Colour tells the story
Every chore gets a bar running from green to red. Green is fine, amber means it's getting time, red means it really has been too long. No dates to read.
Coming soon to the App Store · for iPhone
Your household on one timeline.
Neat! lays every recurring chore side by side on a timeline, grouped by room. One look tells you what's due today, what can safely wait and what has been sitting far too long — no list on the fridge, no negotiating with yourself.
- Free
- No account
- Works offline
- English & Dutch
Why Neat!
A to-do list never tells you what has been left too long
Most household chores aren't one-offs — they come back. An ordinary to-do app treats "clean the bathroom" as something you tick once and forget. Neat! is built around repetition, and around the question that actually matters: what needs doing now?
Fits the time you actually have
Twenty minutes before you head out? Neat! suggests a set of chores that genuinely fit, allowing for the time it takes to move between rooms and swap equipment.
One notification, not ten
No separate buzz per task. One calm summary a day, at a time you choose: what's due and roughly how long it will take.
Features
Built for the jobs that keep coming back
The timeline
The heart of the app. Every room stacked underneath each other, two weeks ahead and one week back, with a bar for each chore on the day it comes up. Collapse a room you'd rather not look at, or filter down to a single space.
- A full week on screen, no scrolling needed
- Tick off in one tap, undo just as fast
- Swipe a chore aside with "Not today" when it doesn't fit
- One status line at the top that takes you straight to the planner
"What can I do right now?"
Say how many minutes you've got and Neat! proposes a plan. It starts with whatever has been waiting longest, groups chores that happen in the same room or use the same kit, and counts the time it costs to switch between them.
- From five minutes to a whole morning
- Accounts for vacuum, mop, cloth, brush or machine
- Tick things off straight from the suggestion
Checklists for the big jobs
"Clean the bathroom" isn't one tick, it's eight small ones. Give a chore a checklist and it only counts as done once everything is ticked — useful when you get called away halfway and can't remember the next day where you left off.
- Progress shown on the timeline, e.g. 3/8
- Ticks clear themselves for the next round
- Several starter chores arrive with a checklist ready
Seeing that it works
The dashboard shows how much you got done this week and how long it took, with a chart per day. It also points out which chore keeps slipping — usually a sign you scheduled it too often, not that you're failing.
- Time per day across the last seven days
- Per room: how many chores and how much time this month
- Share your week as a card, if you feel like it
On your home screen, without opening the app
The widget puts today on your home screen: how much is overdue, how long it all takes together, and which chores are up next. Often that's enough to know it's fine — and then you never have to open the app at all.
- Small and medium sizes for the home screen
- A rectangular one for the lock screen too
- Refreshes itself the moment you tick something off
A calendar, and repetition on your terms
If you'd rather look month by month, the calendar marks what's coming up each day and what you've already done. And you decide how a chore repeats: every few days, weekly, or on fixed days.
- Interval (every 3 days) or fixed weekdays
- Slides with when you finish, or stays on a fixed schedule
- Set how many days of slack each chore is allowed
Easy on the eyes at night
The whole app has a dark mode, and it simply follows your iPhone: dark in the evening, light again during the day. If you'd rather not, pin it to light or dark yourself. The colour bars stay just as readable either way.
- Follows your system setting automatically
- Or pin it to light or dark yourself
- Supports larger text sizes if that reads better for you
How it works
Set up in about a minute
No blank screen waiting for you to type in thirty chores. Neat! starts with suggestions and you tap away whatever doesn't apply.
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Pick your rooms
Kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom, laundry, office, outdoors. Tap what you have — you can always change it later.
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Grab some starter chores
Each room comes with chores ready to go, with realistic durations and intervals. The everyday ones are already ticked; the rest is up to you.
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Tick things off as you go
From then on Neat! schedules the next round itself, keeps track of how long ago it was, and shows you before anything has been left too long.
Privacy
We have no idea when you clean your bathroom
That's rather the point. Neat! has no account, no server and no analytics. Your chores live on your own iPhone and — if you're signed in to iCloud — sync through your own iCloud account. We can't reach any of it, and we hold no database anywhere with your household in it.
- No sign-up, no email address, no password
- No trackers, no adverts, no profiles
- Syncing through your own iCloud — or not at all, if you don't sign in
- Works in aeroplane mode: a connection is never a requirement
In short
What you get
| Price | Free — no subscription, no adverts |
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| Device | iPhone running iOS 17 or later |
| Languages | English and Dutch, switchable in the app |
| Account | Not needed |
| Internet | Not needed — works fully offline |
| Syncing | Through your own iCloud, so your chores return on a new iPhone |
| Widget | Small, medium and lock screen |
| Notifications | One daily summary plus a weekly recap on Sunday |
| Appearance | Light and dark mode, or follow your system |
| Availability | Coming soon to the App Store |
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What does Neat! cost?
Neat! is free. No subscription, no trial period and no adverts in the app.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no email address to hand over. You open the app, pick your rooms and start. Your first name is only used to greet you, and it stays on your phone.
Does Neat! work offline?
Yes. Your rooms, chores and statistics live on your iPhone itself, so the app needs no internet connection to work. If you're signed in to iCloud it also syncs through your own iCloud account, so your data returns on a new phone.
Is there a widget?
Yes. A small and a medium widget for your home screen, plus a rectangular one for the lock screen. They show what's due today and update themselves as soon as you tick something off.
Which devices does Neat! run on?
Neat! is built for iPhone running iOS 17 or later. There is currently no iPad or Android version.
Can I share chores with the people I live with?
Not yet. Neat! is a personal planner: your list stays on your phone and is not shared. You can, however, share a summary of your week as an image from the dashboard.
Neat! is on its way
The app is finished and heading for the App Store. Want a note when it lands? Send an email — one message at release, nothing else.
Your address is used for that one message and nothing more.