Tody is a cleaning app that doesn't let you slack off [App of the Week]

Tody is a chore app with a focus on cleaning your house.

Instead of adding cleaning tasks and due dates to a notes app similar Google Keep or a habit planning app like Habitica, you lot only add cleaning tasks to Tody and the app does the balance.

When you start open up Tody, information technology briefly explains what it does and why yous would want to add it to your life.

After this, the app drops you into the 'Areas' hub, which is the app'due south main screen. Your areas are each room or location in your house, similar bedrooms, bathrooms, exterior, your garage and more.

The app tracks your cleaning progress on a room-by-room basis and then it's straightforward to encounter what rooms need attending and what ones are already tidy with a progress bar.

The progress bar is one of the cadre components of the app. It's broken into three sections. The first section builds up equally the due date for the task gets almost. The midsection is when you lot should clean the item and the final third is when the item is overdue.

When yous tap into a room, it's broken down into tasks like make clean the microwave, sweep the floor, alter tea towels and so on. Each of these items besides has the app's signature progress bar.

Diving deeper into an item gives you a more than detailed status report. This includes a graph showing how consequent you've been at doing that specific task, the ability to marking it every bit done, a section for some notes and the ability to edit the frequency y'all desire to clean the particular.

From a design standpoint, Tody is a minimal thing: each section has a neat little drawing to show what type of room it is and its ain colour.

Going back to the main areas screen, you lot'll detect a checklist/bullet list icon at the bottom of the screen. The checklist side is for areas, but if you touch the bullet list it opens a 'To-Practise' panel.

The To-Practice panel quickly shows you the tasks and items that you lot need to clean today.

In the app's Settings pane, there are a few other notable options. You can turn on notifications so the app can remind you to clean things, add multiple users and dabble with cloud syncing and a premium subscription which costs $6 per year on Android

Premium gives you lot the choice to tell the app you're on vacation and something called 'Effort' that lets you assign difficulty tiers to each job. It also unlocks deject-syncing, which gives you lot the power to use the app with people you share your cleaning responsibilities.

You make multiple users in the app and and then when you turn on cloud sync and sign into the app on another telephone you tin sign in as your user profile and you'll be able to chip away at the cleaning alongside the primary account holder.

Tody is free for Android, but Premium costs $6. On iOS, the app is $10 with no in-app purchases.