Keyra vs. OurSharedPlace: The European Alternative
OurSharedPlace (launched 2025, US) is a capable, actively developed app for co-owned vacation homes: a booking calendar with roles, a rotation-based picking system for busy seasons, expense tracking, a property blog and to-do lists, for $99 per property per year. If your co-owners are in North America, it's a strong choice.
Keyra answers the same question from Europe, and goes deeper on the money side: EU hosting and GDPR compliance, nine interface languages, euro pricing, an encrypted document vault, account-free guest links, an optional fair-rotation turn order for peak weeks, and an annual settlement that splits fixed costs by ownership share and usage costs by nights actually stayed.
When OurSharedPlace is the right pick
If your co-owners are US-based or you want a native iOS app today, OurSharedPlace is the better fit — those two are outside what Keyra offers.
Side by side
| Criterion | Keyra | OurSharedPlace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free starter plan; Premium €4.99/month or €50/year per home (30-day trial), Pro €7.99/month for co-owned homes | $99/year per property ($129/year via App Store), 14-day trial (as of August 2026) |
| Hosting & privacy | EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant | US-based service |
| Languages | Nine interface languages — German and English written and proofread by people, the other seven machine-translated and labelled as such in the app | English |
| Stay approval workflow | Request → approval with history; per-home rules (always approve, auto-approve members, or auto-approve all) | Booking requests with admin approval, annual per-member quotas |
| Peak-week allocation | Optional fair-rotation turn order for contested periods (Pro), auto-skip on a missed deadline, plus approval rules everywhere else | Round-robin picking rounds with configurable order, timed turns and automatic skipping |
| Cost splitting | Per-owner annual settlement: fixed costs by ownership share, usage costs by nights stayed, who-pays-whom list and printable statement | Expense tracking with payment splitting |
| Discussion & decisions | A message board for announcements, questions and polls (votes weighted by ownership share and a decision-log PDF on Pro), plus comment threads on the individual bill, task or stay with @mentions and a recorded outcome | Message board |
| Documents | Document vault with per-file visibility, plus an optional end-to-end encrypted Tresor | Document storage |
| Guest access | Magic link — no account, auto-expires, shows WiFi, lockbox code & checklists | Time-limited guest access codes, no account needed |
| House manual | Structured manual with categories, checklists, inventory, local tips, AI import from documents | Property blog/wiki with tutorials |
Verdict
Both are serious tools for the same job, and the honest split is by geography and by which problem hurts most. Both now offer a rotation-based turn order for contested peak weeks. If you are in Europe, want the interface in your own language under GDPR, and the recurring argument is about money — who paid what, who owes whom, and what each owner's share of the year actually was — Keyra's settlement goes further than expense tracking does.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a European alternative to OurSharedPlace?
Yes — Keyra (keyrahome.com) is built in the EU for families and friends sharing a holiday home: stay calendar with approvals, house manual, inventory, encrypted document vault, tasks and service contacts, shared finances with a per-owner annual settlement, guestbook and account-free guest links. Hosted in the EU under GDPR, with an interface in nine languages (German and English proofread by people; the other seven machine-translated and labelled in the app), and a free starter plan and Premium at €4.99/month or €50/year per home (30-day free trial).
Does Keyra have round-robin or rotation booking?
Yes, on the Pro plan: admins mark specific periods (summer, the holidays) as contested, and owners take a turn in a rotating order with a response deadline that auto-skips to the next person if it's missed. Every other date on the calendar still works on request-and-approve. OurSharedPlace's picking rounds work similarly; compare the specifics if this is your main requirement.
How does Keyra's cost splitting differ from expense tracking?
Most tools log what was spent and split it evenly or manually. Keyra produces an annual settlement: fixed costs such as tax and insurance are split by each owner's share (Erbquote), usage-driven costs such as electricity and cleaning by nights actually stayed — taken from the calendar — and the result is each owner's balance, a short who-pays-whom list, and a printable statement for the year.
Does Keyra have an iOS app?
Keyra is a web app that works on any phone or computer without installation and can be installed to your home screen, and guests never need an app — they get a magic link. A native mobile app is on the roadmap.
Bring calm to your shared holiday home
Keyra combines a stay calendar with approvals, a house manual, tasks & expenses and guest access via link — one subscription per home, not per person. Start free; Premium is €4.99/month (30-day free trial).
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