For most families sharing one cabin, OurSharedPlace is the most complete at $99 a year: a calendar with booking requests and approval rules, a round-robin queue for picking dates, shared expenses with a running balance for each owner, and apps for iPhone and Android. The Vacation Calendar does the calendar rules for $40 to $80 a year, SharedKey is $49 a year, and WhoseWeek is free while it is invite-only. If someone looks after the place for you, a caretaker who checks it or a cleaner who turns it over, House Matters is the one built for that: the caretaker has their own side of the app, and their visits and photos land in the record the family uses. Every price here was read from the vendor’s own page on October 23, 2026.

What a shared cabin app has to do

Four jobs, in the order families argue about them:

Who gets which week. One calendar everyone can see, and for some families a rule for July: an approval, a rotation, a draft.
Who paid for what. Every cost logged once, split by share, with a running balance so nobody keeps the spreadsheet.
What is low and what is broken. The propane, the coffee filters, the porch screen, so the next family does not find out on arrival.
Opening and closing. The list for the way in and the way out, so the water gets shut off every time.

A fifth job matters to some families and not to others: the person who looks after the place while nobody is there. Most of these apps keep that person in a contact list.

The table, read October 23, 2026

Prices are for one cabin and the whole family, before tax, from each vendor’s own page. Where a page leaves something out, the table says so instead of guessing.

App, and who it suits	Price (read Oct 23, 2026)	Standout	Notable gaps
OurSharedPlace Several families, one cabin, and July needs rules	$99 a year per property, or $14.99 a month. Unlimited members; 14-day trial, no card	Booking requests with approval rules; a round-robin queue for picking dates; expenses with a running balance per owner; checklists for opening and closing; a guest portal; iPhone and Android apps	Each cabin is its own subscription. Its iPhone app came out in May 2026 and has three ratings
The Vacation Calendar Families who want firm calendar rules for the least money	$40, $60 or $80 a year; $5, $7 or $9 a month. Premium covers up to 9 properties	You set who books, how far ahead, how long, overlaps, and whether a stay needs approval; rooms; expenses and rental income with reports; photo album, house blog, guest book; iPhone and Android app	Expenses are logged and exported to settle up, not split into who owes whom. No trial named on the pricing page
SharedKey A calendar and the costs, nothing more	$49 a year per property. Unlimited members and guests; 30-day trial, no card	A color for each member on the calendar; a notice board for supplies and repairs; finances that record, allocate and report; read-only pages for guests; iPhone and Android apps	Names no approval step or rotation. The iPhone app has 2.7 stars from six ratings
Family Vacation Home A small family that only needs the calendar	$24.99 a year (1 home, 5 members); $49.99 (10 homes, 100 members). Free for 90 days	Reservation rules and a conflict check; documents; pages you write yourself; a question board; the local weather	Names no expenses and no phone app. Five members on the cheaper plan
Dwelly Up to four families who split everything	$9 a month (1 property, 4 families); $19 (3 properties, any number). 14-day trial, card required	Room-by-room calendar that stops double bookings; costs split across families with running balances; inventory with expiry dates; arrival and departure checklists; grocery lists	No App Store or Google Play app yet: it runs in the phone’s browser. No yearly price
CabinPals Seasonal upkeep with reminders	Free for you alone; $1.99 a month (5 members); $9.99 (Shared); $149.90 (15 properties). 14-day trial on Shared	Tasks with recurring upkeep, seasonal packs and a cost on each; an inventory that writes the shopping list; an AI concierge with a daily briefing; WhatsApp reminders	Costs sit on tasks, with no split between owners named. The iPhone app was last updated in November 2024
HavenShare One organizer, everyone else free	€15 ($15) a month for the admin; members free. 14-day trial, no card	Costs split and settled; chores that rotate; shopping lists; recurring checklists; proposals and votes; built for a boat as well as a cabin	Billed monthly; no yearly price shown
WhoseWeek Families who split the summer by the week	Free, by invitation	Weeks assigned by live draft, random draw or last year again; trades in two taps; a spouse or grown child can act for an owner; expenses split with running balances; a calendar feed for Google, Apple or Outlook	You ask for access and wait. Free for now, not a promise. Names no app in the stores
ourCabin A family willing to try something unexplained	No price shown	Reservations with an approve step, calendar holds, inventory, projects, a wiki, a message board and contacts	The site is a sign-in screen and one line. Nothing says what it costs, who makes it or when it last changed
Google Calendar plus Splitwise Families for whom it already works	$0. Splitwise Pro is sold in the app, $2.99 to $39.99	Everyone already has them; Splitwise keeps the running balance and settles up	Two apps that do not know about each other or the house: no supply list, no open-up list, no rule for July
House Matters Families with someone who looks after the place between stays	Free to run the home; $10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs, however many homes	The caretaker has their own side of the app: their visit report and photos land in the home’s record, and your asks go on their next visit. Stays with open-up and close-down lists; supplies marked OK, low or out; every cost split into shares; App Store, Google Play and the web	No booking approval, rotation or draft. No photo album, blog or guest book. One caretaker per home at a time

$24-$180a year for one cabin and the family - the range across the paid plans, from CabinPals’ $1.99 a month for five members to HavenShare’s admin plan at $15 a month (read October 23, 2026)

Calendar first: OurSharedPlace, The Vacation Calendar, SharedKey and Family Vacation Home

These four start from the question every shared cabin has first: who is there, and when.

OurSharedPlace: $99 a year per cabin, or $14.99 a month

OurSharedPlace is the most complete app here. One plan, $99 per property a year or $14.99 a month, with unlimited members and guests and a 14-day free trial with no card. The calendar takes booking requests with approval rules, and a round-robin queue takes turns picking dates. Shared expenses keep a running balance for each owner, reusable checklists cover opening and closing, and there is a guest portal and an optional public booking page if you rent the place out. The iPhone and Android apps are free. It is also young: the iPhone app came out May 28, 2026, and has three ratings, all five stars. Two cabins are two subscriptions.

The Vacation Calendar: $40 to $80 a year

Basic is $5 a month or $40 a year, Standard $7 or $60, Premium $9 or $80. Standard adds booking by room, up to six rooms; Premium adds any number of rooms and up to nine properties. You set the scheduling rules: who can book, how far ahead, how long a stay can be, whether stays can overlap, and whether a stay needs the administrator’s approval before it lands on the calendar. It keeps expenses and rental income with receipts, reports by month, quarter or year, and a photo album, a house blog, a bulletin board and a guest book besides. Expenses are logged and exported when it is time to settle up, not split into who owes whom. The iPhone app came out in June 2025 and has 3.0 stars from four ratings. For the money, no app here gives you more control over the calendar.

SharedKey: $49 a year per cabin

One plan, $49 a year per property, unlimited members and guests, and a 30-day free trial with no card. A calendar with a color for each member, a notice board for supplies, events and repairs, and a finances page that records, allocates and reports expenses and income. Guests get read-only pages. Its pages name no approval step and no rotation. The iPhone app has been out since 2020, was updated in August 2026, and has 2.7 stars from six ratings. A plain tool at a plain price.

Family Vacation Home: free for 90 days, then $24.99 a year

Standard is $24.99 a year for one home and five members; Premium is $49.99 a year for ten homes and 100 members, after a free 90-day trial. Reservation rules, a conflict check and notices, documents, pages you write yourself, a question board and the local weather. Its pages name no expenses and no phone app, and five members is a small family. Only CabinPals’ $1.99 plan costs less.

Run the house: Dwelly, CabinPals and HavenShare

These three start from the house itself: what is in it, what it costs, what needs doing.

Dwelly: $9 a month for one cabin and four families

Basic is $9 a month for one property and up to four co-owning families; Plus is $19 a month for three properties and any number of families. The 14-day trial asks for a card. The calendar books room by room and stops double bookings, costs are split across families with running balances, the inventory tracks quantities and expiry dates, and the arrival and departure checklists reset after every visit. Only the person who sets it up pays. There is no App Store or Google Play app yet: Dwelly runs in the phone’s browser and adds to the home screen, and its own page says the store versions are on the way.

CabinPals: free for one person, $9.99 a month for the group

Lite is free for one property and just you; Lite Plus is $1.99 a month for up to five members; Shared is $9.99 a month for up to six properties and anyone you invite, with a 14-day trial; Portfolio is $149.90 a month for 15 properties, aimed at people who look after several homes. Shared is where the house work is: tasks with recurring upkeep and seasonal packs, each with an estimated and an actual cost; an inventory that writes the shopping list; an AI concierge with a daily briefing; email and WhatsApp reminders. Costs sit on the tasks; its pages name no split between owners. The iPhone app was last updated November 7, 2024, and has 1.0 stars from two ratings.

HavenShare: $15 a month for the one who sets it up

Everyone you invite joins free; the admin who creates the shared home pays €15 ($15) a month, billed monthly, for as many cabins, homes or boats as they like, after a 14-day trial with no card. A shared calendar, costs that are split and settled, chores that rotate, shopping lists, recurring checklists, and proposals and votes for the decisions that drag on for weeks. It is built for a shared boat as well as a cabin.

Free: WhoseWeek, ourCabin, and Google Calendar with Splitwise

WhoseWeek: free, by invitation

WhoseWeek is invite-only and free: you ask for access, and it says setup usually takes a day or two. It is built for families who split the summer by the week. It assigns the year’s weeks by a live draft, a random draw, last year again or an import; owners trade weeks in two taps; a spouse or grown child can act for an owner. Expenses split among co-owners with running balances, a maintenance board tracks what is broken, and the calendar feeds Google, Apple or Outlook. Free is its word for now, not a promise: the page says it stays free only as long as it can afford to.

ourCabin: no price shown

ourCabin’s site is a sign-in screen and one line: “Reservation app for Sharing a family cabin.” Inside are reservations with an approve step, calendar holds, an inventory, projects, a wiki, a message board and contacts. Nothing on the site says what it costs, who makes it or when it last changed.

Google Calendar and Splitwise: $0

The pair most families start with. A shared Google Calendar shows who is there; Splitwise keeps a running balance and settles up. Both are free. Splitwise Pro lifts the daily limit on expenses and adds receipt scanning and charts; Apple’s store lists it at $2.99 to $39.99. Neither app knows the other exists, or that there is a house: no supply list, no open-up list, no rule for July.

Where House Matters fits, and where it does not

House Matters fits the family whose cabin has someone looking after it: a caretaker who checks it while it sits empty, or a cleaner who turns it over between families. That person has their own side of the app. When they finish a visit, the report lands in the home’s record as they file it: every item checked, every photo, anything they flagged. Something on your mind, the propane or the gutter, goes on their list for the next visit. When the family books a stay, a caretaker who cleans gets the turnover on their route.

The rest is what the better apps above do too: one calendar of stays for you, the family and guests, with the open-up and close-down lists attached; what is OK, low or out; upkeep flagged with a photo until someone marks it done; the bills, with who pays each one; and a ledger that splits every cost into shares, shows who owes whom and settles up with a Venmo link. Improvements are kept apart from upkeep, for the day the place is sold or passed on.

Running the home is free: the stays, the supplies, the upkeep and everything your caretaker does. Inviting family and tracking bills and costs is $10 a month for the household, however many homes: keys for everyone beyond you and a spouse or partner, the bills and the ledger. It is on the App Store, Google Play and the web.

The limits, plainly. A stay goes straight onto the calendar: there is no request to approve, and no rotation, draft or nights quota to run July for you. Families who need one write it into their agreement; the fair scheduling guide has three that work. No photo album, house blog, guest book or local guide. Each home has one caretaker at a time.

If nobody looks after your cabin but the family, one of the apps above is the better fit, and OurSharedPlace or The Vacation Calendar will run July more firmly than House Matters will.

How to choose in five minutes

Several families, one cabin, and July needs rules: OurSharedPlace, $99 a year
The same rules for the least money: The Vacation Calendar, $40 a year
Weeks drafted or drawn every January: WhoseWeek, free while it lasts
Supplies, grocery lists and split costs, with no app store needed: Dwelly, $9 a month
Seasonal upkeep and a reminder for everything: CabinPals Shared, $9.99 a month
Google Calendar and Splitwise already work for your family: keep them
Someone looks after the place between your stays: House Matters, free to run, $10 a month to invite family and track bills

Whatever you pick, settle the rules first. The family cabin agreement says who pays and who decides, fair scheduling covers the rotation, the draft and the quota, and the expense split calculator gives everyone’s share. The app holds the rules; it does not write them.

Plain answers

What is the best app for a shared family cabin?

For most families, OurSharedPlace at $99 a year: booking approval, a round-robin queue for dates, expenses with a balance for each owner, and apps on both phones. For calendar rules at the least money, The Vacation Calendar at $40 a year. Both read October 23, 2026.

Is there a free shared cabin app?

WhoseWeek is free while it is invite-only. CabinPals Lite is free for one person, and Family Vacation Home is free for 90 days. A shared Google Calendar with Splitwise costs nothing. House Matters is free for you and a spouse or partner; the $10 a month starts when the rest of the family gets keys.

Which shared cabin apps split expenses between owners?

OurSharedPlace, Dwelly, WhoseWeek, HavenShare and House Matters split each cost and keep a running balance. SharedKey records and allocates costs, The Vacation Calendar logs them for an export when it is time to settle up, and CabinPals puts a cost on each task.

Which app runs a rotation or a draft for the summer weeks?

WhoseWeek assigns weeks by live draft, random draw or last year again. OurSharedPlace has a round-robin queue for picking dates. The Vacation Calendar and Family Vacation Home let you set booking rules. House Matters does not run one.

Can the person who looks after the cabin use the same app?

In House Matters, yes: your caretaker has their own side of the app, files each visit report into your home’s record and sees what you have asked for before the next visit. Most of the others keep that person in a contact list.

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