Tuis — your home, your data

Tuis is Afrikaans for "at home" — and that's exactly where your data belongs. A self-hosted household management app built with Next.js and SQLite. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no data harvesting. Just a single container on your home network that handles everything a household needs.

What it does

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Chores

Recurring tasks with area/frequency filters, status grouping, completion tracking, and snooze. Never argue about who cleaned the bathroom last.

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Meal Planning

Weekly meal planner with recipe picker, custom meals, servings multiplier, and ingredient aggregation for shopping lists.

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Shopping Lists

Multiple colour-coded lists with items, quantities, check-off, autocomplete, and one-tap "add missing ingredients" from meals.

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Recipes

Structured recipe library with ingredients (amount, unit, section), prep/cook times, and automatic scaling.

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Appliances

Track brand, model, warranty dates, linked chores, and service history. Know when things were last serviced.

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Vendors & Quotes

Manage service providers with ratings and job history. Compare quotes with labour/materials breakdown side by side.

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Budgeting

Integrates with Actual Budget for home maintenance spend tracking. See your budget alongside vendor quotes.

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Vehicles

Track your cars with service history, fuel logs, registration dates, and insurance renewals.

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Stats & Insights

Task completion analytics with trends, area breakdown, and household contribution tracking.

Why self-host

Data sovereignty

Your household data stays in a SQLite file on your server. No third-party databases, no analytics, no telemetry. You own it completely.

No cloud dependency

Runs entirely on your local network. Access it via a VPN like Tailscale when you're out. If the internet goes down, Tuis doesn't.

No subscriptions

Deploy once, use forever. No monthly fees, no feature gates, no premium tiers. The full app is the only tier.

Simple backup

One SQLite file, one Docker volume. Back it up however you like — rsync, borg, or just copy it to a USB drive.

See it in action

Tuis dashboard showing stats overview, tonight's meal, shopping progress, and task sections — Dashboard — stats overview, tonight's meal, shopping progress, and task sections

Chores view with area and frequency filters, status grouping, completion and snooze — Chores — area/frequency filters, status grouping, completion and snooze

Shopping lists with colour-coded lists, autocomplete, and check-off — Shopping lists — colour-coded lists with autocomplete and check-off

Weekly meal planner with recipe picker and servings scaling — Meal planner — weekly view with recipe picker and servings scaling

Recipe library with structured ingredients, prep and cook times, and scaling — Recipe library — structured ingredients, prep/cook times, scaling

Quotes view with vendor comparison and labour materials breakdown — Quotes — vendor comparison with labour/materials breakdown

Get started

# Create a directory for Tuis
mkdir tuis && cd tuis

# Download the compose file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/3stacks/tuis/main/deploy/docker-compose.yml

# Start it up
docker compose up -d

Then open http://your-server:6969 in your browser. That's it.

See the full documentation for environment variables, Actual Budget integration, and reverse proxy setup.