The guilt-free cleaning planner. Nothing is ever overdue-shamed — things just get ready again.
Dustly does not use due dates. Every chore has an interval — how often it wants doing — and a bar that fills as time passes since you last did it. The Today list simply shows whatever has reached its interval, dirtiest first. If you skip a week, nothing is "missed" and nothing turns into a wall of red: the same chores are just waiting, a little further along their bars.
When nothing has reached its interval, Today says so and offers the next few things in case you are in the mood. An empty list is a result, not an error.
Use the Undo button on the toast that appears right after ticking. If it is gone, open the chore and you will see its history — completions can be corrected from there.
Open the chore and tap “I did this earlier”, then pick the day. Late entries count exactly like on-time ones; the bar resets from the day you chose. Backdating never erases newer completions.
A streak is consecutive days with at least one thing done — and it is deliberately forgiving. Yesterday anchors it, so a late-night clean followed by a morning app-open loses nothing. There is no broken-streak scolding anywhere in the app.
That is by design. The countdown is permission to stop, not a deadline to fail. Finish the step whenever you finish it — or stop entirely; stopping early still counts for everything you completed.
Household members live in Settings → Household. A chore can belong to anyone, to one person, or rotate — Take turns walks through the members in the order they are listed, and the turn is always derived from what actually happened, so it can never drift. “The split” on the Progress tab shows who did what in the last 30 days. It is a statement of fact, not a scoreboard.
Yes — your home syncs automatically between your own devices through your own iCloud, free, with nothing to set up. Install Dustly on your iPad, sign in with the same Apple Account, and your rooms, chores and history appear. Sync needs a moment and a network connection; if a device is offline, it catches up when it is back.
What sync is not (yet): sharing with another person's Apple Account. Household members and their turns sync across your devices, but a partner's own iPhone with their own iCloud is a separate home. A shared home today works best on shared devices or with one person logging for the household.
Sign in with the same Apple Account and your home syncs down on its own. Apple's phone-to-phone transfer and device backups also carry it. If the new phone looks empty at first, give it a network connection and a minute — iCloud restores in the background.
That can happen if two devices were both set up before the first sync finished. Dustly notices and merges the duplicates on its own the next time you open the app — nothing you have done is lost in the merge.
Dustly sends at most one notification a day — a summary at the hour you pick, and only when something is actually ready. If it never arrives: check Settings → Notifications in Dustly (the toggle and the hour), then iOS Settings → Notifications → Dustly. If nothing was due at your chosen hour, silence is correct behaviour, not a bug. Dustly never sends per-chore reminders.
The core is free and unlimited, permanently: rooms, chores, the Today list, streaks, Small Steps, both widgets, the daily summary, and one full run of each seasonal checklist. Plus adds household sharing with turns, your full history, unlimited and custom checklists, and photos on chores.
If a subscription lapses, nothing you made is taken away: photos still show, custom checklists still run. Only creating new gated things asks again.
On the Plus screen, tap Restore. Subscriptions are managed and cancelled through your App Store subscription settings — Dustly never handles payment details itself.
The widgets redraw when the next chore comes due and whenever you tick something (including ticking directly on the widget). iOS batches widget refreshes, so a change can take a moment to appear — opening the app always shows the live state.
Settings → Start over deletes every room, chore, checklist run and household member. Deleting the app removes its data from the device; the synced copy in your own iCloud can be removed under iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. We hold nothing anywhere — see the privacy policy.
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