Donetick vs Vikunja

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

Vikunja

• People who want their task data on a server they control
• Households and teams sharing projects across list, board and Gantt views
• Moving off Todoist, Trello or Microsoft To Do with a built-in importer

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.

Vikunja

• Vikunja Cloud has no free plan. The free option is self-hosting, where server maintenance, updates and backups are your job.
• The mobile app is an alpha pre-release for Android that the docs say covers only very basic features, and the maker gives no iPhone support.
• The admin panel, audit logs and time tracking belong to Vikunja Pro, a paid add-on for self-hosted instances in private beta with no public prices.
• Cloud prices are listed in euros only, and the vendor describes its CalDAV integration as early alpha with known bugs.

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.

Vikunja

List, kanban, Gantt and table views

Each project can be shown as a list, a kanban board, a table with selectable columns or a Gantt chart, and you can switch between them at any time.

Quick Add Magic

Typing a date, a *label, an @assignee, a +project or a !priority into a task title sets those fields as the task is created. It works in the web UI.

Sharing, teams and link shares

A project can be shared with one user, a team or a link. Link shares let people view or edit tasks without an account, with the same permission levels.

Reminders, repeats and relations

Tasks take due dates, reminders, repeat intervals, priorities, labels, attachments and subtasks, and can be related to tasks in other projects, for example as blockers.

Imports and CalDAV

Built-in importers cover Todoist, Trello, Microsoft To Do, TickTick, WeKan, Planka and CSV files. A CalDAV integration syncs tasks with outside clients such as iOS Reminders.

API, webhooks and MCP

A documented REST API with token authentication, webhooks, a vendor-maintained community node for n8n and, from version 2.7.0, an MCP endpoint for AI assistants.

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.

Vikunja

• Self-Hosted€0

  The open-source version on your own server: unlimited tasks and projects, all four views, teams, sharing and CalDAV.

• Personal€4

  per month, or €40 billed yearly

  One managed Cloud account with unlimited lists, tasks, reminders, share links and filters, and 10GB of attachment storage.

• Organization€5

  per user / month, or €50 per user billed yearly

  Everything in Personal, plus unlimited teams, 50GB of attachment storage, priority email support and central team billing.

• Family€10

  per month for up to 5 users, or €99 billed yearly

  Everything in Personal for up to 5 users, with shared household projects on one subscription and one bill.

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.

Vikunja

• Annual discount

  Lower price with yearly billing

  Yearly billing costs €40 for Personal, €99 for Family and €50 per user for Organization, which the pricing page labels as 17.5% to 20% less than paying monthly.