Tidy Tempo

Household chores, for real weeks

Chores on your schedule, not a fixed day.

Tidy Tempo knows when every chore is due, and you choose the day. The bathroom gets done sometime this week. The bedding, sometime around the end of the month. The bins go out every Wednesday. Nothing gets forgotten, and nothing nags you early.

I already have a household
  • Free
  • No account or email
  • iPhone and Android

The problem

Most chore apps give every chore a day. Your week doesn’t work like that.

Bathroom on Saturday. Then Saturday fills up with a birthday party, the chore turns red, and it stays red until you stop opening the app. Most chores don’t need a day. The bathroom needs cleaning sometime this week, and any day will do.

A fixed dayClean the bathroom, every Saturday

Busy Saturday. Overdue on Sunday, and every day after.

A windowClean the bathroom, any day this week

Done on Thursday, when you had half an hour. It counts.

How it works

Three ways a chore can come round

Each chore uses one of these. When you add a chore, Tidy Tempo suggests the right one, and you can change it later.

Window

Any day in the window

Clean the bathroom once a week, on whichever day suits. Weeks, fortnights, months or quarters. Vacuuming twice a week works too.

Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday, Sunday. All on time.

Rolling

Counting from last done

Wash the bedding about a month after the last wash, give or take a week. Late one month? The next one counts from when you did it.

Washed on 20 Sep, 3 days late. The next one counts from then.

Set day

On a set day

Put the bins out every Wednesday, or service the boiler on the first Saturday of the month. For the things that really do have a day.

One missed bin day is just missed. No catch-up, no guilt.

  • Open window
  • Give or take
  • Done
  • Done late
  • Missed
  • Today

Freshness

See how fresh the house is, and how Sunday will look

Every chore slowly drains between cleans and fills up when it’s done. Together they make one number for the whole home. Plan a chore for Thursday and Sunday’s forecast goes up. Push one back and you see what that costs.

  • A streak that forgives. It counts weeks that ended above 70%, so one skipped chore doesn’t break it.
  • Every room gets a ring. The Rooms tab puts the least fresh room first, so the freezer you defrost twice a year isn’t forgotten.
  • Fair shares, without a scoreboard. See how much freshness each person added this week. No points, badges or leaderboards.

Reminders

Quiet while there’s time. Firmer as the window closes.

No buzz when a chore’s window opens. Tidy Tempo starts nudging near the end, gets clearer on the last day, and keeps you honest once it’s late. You can act from the notification without opening the app.

  • Planned it? Then you get one reminder that morning and no nudges before it.
  • Set-day chores remind you that morning. Tap Remind me tonight for a second go at 19:00.
  • One morning summary when something is due: 3 chores today. Bins go out today.
  • Quiet hours from 21:00 to 07:00, and never the same reminder twice.

  1. Window opens

    No notification. The bedding appears in your week’s tray.

  2. 3 days left

    Tidy Temponow
    Wash the bedding3 days left, until Tue 27 Oct.
    DoneTomorrowPick a day

  3. Last day

    Tidy Temponow
    Last day to wash the beddingIts window closes tonight.
    DoneTomorrowSkip this round

  4. Late

    Tidy Temponow
    Wash the bedding is 1 day lateDo it when you can. The next one counts from then.
    DonePick a day

    Then again 3 days later, and once a week after that.

Households

No sign-up. Your household is the account.

There’s no email, password or profile to fill in. Tap Get started and your household exists. Members are names and colours, so chores can belong to someone or take turns.

  1. Start a household

    One tap. This phone is signed in, and it stays signed in.

  2. Keep your recovery code

    Shown once. Use it to get back in on a new phone, without signing anyone else out.

    ExampleTIDY-7KQ4-M9PX-R2WD

  3. Invite the others

    Send your partner or flatmate a link. It works once and expires after 7 days. Your own laptop gets a 15-minute link.

    A

    Join our home on Tidy Tempo
    tidytempo.app/join#t=…

Install

Put it on your home screen

Tidy Tempo is a web app, so there’s no app store. Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen, like any other app, with notifications.

iPhone and iPad

  1. Open tidytempo.app in Safari.
  2. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  3. Open Tidy Tempo from your home screen and turn on reminders.

Reminders need iOS 16.4 or later, and only work in the home screen app.

Android

  1. Open tidytempo.app in Chrome.
  2. Tap Install app, or the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen.
  3. Open it and allow notifications.

It also works in a desktop browser, if you’d rather plan at a keyboard.

Privacy

Nothing to sell, so nothing to track

No accounts
No email address, password or phone number. Ever.
No tracking
No analytics scripts, no third-party cookies, no fingerprinting.
No ads
Your chores aren’t anybody’s targeting data.
Sign-in cookies only
They keep this device signed in to your household and guard it against forged requests. Nothing else.

We store what you type into your household: chores, rooms, members’ names and when things were done. You can export it all as JSON from the Household tab. Read the privacy policy

FAQ

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. There’s no paid plan, no trial and nothing to unlock.

What if I lose my phone?

Open tidytempo.app/recover on your new phone and type your recovery code. If someone else in your household still has the app, they can send you a new invite link from the Household tab instead.

Do we all need the app?

No. Members are just names, so you can assign chores to a child or a flatmate who never opens it. Anyone who wants their own reminders can join with an invite link.

What happens when I miss a chore?

It shows as late at the top of today, and the reminders get firmer. Rolling chores count from when you finally do them. A missed set-day chore, like the bins, is recorded as missed and the next one is just next week.

Why didn’t I get a reminder on my iPhone?

iPhones only send web app notifications to apps added to the home screen, on iOS 16.4 or later. Open Tidy Tempo from the home screen icon and turn reminders on there. Nothing is sent during quiet hours, 21:00 to 07:00.

Can I plan the big jobs ahead?

Yes. The Next 8 weeks view shows every monthly and quarterly chore on a timeline. Plan the oven for a Saturday three weeks out, and it shows up in that week when the week comes.

Is there a native app?

No. Tidy Tempo is a web app you install from the browser. It updates itself and doesn’t need an app store.

The bathroom can wait until Thursday. Tidy Tempo will remember.

I already have a household