Donetick vs TaskTrove

Donetick

• Families and roommates sharing a chore list with fair rotation
• Recurring home maintenance tasks on flexible schedules
• Home Assistant users who want chores to show up as to-do lists
• Self-hosters who want an open-source task server

TaskTrove

• Individuals who want a task manager on their own server
• Typing tasks with dates and recurrence in plain language
• Switching between list, kanban and calendar views
• Keeping all task data in one JSON file that is easy to back up

Donetick

• On Donetick Cloud, the app lists notifications and reminders, real-time updates, API tokens, webhooks, file uploads and thing-based triggers as Plus-only.
• The site has no public pricing page. Plus prices here are from the US App Store; Google Play's US listing shows $5.99 to $39.99 per item.
• Self-hosting is free, but the terms leave hosting, security, backups and updates to you, with no support guarantee.
• The project's README describes offline support as very limited.

TaskTrove

• Pro and Hosted cannot be bought yet: the pricing page offers a waitlist for each, and Hosted is marked coming soon.
• The free edition has no multi-user collaboration, mobile apps, custom themes or external calendar sync. Desktop apps are listed as coming soon.
• The code is published under the Sustainable Use License, which the vendor labels fair-code.
• The latest public release on GitHub, v0.12.4, is dated January 9, 2026.

Donetick

Shared groups and assignee rotation

Tasks are shared with a group of family, friends or teammates and assigned to one person, with the next assignee picked at random, by fewest assigned or completed, or kept the same.

Plain-language task entry

Typing a phrase such as "Take the trash out every Monday and Tuesday at 6:15 pm" creates the task with its dates, times and recurrence filled in.

Flexible and adaptive recurrence

Tasks repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on custom days, counted from the due date or the completion date. Adaptive scheduling sets the next date from past completions.

Points, approval and history

Completed tasks earn points for a leaderboard, and an admin can be required to approve them. A history records due dates, completion dates, notes and who did each task.

Things, NFC tags and automation

A Thing stores a number, a true or false value or text, and a change in it can trigger or complete a task. NFC tags mark tasks done when scanned, and a REST API and webhooks connect other tools.

Notifications on several channels

Reminders can be set before, on or after a due date and delivered through the mobile app, Telegram, Discord, Pushover or webhooks. On Donetick Cloud, the upgrade dialog lists task notifications under Plus.

TaskTrove

Natural-language quick add

Phrases such as "tomorrow at 2pm", "next Friday" or "every Monday" are parsed into due dates and recurrence as a task is typed, and tasks can hold unlimited subtasks.

List, kanban and calendar views

Tasks are grouped into projects with sections and color-coded labels, and each project can be viewed as a list, a kanban board or a calendar, with filtering, sorting and search.

Recurring tasks and a focus timer

Tasks repeat on daily, weekly, monthly or custom patterns, and a built-in focus timer is part of the free edition.

Simple self-hosting

The app starts from one Docker command and stores its data in a JSON file that can be copied as a backup. It needs no login by default, and a password can be turned on with a setting.

API access

The feature table lists API access in every edition, including the free one, and the documentation has an API reference.

Pro collaboration and rewards

The Pro documentation describes task owners and assignees, shared projects with permission controls, @assignee parsing in quick add, and a points, badges and leaderboard system.

Donetick

• Self-hosted$0

  The open-source server under the AGPLv3, run from Docker, a binary or a Home Assistant add-on. Hosting, security, backups and updates are yours.

• Basic$0

  Free plan on Donetick Cloud with one sub account. The app lists notifications, real-time updates, API tokens, webhooks and file uploads as Plus features.

• Plus$4.99

  per month, or $39.99 per year (US App Store)

  Task notifications and reminders, rich text with image uploads, thing-based triggers, API tokens and up to 5 sub accounts. The web upgrade dialog shows $39.00 a year.

TaskTrove

• Free (Self-hosted)$0

  Unlimited tasks, projects and tags, natural-language quick add, three views, recurring tasks, a focus timer and API access on your own server.

• Pro (Self-hosted)$129

  one-time for 1 user; $199 for 2 users, $299 for 5 users

  Perpetual license with 1 year of updates, adding multi-user collaboration, mobile apps, custom themes and external calendar sync. Waitlist only for now.

• Hosted$5

  per user / month, or $4 per user / month billed annually

  All Pro features on managed hosting, with no server to run. Marked coming soon on the pricing page, with a waitlist.

Donetick

• Annual discount

  About 33% less on the yearly Plus plan

  The US App Store lists Donetick Plus at $4.99 monthly and $39.99 yearly. Twelve monthly payments come to $59.88, so the yearly plan costs about 33% less.

TaskTrove

• Lifetime license

  Perpetual Pro license from $129

  Pro is priced as a one-time perpetual license with 1 year of updates: $129 for 1 user, $199 for 2 or $299 for 5. Renewing updates costs roughly a quarter of the license price.

• Annual discount

  20% off Hosted with annual billing

  The pricing page lists Hosted at $5 per user a month, or $4 per user a month on annual billing, labelled as a 20% saving. Hosted has not launched yet.

• Other savings

  Early-bird discount for the Pro waitlist

  The vendor says people who join the Pro mailing list will receive an early-bird discount code when the Pro plan comes out. No amount is stated.