# Pool & Home Care — Pool chemistry & home upkeep > Pool chemistry & home upkeep (iPhone/iPad app by Jorge Palominos Villegas.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pool-and-home-care/id6789729628 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jorge Palominos Villegas](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789728455) - Category: Utilities, Food & Drink - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 12 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish - Released: 2026-07-23 - Data updated: 2026-08-18 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pool-and-home-care/id6789729628/reviews.md ## What is Pool & Home Care? Pool Flow turns a test strip into exact doses for your pool — and keeps the rest of the house on schedule too. No account, no ads, no tracking. POOL CARE THAT DOES THE MATH • Scan a test strip with your camera — pads are read on-device (HTH strips), or let AI read other brands with your own API key • Manual entry for any test kit • Exact dosing: how much of which chemical, in metric or imperial, sized to your pool's volume • Water balance (LSI) with temperature, and target ranges you control • Test history and trends so you can see what's drifting • An AI pool assistant that reads your own history, inventory and journal before it advises UPKEEP FOR THE REST OF IT • Home and vehicle maintenance on their own schedules — filters, servicing, whatever you'd otherwise forget • Due-now first, so the list tells you what to do rather than what exists • Optional reminders KITCHEN TOOLS • Multiple named timers with alerts • Smart conversions — cups to grams with real ingredient densities • Save recipes, or import one by pasting its web address — read on your device • Plan meals and build a grocery list from them • Connect a Bluetooth kitchen scale for live weight CONVERT ANYTHING • 9 categories: length, mass, volume, temperature, area, speed, energy, pressure and data FREE VS PRO Free: the strip analyzer, the AI pool assistant, the chemical calculator, LSI, test history, upkeep tasks, timers, conversions, the converter and backup. Pro is a one-time purchase (Family Sharing supported): maintenance log with PDF/CSV export, chemical inventory, pool journal, trends, multiple pools, recipes and meal planning, and the Bluetooth scale connection. No subscription required. Optional AI features use your own provider API key — nothing leaves your device unless you add one. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Smart Utility Hub Pro | $9.99 | one-time | | Personal Suite Pro | $29.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0 — 2026-08-15 Utility Hub is now Pool & Home Care. • Same app, same data, everything you had is still here. The new name says what it's best at — pool water chemistry — and home upkeep, the kitchen tools and the converters haven't gone anywhere. • A new icon, and the app to match. It's a water drop now, so it looks like what it does, and the app's accent colour moved from grey to the same blue — opening it finally feels like the icon you tapped. • The AI Pool Assistant is free. It used to need Pro and your own AI provider key, which meant buying Pro got you a screen that did nothing until you went and set up a key somewhere else. It now needs only the key, the same as the strip reader always has. • VoiceOver says what a control will do — swapping units and opening the strip camera now describe their effect, not just their name. ### 1.5 — 2026-08-11 See where you stand at a glance. • Upkeep now shows how many of your jobs are on schedule, and the Pool screen shows how many of the recent weeks you actually tested your water. Both are counts, not streaks — miss a week and it costs you one week, it never wipes the slate. • Start over if you need to. Settings › Backup & Restore now has Delete All Data, the same option Finora Budget and Vitals Flow already had. Everything stays on your device, so make a backup first if you might want it later. • Restore can replace, not just merge. When you load a backup you now choose: merge it into what you have, or replace everything with it. Replacing is the one that can undo a deletion. • Job names are readable at the largest text sizes, and testing reminders have moved into their own Notifications section — where the other two apps keep theirs. ### 1.4 — 2026-08-11 Now it looks after your home and your car too — not just your pool. • Upkeep — a new tab for the jobs that are easy to forget. Add what you look after (furnace filter, smoke alarms, gutters, oil change, tire rotation…) from a list of common ones or your own, pick how often it repeats, and see what's due now and what's coming. Tap the tick when it's done and the cycle restarts. Free for your first three tasks; Pro adds unlimited tasks and a reminder on the day each one is due. • Meal planning and a shopping list (Pro) — plan your week from your saved recipes, then turn the whole week into a shopping list in one tap. Ingredients are grouped, and amounts measured the same way are added up. Where two recipes measure the same thing differently — a cup here, grams there — both are shown side by side rather than guessed at, so you always know what you're actually buying. Tick things off as you shop; rebuilding the list keeps your ticks and your own additions. • Import recipes from the web (Pro) — paste a link and Utility Hub reads it on your device, pulling in ingredients, steps and servings to review and save. The only page it contacts is the one you paste. • Arrange your Pool screen, search your chemical inventory, a Done button on every keyboard, and gentler motion if you use Reduce Motion. • A quick first-run intro: no account, nothing leaves your device, one-time purchase. Fixes • Marking a job done now works with VoiceOver on Upkeep and the pool maintenance schedule. • The kitchen timer's reset button now announces itself instead of being read as an unnamed button. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-11 Never run low, stay on schedule — plus your Personal Suite, together. • Know before you run out (Pro) — Chemical Inventory now estimates when each chemical you keep on hand will run out, based on the doses you log, and flags the ones running low so you can restock in time. • Pool maintenance schedule (Pro) — keep recurring pool-care tasks (brush, backwash, check pump…) on a schedule that shows what's due, upcoming, and overdue. Mark a task done to advance its cycle, add common tasks in one tap, and get an optional reminder when each is due. • Converter favorites — pin the conversions you use most and jump back to them in a tap. • Personal Suite hub & widget — see your other suite apps at a glance and jump between them in a tap. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-06 • New: search your recipe library and pool journal. • Pull down to add a test or entry — now it opens instantly. • More accurate dosing: the app never estimates from a pool size you didn't enter. • Smoother number entry throughout the app. • The bring-your-own-key pool assistant now supports more AI providers. • Localization polish (including Mexican Spanish) and a fix so redeemed Pro codes unlock reliably. ## More apps by Jorge Palominos Villegas - [Finora Budget](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finora-budget/id6789728453) - [Vitals Flow](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vitals-flow/id6789729405) All apps by Jorge Palominos Villegas: https://appshunter.io/developer/6789728455 ## Related topics [smart hub app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/smart-hub-app) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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