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, money jars and meal-plan budgets.

When something you did has saved, Equal House celebrates it — a short buzz and a moment with Bric, and on Android a short ta-da if you turn sounds on. Nothing celebrates in Safe Space, wellbeing or while the microphone is on. Turn each off, feel each buzz, hear the ta-da, or turn the animations down, on each phone.

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 Tasks tab, 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 between you, whether it was shared fairly, and a way to say thanks for it.

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

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.

Leave a note on a chore, so the next person to do it does not have to ask.

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 find an event in any month.

Get a notification before an event or a routine, hear once a day how many tasks you have, 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 its term dates, holidays and INSET days land in the family calendar — filled in for you where we hold that school's dates, added once by you where we don't.

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

Put an address on a calendar event or a party, drop a pin on the map, and open it in your phone's directions app.

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 and the routines they complete — 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, step by step.

Build dinners that turn into cooking tasks and a shopping list — three days ahead on Free, a full week with Pro.

One shopping list for the whole household, with or without a meal plan: your own items and your meals' ingredients, in shop order, ticked off together.

How Equal House's recipe catalogue reaches you — through a meal plan, or a recipe you pick on equal.house — and where to read the ingredients and method.

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

A minute of slow breathing, guided by a circle, for the moment before a conversation goes wrong.

Tell the other grown-ups what you'd like respected, and set quiet hours when nobody hands you a job.

A private conversation with another grown-up in your household, with help outside the family a tap away.

Free, confidential UK helplines, ready in the app, for when looking one up is more than you can face.

Write it down or say it, share it with one grown-up, and get gentle talking points and a timer, so it becomes a calm chat rather than a row at nine at night.

Thank someone for something they did — from the task itself, from the week in review or from Gratitude — and hear about it when somebody thanks you.

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.

Bric’s tab shows how the last week was shared and how the days ahead look, worked out from your tasks and calendar rather than by AI. With Pro you can also ask him about your week.

Where proposed changes wait for a grown-up, how fair each one would be, what Approve, Change, No thanks and Not me do, and how to undo one.

The short facts about your home that Bric keeps in mind when he answers: how to add, keep, change and remove them, and what he won't keep.

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.

Connect an AI assistant such as Claude to your household, so you can ask about your week and make changes from wherever you already are.

Keep a list of the things that fall due once in a while — car insurance, the MOT, a passport — marked Coming up in good time instead of noticed the week after.

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.

Today's tasks, 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, in shared or private folders, and set a date for anything that should delete itself.

Give the animal's care a place: feeding, walking and medication as shared chores with how to do each, plus the vet, documents and their birthday.

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 a grown-up in the household a weekly exercise plan whose sessions land on their Tasks list, on the days they fall.

What Equal House stores, what stays on your device, where the AI features run, 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.

Clear the household's chores, repeating chores, calendar events and school runs, all of them or only those before a date, and keep your family, logins, documents, pocket money and subscription.