OurSharedPlace is $99 a year per cabin, or $14.99 a month, with everyone in the family on one plan and a 14-day free trial. It is built around the calendar: booking requests an admin approves, a yearly nights limit for each member, and turns at the good weeks of summer. House Matters is free to run the home, and $10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs, for every home the family has. Pick OurSharedPlace if July needs rules. Pick House Matters if someone looks after the place between your stays: your caretaker works in the same app, and their reports land on the home’s record. Both prices were read from each company’s own page on October 30, 2026.

$99 a cabina year on OurSharedPlace, so two cabins are $198 (read October 30, 2026). House Matters charges the household: $10 a month for every home.

What does each one cost?

OurSharedPlace charges by the cabin, with one plan and every feature. House Matters charges the household, and only for the family and the money. Before tax:

Your family	House Matters	OurSharedPlace
One cabin, you and a spouse: the calendar, supplies and upkeep	$0	$99 a year, or $14.99 a month
One cabin, the whole family with keys, every cost split	$10 a month	$99 a year, or $14.99 a month
Two cabins, the whole family	$10 a month	$198 a year
Three cabins, the whole family	$10 a month	$297 a year
A bunkhouse booked on its own	One calendar for the whole home	$49 a year more for the extra calendar

From OurSharedPlace’s pricing page: “One low fee per property, not per-user,” with unlimited members and guests. Paying yearly works out to $8.25 a month. “Each property is its own subscription.” Every new property gets a 14-day free trial with no card; if you do not pay, the data is kept for a grace period and then the property is removed.

For one cabin and the whole family, OurSharedPlace paid by the year costs less. From the second cabin on, it costs more every year. House Matters has no trial, because running the home is free for as long as you like; the card comes out the day you invite family or log a bill or a cost.

Where OurSharedPlace is the better tool

Rules for the calendar. A member asks for dates and an admin approves them. An admin can give each member a number of nights a year, and the calendar refuses a request past it unless an admin makes an exception. And the round-robin queue gives each family a turn at the summer in order, with a time limit and a number of nights per turn, reminders as the deadline comes, and the order rotated or reversed for the next round. House Matters has none of these: a stay goes straight onto the calendar, so the family agrees July first and books what it agreed.

The stays on your own calendar. OurSharedPlace publishes its calendar as a feed that Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and the rental sites can subscribe to. House Matters has no calendar feed.

Renting it out. OurSharedPlace tracks rental income beside the costs, sends guests their check-in and checkout emails, gives them a code for a guest page that expires after the stay, and can put up a public page where people ask to book. House Matters does none of that.

Splits that are not even. OurSharedPlace records a cost with an equal split or a custom one. House Matters splits every cost evenly: one share for the home’s owners, and one for each other person who holds a key. It never splits by nights stayed or by who owns how much.

The extras. A photo gallery, a shelf for the contracts, manuals and insurance papers, a house blog, a discussion board, and to-dos that repeat on a date and go to one co-owner. House Matters has no photo album, blog, message board or place for the home’s papers, and puts no date on a job: it rides a stay’s check-in or check-out, or the caretaker’s next visit.

Where House Matters is the better tool

The person who looks after the place. In OurSharedPlace everyone is an admin, a member or a guest, and the property manager or the plumber is a name in the contact list. In House Matters, the caretaker who checks the cabin while it sits empty, or the cleaner who turns it over, has their own side of the app. Their visit report and photos land on the home’s record as they file it, what you ask them to look at goes on their list for the next visit, and a cleaner who comes after each stay gets the turnover clean when the stay ends. One caretaker per home at a time.

What is low before the drive up. The propane, the coffee filters and the bug spray are marked OK, low or out as you leave, so whoever is up next sees the list before they leave town. OurSharedPlace’s pages name no supply list.

Every home on one price. The cabin, the lake place and the house in town are all on the $10, with every key in the family. On OurSharedPlace each one is its own subscription.

The bills. The power, the internet and the plow contract each have someone who pays them, and each statement is marked paid.

Free for real, not for 14 days. The calendar, the open-up and close-down lists, the supplies, the upkeep and your caretaker’s reports cost nothing for as long as you like.

Both keep a running tab of who owes whom and leave the paying to you, by Venmo, a check or cash. Both are on iPhone and Android: OurSharedPlace calls its Android app an open beta, and House Matters is on the App Store, Google Play and the web, with sign-in by email or mobile number and no password.

Which should you pick?

Pick OurSharedPlace if several families share one cabin and July needs rules the app enforces: approval, a nights limit, turns at the good weeks. Or if you rent the place out, or want the stays on your own calendar.

Pick House Matters if someone looks after the place between your stays, or the family shares more than one home, and you can agree July among yourselves. The fair scheduling guide has three ways to do that.

Nine more options, every price dated, are in the comparison of shared cabin apps.

Plain answers

Is OurSharedPlace free?

No. Every new property gets a 14-day free trial with no card, then it is $99 a year or $14.99 a month. House Matters is free to run the home with no time limit, and $10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs.

Does OurSharedPlace charge per person?

No. One plan covers every member and guest of one property, and each property is its own subscription. House Matters charges the household once, for every key and every home.

Can House Matters approve bookings or run a rotation?

No. A stay goes straight onto the calendar, with no request to approve and no rotation, draft or nights limit. OurSharedPlace does all three.

Can the caretaker use OurSharedPlace?

Not as a caretaker. Its roles are admin, member and guest, and a property manager goes in the contact list. In House Matters the caretaker has their own side of the app and files each visit onto the home’s record.

Who makes OurSharedPlace?

Steve Murch, who co-owns a shared family property and says every feature started there. Its iPhone app came out May 28, 2026, and was updated October 29, 2026; it has three ratings, all five stars.

Sources, read October 30, 2026

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