Cozi runs the family calendar. Well Stockd runs the meals half.
Cozi is a family organiser first, and meal planning is one tab inside it. Gold is $39 a year and the AI meal planner sits above that in Max. If the calendar is what keeps your household together, keep it, and let something else own the kitchen.
What you keep
- A shared list the whole house updates, on the same live sync.
- A recipe box, plus about 3,950 meal-kit-style recipes you did not have to collect.
- A weekly planner, on Pro, that starts from what you already own.
- The calendar stays where it is. Nothing here asks you to move it.
What it costs
| Cozi | Well Stockd | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, September 2026 | Free, ad supported. Cozi Gold is $39 a year and covers everyone in the account. Cozi Max is listed at $79 a year on the plan comparison page. | Free forever for the cooking loop. Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year, which is two months free. |
| Free tier | Shared calendar, shared grocery and to-do lists, and recipes, with ads and a 30-day limit on calendar entry. | Inventory with expiry tracking, the full catalog, can-make matching, the shopping list, the Walmart cart and cook mode. Two lists and five of your own recipes. |
| Trial | No trial length is published on the plan comparison page. | 7 days of full Pro, no card. |
| What matters | Cozi | Well Stockd |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Alive and actively developed. The Max tier and its AI features are new in 2026. | Live. The kitchen loop is the whole product rather than a side feature. |
| What meal planning costs | Meal planning and the recipe box are in the free tier. The AI meal planner is a Max feature, above Gold. | Weekly planner that pulls from your inventory and builds the shopping gap list. Pro. |
| Getting your data out | Partial. The calendar exports as a read-only iCal feed and contacts can be downloaded. Lists are emailed, shared or printed. No recipe or meal-plan data export is documented. | Your own recipes and lists sit in your account for as long as the account exists. |
| Pantry and fridge inventory | Not part of what Cozi describes on its plan comparison page, so no claim is made here. | Full fridge, freezer and pantry inventory with expiry dates and freshness-aware sorting. |
| Shopping | Shared grocery lists, emailed, shared or printed. | One-tap Walmart cart from your shopping list, with put-away back into inventory. Any store works. |
What you gain
- An inventory. Your fridge, freezer and pantry, with quantities, in one place.
- Expiry dates. The app warns you before something goes off and sorts the oldest to the top. Free on every account.
- Can-make matching. Every recipe says whether you can cook it tonight with what you already have.
- A shopping list that is a gap list. It holds what you do not already own, and one tap sends it to a Walmart cart. Any store works.
- Household sync. One shared kitchen, so nobody comes home with the second bag of rice.
The honest trade-off
What you may miss: Cozi is the family calendar, and no kitchen app replaces that. This is not an either/or. Keep Cozi for the schedule and let Well Stockd hold the fridge, the dates and the plan that comes out of them.
When you should stay with Cozi
A comparison page that cannot name a reason to pick the other product is an advert. These are the cases where Cozi is the better call:
- You want one app for the calendar, the lists and the meals, and you are happy with the meal tab as it is.
- Nobody in the house will install a second app, whatever it does.
How to move off Cozi
- Keep Cozi. The calendar is the reason it is on everyone’s phone and nothing here replaces it.
- Export what you can: the calendar has a read-only iCal feed and contacts can be downloaded. Recipes and meal plans have no documented data export, so email or print the ones you want.
- Rebuild the grocery list here, then stock the fridge, freezer and pantry so the list becomes a gap list.
- Set the household up so both phones write to the same kitchen, the way the Cozi calendar already works.
- Create a free account. Confirm your email and 7 days of full Pro start, with no card.
- In Settings, open “Refer friends & earn Pro,” choose Cozi, and claim your one-time switch offer of 3 free months.
The offer
Cozi switchers get 3 free months of Well Stockd Pro: the planner, household sync, the hands-free cook assistant, custom substitutions and unlimited lists and recipes. It is one claim per account, in Settings, through the founding window. After that, Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year. The cooking loop stays free either way.
Common questions
How much is Cozi Gold?
As of September 2026, $39 a year, and one subscription covers everyone in the account. Cozi Max is listed at $79 a year on the plan comparison page, although the Max page itself says $79.99.
Is Cozi meal planning free?
Yes. Meal planning and the recipe box are in the free tier. The AI meal planner is a Cozi Max feature, above Gold.
Do I have to give up Cozi to use Well Stockd?
No, and you probably should not. Cozi is a family calendar. Well Stockd holds the inventory, the expiry dates and the plan that comes out of them. They do different jobs.