Productive App
I love it. At first I wasn't satisfied as there are some features that I want, but their customer service was really great and catered to the problems I'm experiencing during using the app. So far it's an awesome app.
Maple helps me manage my household effortlessly
I used to have checklists, packing lists, meal planning, grocery list, and my to do list on several different apps on my phone. I was looking for an all inclusive/streamlined app to keep all of these lists in one place. Maple makes this super easy for me. Now I have all my “lists” in one place and the UI is great. Once you have built the infrastructure, it’s easy to maintain and you can add members of your family to it. We are an organized household and this helps to reduce my mental load. I have phased out my Notes app grocery list/meal planning/ packing lists and moved everything over to Maple. I’m very happy I did!
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Great idea but frustrating glitches
A good app in general but I get really frustrated with this. It keeps multiple things in one place which is great, but whenever I try to move a meal in the plan it puts it on some random day other than the one I move it to. Sometimes when I edit a meal it moves to a different day. Occasionally the meal plan shows empty which makes it completely useless until it repopulates (this doesn’t always happen when you refresh or close and reopen) because you can’t see what you are suppose to make.
The grocery list is also frustrating because it’s very particular when you try to drag a category to higher or lower on the list. If you don’t place it exactly right it moves back where it was. And sometimes a category moves back to where it was when you leave the list and come back.
The grocery list is also frustrating because it’s very particular when you try to drag a category to higher or lower on the list. If you don’t place it exactly right it moves back where it was. And sometimes a category moves back to where it was when you leave the list and come back.
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Great family to-do and calendar
We’ve been using Maple for at least a year and really like it. The Maple Plus upgrade is worth it. My husband and I keep a variety of Google calendars synced and we also use the “folders” for to-do lists such as online shopping returns, home maintenance, school tasks. They update the app pretty frequently and you can tell the team really cares about the app and is always working on it! The feature we use the least is the recipes and meal planning— it lacks some features we would want, such as the ability to “scrape” a recipe from a long webpage, check off ingredients as you go, etc. But overall this is a great family app and I look forward to future updates.
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This app is good but the fact that you have to pay to get pictures on the folders and basically all the actually cool stuff really annoys me.
One thing that they could add would be a kids folder with brush teeth timers, alarm clocks, schedules and so forth. But overall a good app and I would recommend it to any families that want to be more organised.
One thing that they could add would be a kids folder with brush teeth timers, alarm clocks, schedules and so forth. But overall a good app and I would recommend it to any families that want to be more organised.
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Great User-Friendly App for Families
I have been using Maple since its release and consider it a go-to for easy-to-find recipes, household organization tips, and activities for my two active boys. I am also involved in various groups on Maple and think it’s a great way to come together for events and plannings. It is a time saver for me as a mom who also works full time and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for creative ways to balance all of a families’ To Do’s while feeling like a part of a community with people who are like-minded. When life gets a little hectic, I’ll take an app like Maple to add balance and fun into the mix ☺️.
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Gamechanger for busy family
This app has changed our life as a busy family with working parents and two kids. We finally have a single calendar that syncs back and forth from google and outlook (which my husband uses for work and he wanted to see the family activities there). I spent so much time sending him one-off invites to his work calendar, and it was so difficult to maintain and I missed a lot. Now if I get invited to a kids bday party in my gmail, it syncs to our shared maple calendar and to his work calendar! Now we can see what is going on at any time and feel like we can conquer our schedules. I also love the folder organization for our kids things and we have one for home as well. Keeps everything so organized and helps us tame the chaos and take on the day as busy parents!
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Needs custom categories desperately
Just got the app and set up my folders. Takes a while to figure out how to use but it’s pretty neat. Setting up repetitive chores is tedious but a nice function.
I really DESPERATELY NEED custom categories for the grocery list though. I love the feature, but it’s really not working for me and the synced family grocery list is definitely the top reason I downloaded this app.
As someone who 9/10 meals makes cultural, “international foods”, the American categorization of items really doesn’t make sense for me.
I guess it’s more inclusive and space saving to lump categories like fruits, vegetables, and herbs or oils, vinegars, and dressings but it just doesn’t make sense to me when I’m trying to figure out where to put olive oil, garlic, and soy sauce when in my head those are all pantry items that go together. Garlic is certainly not a vegetable or an herb, it’s an aromatic. I see no oil and sauce/seasoning category, only a pasta/pasta sauce. There is a condiments & sauces category but that just conjures things like ketchup. Not black pepper and fish sauce. And why is rice its own category?
So it’s been kind of an unpleasant experience to choose categories for my groceries and as much work as it would be for me, I really need the freedom to just write in my category like you can write in a section for all the other to-do lists.
I really DESPERATELY NEED custom categories for the grocery list though. I love the feature, but it’s really not working for me and the synced family grocery list is definitely the top reason I downloaded this app.
As someone who 9/10 meals makes cultural, “international foods”, the American categorization of items really doesn’t make sense for me.
I guess it’s more inclusive and space saving to lump categories like fruits, vegetables, and herbs or oils, vinegars, and dressings but it just doesn’t make sense to me when I’m trying to figure out where to put olive oil, garlic, and soy sauce when in my head those are all pantry items that go together. Garlic is certainly not a vegetable or an herb, it’s an aromatic. I see no oil and sauce/seasoning category, only a pasta/pasta sauce. There is a condiments & sauces category but that just conjures things like ketchup. Not black pepper and fish sauce. And why is rice its own category?
So it’s been kind of an unpleasant experience to choose categories for my groceries and as much work as it would be for me, I really need the freedom to just write in my category like you can write in a section for all the other to-do lists.
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Response from developer
Hi Dannyuicha, Thank you for sending through your feedback on Maple's shopping list. Our shopping list feature is on our roadmap for updating in the near future, with tons of improvements coming to Maple families. I've relayed your feedback to the team— and we take feedback seriously. We'll see what we can do to better your experience. If there are other ways we can help make things easier at home, please don't hesitate to email us at support@growmaple.com -Lauren
Family organization for my ADHD brain
I tried this on a whim, looking for a place on my phone that I could share multiple methods of communication and lists with my partner. This fit the bill, and more. I love all the different types of lists and features. I love that I can organize folders by person, place or thing. My favorite part is the activity center. It’s passive communication between my partner and me. We can each see what the other is doing or needs. I love it! The surprise feature I didn’t anticipate using but love is the meal planning feature. I can’t wait to see what Maple comes up with next to streamline my brain and my family’s life.
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Response from developer
Hi Liz! Thank you so much for giving Maple a try. We're thrilled you're finding it so helpful. We have A LOT more in store for Maple families this summer. We're excited for it. I sent your review to the team. It made everyone's day! -Lauren
Good so far but issues
Great app and covers all our needs but weekly events don’t carry over into the following week (for example Wednesday to Wednesday in the weekly view calendar) and monthly view calendar show a +1 for too many events but disappear on daily view.
Would love to know when this is fixed so I can use as our main family calendar but at the moment it doesn’t show what we need it to.
Would love to know when this is fixed so I can use as our main family calendar but at the moment it doesn’t show what we need it to.
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