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Hestia

Hestia is a self-hosted, family-focused household chore chart. Add chores, assign them to a specific person or leave them open for anyone in the household to claim, check them off, and earn points — no subscription, no cloud account, your data stays on your own server.

Why Hestia exists​

Most tools people find when they search for a chore chart app fall into one of two buckets:

  • Subscription SaaS (e.g. Sweepy) — recurring cost for something as simple as a household chore list, and your family's data lives on someone else's server.
  • General-purpose task trackers (Todoist, Trello-style boards, etc.) repurposed for a use case they weren't designed for — built for software teams, not a shared family screen on the fridge.

Hestia is built specifically for the self-hosted community: free, MIT-licensed, and simple enough that a non-technical family member can use it from a wall-mounted tablet without any onboarding.

Where to go next​

  • Quick start — get a running instance in a few minutes with Docker.
  • Features — what Hestia does today and what's planned for v1.
  • Troubleshooting — fixes for common self-hosting friction (env vars, ports, permissions).
  • FAQ — positioning, licensing, and data-ownership questions.

Project status​

Hestia is early days — actively developed, not yet a polished v1. See the GitHub repository for current progress, open issues, and the changelog.