Tody vs Sweepy: Which Cleaning App Fits Your Home?
Compare Tody and Sweepy on chore timing, daily effort, household sharing and paid features. Use a small household test to choose the right cleaning app.
Start with Tody if your main question is “What needs cleaning?” Start with Sweepy if it is “How much should I do today?” That is a way to choose which app to try first, not a claim that either app can only do one thing.
Tody emphasizes each chore’s due status. Sweepy’s paid Smart Schedule builds a daily list around an effort budget. Both describe household features and game elements. See Tody’s overview and Sweepy’s overview.
How we compared: We reviewed official product pages and store listings on 4 November 2026. This is a documentation comparison, not a hands-on test of usability, reliability or cleaning results. Play This Life publishes this guide and sells a personal planner that includes chores. We have no affiliation with Tody or Sweepy.
Tody vs Sweepy at a glance
Swipe the table sideways to compare the apps.
| Decision | Tody | Sweepy |
|---|---|---|
| What to clean next | Task intervals and a color-coded “dueness” indicator. | Room cleanliness indicators and filters for difficulty and dirtiness. |
| Daily workload | A list of chores that are due. | Premium generates a daily checklist from your effort settings. |
| Sharing the work | Assign or rotate chores; Premium+ adds household sync and contribution targets. | Household members, a leaderboard and parental task approval. |
| Motivation | Monthly challenges with Dusty, its dust-bunny character. | Points, cleaning streaks and household competition. |
Sources: Tody features, Tody plans and Sweepy features. These descriptions do not establish which app is easier to use.
Check the paid features before choosing
Tody lists a free, ad-free core plan with chore assignment and rotation. Premium adds multiple homes and a focus timer. Shared live access is Premium+, a separate tier priced by household size. Assignment on one phone and syncing between people’s phones are different requirements. Check Tody’s current pricing for your household.
Sweepy says custom tasks are free and automatic daily scheduling is Premium. Its official App Store listing describes monthly and yearly subscriptions with a three-day trial that renews unless canceled. Confirm your local price, household access and renewal terms in the purchase screen; we have not verified a complete free-versus-paid feature list for Sweepy.
A useful cost comparison is the total needed for everyone who will use the plan. Before starting a trial, check its renewal date and whether each person needs a purchase. Do not assume a free download includes every feature in the table.
Three situations to test
You clean alone and forget occasional jobs
Start with one room and six tasks. Include something frequent, something weekly and an occasional job you often forget. Check whether you can find the next useful chore without rebuilding the list each morning.
For example, use “wipe counters,” “empty bins,” “clean sink,” “vacuum,” “change bedding” and “wipe cupboard shelves.” Set frequencies that fit your home. The useful question is whether the list reflects what you actually need, rather than how many tasks the app suggests during setup.
Your available energy changes each day
Compare a short cleaning day with a longer one. Write your available time down before opening the app, choose work that fits, and record how long it actually took. Effort points and time are different measures: a job that is easy for one person may take another much longer.
Count both cleaning and planning time. If adjusting the plan takes most of your short session, reduce the number of tasks and try again before adding more rooms.
You share chores with a partner or roommates
Agree what “done” means for each job before comparing apps. “Clean bathroom” might include the sink, toilet and floor; it should not mean something different to each person.
Then test the whole handoff: one person completes a chore, another finds the updated plan, and both can tell who acts next. Check this on the devices you will actually use, within the features available on your chosen plan. A leaderboard does not by itself show that the split feels fair.
If you first need to agree turns, use our free chore rotation generator. It makes a chart and CSV without an account. It balances chore counts, not time or difficulty, and does not provide a shared live plan.
A small scorecard for your trial
Use the same chores and frequencies in both apps. Try the free features first; only start a paid trial if you intend to evaluate its extra features and accept its renewal terms. You do not need to subscribe to both to compare the basics.
- Setup: Record minutes spent creating one usable room.
- Finding work: Can you identify a suitable chore in under a minute?
- Recording work: Can you find when a chore was last completed?
- Recovery: After a skipped day, can you understand what to do next?
- Household handoff: If sharing matters, can everyone see a completion and the next responsibility?
These are suggested checks, not results from our testing. Choose the app that solves your most frequent problem with less upkeep. A long feature list matters less if you stop opening the plan.
When you may want a different approach
If you only want a visible weekly checklist, our free cleaning schedule template includes an editable example and a blank printable PDF. It needs no account. Print your edits before leaving the page; they are not saved.
If you want your own chores alongside projects, habits and workouts, Play This Life’s personal chore planner is another option. Ginger can help organize the work, and completed chores contribute to your progress. It is a paid personal planner with a trial; see current pricing and trial terms. It does not replace a shared household plan in Tody or Sweepy.
Keep the choice small: identify the job your current system fails at, test that job, and keep the plan you can return to.