Ok Donkey, next to the apps you might already use
Plenty of apps keep a family list. Ok Donkey is the cheerful one that keeps tapping the shoulder until the job is actually done, then closes it for everyone.
This is a fair look at household and friends apps, plus GetNotify, the closest match: an alarm that stays up until someone in the group responds, and Galarm, which shares an alarm so it rings on everyone’s phone. Any.do and Todoist are task managers with reminders, and Podz is a shared space for a family or group. They are included for that. If you want a calendar, points for the children, or a cleaning game, those other apps are the better fit.
Slide the table sideways. The feature name and Ok Donkey stay put. The highlighted row is the data promise.
| Feature | Ok Donkey | GetNotify | Galarm | Cozi | Sweepy | Nipto | FamilyWall | Maple | Any.do | Todoist | Podz | Apple Reminders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your data | Only the reminder | Tracks you; ads unless you pay | Tracks usage; ads in the free version | Tracks usage and identifiers | Shares personal info | Contact and usage linked | Tracks an identifier | Tracks usage data | Tracks purchases, contact info, and identifiers | Email and name linked, for ads or marketing; no tracking section | Identifiers used to track you; email, name, photos linked to you | Lists linked to you |
| Keeps alerting until done | Yes | Yes | An alarm | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? Urgent alarm on iOS 26+ | ? | No |
| Shared with family or friends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Family plan, up to 4 | Up to 5 people, free | Yes, pods for families and groups | Yes |
| One Done closes it for everyone | Yes | Yes | Each confirms | Shared list | Shared chores | No | Shared list | Shared to-dos | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Escalates if the first person does not finish | Yes | No | Tells the creator | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No |
| Time zone options | Each person sees their own time; asked only at night | ? | Per-alarm time zone | ? | ? | ? | Event time zones? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Per-reminder zone (iOS 26) |
| Holiday mode | Yes: others take your turns | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Whose turn it is | Yes | No | No | Assigns a person | Splits the cleaning | A weekly game | Assigns a task | Assigns tasks | Assigns tasks, Family plan | Assigns to project members | Assigns to-dos to pod members | Assigns a person |
| One-off and repeating | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Repeating chores | Scheduled chores | A reminder | Yes | Yes; repeats need Premium | Yes | Repeating reminders | Yes |
| Only that job | Yes | Yes | Alarms, reminders, and chat | No | No | No | No | No | No: a full task manager | No: a full to-do list | No: a shared space for the group | No |
| iOS and Android | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apple only |
| Available now | Yes, on Android | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Closes 31 Dec 2026 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Time zone options and Holiday mode rows ask whether the product lets you control time zones for shared reminders, and whether you can pause yourself while away so others take your turns. A “?” means we could not confirm it from public sources, and is not a “no”. Galarm: its store listing and release notes describe alarms that follow time zones and a per-alarm zone. Apple Reminders: a per-reminder time zone arrived with iOS 26. FamilyWall: an app release note mentions events in different time zones, which we could not confirm from its own documentation. How Ok Donkey does it. GetNotify from its App Store and Google Play listings (group creation is a paid feature). Galarm from its App Store listing (App Store label: usage data used to track you; identifiers, contact info, contacts, purchases, and crash data linked to you; ads in the free version). Cozi from its shared to-do page. Sweepy from its App Store and Google Play listings. Nipto from its public store description, including iOS and Android. FamilyWall from its help centre: a to-do can have a due date and a reminder. Maple from its public product pages; growmaple.com says it sunsets on 31 December 2026. Apple Reminders from the Reminders app on Apple devices. The highlighted row is Ok Donkey’s own privacy policy. The other cells in that row come from the store privacy labels: GetNotify (App Store: usage data and diagnostics used to track you; contact, purchases, user content, and identifiers linked to you; Pro removes ads. Google Play: contains ads). Cozi (App Store: usage data and identifiers used to track you; contact, user content, search history, and purchases linked to you). Sweepy (Google Play: may share personal info and app performance with third parties, and may collect personal info, photos, and device IDs. App Store: contact, user content, and identifiers linked to you; no tracking category on that label). Nipto (App Store: contact, identifiers, usage data, and diagnostics linked to you; no tracking category on that label). FamilyWall (App Store: identifiers used to track you; contact and diagnostics linked to you). Maple (App Store: usage data used to track you. Google Play: no data shared with third parties, and it may collect personal info and messages). Apple Reminders (App Store: user content and identifiers linked to you; usage data not linked; no tracking category on that label). Any.do from its pricing page, reminders page, support articles on boards and assigned tasks, and App Store listing, October 2026 (App Store label: purchases, contact info, and identifiers used to track you). Todoist from its pricing page, help pages on reminders and working with others, and App Store listing, October 2026 (App Store label: email and name linked to you, used for advertising or marketing, with no used-to-track section). Todoist’s Urgent reminder on iOS 26 and later is a full-screen alarm for one person. The “?” in its keeps-alerting cell means its help pages do not say whether a reminder repeats until it is done. Podz from its App Store listing, its website pages, and its privacy policy, October 2026 (App Store label: identifiers used to track you; email, name, photos or videos, user ID, and device ID linked to you; its privacy policy says it does not sell personal information for advertising). The “?” cells in its keeps-alerting, one Done, escalation, time zone, and holiday rows mean we could not confirm them from public sources.
