How to Export Your Cozi Calendar

Ammar Khatib · 20 October 2026

There is no export button in Cozi. Not a hidden one, not a paid one — Cozi's support pages document five getting-started guides, a FAQ and a contact form, and none of them describes exporting or downloading your data.

That is not unusual for a family app, and it is not a scandal. But it does mean that if you are leaving, the advice you will find in a dozen "best Cozi alternatives" posts — all of which skip this part — is incomplete.

Here is what actually exists.

What Cozi lets you take, and what it does not

Your calendar: yes, as a read-only feed. Cozi publishes an outbound iCal URL that another calendar can subscribe to. This is documented and supported.

Your shopping lists, to-do lists and recipes: no file export at all. Cozi documents printing — from the website, signed in at my.cozi.com, by month on one sheet or by week as a list. The getting-started pages for shopping lists and the recipe box do not mention export, download, email or CSV anywhere. Print is the route, and it is web-only.

Everything, in a machine-readable file: by request. More on that below, and it is the option most people do not know they have.

The calendar feed: the documented route

Cozi's own help page for using Cozi with other calendars gives the path:

1. Sign in at my.cozi.com or in the mobile app
2. Settings → Shared Cozi Calendars
3. Switch a family member from Unshared to Shared
4. VIEW OR SEND COZI URL
5. COPY COZI URL

You can take one combined URL for "All", or a separate URL per family member.

Then subscribe to that URL from wherever you are going. In Google Calendar on the web: Other calendars → + → From URL. On an iPhone: Calendar → Calendars → Add Calendar → Add Subscription Calendar.

Two things Cozi states plainly about this feed, and both matter.

It is read-only. Cozi's wording: you can share appointments from Cozi to another calendar program "in a read-only format". You will be able to see your events somewhere else. You will not be able to edit them there.

It is not instant. Cozi says changes are available immediately in the outbound URL, but "won't be reflected in the receiving internet calendar until that calendar next checks for changes" — and the receiving calendar decides when that is.

A subscription is not an export

This is the distinction that the alternatives posts blur, and it is the whole reason to read this article.

Subscribing to that URL does not give you a copy of your data. It gives you a live window onto data that still lives in Cozi. If you close your Cozi account, the window goes dark and the events go with it.

So a subscription is a bridge, not a move. It is genuinely useful — it lets you run a new app alongside Cozi for a couple of weeks without re-typing anything, which is exactly how a switch should be done. But at some point you have to decide what you actually want to keep, and put that in the new app properly.

The route nobody mentions: ask for your data

Cozi's privacy policy, updated 11 June 2026, grants data portability in the standard wording: the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party in "a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format", and to access, copy, update and delete your personal information.

Requests go through Cozi's contact form with "Privacy" in the subject line. The policy states they will respond and stop processing within 28 days of receiving the request.

There is no self-service button, so this is an email and a wait rather than a download. But it is a legal right, not a favour, and it is the only route that covers the lists and recipes the feed leaves behind. If you have years of recipes in there, it is worth the email.

What to do about lists and recipes

Realistically, most people will not wait 28 days. The practical route:

Print to a web page, then copy the text. Signed in at my.cozi.com, use the print view, and copy the text out of it rather than putting it on paper. Paste into a note, then into the new app.

Move only what is alive. A to-do list that has been running for three years is mostly dead entries. Moving them poisons a new app on day one.

Move the recipes you actually cook. Most recipe boxes hold forty saved and eight made.

Delete the account properly, afterwards

Not on the same day — leave it alive while the new app beds in.

When you do close it, know this first: Cozi's FAQ warns that deleting an account deletes it for everyone in the family. If your partner is still using it, or the teenager has their own events in there, closing your account is not a private decision.