Coming from Todoist
Todoist's free plan gives you 5 personal projects, 5 collaborators per project, 3 filter views and one week of activity history (todoist.com/pricing, checked 13 September 2026). None of those numbers are the real problem. The real problem is that a family isn't a team, a recurring task isn't a rota, and "Groceries" isn't a shopping list.
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Everything in the Todoist column comes from Todoist's own published pages, checked 13 September 2026. Where they're better, we've said so.
| Todoist | household.email | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier limits | 5 personal projects, 5 collaborators per project, 3 filter views, 1 week of activity history, 5 MB file uploads. | Free early access with no limit on projects or people. One household, however many people are in it. |
| Ads | No ads. | No ads. |
| Price | Free (Beginner). Pro and Business are paid per user, per month, with annual and monthly billing — see todoist.com/pricing for current rates. | Free while we're in early access. Priced per household rather than per person when we do introduce pricing. |
| Email to calendar & todos | Real and useful: forward an email to a per-project address and the subject becomes the task, with the body attached as a comment. Email Assist — which pulls the date and time out and rewrites the task name — is Pro and Business only. | One address for the whole household, not one per project. We pull out the events and the todos, and put dated things on the shared calendar rather than in a list. |
| Chore rotation and fairness | Recurring tasks with a single assignee. There's no built-in way to rotate a repeating task between people, and no notion of an even split. | Chores rotate automatically between the adults and children in the household, with a completion record — so the bins aren't quietly the same person's job for three years. |
| Shared shopping lists | A shared project works fine as a list. It's still a work project, with priorities, due dates and sub-tasks. | A purpose-built shared shopping list with labels and tick-off, updating live for everyone while one of you is in the aisle. |
| Built for a household | Projects, collaborators and (on Business) team members and guests. There's no concept of a household, an adult or a child. | A household with adults and children as full members, so chores, todos and events suit each age without you building the structure yourself. |
| AI assistant | AI features — Ramble, Task Assist, Filter Assist — are limited on the free plan and unlimited on Pro and Business. | Ask plain-English questions about your own household: what's on this weekend, whose turn is the washing, what did the school email say. Rolling out during early access. |
| Calendar | A Calendar layout for your tasks, listed on the Pro plan. | A genuine shared household event calendar sitting alongside the todos and chores, with two-way Google Calendar sync, a connection to your iCloud calendar, and a link to see it in any other calendar app. |
Not because Todoist is bad. Because household coordination is a different problem from personal productivity.
5 personal projects and 5 collaborators per project is generous for one person's work. Split it across home admin, groceries, school, the renovation and the holiday, with two adults and two kids in each, and you're shopping for a paid plan you only wanted for the washing up.
"Take the bins out every Tuesday" repeats forever against whoever it was assigned to. That's exactly the mechanism that turns a shared chore into one person's permanent job. Fairness has to be a feature, not something you remember to reassign.
Todoist is built for individuals and for teams at work. A household is neither. There's no adult-versus-child distinction, no shared family calendar, and no sense that the person adding the task and the person doing it live in the same house.
Forwarding to Todoist gives you a task named after the subject line, and pulling the date out is a paid feature. A school email with three dates in it should become three calendar events for the household, not one task called "Fwd: Term 4 newsletter".
Todoist is one of the best task managers ever built, and we're not pretending otherwise — the keyboard-first capture, natural language dates, filters and integrations are genuinely excellent, and nothing here replaces that for your own work. Keep Todoist for work. Use household.email for the house. The two lists were never really the same list anyway.
There's no way to copy your Todoist 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 tradesperson's quote. 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 Todoist 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.
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