![CatBox [Standalone]](https://store.elfhosted.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/catbox-150x150.avif)
Donetick
$9.00 / month
Free trial: 7 days
Sign-up fee: $1.00
Self-hosted chore tracker for households and teams — recurring tasks with rotation, point system, multi-user. The Tody / Sweepy alternative that doesn’t lock you to an app store.
A managed instance of Donetick on ElfHosted — a clean, multi-user task and chore tracker. Recurring chores with auto-rotation between household members, optional point system for kid-incentive workflows, mobile-friendly PWA, no per-user paywall. AGPL-3.
Households run on chore lists. The shared ones tend to live in someone's head, then someone's notes app, then someone's spreadsheet, before anyone gets around to tracking them properly. Donetick is the proper tracking, without the per-user pricing of commercial chore apps.
What is Donetick?
Donetick is an open-source task and chore management application aimed at households and small teams. It handles the things commercial chore apps (Tody, Sweepy, Homey, OurHome) charge for: shared task lists, recurring tasks with auto-rotation between users, point/reward systems, due-date tracking, completion history. Plus the things they don't: self-hosting, no per-user fees, no ads, no telemetry.
Most households start with a whiteboard, graduate to a shared note in Notion / Google Keep, then realise they need actual recurrence + rotation when "whose turn is it to take out the bins" stops being obvious. Donetick is the destination.
Features
- 🔁 Recurring tasks with rotation — "take out the bins, every Tuesday, rotating between Alice / Bob / Charlie". Donetick auto-assigns the next person each cycle.
- 🏆 Optional point system — earn points for completing chores; useful for kid-incentive workflows or just keeping playful score in adult households.
- 👥 Multi-user with households — separate user accounts; tasks can be assigned to specific users, all users, or rotated.
- 📅 Calendar & list views — see what's due today / this week / overdue at a glance.
- 🔔 Notifications via Apprise / webhooks — push reminders to Discord, Telegram, ntfy, email, or any Apprise-supported channel.
- 📱 Mobile-friendly PWA — installable on iOS / Android home screen; works like a native app without going through the App Store.
- 📊 Completion history & stats — track who did what, when; visualise patterns; identify the chore everyone keeps forgetting.
- 🏷️ Labels & categories — organise tasks by area (kitchen / outdoor / kids / car) or priority.
- 📥 Sub-tasks & checklists — break complex tasks into steps; check off as you go.
- 🔓 FOSS & AGPL-3 — no per-user fee, no premium tier, no ads.
Donetick vs Other Chore / Task Apps
- vs. Tody — Tody is the polished commercial cleaning-tracker app; iOS-only, paid premium for syncing across devices and families. Donetick is cross-platform via browser, free, self-hosted; less polished UI but feature-equivalent on the core "track recurring household chores" use case.
- vs. Sweepy / Homey / OurHome — same shape as Tody, same trade-offs. Commercial apps with better UX and per-user pricing; Donetick is the "I'd rather pay $9/month for the whole family than $5/user/month forever" answer.
- vs. Todoist / Things / TickTick — those are personal task managers extended to families. Powerful but not optimised for "rotating chores across household members". Donetick is purpose-built for that workflow.
- vs. a shared Notion / Google Keep doc — works for static lists, falls apart on recurrence + rotation. Donetick handles those automatically.
- vs. Habitica — Habitica is a habit tracker with RPG mechanics, individual-focused. Donetick is household-focused, less gamified, more practical for "did the dishwasher get unloaded".
Why Run Donetick on ElfHosted?
Donetick self-hosts cleanly (Go binary + SQLite or Postgres), but the operational details around a multi-user app accessed from phones matter:
- HTTPS with auto-renewing TLS — required for PWA install on iOS/Android, required for the password-vault and notification-token flows.
- External hosting — your home internet's downtime / DHCP changes / power cuts shouldn't take out the household chore tracker. ElfHosted's uptime is built-in.
- Multi-user always-available — a chore tracker that's only available when you're on home WiFi misses the point; everyone needs to mark tasks done from anywhere.
- Persistent backed-up storage — task history accumulates over months / years; backup is non-negotiable.
- Updates handled — Donetick ships releases regularly with new features and fixes.
- Single subscription: $9/month for the whole household, no per-user fee.
Technical Specifications
- 🛠️ Software: Donetick (FOSS, AGPL-3)
- ⚙️ Stack: Go binary + SQLite (default) or Postgres
- 📱 Mobile: Progressive Web App (PWA) — installable on iOS & Android
- 👥 Multi-user: yes — separate accounts; household / circle grouping
- 🔁 Recurrence: daily / weekly / monthly / custom interval; rotation between assignees
- 🔔 Notifications: Apprise (100+ channels), webhooks, email
- 🔑 Subscription: $9/month — Donetick itself is fully free
- 🌐 Access: HTTPS on your own ElfHosted subdomain
- 🔄 Updates: handled by ElfHosted
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I run Donetick without self-hosting it?
Add it to your ElfHosted subscription — managed Donetick instance with HTTPS, persistent backed-up storage, automatic updates, and SSO via your ElfHosted account. Set up the household; add the recurring chores; everyone installs the PWA on their phone.
How does the rotation feature work?
For any recurring task, assign multiple users; Donetick rotates the assignee each cycle. "Take out bins, every Tuesday, alternating between Alice and Bob" → Tuesday week 1 is Alice, week 2 is Bob, week 3 is Alice again. Skip-aware: if someone skips their turn, the next cycle's rotation accounts for it.
Can kids use it?
Yes — that's a popular use case. Set up child accounts; assign age-appropriate chores; turn on the point system for incentive (some households trade points for screen time / allowance / treats). The PWA install on a kid's tablet means it shows up like an app.
How do notifications work?
Donetick supports Apprise (which itself proxies 100+ notification destinations) plus generic webhooks. Common patterns: ntfy / Gotify for phone push; Discord channel for household alerts; email digest.
Is there a mobile app?
The PWA is the mobile app. Open Donetick in mobile Safari / Chrome → "Add to Home Screen" → it installs as an icon, opens fullscreen, behaves like a native app. No App Store submission needed; no per-platform release lag.
How is this different from a shared Todoist?
Todoist is a personal task manager with sharing tacked on. Donetick is built for "household coordination on recurring chores" from day one. The rotation feature alone is the difference; Todoist doesn't really do "auto-assign to next person in the rotation".
Can I export my data?
Yes — Donetick supports JSON export of all tasks, history, and configuration.
Donetick is the household chore-tracker that handles recurring tasks with auto-rotation between members, runs as a PWA on every household phone, and costs $9/month for the whole family instead of per-user. Hosted on ElfHosted with HTTPS, persistent backed-up storage, and managed updates.
Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.
Related products
Miniflux
The minimalist self-hosted RSS reader — single Go binary, no JavaScript bloat, opinionated about staying out of your way.
A managed instance of Miniflux on ElfHosted — a deliberately spartan RSS reader. Reads feeds, marks them read. No social layer, no AI suggestions, no inline ads, no maybe-you'd-like-this discovery feed. Compatible with Reeder, NetNewsWire, FluentReader, and any Fever or Google Reader-compatible client. Apache-2.0.
FreshRSS
Self-hosted RSS aggregator with the polish of Feedly and the freedom of owning your own feed list — blogs, YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, all in one chronological reader.
A managed instance of FreshRSS on ElfHosted — the most polished open-source RSS reader. OPML import from any service, Google Reader API support for native mobile apps (Reeder, FluentReader, FeedMe, NetNewsWire), an active extension ecosystem for full-article fetching and YouTube rendering, and translations in 40+ languages. AGPL-3.0, your reading list survives every "pivot" of every social feed.
LinkDing
Fast, minimal self-hosted bookmark manager — tags, full-text search, browser extensions, single-file archive snapshots. The Pinboard alternative that's still being built.
A managed instance of LinkDing on ElfHosted — the bookmark manager that finally feels right after Delicious died, Pinboard stagnated, and Raindrop.io became a freemium upsell. Tag links, search across the entire library by content, archive copies of pages locally, and connect via Firefox/Chrome browser extensions. MIT-licensed.
FlatNotes
Self-hosted markdown notes that live on disk as plain .md files — no SQL database, no proprietary export, your notes survive every app you'll ever stop using.
A managed instance of FlatNotes on ElfHosted — a deliberately minimal markdown notes server where every note is a flat .md file. Edit in the web UI, or sync the notes folder with Syncthing/rclone and edit in Obsidian / VS Code / vim. Full-text search, tags via #hashtags inside notes, dark mode. MIT-licensed.
Reviews
Clear filtersThere are no reviews yet.