Equal House vs KIN

Equal House is a family planning app for households dividing chores, childcare and mental load. It combines shared calendars, chores, meals, money, shopping lists and other household planning with a live Fairness Score. Each task receives an effort weight, contributing to a household score from 0 to 100; Auto-Balance uses that score to redistribute upcoming chores. Planners cover meals and shopping, children’s parties, school runs and exercise. Magic Add can read pasted or photographed newsletters and suggest events or chores for review before saving. Pro can connect Google, Outlook, Apple or school calendars, and link Claude or other AI assistants with confirmation required for changes. Children use adult-managed profiles without email addresses, passwords or independent accounts. The app runs on Android and iOS. A free plan supports planning up to three days ahead. Equal House Pro costs £2.99 per household per month, or £29.90 per year.

KIN is a shared family calendar for keeping household schedules together on Android and iOS. Family members can create or edit plans by holding to talk for voice input or by typing natural-language requests. The shared timeline combines events, reminders, to-dos, recurring plans, and assignments. People can filter the timeline by family member and apply privacy controls to individual events. KIN does not currently import or synchronize Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or other external calendars. Its privacy policy says voice and typed requests are sent to Cartesia for speech-to-text and Google Gemini for interpretation after in-app permission, with Groq and OpenAI listed as backup speech-to-text providers. KIN says it stores data with Supabase, uses reasonable security measures, and does not sell, trade, or rent personal data. It warns that speech recognition and AI interpretation can make mistakes, so users should check dates, times, recurrence, assignments, and reminders. The Free plan is listed at free, while future paid subscriptions or features may be introduced.