Feature · Assignment & fairness

Fair is not the same as equal

Unloading the dishwasher and cleaning the whole bathroom are not the same thing. collabDoo knows the effort of every task, who is around and who can do what – and distributes so it feels fair to everyone.

Assignment

Seven ways to distribute a task

Fixed person

Always the same person – because only they have a driving licence, say.

Group

“Kids”, “adults”, “upstairs residents”, “everyone except Max” – freely definable, one person can be in several groups.

Rotation

The task rotates automatically between the members of a group. Who had it last is visible in the history.

Each for themselves

Create once, assign to the “kids” group – and every child gets their own task per date. Homework for Max and for Mia are two tasks, each counting on its own. Whoever joins the group is included automatically.

Free pick-up

Those eligible see the task under “up for grabs”; whoever taps first has it. Optionally with a bonus for volunteers.

Fair distribution

collabDoo assigns to the person with the lowest effort total over the last 28 days – among those eligible and present.

Buddy task

Some things take two: the basement gets tidied as a pair. One completion counts for both, points go to each person.

Eligibility

Only those who can, get it

Tasks can be limited to groups, roles or a minimum age. The four-year-old gets the table, not the oven. Eligibility applies equally to rotation, free pick-up and fair distribution.

  • Effort 1–5 and estimated duration per task
  • Effort is separate from points – motivation and fairness are two different things

Absence & stand-ins

Holiday? Sick? No gap in the plan

Members can mark themselves absent. collabDoo detects affected tasks and offers them for pick-up or redistributes them within the group. Anyone who cannot manage a task hands it to a specific person or puts it out to the group.

  • Guests with an end date – grandma helps until Sunday
  • “Mark as done for someone”: Max did it but did not tick it off – one tap on his picture, points to Max, recorded by Anna
  • Kids only hand over to fellow group members

Team overview

Transparency instead of a leaderboard

The overview shows open and overdue tasks per person, the effort distribution and bottlenecks – an unassigned task on Saturday, say. No aggressive leaderboard by default. Statistics are meant to improve distribution, not to judge people.

collabDoo · All for one. Done by all.

No more “I do everything around here”.

Visible who carries what – and fairly redistributed when someone is out.

iPhone & iPad from iOS 17 · Android from 8.0

Stefan Wirtz

Stefan Wirtz · Managing director & founder of Code Piraten GmbH

“collabDoo was born in our own home – we build it the way we need it ourselves.”

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