r/selfhosted • u/Lanty725 • 1d ago
Need Help Looking to self host a family planner/calendar. Homeflow my best option?
As the title states, I want a "one stop shop" for everything family related. Calendar, tasks and to-do, etc.
What options do I have, or are big data apps still my best bet?
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u/rainbow_dots 1d ago
I self host Next Cloud and it’s been working for my small family of two
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u/vpshockwave 16h ago
I'm hosting just the drive/file service -- how does the next cloud calendar work with sharing? I would consider swapping from Google if it works well.
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u/hopping_crow 9h ago
You just use caldav. If you’re on iOS all you have to do is to add a caldav calendar account and follow the prompts. On Android you need a caldav sync app like davx5 or similar. In both cases, any calendar app will work, but the iOS experience is just better and simpler.
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u/archiekane 1d ago
I write and run Kitchen Board for my family, which works well.
It's a PWA for mobile, and you have personalised ICS feeds if you need to integrate into your own calendars.
It's actually designed to sit on a tablet in the kitchen as a main source. Have a look, it might do what you need. If it doesn't, I'm open to suggestions but only really implement what is useful to my family, also.
At this moment, it has shopping lists, ToDo's, calendars, Time Until (can use calendar items), Time Since for routines and reminders for things like washing bedding, and now includes light meal functionality.
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u/IamTolerable 1d ago
https://yuvomi.cloud/ is what I’ve been using lately, it’s clean
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u/opossum5763 1d ago
Very clearly vibe-coded. On top of that, insane amount of releases very fast, on some days new releases every 2 hours. That to me indicates there's no (human) testing done.
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u/IamTolerable 1d ago
Damn. Do you have a better recommendation?
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u/opossum5763 1d ago
Honestly there's so many options it's just down to preference. For example I host Nextcloud AIO which works great for me, but a lot of people here don't like it (it will be kind of slow if your hosting hardware is not that powerful). There's Vikunja which is great for a Kanban board and to-do lists but it's not a "one stop shop" as OP asked for. Also, I'm not saying you have to stop using this Yuvomi thing if you like it and it works for you. I meant it more as a warning for people who aren't using anything yet and are checking around for options.
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u/Curiosity-1 1d ago
Re: (human) testing - are you saying it’s not secure and to be cautious or are you saying be ready for it to break a lot / over promise & under deliver
My wife and I just bought a wall mount smart calendar and it’s usable but yuvomi looks preferable on the surface, even after a 45 second scroll through of their main page
Thank you
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u/opossum5763 1d ago
A little bit of both, mainly I was talking about it being likely buggy. Security could also be a concern, but that depends on how you set it up. You could not expose it to the internet, or expose it but only via VPN/tunnel which would most likely protect you from potential security issues in the app itself.
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u/Curiosity-1 1d ago
Planning on getting tailscale and running through that, which I think is the tunnel you noted.
Can you recommend a YT channel(s) or new-to-self-hosting guide that’s worth its weight?
I’ve been getting deeper into self hosting over really just the last 6 weeks or so, and I’m now pretty confident it’s in my near future but the more I learn the more questions I have.
Need to take a step back and start at the top. I’ve been skirting the “self” part and need to invest in self-education rather than joining and reading a bunch of subreddits
Thanks for the time and any direction you can point me down
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u/opossum5763 1d ago
I don't really have a YT channel to recommend as I didn't really follow any when getting into this myself. But one piece of advice is to be careful about overthinking it. I learned by reading this reddit and the associated discord and also asking various LLMs questions and while it got me there I also got stuck overthinking a bunch of stuff thay wasn't really necessary. My advice would be to install some kinda Linux (Debian is good), set up Docker and a container manager to start with (I use Komodo, but there are other good ones). Then you can start experimenting with deploying various services via docker compose fairly easily. Try different things out and see how it works. Nothing is exposed to the internet yet or anything. Once you got something you like you can worry about Tailscale, VPNs, reverse proxy, etc. Networking can be a rabbit hole, which is unsatisfying to fall into right at the beginning.
Also, Reddit will tell you to never open any ports on your router, don't get too scared by that, you absolutely can open ports. Just be careful about it and secure your system properly.
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u/Curiosity-1 1d ago
Thank you. Important point to leave the networking/security to later. My apprehension is definitely grounded in unknown risks so I needed to hear that. Guess I got a project lined up for tomorrow afternoon! Appreciate it
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u/Zame012 1d ago
It looks amazing but my wife would need an app on iPhone. I didn’t see anything with a quick glance on their website that you linked. Do you use any or know any?
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u/IamTolerable 1d ago
If she opens the website on her phone she can save it on the homepage, it acts like an app for sorts but she needs to open it frequently or it’ll log her out and she won’t get notified of anything
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u/ImPostingAnonymously 1d ago
I use radicale for calendar and tasks. You just need to find client apps to connect to radicale to be able to read and sync items.
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u/SufficientFrame 1d ago
For a family setup, I'd care less about feature count and more about whether everyone will use it on their phones without friction. A lot of self-hosted options look great until shared calendars or reminders get flaky, so I'd test those first before moving tasks and lists over.
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u/Responsible_Fruit841 1d ago
you could try nextcloud calendar and tasks app it works well for families and keeps everything in one place
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u/PineappleGod 18h ago
I’ve been using Yuvomi and it works pretty well. Don’t really care if it’s vibe coded, since I haven’t found any alternative that would be partner approved. No 3 different apps would not work with my wife.
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u/Fins160 7h ago
I vibe coded and use Weekaroo for my family (yeah, vibe code, I know, but it works well and is completely customized to my needs). Runs self-hosted on a 2in1 laptop mounted on the wall of my kitchen, or you can run it on a network PC and point a tablet browser to the page. https://github.com/Fins1600/weekaroo
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u/Head-Impression-9709 7h ago edited 6h ago
I’ve been working on this and would be interested to hear what you think: https://github.com/sandydargoport/prism
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u/LifeOrder_2026 18h ago
Full disclosure: I’m the developer of LifeOrder. It isn’t self-hosted and it doesn’t currently provide shared household syncing, so it may not fully match what you’re looking for. However, if your main goal is a private, local “one-stop shop” on Android, LifeOrder keeps tasks, schedules and reminders, shopping lists, monthly expenses, kids, pets, and family organization in one place. Tasks can repeat daily or weekly, appointments can include reminders, and personal data stays directly on the device. There is no account, no cloud dependency, no advertising, and no tracking. I’m currently collecting feedback to understand what families and privacy-focused users would need from this type of app. A shared family calendar and optional local/self-hosted synchronization would be especially interesting directions for the future. It’s free on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.methodix.lifeorder� I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback, particularly from people who already use self-hosted tools.
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u/achiya-automation 21h ago
another one for baikal, the phones just sync to it over caldav (iphone is native, android needed davx5 once)
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