Family organisers split into two camps: chore apps with points but no real calendar, and calendar apps with no idea who does the dishes. Eagraí Clainne is built to be both — self-hosted, on your own hardware. Here is the honest picture.
| Area | Eagraí Clainne | Donetick | OurHome | Cozi | FamilyWall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chores with recurrence | ●Yes. chaining, five repeat kinds | ●Yes | ●Yes | ◐Partial | ◐Partial |
| Sub-jobs inside a job | ●Yes. each sub-job has its own points | ●Yes | —No | —No | —No |
| Points and rewards | ●Yes. ledger, costed rewards, bounties | ◐Partial | ●Yes | —No | ◐Partial |
| Family calendar | ●Yes. month, week and agenda views; repeats; edit, cancel or join one or the series; reminders, birthdays | ◐Partial | ◐Partial | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Meal planning | ●Yes. standing rota, cook reminders | —No | —No | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Shopping lists | ●Yes. turn an item into a job | —No | ◐Partial | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Child and adult roles | ●Yes. four roles, per-role permissions | ◐Partial | ●Yes | —No | ◐Partial |
| Native mobile apps | ◐Partial. Android APK with home-screen widgets, iOS via the web app | ●Yes | ●Yes | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Works offline | ●Yes. web and Android: cached reads, queued writes | ◐Partial | ◐Partial | ◐Partial | ◐Partial |
| Messaging | —No | —No | ◐Partial | ◐Partial | ●Yes |
| Location sharing | —No. never — by design | —No | —No | —No | ●Yes |
| Accessibility and theming | ●Yes. 38 themes, colour-vision options, marks | —No | —No | —No | —No |
| API, webhooks, automation | ●Yes. API keys, MCP, signed webhooks, CLI | ●Yes | —No | —No | —No |
| Self-hosting | ●Yes. one binary and one SQLite file | ●Yes | —No | —No | —No |
| Data export and restore | ●Yes. full backup, portable archive, per-member export | ◐Partial | —No | —No | ◐Partial |
| Languages | ●Yes. EN, GA and open to community contributions | ◐Partial | ●Yes | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Price | self hosted | free + paid hosted | free | free + $39/yr | $45/yr premium |
Current as of Eagraí Clainne v2.2.0, August 2026. Competitor columns reflect their published features at the same date — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
What only Eagraí Clainne does
- Marks and accessibility. Every member gets a colour-vision-safe mark that follows them through the app. A Clear theme for grandparents, 38 themes in all, and each device on the shelf can keep its own.
- A meal rota, not a meal list. Standing weekday slots with one-off overrides, a cook who gets a reminder, and ingredients that skip whatever the shopping list already has.
- Built for the kitchen tablet. Quick profile switching with parked sessions and per-member PINs. No other family app models the shared device at all.
- Talks to your AI assistant. The server speaks MCP, so any assistant can read the board and add to it — with an API key that says who acted.
- Family as structure. Roles and relations, not a flat member list — and a member who dies is remembered, not deleted.
Where it does not fit
- No messaging. If the family group chat should live in the organiser, FamilyWall does that. Eagraí Clainne does not.
- No iOS app. iPhones use the installable web app. It works offline, but it is not in the App Store.
- No location sharing — ever. This one is a choice. Eagraí Clainne does not track anyone: no telemetry, no analytics, and no map of where your children are.