Cozi is a website and

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intended to help families stay organized. Its features include allowing multiple family members to manage schedules with one account, as well as organizing and updating shopping and to-do lists. The website was founded by Robbie Cape and Jan Miksovsky after the two of them left

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. The company's first product, Cozi Central, was released on September 25, 2006, and included a family calendar, shopping lists, family messaging and a photo collage screensaver. The company is based in

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. Cozi has both a

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version, and a paid version called Cozi Gold. Cozi Gold's additional features include Cozi Contacts, a birthday tracker, more reminders, mobile month view, and change notifications. The software can be used on desktop or mobile applications for iOS and Android. On June 5, 2011, Cozi set a

Guinness World Record ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a British reference book published annually, listi ...

for the longest line of ducks in a row. The line stretched for one mile and was made up of 17,782 rubber ducks. After the

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acquired Time in 2018, Cozi was moved into the ''

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'' Network division. Cozi was acquired by

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in 2014. On May 4, 2022, Cozi was acquired by OurFamilyWizard of

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