Choose what you are notified about
Today's tasks, reminders and the wellbeing check-in — and how to turn any of them down.
Where to find it
More → Settings
Equal House sends few notifications by design, and each can be turned off.
Today’s tasks
One message a day saying how many tasks you have that day: “You have 3 tasks to complete today.” It counts the tasks that are yours and the ones anyone can pick up, and tapping it opens the Tasks tab. It is on at 09:00; change the time or turn it off in More → Settings → Reminders & notifications → Today’s tasks. It is set on each phone, so everyone chooses their own. While Bric’s morning line is on, it takes the place of Today’s tasks.
Tasks do not remind you one by one. A task has a day rather than a time, so a single prompt in the morning replaces the handful of reminders that used to arrive together.
Reminders
Per event and per routine, with a household default. See reminders.
The wellbeing check-in
An occasional, gentle prompt asking how you are doing. More → Settings → Wellbeing check-in, with its own send time, and it can be switched off entirely.
Bric’s morning line
From version 1.16.0 of the app.
Turn on More → Settings → Reminders & notifications → Bric’s morning line and Equal House sends you one short notification at 07:05 saying what today holds and how the days ahead look, such as “Thursday looks heavy: 9 jobs across the house.” It comes only on mornings when you have not opened the app yet and today has something on. It gives days and numbers only, never anybody’s name, so nothing personal shows on your lock screen. Tapping it opens Bric. It takes the place of Today’s tasks: while it is on, your phones stop sending Today’s tasks, so a morning brings one notification about today, not two, and Reminders & notifications says “Replaced by Bric’s morning line” under Today’s tasks. Turn it off and Today’s tasks comes back at the time you chose. It is off until you turn it on, and it is just for you, on every phone you sign in on.
Things that notify because they involve other people
A few things tell you because somebody else did something and you would want to know:
- A task assigned to you being completed
- A device being set up for kids
- A suggestion waiting for your yes, which opens Bric’s page, or a forwarded email waiting in Waiting for You
- A Safe Space message
Quiet while you are in Safe Space or Wellbeing
A notification that arrives while you are in Safe Space or Wellbeing, or while the microphone is on, goes into your notifications without a sound, a vibration or a banner. Reminders your phone has already scheduled still go off at their time. See quiet places.
Turning everything off
Your phone’s own settings for Equal House will silence all of it, if that is what you want.
Updated 11 October 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
