#42 in Project & Work ManagementUpdated 2026-08

Donetick

by Donetick · Open-source chore manager with recurring schedules and assignee rotation

BenchRank score

36.4

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Overview

Donetick is a task and chore manager for individuals, families and teams, available as a hosted web account, iOS and Android apps, a self-hosted binary or a Home Assistant add-on. Tasks recur on daily, weekly, monthly, custom or adaptive schedules, and can be rotated between assignees using rules such as random, least assigned or least completed.

Best for: Families or small teams sharing recurring chores who want a hosted or self-hosted tracker
Pricing: No prices are shown; the page refers to a Basic plan and a paid Plus upgrade, alongside a self-hosted open-source build and Home Assistant add-on.
Runs on: Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Rotates chores by random, least-assigned or least-completed rules
Open source: self-host a binary or add it to Home Assistant
Records who completed each task, when, and any notes added
Reminders before, on or after the due date via Telegram, push or webhook

Trade-offs

Thing-based triggers are excluded from the Basic plan; Plus is required
No prices published on the captured page, so the cost of Plus is unclear
Self-hosting means running and updating your own binary or add-on

Pricing

Published plans and prices from Donetick’s own pricing page.

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.

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Where this comes from

The Donetick pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.

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