5 Free Housekeeping Apps to Keep Your Home in Order

Whether you’re moving into a new BTO flat with your loved one or finding yourself having to leave passive-aggressive Post-it note reminders to your housemates about chores, these five free apps will help with your housekeeping and managing a home:

1. For homemakers and hobbyists: BrightNest

The perfect all-in-one app, BrightNest is a great assistant to those who need to manage a busy household and panders to others who like to dabble in home improvement projects.

Available in the iTunes and Google Play store, the app acts as a basic toolkit to schedule tasks, to-do lists and relevant alerts, but its home maintenance resources make BrightNest stand out amongst the other multiple housekeeping apps.

The app offers varied content on lifehacks and DIY projects on home design and improvement as well as tips on organising your home.

For example, you could learn from BrightNest how to change make your own disinfectant sprays, remove rust, and organize bits and pieces of trinkets and jewellery usually strewn all over the dresser.

More importantly, based on the information you fill up in your personalised profile, it can send you reminders on carrying out maintenance tasks you’re likely to disregard normally, such as cleaning your refrigerator condenser coils to maintain the life of your chiller.

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2. For getting everyone to chip in: Chorma

Whether you’re sharing an apartment with friends or want the rest of your family to help with the chores, Chorma is a collaborative task manager that makes it easy to divvy up responsibilities between everyone in the household and remind them when it’s their turn to do them.

Once everyone installs Chorma on their phones or iOS devices, chores can be created and assigned to specific people or yourself or can simply be in an All Chores list that anyone can view and also claim and complete. This works especially if you’re living in a more democratic arrangement where housemates who have more free time are happy to do more chores.

The free app also has an element of gamification built into it to make boring household tasks more fun. Chores can be assigned a different amount of points based on its difficulty level. Once you’re done with a chore on your pre-scheduled and assigned list or a chore you have claimed in the free-for-all All Chores List, you will be given points.

The app synchronizes easily between devices, so it’s also easy to coordinate housework between housemates, check who has done their share or more and iron out any housekeeping conflicts.

Victors who have the most number of points can perhaps have the reward of slacking off a little on the next day’s chores or perhaps your whole household could vote on having the biggest loser make breakfast for everyone the next day!

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3. For parents and children: ChoreMonster

Gamification of chores and rewards works not just on millennial adults, but tots too. To be used by both parents and children, ChoreMonster allows parents to create a chore list for their kids and assign points, rewards and deadlines to each chore.

Children can also have an account to view their chore list and points for each chore, giving them the agency to decide which chore they need or prefer to complete first.

Beyond chores, the app allows parents to monitor their child’s progress, paving the way for parents to teach the young ones about making choices and personal responsibility, especially if they skip out on the chores or do a half-hearted job and insist on the reward.

Scheduling regular chores for your kids to do may even instill some discipline and incentivizing these duties may help them develop good habits of cleaning up and keeping tidy.

Available on for Apple iOS and Android devices, the app is particularly handy for children aged between 4 to 12.

4. For newlyweds: SimplyUs

Living together for the first time does pose its challenges but let technology smoothen out this aspect of married life with SimplyUs. Designed specifically for couples in mind, the app aims to help couples get their communal lives organised as they build a new life together.

One main feature of the app helps with joint calendaring, especially with each person’s existing calendars in other applications like Google. The app syncs up everyone’s calendars and updates any partner makes, so you won’t forget to get that birthday present for your mother-in-law and risk your partner’s consternation.

Not only does the free iTunes app allow you and your partner to manage and share schedules, to-do lists and chore lists, it’s also a great platform for you two lovebirds to send messages and share photos with each other.

5. For household budgeting and saving: Wally

Free to download on iOS and Android devices, Wally makes budgeting look beautiful and appealing so you’re likely to feel better saving your money instead of frittering your income away.

With its ability to generate charts and graphs based your manual entries in the app, you can keep visually updated on your spending patterns and get insights into how you’re spending your hard-earned cash. It also provides the essential function of helping you set up financial goals and budgets and reminds you when you have reached a savings goal.

One feature that has got users raving is its ability to photograph and scan receipts and log the expenses in. For the scatter-brained, Wally’s notifications on when bills are due come in handy to prevent fines and therefore more unnecessary spending.

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