BeTidy: Home Cleaning Schedule

Review by eFreeware

Household chores have a way of living in someone's head. Who last cleaned the bathroom, when the fridge was wiped down, whether the bedding was changed this month — all of it gets remembered by one person, or it doesn't get remembered at all. That mental load is the problem BeTidy is built around, and it is a specific enough problem that the app's approach makes sense from the first screen.

BeTidy: Home Cleaning Schedule comes from BeTidy GmbH and sits in the House & Home category on Google Play. It is free to install, carries no ads, and offers in-app purchases. The install base is modest rather than massive — over 100,000 installs — but the 4.5 average across 1,543 ratings suggests the people who do use it tend to stick with it. It first appeared in August 2024 and was last updated in October 2025, with the most recent changes being bug fixes and optimizations.

A schedule that builds itself around your chores

The core of the app is a cleaning schedule. You enter the household tasks you want to keep on top of, and BeTidy generates an annual cleaning plan from them. Recurring chores are handled through intervals, so a task you want done weekly, monthly or at some other rhythm gets slotted into the schedule without you having to re-enter it each time. That is the part I find most appealing: the app does the calendar arithmetic, and you just decide what needs doing and how often.

From those entries, a daily plan is assembled. The app shows what is due today, and you can look ahead at future tasks or back at anything that has slipped past its date. Checking a task off is how you mark it complete, and completed items feed into the record of what has been done. There is also the option of daily notifications to remind you about tasks that are coming up, which you can turn on if you want the nudge.

What this amounts to is a to-do list with a memory. Rather than rebuilding your list every week, you set the intervals once and let the app keep producing the schedule. For anyone who has tried to run a household on scattered notes and phone reminders, that persistence is the difference between a system that survives a busy month and one that quietly falls apart.

Organization projects with a before-and-after record

Cleaning is only half of what BeTidy covers. The other half is organizing, and it works differently. Instead of recurring intervals, you set up a home organization project — a wardrobe, for instance — and the app walks you through it step by step toward a finished result. The developer describes these as guided projects, and the structure is what separates them from a plain checklist: there is a defined end point rather than an endless loop of maintenance.

Each project can hold before and after images. The idea is that seeing the transformation motivates you the next time you take on a similar job, which is a reasonable use of a photo record. It also gives you something to look back at when a space has drifted back toward its old state and you need a reason to tackle it again.

I'd expect this side of the app to appeal to people who already enjoy the process of sorting a space out, or who want a framework for a job they keep postponing. A project with a beginning and an end is easier to start than a vague intention to deal with the closet someday.

Family profiles, fair splits and a points ranking

BeTidy is designed for more than one person. You can create custom profiles for members of your household, and a task can be assigned to one person or several. That flexibility matters for chores that are genuinely shared — taking out the recycling, say — as opposed to those that belong to one person. The developer's stated aim is a fair distribution, on the reasoning that keeping a home in order affects everyone living in it.

A ranking adds a competitive layer. Tasks carry points based on the effort involved, and points accumulate when a task is checked off. The ranking then shows who has completed the most. The developer pitches this as a way to challenge a partner or to bring younger family members into housekeeping in a playful way, and it is the feature most likely to decide whether the app fits your household. Some people respond well to a scoreboard; others find it turns cooperation into a contest.

Used deliberately, the ranking could be the thing that gets a reluctant teenager to empty the dishwasher without being asked twice. Used carelessly, it could just as easily become a source of friction. The app gives you the mechanism; how you frame it at home is up to you.

What BeTidy Pro costs and what the app asks of you

BeTidy installs for free and shows no ads, but there is a paid tier. The yearly option works out considerably cheaper per month than paying monthly, which is the usual pattern for this kind of pricing. The developer says Google handles the billing, the plan renews on its own, and you can turn it off in your account settings, as long as you do so a day ahead of the period ending.

The other thing to weigh is the input the app needs from you. A cleaning schedule is only as good as the tasks you put into it, and organization projects only run if you start them. There is a setup cost here that a simple reminder app doesn't have: you have to decide what your household's chores actually are, how often each should recur, and who owns it. That thinking is the point of the app, but it is work, and it happens before the app can save you any.

I can't say what the subscription adds beyond the fact that it exists. Anyone considering paying should check the current in-app offer before committing.

The households this fits best

BeTidy is built for shared homes where chores are a recurring negotiation. Two adults dividing up a flat, a family with children old enough to take on assigned jobs, roommates who want a visible record of who did what — these are the setups the app's features point toward. The combination of assignable tasks, individual profiles and a ranking is aimed at groups, not at someone living alone who simply wants a reminder to vacuum.

It also suits people who think in terms of routines and intervals rather than one-off to-dos. If your cleaning is a set of jobs that come around on a cycle, the automatic annual schedule and recurring intervals will do real work for you. If your needs are more ad hoc, the structure may feel heavier than the problem warrants.

The organization projects point to a third audience: anyone with a space that needs a proper overhaul rather than routine upkeep. A wardrobe, a storage room, a kitchen drawer that has become a dumping ground — these are project-shaped problems, and the step-by-step format with before-and-after photos is designed for exactly them.

The content rating is Everyone, which fits an app whose competitive elements the developer explicitly frames as suitable for younger family members. It is a household tool rather than a personal one, and it makes most sense installed on the devices of the people who share the work.

A planner worth trying if your chores are a group effort

BeTidy takes a familiar idea — the chore chart — and gives it a schedule engine, shared profiles and a points system. The automatic annual plan and recurring intervals mean you set things up once and the app keeps the calendar moving, while organization projects handle the bigger, one-off jobs that routine maintenance never touches. The 4.5 average from 1,543 ratings is a decent signal for an app that has only been available since August 2024.

The ranking will motivate some families and irritate others, which is a matter of temperament rather than a flaw in the feature.

If you live with other people and the division of household work is a recurring source of friction or forgotten tasks, BeTidy is worth installing and trying on the free tier before you decide about Pro. If you live alone and just want reminders, the shared profiles and ranking have little to offer you, and a plain task list will do the job with less setup.

What's new in version 1.28

- Bug Fixes & Optimizations