hausync vs Sweepy: a cleaning app or an app for the whole house?
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Short answer
Sweepy is a cleaning planner: a daily list built around the time you have, points per task and a family leaderboard. hausync is for running a shared house: chores rotate on a fixed schedule next to bill splitting, laundry machine status, house chat and a calendar. Pick Sweepy if cleaning is your only problem or points motivate your household; pick hausync if chores, money and shared machines all cause friction.
Disclosure: hausync is our app. Sweepy and hausync both help a household keep a place clean, but they start from different questions. Sweepy asks "what needs cleaning today?" hausync asks "how does this house run?", with cleaning as one part next to bills, laundry, chat, and plans. This page sets out where each one is the better fit, and what hausync doesn't do.
What Sweepy is built for
Sweepy is a cleaning planner. Its own site describes a smart schedule that builds a daily cleaning list around how much time you have that day, lets you filter tasks by difficulty and how dirty things are, and shows how clean the home is overall so you know what to tackle next. Tasks earn points (up to 3 each), there's a family leaderboard, cleaning streaks and a history of what was done, and parents can approve a child's finished task before the points count. You can invite family members or roommates to share the work. Sweepy has a Premium tier; check its site or app store listing for current pricing and what's included.
What hausync is built for
hausync is for a shared house as a whole. Chores are one tab. The others are expenses, the laundry machines, house chat, shared lists, maintenance tickets, and a calendar with quiet hours. Chores in hausync are a fixed rotation rather than a dirtiness score: you set a chore once (once, daily, weekly on chosen days, or monthly, every N days, weeks or months), choose who it rotates through, and the turn goes round in order. The person whose turn it is gets a reminder on the day.
Side by side
| hausync | Sweepy | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Running a shared house: chores, money, laundry, chat, plans | Planning household cleaning |
| How cleaning is scheduled | Fixed rotation: each chore repeats on a schedule and goes round the people (or floors) in order | Smart daily list built around your available time, with difficulty and dirtiness filters |
| Motivation | Whose turn it is, on a shared calendar, with a reminder on the day | Points per task, a family leaderboard, streaks |
| Kids and parent approval | Not built for it | Parents approve a child's task before points are awarded |
| Splitting bills | Yes: equal, exact amounts, or shares, plus monthly recurring bills | Not a feature on its site |
| Laundry machines | Status for each washer and dryer via a QR label | No |
| House chat and calendar | House channel, floor channels, groups, private DMs; day, week and month calendar | No chat on its site |
| Install | Runs in the browser; add to home screen | App Store and Google Play |
| Price | 14 days free, then one subscription per house ($8 a month for 2–6 people) | Free to download with a Premium tier |
When Sweepy is the better pick
- Cleaning is the only problem. If your house splits money fine and nobody fights over the dryer, a focused cleaning app is simpler than an all-in-one.
- Your energy varies day to day. A list that adapts to how much time you have suits people who would rather do "something useful for 20 minutes" than a fixed weekly job.
- Points motivate your household. If a leaderboard and streaks get people moving, hausync has nothing like that.
- You're a family with kids. Parent approval of chores is a family feature hausync doesn't try to do.
- You want a native app from the App Store or Google Play.
When hausync is the better pick
- The arguments aren't only about cleaning. In most shared houses the chores sit next to the internet bill, the washer, and noise at 1 am. hausync puts all of them in one place everyone already checks.
- You want "whose turn is it" answered, not debated. A fixed rotation is easy to read at a glance and hard to argue with. A turn can be handed to another housemate when someone is away without reshuffling the rest. See how chore rotations work.
- The house has floors or units. A chore can rotate between floors instead of people, and a floor can be switched off for a whole-house chore.
- Money is private between the people in it. Each expense is visible only to the people who share it, with a balance between each pair of housemates.
What hausync doesn't do
- No points, leaderboards, streaks or rewards. Chores are turns, not a game.
- No smart daily list built from your available time or how dirty a room is. Chores repeat on the schedule you set.
- No room-by-room cleaning map.
- No parent controls or chore approval for kids.
- No native app store app. It's a web app you add to your home screen.
- It doesn't move money. It tracks who owes who; you pay each other the way you already do.
Can you use both?
Yes, and some houses will. One reasonable split: use Sweepy for your own room or for deep-cleaning motivation, and hausync for the shared jobs that need a clear turn (trash, bathroom, kitchen) plus everything else the house shares. The cost is two places to check. If the house won't keep two apps up, pick the one that covers your biggest argument.
Useful next reads
- How to set up a roommate cleaning schedule
- Roommate chore chart: a template for 2, 3, or 4 roommates
- hausync vs Tody
- Best apps for roommates: an honest comparison
If your house needs more than a cleaning list, create a house on hausync (14 days free, no card needed) and invite your housemates with a link.
Questions people ask
Does hausync have points or a leaderboard like Sweepy?
No. In hausync chores are turns in a rotation, shown on the shared calendar with a reminder on the day. There are no points, streaks or leaderboards.
Can hausync split bills?
Yes. Expenses split equally, by exact amounts or by shares, are visible only to the people in them, and monthly bills like rent or internet can post themselves on the due day.
How much does hausync cost?
14 days free for every new house, no card needed. Then one subscription per house: $4 a month (or $30 a year) if it's just you, $8 a month (or $60 a year) for 2–6 people, $12 for 7–12, $16 for 13+.