Moving from Maple to Vela, before December 31

What Maple's notice actually says

Maple's own site says it plainly. Maple "has been acquired by Wander and will sunset on December 31, 2026." Your account "will remain active until December 31, 2026. After that, the account will be closed and inaccessible." Your data stays "fully accessible until December 31, 2026" and is then "deleted and there will be no way to recover it." Every connection to an outside service — "Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and TeamSnap" — ends with the shutdown. Annual subscriptions no longer renew; monthly ones run until the date. (Maple's notice, read 2026-09-21.)

Two things follow. There is no rush to cancel anything. There is a hard deadline on getting your family's information out, because on January 1 it is gone, and no app — Vela included — can reach into a deleted account.

This page is the honest version of that move: what comes across on its own, what you have to carry by hand, and the exact steps. It is useful whether or not you end up choosing Vela.

What survives on its own

If you had Maple+ and connected Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, Maple was reading those calendars into its family view. Those calendars are yours. They don't go anywhere.

The open question is the events you created inside Maple. Whether Maple wrote them back out to your Google calendar depends on how your connection was set up, and Maple's notice doesn't say. So don't take anyone's word for it, ours included.

Open Google Calendar itself — calendar.google.com or the Google Calendar app — and look for an event you know you added in Maple. If it's there, your calendar survives and the rest of this page is easy. If it isn't, that event lives only in Maple, and it needs adding to Google (or straight into Vela) by hand before the date.

Five minutes, while Maple still runs. It is the one check that decides how much retyping is ahead of you.

Step 1 — Confirm what Maple is connected to

In Maple, the family avatar top-left opens the family menu; Settings is at the bottom of it. In the current build (v27.3.3, seen 2026-09-14) the Settings page has no row named "calendar" — the connections live one level down, most likely under Installed apps. Confirm Google Calendar is listed and connected. External calendar sync was a Maple+ feature, so if your subscription lapsed, the connection may have lapsed with it.

If you can't find it, skip straight back to the check above. Google's own calendar is the source of truth either way.

Step 2 — Copy out what Maple can't send anywhere

Maple's notice recommends you "export or transfer your data" but names no export format for lists, and nobody who has tried to move a family off Maple — us included — has found one for grocery lists, to-dos, recipes, notes or routines.

So: screenshot every list and every note. A screenshot cannot be discontinued. Do the groceries, the to-dos, the packing lists, the recipes, the birthdays in the family profiles, and any routines you set up. Then, for anything on those lists that is really a calendar item — the dentist in March, the recital — add it to Google Calendar now, so it comes across with everything else in the next step.

Step 3 — Connect Google to Vela

In Vela: tap your avatar → Calendars & messaging → Connect a calendar → Continue with Google. Vela starts with your main Google calendar, and that's where the events she creates go. If Maple was syncing to a different calendar, open the Google connection on the same screen and pick it — and choose which single calendar should receive the events Vela creates.

Vela then holds the whole calendar, not a window — every event on the calendars you picked, past and future (on a very large calendar, the last three months and the next six) — and they stay in step both ways: an event moved or cancelled in Vela follows into Google, and the other way round. Calendars you didn't pick are never touched.

Two honest notes:

• Recurring events come across as their individual occurrences, not as one editable rule. You can move or delete any one of them in Vela, or ask Vela to change the whole series — "cancel all the soccer practices" is one request.
• Apple Calendar and Outlook don't connect to Vela today. If Maple synced to one of those instead of Google, the reliable route is through Google: add that calendar to a Google account first, then connect Google to Vela.

Step 4 — Snap the lists back in

Open Vela's Shop, To-dos or calendar and tap Snap it on the add sheet, then choose the screenshots from Step 2 — up to twenty at once. Vela reads them one by one and lands what's on them: groceries as list items with their quantities, to-dos as to-dos, dates as events. One receipt at the end, with one Undo. Each screenshot that lands something is one action; one with nothing on it costs nothing.

Or say it: "milk, two dozen eggs, birthday candles for Saturday" lands as list items in one go, and a voice note in the car works the same way.

Step 5 — Bring the other adult

Tap your avatar → Your family → Add someone. They get a link; when they sign in, they see the same calendar, the same lists, the same family. One family, one price — Vela is never priced per person.

What will not transfer automatically

Plainly, so nobody is surprised on January 1:

• Lists, to-dos, recipes, notes and routines. No export exists — screenshot them and snap them in (Steps 2 and 4). Recipes and routines have no home in Vela yet.
• Events you created in Maple that Maple never wrote to Google. Check Google itself; add the missing ones by hand.
• Apple Calendar and Outlook connections. Vela connects to Google only, for now.
• Maple's email inbox history. The emails you forwarded to Maple stay in Maple. Vela has its own family inbox, and it starts empty.
• Maple's chat history and AI conversations.
• TeamSnap. Not something Vela connects to.
• Anything at all after December 31. Maple says the deletion is unrecoverable, and we have no reason to think otherwise.

Questions we get

Will Vela import my Maple data directly? No. Vela does not read Maple accounts and there is no Maple file to import. The calendar comes through your Google connection; everything else comes in from your screenshots (Step 4). Anyone promising a one-click Maple import should be asked what format they are reading, because Maple hasn't published one.

Is there a deadline earlier than December 31? Not from Maple. But Maple+ features can stop when a subscription ends, and the calendar connection was one of them — so do the Google check early rather than late.

Can I keep using Maple until then? Yes. Maple says accounts stay active and data stays accessible until December 31, 2026.

Do I have to pay to move? No. Vela has a permanent free tier, and connecting Google is free on every plan. The paid plans, Compass and Atlas, are priced per family — not per member — and you cancel through the App Store.

Is Vela on Android? iPhone first, Android after. If your family is Android-only, that's an honest reason to look elsewhere for now.

Is my Google data safe with Vela? Vela reads only the calendars you pick and writes only to the one you nominate. Your family's data is not sold and there are no ads. The plain-language version is on our privacy page.

What if I don't pick Vela? Then this page still did its job: your calendar is in Google, your lists are in screenshots, and you have until December 31. Most family apps can connect to Google Calendar, so the same first three steps carry you into any of them.

What Vela is, briefly

Vela is a family assistant you talk to. You say or type what's happening — "soccer moved to Thursday, pizza after" — and she turns it into a shared calendar, shared lists and household to-dos the whole family can see. Forward a school email to your family's Vela address and the dates land on the calendar. A photo of an invitation becomes an event. It runs on iPhone first, and on Telegram.

If that sounds like the part of Maple you'll miss, the button below is the honest next step: a waitlist until the app is public, the app itself after.