Apps That Complete Your Smart Cleaning System
Smart devices handle the physical work, but apps provide the structure, scheduling, and habit-building that transform cleaning from chaos into a sustainable system. These free UK-available apps coordinate tasks, build routines, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Routine & Personal Cleaning Planners
If you’re ready to tackle your New Year Clean with structure and focus, these apps help you plan, schedule, and track your cleaning routine room by room. Perfect for individuals who want to stay organised and on top of household tasks without feeling overwhelmed.
Tody
Smartly tracks when each area of your home was last cleaned and helps you stay ahead with custom schedules and visual progress tracking.
Cleaning Schedule – PikaPika
Organise chores by room, set reminders, and monitor what’s due next with a friendly, easy-to-use interface.
Home Tasker
Build your own cleaning plan with room templates, reminders, and progress charts to make your daily or weekly routine effortless.
Home Routines
A classic for routine-lovers, this app helps you divide chores into manageable “zones” and repeat them at your own pace.
Spotless
Minimalist and simple, Spotless lets you create room-based task lists for an uncluttered approach to home management.
Clean My House
Set daily reminders, add errands, and get notifications for one-off or recurring tasks to keep your home spotless all year.
Shared Household & Family Chore Apps
If you live with family or flatmates, these apps help keep everyone accountable. Assign cleaning tasks, set reminders, and make shared living smoother with collaborative checklists and schedules.
OurHome
Assign chores, track completion, and reward family members with points to encourage teamwork around the house.
Family Tools
Ad-free and family-friendly, Family Tools keeps everyone’s to-do lists in sync while offering full visibility on who’s done what.
Sweepy
Divide chores, schedule them by frequency, and share progress in real time for a balanced, well-organised household.
Chorsee
A simple digital chore chart that makes assigning and tracking household cleaning fun and easy for all ages.
Flatastic
Manage chores, shopping lists, and shared expenses in one app designed specifically for flatmates or families.
Flatmate
A straightforward option for organising shared responsibilities like cleaning, bills, and household maintenance between roommates.
Gamified & Motivational Cleaning Apps
Turn cleaning into something you actually want to do! These apps use gamification — points, levels, and rewards — to make staying tidy feel like a game rather than a chore.
Habitica
Transform cleaning (and other habits) into a role-playing game where completing chores helps you level up your character.
Housy
A motivational cleaning app with points, achievements, and scheduling to keep you consistent and inspired.
TOSS
Designed for decluttering, TOSS gives you daily “mini challenges” to clear clutter and celebrate small wins.
Decluttering & Deep Cleaning Trackers
For those who want to go beyond daily chores, these apps focus on deep cleaning and decluttering — helping you clear spaces, track when areas were last cleaned, and plan big seasonal resets.
Clutterfree
Offers a personalised, room-by-room decluttering roadmap, lets you track progress, unlock achievements, and tackle hard areas like paper, closets or children’s spaces.
Sortly
Lets you create a visual inventory of items in your home (closets, garage, pantry), log photos, locations and quantities — very useful for decluttering-by-category.
TidyLife
Creates smart checklists and motivational ideas for decluttering (think a “Marie Kondo” style process organised via app).
Flylady
Built on the well-known FlyLady system, this app breaks your home into easy-to-manage zones and daily missions — ideal for staying consistent without feeling overwhelmed.
Decluttr
Helps you declutter by item type or room, with built-in timers, tracking, and a focus on removing what you don’t need
Minimalist
A clean, distraction-free app designed to help you declutter mindfully. It lets you list, categorise, and tick off items to remove while tracking your progress toward a simpler, more organised home.
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