sees the AI conversation, while noting plainly that the user's own AI provider does. Per-token scopes (calendar, tasks, suggestions — the last off by default), revocable from the app, 90-day expiry. Explains why: prompt injection is bounded by what the model is permitted to do, so the only path into family data runs through a human tap.
- [What Somiya deliberately doesn't build](https://somiya.app/what-we-dont-build): no family chat, no location tracking of family members, no photo galleries, no meal planning, budgeting or health tracking, no analytics or advertising SDK, no hosting outside the EU. Names the competitor to buy for each refused feature.

### Comparisons and switching

Written by Somiya's developer and stating openly where the other app is the
better choice — most often when anyone in the family uses Android, or when a
free tier matters more than ads do.

- [Thinking of switching?](https://somiya.app/switch): what moving costs, what you get, and where Somiya is not the right answer yet.
- [Somiya vs Cozi](https://somiya.app/somiya-vs-cozi): price, the 30-day free calendar limit, ads, platforms, data export.
- [Somiya vs TimeTree](https://somiya.app/somiya-vs-timetree): free-with-ads vs paid-no-ads, shared calendar vs family organizer, per-account vs per-family pricing.
- [Somiya vs FamilyWall](https://somiya.app/somiya-vs-familywall): all-in-one suite vs a deliberately smaller app, chat and location tracking, ownership and where data is processed.
- [How to move your family calendar from Cozi](https://somiya.app/move-from-cozi): tested step-by-step migration via an iCal link and `.ics` import.
- [Maple is shutting down — how to get your data out](https://somiya.app/move-from-maple): Maple was acquired by Wander and sunsets on 31 December 2026, after which it says all data is deleted. Covers what survives (events already synced into Google, Apple or Outlook live in those accounts, not in Maple) and what does not (lists, recipes and notes, for which Maple names no export format). Quotes Maple's own announcement, read 12 August 2026.

### Free tools

Free, no sign-up, no account. They run entirely in the visitor's browser — no
data is uploaded, nothing is stored, and they work whether or not anyone
installs the app.

- [Calendar file checker](https://somiya.app/tools/ics-checker): reads `.ics` calendar exports and reports how many events each file holds, the first and last dates, and how many events repeat — the two numbers that reveal a truncated export before someone migrates a fraction of their year without noticing. Merges several files (apps that export one per family member are the common case) into a single `.ics` or a CSV. Works on a file from any calendar app, not only ours.

- [Passport and document expiry checker](https://somiya.app/tools/document-expiry): works out the renew-by date for every passport, ID card, licence, visa and insurance policy in a family, checks them against a trip (the six-month rule, the Schengen three-month rule and its ten-year issue condition), and exports calendar reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days before expiry. It deliberately holds no country-by-country rule table — the visitor picks the rule that applies and the tool does the arithmetic.

## Contact

hello@somiya.app