Comparison

Tidy vs CleaningRoutine

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tidy

This app helps you manage household chores and organize your home. It generates daily cleaning checklists, offers expert insights, and tracks your progress to maintain a tidy living space without feeling overwhelmed.

Highlights
  • Daily cleaning checklist generation
  • Expert cleaning insights
  • Progress tracking for motivation
  • Seasonal cleaning checklists
  • Personalized cleaning plans (subscription)
  • Organize everyday tasks
Features
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The Tidy is a simple planner for keeping track of cleaning, organizing, and everyday tasks. Are you ready to get your home under control? You don’t have to choose between a busy life and a clean home. Tidy app is for you if you’re ready to end the overwhelm for good! The Tidy is right for you if you want to: * Enjoy a fresh and tidy home you love without spending endless hours cleaning. * Spend your weekends doing what YOU want to do, rather than playing catchup on the house. * Keep your home clean even when you’re super busy and tired! * Spend less time cleaning and maintain a clean home — that STAYS clean. * End housekeeping overwhelm. The Tidy app includes: - Cleaning insights from experts - Automatically generate a daily cleaning checklist - Stay motivated by seeing your progress - Seasonal cleaning checklists The app is free to download. We also offer an optional subscription package. - You’ll get access to personal cleaning plan - You’ll unlocked premium content Our standard subscription options are: 1 month subscription for $4.99 1 year subscription for $29.99 Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication Terms of Use: https://tidy-cleaning-schedule.web.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tidy-cleaning-schedule.web.app/privacy/ If you have questions you can contact with us by email: chehowsky@gmail.com

About

CleaningRoutine

Features
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Cleaning Routine keeps track of what needs cleaning around your home, so you do not have to hold it all in your head. Open the app and today's jobs are already there. Every task comes back around from the day you actually did it, not the day it was supposed to be done. Clean the shower on Thursday and the next one is the following Thursday. Your schedule follows your life rather than the other way around. **ANSWER THE QUESTIONS YOU ACTUALLY ASK** · What needs cleaning today? · When did I last change the sheets? · Is anything overdue? · I've got ten minutes - what should I do? · How often do I actually clean the bathroom? · What have I already done today? **THE TODAY SCREEN IS THE APP** Overdue, due today, and an optional look at the next few days. Every job has a large tick control on the row itself, so you never open a task just to mark it done. Tick it, watch it schedule itself and disappear, with a few seconds to undo if your thumb was faster than your brain. **SET IT UP IN SECONDS** Choose a room and the app suggests the jobs people actually do in it, already carrying a sensible frequency and a rough duration. Wipe benches, clean the stovetop, change the sheets, clear the gutters. Over 400 cleaning tasks across 18 kinds of room - kitchen through to the car, the pets, the balcony, the home gym and the storage cupboard - all searchable, so you tap rather than type. Or start with a ready-made home: six starter setups from a one-bedroom flat to a family house, each creating common rooms and a starting schedule staggered so you do not open the app to twenty things all due at once. **HOW OFTEN, YOUR WAY** Daily, every few days, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, every three months, every six months, yearly, or a one-off job that is simply done. Give a task a rough duration if you like, or leave it and the app will estimate from how often it recurs. **ROOMS AND ROUTINES** Rooms for the kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, laundry, garage, garden and anywhere else, each with its own icon and colour. Routines for the sets of jobs you do together - a morning reset, the weekly clean, the half hour before guests arrive - run one at a time with Done and Skip. **LIFE HAPPENS** Skip a job this time, do it early, push it back to tomorrow or next week, pick a different date, or pause it entirely while the room is being painted. Nothing is ever stuck. **A RECORD OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE** Every completion is kept: by day, by room, and by task, with each task's own average frequency worked out from what you actually did. Delete a task and the record of having cleaned it stays. **REMINDERS THAT DO NOT NAG** One local notification a day at a time you choose, and only when something is actually due. Overdue work is mentioned once, not every morning for a fortnight. Off by default, and completely optional. **LIGHT AND DARK, AND NO GUILT** Designed to be calm in both light and dark mode, with large touch targets and full screen-reader labels. And the language stays civil: overdue jobs are "3 tasks are waiting for you", never a telling-off. A house that got away from you for a week is not a failure, and the app does not treat it as one. **PRIVATE BY DESIGN** · No account required · No sign-in, no server, no cloud · Works completely offline · Your schedule never leaves your device **FREE VERSION** Genuinely useful on its own: unlimited rooms and unlimited cleaning tasks, every standard frequency, the Today screen, reminders, the whole task library, starter setups, three ready-made routines plus two of your own, and the last 30 days of history. The free version shows a small banner on secondary screens - never on the Today screen, and never while you are ticking jobs off. **PRO. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION** Removes all advertising. Adds Quick Clean, statistics, your complete history, advanced scheduling, unlimited routines with more templates, and accent colours. Every premium feature added in future.

Screenshots

Tidy4 screens
CleaningRoutine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tidy at none against CleaningRoutine's shown. Tidy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.6). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tidy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and CleaningRoutine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tidy ships an update every 4 days, CleaningRoutine every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tidy versus CleaningRoutine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTidyCleaningRoutine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChakhouski ArtsiomSchmapps PTY LTD

Bugs and requests

Tidy

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Data loss and resets
  • Subscription issues and inability to cancel
  • Compatibility problems on certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to create custom rooms and tasks
  • Calendar sync for tasks
  • Family/household member management
  • More flexible scheduling options

CleaningRoutine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tidy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Unlimited$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Unlimited3 Days trial$34.991 Year
1 purchases

CleaningRoutine

One-time1
  • Cleaning Routine Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Tidy free?
Tidy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CleaningRoutine free?
CleaningRoutine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tidy or CleaningRoutine have ads?
CleaningRoutine shows ads; Tidy does not.
Which is updated more often, Tidy or CleaningRoutine?
Tidy ships an update every 4 days, and CleaningRoutine every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tidy was updated on November 3, 2026 and CleaningRoutine on October 31, 2026.

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