Say thank you
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.
Where to find it
More → Gratitude
Equal House spends most of its time measuring work and pointing out imbalance. Saying thank you is the deliberate other half. Bric’s page shows the latest thank-you of the last 7 days under Recent thanks.
Thank someone for a task
When your partner ticks something off, their task under Done this week shows a Thanks chip for a day and a half.
- Tap Thanks on the task. (Or tap the task and choose Say thanks to …, or use the task’s ⋮ menu. Both work for as long as the task is on the list, and for a child’s jobs too.)
- The message is filled in for you. Change it if you like, then tap Send thanks.
A card says Sent, and the task’s chip changes to Thanked.
Other ways to say it
- The week in review has a Say thanks to … button for each grown-up who got something done that week.
- More → Gratitude → Say thanks lets you thank anyone for anything, not only a task.
- Confirming a child’s job offers Say thanks to … on the bar afterwards, at most once a week for each child. It thanks the child, not the job: see approving completions.
When somebody thanks you
You get a notification: “Sam said thank you for Empty the bins.” Tap it to open Gratitude. Bric holds out a heart on his hand, shows you who it was from and what they said, and offers Say thanks back. Thanks you haven’t looked at yet are marked New.
If you don’t tap the notification, Bric tells you the next time you open Equal House, on a visit when nothing else needs your attention first. Each thank-you is celebrated once on each phone. There is no vibration: something arriving is not something you did.
Children see their thank-yous on their own board and are never sent a notification.
Why it is a feature and not a nice idea
Because a household running on a fairness score alone becomes a household keeping score. The research on this is fairly blunt: noticing what a partner does predicts how a relationship goes rather better than dividing the chores evenly does.
Specific beats general
“Thanks for sorting the bins before the collection” lands better than “thanks for everything”. It says you noticed the actual thing.
Who sees it
The person you thanked, and the rest of the household in Gratitude. That is the point: an unshared thank-you is a diary entry. The notification names the task, never your message, because a lock screen is a public place.
Updated 10 October 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
