An OurHome alternative, now that the original is gone

How did we check this

Our method was narrow on purpose. On 21 September 2026 we opened the original app’s two store pages, its publisher’s website, its support site and its web app, and recorded what each one returned. We then queried the Internet Archive for the history of the Google Play listing. Every claim below is one of those readings, and you can repeat all of them yourself in a few minutes.

We did not install anything, and we make Bunkly. Treat the availability facts as things you can check, and our opinions as opinions.

First, which OurHome do you mean

There are two, and they have nothing to do with each other.

The original OurHome is the one most people mean. It was published under com.getfairshare.ourhome on Google Play and id879717020 on the App Store, and it is still the app that ourhomeapp.com links to today. It was built for families, around chores, points and pocket money. That one is gone, and the next section shows the evidence.

The other is the OurHome published by Elusios, under com.elusios.ourhome and id6753957205. It is alive on both stores. It first appeared on 21 October 2025 and, on 21 September 2026, it showed 4.1 across 86 ratings, free, with English declared as its only interface language. Its description puts it at shopping lists and room-based task lists for flatmates, not family rewards.

We have not tested the Elusios app and we make no claim about how good it is. Everything below about “OurHome” means the original.

The original OurHome is not available any more

We checked on 21 September 2026, and every store route is closed.

The App Store page for id879717020, the one its own website still links to, returns a 404. Apple’s public lookup service returns no result at all for that app in the American, British, Australian, French and German storefronts. On Google Play, the listing for com.getfairshare.ourhome answers with a plain “the requested URL was not found on this server”.

The Internet Archive puts a rough date on it. Its last successful capture of that Play listing is 5 October 2023. Every capture from 6 January 2024 onwards comes back as not found. So the original OurHome has been off Google Play for something close to two years.

The rest of the estate matches. The support site at ourhome.zendesk.com now redirects to Zendesk’s own page announcing that the help centre is closed. The marketing site at ourhomeapp.com is still up, but it answers on plain HTTP only, the secure version times out, and the server reports the files were last modified on 23 July 2022. The web app at app.ourhomeapp.com still returns a page.

We are not claiming the company made any announcement, because we did not find one. We are reporting what the public endpoints do today. If you still have the original OurHome installed on an old phone, back up anything you care about rather than assume it will keep working.

What the original OurHome actually did

Worth being precise, because it decides what a good replacement looks like. This comes from the marketing site, which is still readable.

OurHome was built around a gamified task system aimed at families with children. You could assign a task to one person, to several people, or on a rotating basis. You could set due dates, repeating schedules, reminders and late penalties. Parents could add an approval step, so a child marking a task as done did not settle it.

The rewards layer was the heart of it. Points earned on tasks were meant to link to a weekly allowance, screen time or a family holiday. Goals let a child see what they were working towards. Alongside that sat a shared monthly calendar and a shared grocery list you could swipe items off in the shop.

So OurHome was three products in one: a chore engine, a kids reward scheme, and a light family organiser.

Replacing OurHome with one app only works if you know which of its three jobs you actually used.

Where Bunkly fits, and where it does not

Full disclosure before the comparison: we make Bunkly. Judge the facts, not the enthusiasm.

Bunkly replaces one of the original OurHome’s three jobs, the chore engine, and does it in more depth. Tasks live in zones of the home. Recurrences are flexible rather than pinned to a fixed weekday, so a task that comes back every three weeks behaves properly. On the Pro plan, rotation between members assigns itself, which is the closest thing to the original OurHome’s rotating assignment.

The free plan is a single-person plan on purpose: one household, one member, up to 15 tasks, 3 zones, and the Maintenance and Garden modules capped at 5 items each. It works offline and has light and dark themes. Pro is $3.99 a month, $22.99 a year, or $49.99 as a one-off purchase on the US App Store, with a seven-day free trial on the two subscriptions. One subscriber covers the household, up to six members, with unlimited tasks and zones, full stats and history, and the automatic rotation. Both plans are laid out on the features page and the pricing page.

The interface ships in six languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish. No ads on any plan. No analytics in the app. No user photos stored anywhere.

Now the parts that will decide it for many of you.

Bunkly has no rewards system, and that is a decision rather than a gap. No points, no badges, no leaderboards, no mascot. If the reason you used the original OurHome was linking chores to pocket money or screen time, Bunkly does not do that and is not planning to. We wrote up the reasoning in why gamification does not work for housework, and you are free to disagree with it.

There is also no approval step, so an adult cannot review what a child ticked off. There is no calendar, no shopping list and no meal planning. There is no web version. A household caps at six members.

And the obvious one. Bunkly reached the App Store on 3 September 2026. That is about three weeks of existence. It has zero reviews on either store, no rating to show you, and no track record. The original OurHome had years behind it and still went away, so age is not a guarantee either, but you should know exactly what you are choosing.

Side by side, on what we could verify

Three rows say “not verifiable” and they stay that way. We will not quote a price or a rating from an archived page and present it as current, and we will not describe features we cannot open ourselves.

Who should pick Bunkly, and who should look elsewhere

Look elsewhere if the reward scheme was the point. A household that ran pocket money through the original OurHome needs a kids-and-chores app with points and parental approval, and Bunkly is the wrong shape for that. Look elsewhere too if you relied on the shared calendar or the grocery list, or if you need more than six people on one household. If the calendar was the real centre of your household, our Cozi comparison covers that ground instead.

Bunkly suits you if what you actually miss is the rota. If the argument at home is about whose turn it is and what keeps getting forgotten, if you want the interface in a language other than English, if no ads and no analytics matter to you, and if a three-week-old app with no reviews is a risk you are willing to take. Start on the free plan, which is built for one person, and load your own list before you open the household.

One last note. Every fact above, on both apps, was checked on 21 September 2026 against live endpoints and the Internet Archive. If the original OurHome returns to either store, this article is out of date, and you should trust the store over us.