Best apps for roommates in 2026: an honest comparison (including ours)

Updated October 1, 2026

Disclosure first: hausync is our app. This comparison is written to help you pick the right kind of app for your house, and some of the time that isn't ours. We describe other apps by what they're built for. Check each one's site for current features and pricing.

Start with your house's real problem

Bill splitters

Splitwise is the best-known: groups, running balances, many ways to split, and native apps. Its free plan limits how many expenses you can add per day. Tricount is popular for trips and groups and is quick to share with people. Settle Up is another group expense tracker. All three are focused on money, so chores, laundry and plans live somewhere else.

Chore and cleaning apps

Tody organizes cleaning room by room and shows what's due. Sweepy builds a cleaning schedule and spreads tasks across household members. OurHome assigns chores with points and rewards, and is popular with families. They're strong on cleaning and light on the rest of shared living.

All-in-one roommate apps

Flatastic is a long-running flatshare app with chores, a shopping list, and expenses. hausync (ours) covers:

• Chores that rotate between people or between floors, on the shared calendar, with reminders. How rotations work.
• Bills split equally, exactly, or by shares, visible only to the people involved, with Pay links to each housemate's Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, or Zelle.
• Laundry tracking for every washer and dryer through a printed QR label, which most roommate apps don't cover at all. How the laundry tracker works.
• House chat: a House channel, a channel per floor, groups, and private DMs.
• Shared calendar with per-floor quiet hours, plus shared lists and maintenance tickets.
• Multi-floor houses: floors and units are optional, with floor-only lists, chores, and machines.

hausync is free for 14 days, then one subscription covers the whole house ($8 a month for up to 6 people). It runs in any phone browser. You add it to your home screen instead of downloading it from an app store. The trade-off: it's newer and smaller than the established apps, and it doesn't move money or scan receipts.

How to choose in two minutes

1. Write down the last three things your house argued about.
2. If all three were about money, use a bill splitter.
3. If they were about cleaning, use a chore app, or an all-in-one if money comes up too.
4. If they were about different things (trash, the dryer, the bill, noise), use an all-in-one roommate app so there's one place to check.
5. Whatever you pick, get everyone on it in the same week. A house app with half the house on it doesn't work.