How to use Equal House

Create your family in Equal House, add everyone who lives with you, and get the first week of real work written down.

Share an invite link or code so a partner, co-parent or housemate can join your household on their own phone.

Give a child a profile in Equal House — no account, no email, no password — so they can pick up chores and earn pocket money.

A short guided walkthrough of Equal House, chapter by chapter, that you can start and stop whenever you like.

Pick a different colour scheme for Equal House. It applies instantly, across the whole app, on that device.

Choose the currency Equal House shows for pocket money, jars and household spending.

Require a fingerprint, face or device PIN before Equal House opens, so a shared or borrowed phone does not show the family's calendar.

The 0–100 score on your home screen, what it weighs, why it is not a percentage of chores, and what to do when it looks wrong.

Let Equal House propose a redistribution of the coming week's work — and decide, task by task, what you accept.

Tell Equal House the hours each adult works, so the fairness maths stops expecting the same of someone who is at work.

A per-person breakdown of household time by category, over a week or a month — the answer to "what am I actually doing all day?"

A short recap of the week just gone — what got done, by whom, and how the balance moved.

Put a job into the household's shared list — who it belongs to, when it is due, and how much effort it really takes.

Set a chore to come back daily, weekly, every few weeks or on set days — and give it a start and stop date if it only runs for a while.

Pick from a list of the jobs most households actually have, instead of staring at an empty screen trying to remember them.

Attach a how-to, a shopping list or a voice note to a chore, so the next person to do it does not have to ask.

Attach a place to a chore or errand, see it on a map, and open it in your phone's directions app.

Paste or photograph a school newsletter, a party invitation or a club email, and Equal House suggests the events and chores hidden inside it.

The queue of things Equal House has picked up from forwarded emails and suggestions — nothing reaches your calendar until you approve it.

Put something in the shared calendar — who it involves, whether it repeats, and who needs reminding.

Move between days and weeks, narrow the agenda to one person, and read how busy a day is before you agree to anything else.

Get a notification before an event or a task is due, and set the household's default so you stop having to think about it.

Subscribe Equal House to your Google, Outlook, Apple or school calendar so work and appointments show alongside the family's week.

Send the school newsletter or the club email to your household's private address, and the dates inside it turn up as suggestions.

Turn the daily drop-off and pick-up into a rota everyone can see, so it stops being one person's job by default.

Add your child's school so term dates, holidays and inset days land in the family calendar without being typed in.

Keep the guest list, timings, transport and jobs for a party in one place, instead of across four apps and a group chat.

Give a child their own view of Equal House — their chores, their stars, their pocket money — with nothing of the grown-ups' in it.

The six-picture family code, PINs, and why a child can only sign in on a device a grown-up has approved.

Send your child a setup code so they can use Equal House on their own device — without a grown-up ever signing in on it.

Pay children for the chores they finish — by difficulty, or a fixed amount for a particular job — in your household's currency.

Divide what a child earns between spending, saving and giving automatically, so the split is a rule rather than an argument.

Turn a morning or bedtime sequence into a checklist a child can follow themselves, with streaks for keeping it going.

Build a week of dinners that turns into cooking tasks and a shopping list, instead of a daily conversation about what to eat.

The list your meal plan produces, shared across the household so two people in one supermarket do not buy the same thing twice.

How Equal House's recipe catalogue reaches you — through a meal plan — and where to read the ingredients and method.

Keep the household's spending, budgets and what the children have earned in one place.

List the recurring payments a household accumulates, see what they cost a year, and get a nudge before one renews.

A place to write down how you are actually doing, stored on your device and shared with nobody.

A short, guided pause — a breathing timer for the moment before a conversation goes wrong.

Set up a trusted contact and message them quickly, without hunting through your phone at the worst moment.

A list of support services, ready in the app, for when looking one up is more than you can face.

A structured way to say the thing you have been avoiding — with a cooling-off timer, and without it becoming a row at nine at night.

Note the things someone did that you noticed — the counterweight to an app that is otherwise mostly about what has not been done.

Connect with grandparents, a co-parent or the other side of the family — see when they are free, and plan things together without merging your calendars.

Use a linked household's free/busy to find a slot, propose it, and let them RSVP.

Ask in plain words what is coming up, what is unfair, or what to move — and approve anything it suggests before it happens.

Where proposed changes wait for a grown-up, and what happens when you accept or reject one.

Where the stopcock is, which paint was in the hall, when the passport expires — ask Bric, who now reads your house notes and documents as well as your week.

Let an AI assistant such as Claude read your household's week and propose changes, using Equal House's connector.

Change your own name, see your share of the week and what is on your list, and manage your family name, the kids' code, trusted devices and signing out.

What you get on the Free plan, what Pro adds, what it costs, and how to cancel.

The daily summary, reminders and the wellbeing check-in — and how to turn any of them down.

Store passports, insurance and certificates where both adults can find them, and get warned before one expires.

Give the animal's care a place — feeding, walking, medication and the vet — so it counts as the work it is.

The boiler, bin day, the wifi password, the meter — the things one person knows and nobody has written down.

A big, glanceable view of today for a tablet on the wall or the kitchen worktop.

Give someone in the household a training plan whose sessions land in the calendar like anything else.

What Equal House stores, what stays on your device, how to get a copy, and how to turn off usage data and crash reports.

How to remove yourself, or the whole household, from Equal House — and what happens to shared data when you do.