Coming from Ohai
Ohai's AI assistant is genuinely clever at taking things in — text it, forward it email, send it a photo of the school flyer. But it's priced per person: $9.99 a month for one, $19.99 for two, $29.99 for a group (ohai.ai, checked 13 September 2026). household.email is priced per household with unlimited members, and everyone sees the same plan — no assistant in the middle.
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Everything in the Ohai column comes from Ohai's own published pages, checked 13 September 2026. Where they're better, we've said so.
| Ohai | household.email | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Per person, per month: Individual Premium $9.99, Duo $19.99, Group $29.99 — up to $360 a year for a family, after the free trial. | Free while we're in early access. Planned pricing is a free-forever tier plus Pro at $49.99/year for the whole household — unlimited members, no per-person charge, ever. |
| Email to calendar & todos | Strong: forward email to your Ohai address, or send photos and flyers, and the assistant reads them into the calendar. | The same ways in — a household address, forwarding, or connecting Gmail or your own email account — plus a review step: you see what was found and confirm it before it lands. And the email stays in a shared inbox you can read and reply from. |
| How the family sees the plan | Through the assistant: you text or talk to O, and it tells you what's on. The calendar view is secondary to the conversation. | Through the plan itself: a shared calendar, todos, chores and lists that everyone in the house — the 10-year-old included — can open and just look at. Ask the assistant when you want; browse when you don't. |
| AI assistant | The whole product: an AI household manager you text or talk to. | One feature among several: ask plain-English questions — "what's on this weekend?", "did anyone buy milk?" — answered from your own email, calendar, todos, chores and lists. Rolling out during early access. |
| Chores and fairness | Task coordination and reminders via the assistant. | Chores rotate automatically between the adults and children in the household, with a record of who actually completed what. |
| Shared shopping lists | Lists managed through the assistant. | One list the whole household adds to directly, shared in real time across web and mobile, items ticking off as you shop. |
| Kids and grandparents | Per-person pricing makes every extra family member a pricing decision. | Adding the other parent, a teenager or a grandparent never changes the price. We charge for the household, because a household is what the app is for. |
| Privacy | Data-safety answers live in the FAQ. | Four public commitments on every marketing page: no ads, we never sell your data, your email never trains an AI model, and you can leave whenever you want. |
These are the things Ohai's own pages and pricing make true. Whether they matter depends on your household.
One person is $9.99 a month. Two is $19.99. The household is $29.99 — $360 a year, every year. The more of your family joins, the more it costs, which is backwards for a tool whose whole point is getting the family in.
An assistant you text is wonderful for putting things in and asking questions. It's slower for glancing: sometimes the household just wants to open the week and look at it, without composing a message first.
When getting things in is magic but the shared view is thin, one person still ends up as the go-between for the assistant — and the mental load has just changed shape. A plan everyone can see is the actual fix.
Ohai reads forwarded email brilliantly, but the email itself has no home — nothing to re-read, search or reply to later. Household mail deserves an inbox, not just a read-through.
Ohai is the best in the market at taking things in — texting a photo of the crumpled school flyer and watching it become calendar events is genuinely magic, and their press wall (WSJ, NYT, TIME) is earned. If what you want is a personal AI chief-of-staff and the per-person price doesn't bother you, Ohai is the strongest version of that idea. We're building the other half: the shared plan the whole household can see.
There's no way to copy your Ohai data over, and honestly you wouldn't want one. Half of what's in there is stale. Instead, your household gets its own email address, and the emails you already receive do the setup for you.
One inbox the whole household shares, instead of school newsletters landing on one person's phone and nobody else's.
The class newsletter with three dates in it, the swimming term confirmation, the dentist reminder, the Airbnb booking. Forward them across, or connect your Gmail, iCloud, Outlook or most other email accounts and let them arrive on their own.
We read the dates, times and actions out of each email and suggest them back to you as calendar events and todos. You confirm or dismiss — nothing lands on the family calendar without a human saying yes.
Chores rotate between the people in your household automatically, so the bins aren't quietly one person's job forever. That part takes about five minutes and it's the last time you'll set it up.
Nothing to export. Nothing to re-type. Your old Ohai account can sit there until you're sure.
That's a lot to ask. Here's what we will and won't do with it.
There are no ads in household.email and no plans to add them. It's free while we're in early access and paid for by subscriptions after that — never by selling your attention.
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your household's email, calendar and lists are yours — we're a subscription, not a data business.
We use AI to pull dates and tasks out of your mail. The AI companies we use are bound by their terms not to train their models on what we send them. We don't train models on it either.
Disconnect Gmail or any other email account you've connected, at any time, and we stop reading. When you want to go entirely, there's a delete button on your account page that removes your household and everything stored in it — email, attachments, calendars, todos, chores and lists — for good. No email to write, no waiting on us.
The details are in our privacy policy, written in plain English.
household.email is in early access. Join the waitlist and you get in free while we build. No card, no trial clock, no export to untangle later. If it isn't for you, keep what you've got — nothing lost.
One email when your invite is ready. No spam, ever.