Comparison
Neiliro vs OpenFamily
OpenFamily is the open-source, self-hosted family organizer from France: shopping lists, tasks, a calendar, weekly timetables, recipes, a meal planner, a budget and family profiles, AGPL-3.0, on your own server, free. Neiliro is the closest kin with different choices: also open source and AGPL, also one Docker container, but it runs as a hosted service too, what the family writes is encrypted in the browser, and money is a full ledger rather than expense tracking. Here is where they differ, honestly.
| OpenFamily | Neiliro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; self-hosted only | Self-hosted free; hosted €4.99/month or €44.99/year per family, 30 days free, no card |
| Where it runs | Your own server: Docker, or a one-click Windows installer | Your own server (one Docker container) or neiliro.com, which runs it for you — same code |
| Database | PostgreSQL 16 | One SQLite file per family; a backup is a copy of one file |
| Who is covered | The whole family; invite by link, parent and child accounts | The whole family, each member with their own login; admin, adult and child roles |
| Shared calendar | Monthly view, a colour per member, reminders, iCal export, CalDAV import from Nextcloud | Shared and personal calendars, recurring events, birthdays and countdowns; subscribe from Google or Apple Calendar; share one event by link |
| Lists | Shopping lists with categories, prices, quantities, templates and a store mode | Shopping and any other lists, with sections and a guest link for whoever is near the shop |
| Tasks | Recurring tasks, three priorities, assignment to a member, statistics | Tasks with projects, due dates, recurrence, assignment and private tasks; a Today view per person |
| Money | Budget: monthly expense tracking, per-category limits with alerts, recurring debits, charts | Accounts with balances, income and transfers, budgets per category and subcategory, recurring payments, multi-currency, reconciliation against the bank to the cent |
| Notes | Family posts: a shared feed of text, a photo or a link | Notes with links between them, versions and attachments |
| Family mailbox | — | Yes: [email protected] when hosted, your own IMAP mailbox when self-hosted; a letter becomes a task in one click |
| Recipes and meal planning | Yes: a recipe library, a weekly meal planner with PDF export, import from Mealie and Tandoor | — |
| Timetables and profiles | Work and school timetables per member; profiles with health information, allergies, vaccines and emergency contacts | Profiles with allergies and preferences, encrypted like everything else; no timetables |
| Integrations | Mealie, Tandoor, Grocy, Home Assistant, Nextcloud | Calendar subscriptions for Google and Apple Calendar, .ics attachments straight into the calendar; nothing from the self-hosting ecosystem |
| Notifications | Web push for appointments and tasks, plus in-app | In-app only: the Today view and the dashboard; no push yet |
| Apps | Installable PWA with an offline cache; an Android APK | Installable PWA that reads offline; doubles as a kitchen-tablet dashboard |
| Encryption | Plain rows in the database on your server; no end-to-end encryption documented | What you write is encrypted in your browser with a key the server never holds — in both editions |
| Languages | English, French, Simplified Chinese | English, Russian |
| Open source | Yes, AGPL-3.0 (Node.js, React) | Yes, AGPL-3.0 (Node.js, React) |
Where OpenFamily is the better pick
- Recipes, the meal plan and the weekly timetable are the heart of your household admin — Neiliro has none of the three.
- You already run Mealie, Grocy, Home Assistant or Nextcloud and want the organizer wired into them.
- You want push notifications for appointments and chores.
- Running a server is not a problem for you, and you want everything free — including a one-click install on a Windows machine.
Where Neiliro is
- You don't want to run a server. neiliro.com runs it — backups, updates, certificates — and the self-hosted edition is still there if you change your mind: the export restores into it.
- Privacy beyond "it's on my machine": what your family writes is encrypted where you type it, with a key the server never holds. OpenFamily stores plain rows — fine on a box in your cupboard, a question on anyone else's.
- Money is more than expenses: accounts and transfers, who paid what, reconciliation to the cent, more than one currency.
- The paperwork arrives by e-mail: the school, the landlord, the utility. A family mailbox turns a letter into a task.
- Notes are documents, not posts: linked to each other, with versions and attachments.
Try Neiliro free for 30 days, no card: create your family, or poke around the demo first. Prefer your own server? The self-hosted edition is free.
OpenFamily is a project of NexaFlow (openfamily.fr). This page describes its publicly listed features as of September 2026, v1.7.0; tell us at [email protected] if something is out of date.