"Descale the coffee machine" is attached to nothing
Which coffee machine? Bought when, under warranty until when, which filter model? A floating task can answer none of that. So it serves once, then becomes noise in a list.
Majord'Home inventories every appliance in your house, schedules its upkeep at the right moment, and shares the work — including the work nobody sees — between everyone who lives there.
iPhone on iOS 17 or later · free for the whole beta · no advertising
Household organisation apps treat the home like a shared notepad. Three things escape them — and they are exactly the three that make people give up after six weeks.
Which coffee machine? Bought when, under warranty until when, which filter model? A floating task can answer none of that. So it serves once, then becomes noise in a list.
Owner, partner, child, flatmate, tenant, cleaner: each should see what concerns them, and nothing more. A single "shared" checkbox is not enough to describe who lives there.
Remembering that the boiler service falls due in October is already work. It appears on no list, it cannot be handed over with a swipe, and it is almost always the same person carrying it.
Majord'Home starts with the inventory of your home. Every task is then hooked to a specific item, in a specific room, in a specific house. That chain is the whole product.
Appliances, plumbing and taps, furniture, openings, plants, surfaces and finishes. Each has its own fields: the material of a floor, the light a plant needs, which way a shutter opens.
InventoryThe purchase date becomes a warranty alert. The model becomes an upkeep suggestion. The room becomes a filter. Tomorrow, the same data will produce the condition report and the cost of ownership.
Leverage187 appliances and 60 plants already described, with their 278 standard upkeep tasks already set up. You pick "dishwasher"; the filter, the spray arms and the descaling come with it.
Getting startedThat is the fundamental difference: everyone else asks you to write down what needs doing. Majord'Home works it out from what you own. And what you own, you only ever enter once.
Everything below runs in the beta build. None of it is an intention.
Photograph the receipt: the name, price, purchase date and warranty length are extracted on the iPhone itself, then the item is created. The image never leaves the device.
Hours, days, weeks, months or years; fixed or rolling scheduling; and above all a tolerance window: a task set to "every 3 months, give or take 2 weeks" is not overdue on day 91.
None, take turns, weekly, monthly or quarterly. "Whose turn is it to take the bins out" stops being a conversation: it is a rule, written once, applied on its own.
Share a PDF or a photo from any app — Mail, Files, Safari. The document lands in an inbox to be filed, where the app already suggests which item to attach it to, by reading its contents.
The item sheet shows how much cover is left, not a date you would have to subtract today from. Three reminders — two months, one month, a week before — while a repair is still free, with the receipt already attached to the item.
Six radiators to bleed fit on one line, and are ticked off in a single gesture. And when two similar tasks drift apart, the app offers to realign their dates — or to never offer again.
Declare an absence: every task knows what to do with itself — move earlier, move later, skip, or hold. When you come back, you do not find three weeks of accumulated arrears.
Ten distinct events — today's task, an overdue one, an expiring warranty, an invitation, a document to file, something another occupant did — each one switchable on its own, by notification or by email.
Points for punctuality, a bonus for those who lent a hand, history per item and per person, weekly charts. The point is not competition: it is to make visible who does what.
Thinking of it, deciding, checking it got done: that work cannot be ticked off. Majord'Home measures it in cognitive minutes per month, from six layers, three of which are never declared — they are inferred from what the app already observes.
Inferred from the tasks already entered
Declared, then adjusted to the real throughput
Declared once only
Declared, plus a very light journal
Inferred from how the app is used
Inferred from the backlog of open tasks
Each person fills in their own declaration, and neither sees the other's until both are submitted. That is a rule enforced by the server, not an interface courtesy: without it, the second declaration lines itself up with the first and there is no conversation left to have.
Anticipating, deciding, doing, supervising. On a single task these four roles are rarely shared the same way — and that is exactly where the imbalance nobody can quite name hides.
Turning mental load into checkboxes would dump the data entry back on the person already overloaded. One calibration session for two, one recalibration each quarter: that is all.
The app shows where your two readings diverge, and offers to rebalance by moving a whole domain rather than a task. Handing over "keeping track of medical appointments" is worth twenty chores.
There are good apps for each of these needs. None of them connects the others, because none starts from the inventory of the home — and without it, there is nothing to connect.
| Feature | Majord'Home | Cleaning apps Sweepy, Tody, Nipto |
Expense splitting Tricount, Splitwise |
Property inventory HomeZada, Centriq |
Rental management Rentila, Tomappart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home inventorybrand, purchase, warranty, value | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial |
| Task attached to a real item | Yes | No | No | Partial | No |
| Sharing and rotation between occupants | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mental load measurement | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Distinct roles within the householdowner, occupant, tenant, child | Yes | No | No | No | Landlord only |
| Documents and warranties filed by item | Yes | No | Receipts | Yes | Leases |
| No advertising, no data resale | Yes | Varies | Advertising | Paid | Paid |
Comparison drawn from each publisher's public offering, surveyed in July 2026. Centriq, long the reference for home inventory, closed its consumer service on 31 January 2026 with no migration path. HomeZada is billed at $65 to $100 a year, Rentila at €49 a year, Sweepy at €17.99 for the premium version.
Each following module feeds on the inventory already entered. That is what makes these steps realistic rather than aspirational: the expensive data is already there.
Full inventory, task engine, activities, scores, mental load, documents, notifications, holiday mode, roles and departures from the household. This is the version you will test.
Shared expenses with a share per occupant, budgets by category, contracts and an alert before a cancellation notice period runs out. Plus the cross-reference nobody offers: the real cost of ownership of each item, purchase and upkeep included.
Leases, rent receipts generated and sent, annual review, service charge reconciliation, tax export. Above all: a condition report that runs off the existing inventory — five minutes instead of an hour, with the check-in / check-out comparison produced on its own.
Widgets and Live Activities, "Hey Siri, I watered the plants", an Apple Watch complication, export to the calendar. And the upkeep logbook exportable as a PDF, to hand to the buyer the day you sell.
Majord'Home is entering closed beta on TestFlight. I am looking for real households — not professional testers — willing to enter their actual home and say what gets in the way.
Five fields, one email confirmation, and that is it. Nothing is passed on to a third party.
Apple's official app for testing an app before it reaches the App Store. It is free. You receive a link by email, you open it on your iPhone, and Majord'Home installs alongside your other apps. Updates arrive on their own.
It is free for the whole beta, and beta testers will not be charged retroactively. In the long run the foundation — inventory, tasks, sharing — will stay free; the advanced modules (household accounts, rental management) will be the subject of a subscription. There will never be advertising.
Not for now. The app is written natively for iOS, which is what lets it run receipt scanning on the device, and use Face ID and notifications without an intermediary. The server itself is agnostic: a read-only web client is the next platform being considered.
Allow an hour for a four-room home, using the catalogue and receipt scanning. You do not have to enter everything at once: start with the kitchen, where half the appliances and half the upkeep are concentrated.
Your account and its contents follow you into the public version — nothing is erased. If you would rather leave, account deletion happens from the app and erases your personal data immediately. The email address given here is used for the beta only and is deleted when it ends.
An independent developer, Sébastien Gillard. The app and its server are designed and maintained by one person, which is why the beta is closed: I would rather have few testers who are properly supported than many left to fend for themselves.