The family chore list that lives in your own calendar.
Family Tasks turns a shared calendar into a daily task list for the whole household — colour-coded per person, ticked off from the kitchen tablet, and stored on your server rather than ours.
What it does
Built for a tablet on the kitchen counter that everybody walks past.
A list for today
Only what is due today, sorted by time, each row coloured by whoever it belongs to. Completed chores stay on the list with a tick rather than disappearing.
Repeating chores done properly
Ticking today's bins does not tick next week's. Each occurrence is completed on its own, so a daily chore is waiting again tomorrow.
Everyone has a colour
Give each family member a name and a colour. Tasks can go to one person, several, or the whole household.
Scores and a monthly goal
A completion ring per person for today and for the month. Shared chores count towards everybody, so nobody reaches 100% while the bins are still out.
A parent PIN
Anyone can tick a chore off. Creating, editing and deleting sit behind a PIN, so the shower task cannot quietly disappear.
Icons and notes
Pick an icon for the chore and add a line of detail — which detergent, how much food — visible when a task is tapped.
How it works
There is no Family Tasks account, because there is no Family Tasks server.
- Tasks are calendar events. Each chore is an ordinary event in a calendar you already own. Recurrence, reminders and sync come from the calendar itself.
- One shared mailbox, several tablets. Every device points at the same calendar, so a chore ticked in the kitchen is ticked in the hallway.
- Settings travel with the calendar. People, colours, the goal and the parent PIN live alongside the tasks, so a new tablet picks them up on its own.
- It talks CalDAV directly. The app does not use Android's system calendar, so your chores never appear in unrelated calendar apps on anyone's phone.
What you need
An Android device and a calendar server that speaks CalDAV with a password.
- Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) or newer. It is built and tested on old hardware on purpose — a retired tablet makes an ideal kitchen display.
- A CalDAV calendar with username-and-password sign-in. Nextcloud, Fastmail, iCloud (with an app-specific password), mailbox.org, Posteo, Radicale, Baikal, SOGo, Zimbra and grommunio all work this way.
- Optionally an SMTP server, only if you want PIN reset codes and the monthly summary sent by email. Without it, reset codes are written into the calendar instead.
Since March 2025 Google requires OAuth for CalDAV, so passwords and app passwords are both refused. Microsoft retired its CalDAV endpoints for Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 altogether. Neither can be made to work by changing a setting — the app needs a server that accepts a username and password.
Privacy, briefly
The long version is on the privacy page.
- Nothing is collected. There is no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting in the app.
- Your tasks go to your server. The app talks to the calendar server you configure, and to an email server if you choose to set one up. Nowhere else.
- One permission: internet access. No contacts, no location, no files, no camera.
- Passwords stay on the device, held in Android's encrypted storage.