hausync vs Tody: room-by-room cleaning or a shared-house app?

Updated October 16, 2026

Disclosure: hausync is our app. Tody is one of the best-known cleaning apps, and if your household's problem is keeping a home clean, it's a strong choice. hausync covers cleaning too, but as one part of running a shared house. Here's an honest look at how they differ, when Tody is the better pick, and what hausync doesn't do.

What Tody is built for

Tody organizes cleaning by need instead of by fixed dates. Your home is split into rooms, each task has its own interval, and a colour-coded indicator shows how due each task is since it was last done, from fine to overdue. The daily list shows only what's due. Tody can assign chores and rotate them automatically on every plan, including the free one. There's a mascot, Dusty, to race against each month.

On pricing, Tody's site lists a free one-person plan, a Premium plan at $9.99 a year, and Premium+ plans priced by household size (the US App Store lists Duo at $24.99, Family at $39.99 and Team at $79.99 a year). Household sync, where every member sees the same plan on their own phone, is part of Premium+, along with FairShare for agreeing how much each person contributes. Paid upgrades come with a 30-day free trial.

What hausync is built for

hausync is a shared-house app. Chores sit next to expenses, a status for every washer and dryer, house chat, shared lists, maintenance tickets, and a calendar with quiet hours. Chores are scheduled, not scored: each one repeats once, daily, weekly on chosen days, or monthly (every N days, weeks or months), rotates through the people you pick, and reminds whoever's turn it is on the day.

Side by side

When Tody is the better pick

• You think about cleaning room by room. If "the bathroom is getting red" is how you want to see your home, Tody's dueness view is made for that. hausync has no room view.
• You'd rather clean when it's needed than on a fixed day. Tody's model bends with real life; a fixed rotation doesn't.
• Cleaning is the only shared job. Couples and families who handle money elsewhere and don't share laundry machines don't need the rest of hausync.
• Price for a cleaning-only household. Tody's free plan covers one person, and its yearly Premium+ plans can cost less than a year of hausync for the same number of people.
• You want a native app.

When hausync is the better pick

• Roommates who need a clear turn. In a shared rental, "it's due" can turn into "you do it." A rotation names the person, puts it on the calendar, and reminds them, so nobody negotiates. More in how to run a roommate cleaning schedule.
• The house also shares money. Rent, utilities, and groceries go in Expenses: split equally, by exact amounts, or by shares, and each person sees only the expenses they're part of. Monthly bills like internet can post themselves on the due day.
• Shared machines and bigger houses. Washers and dryers get QR labels, and houses with floors can rotate a chore between floors and give each floor its own channel and quiet hours.

What hausync doesn't do

• No room-by-room view or dueness indicator. A chore is due on its scheduled day.
• No mascot, points, prizes, or contribution targets.
• No free plan: every house gets 14 days free, then one subscription covers everyone in it.
• No native app store app.
• No receipt scanning, and it doesn't move money between people.

A quick way to decide

Ask what your last three household disagreements were about. If all three were "this place is a mess," try Tody. If they were the bathroom, the electric bill, and someone's wet laundry sitting in the washer, a single app that covers all three will save you more trouble than the best cleaning app.

Useful next reads

• How to set up a roommate cleaning schedule
• Chore rotation for roommates
• hausync vs Sweepy
• Best apps for roommates: an honest comparison

If your house needs cleaning and everything around it in one place, create a house on hausync: 14 days free, no card needed.