FlatFlow vs OctoFlat

FlatFlow — Manage Your Home Together Living with flatmates should be easy. Instead, it's awkward texts about overdue rent, arguments over whose turn it is to clean, someone hogging the washing machine for hours, and a shopping list that lives in three different group chats. FlatFlow fixes all of that. It's one shared app for your entire household — bills, chores, laundry, reminders, announcements, and more. Everyone's on the same page, without anyone having to be the nag. NUDGE — WITHOUT THE AWKWARDNESS This is the feature every flatmate needs. Need to remind someone about the dishes, the trash, the noise, or the laundry they left in the machine? Send a Nudge — a gentle, targeted reminder straight to their phone. Pick a category, choose who it's for, and send it anonymously if you'd rather not own it. No passive-aggressive notes. No group chat drama. Just a nudge. STOP CHASING PEOPLE FOR MONEY Split every bill fairly — rent, electricity, gas, water, internet, groceries, subscriptions, and more. Choose equal splits, custom amounts, or itemised breakdowns. Upload receipts straight from your camera roll or files. FlatFlow tracks who's paid and who hasn't, so you don't have to. Recurring bills are available on Plus. END THE CHORE ARGUMENTS Set up fair, rotating chore schedules for your whole household. Daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly — FlatFlow handles the rotation automatically and sends everyone reminders when it's their turn. No more "I didn't know it was my week." KNOW WHO'S ON THE WASHING MACHINE Ever gone to do laundry only to find the machine already in use? Log your laundry sessions in real time so everyone can see what's running and for how long. Plus members can book slots in advance — no more clashes. HEADS UP — KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP Need to let the house know something? Post a Heads Up — a pinned announcement on the shared dashboard. Set it to auto-expire when it's no longer relevant. "Have an interview at 1pm, please keep it down." "Friends coming over at 9pm — sorry for the noise in advance." Everyone sees it the moment they open the app. TRACK MAINTENANCE ISSUES Something broken in the flat? Log it with a priority level and track it from open to resolved. Every flatmate can see what's being dealt with and what still needs attention. ONE SHARED SHOPPING LIST Add items as you think of them, tick them off as you shop, and notify your flatmates when it's time for a top-up. No more arriving home to an empty fridge because nobody knew what was needed. A SHARED CALENDAR FOR HOUSEHOLD LIFE See bills, chore schedules, and maintenance deadlines all in one monthly view. Add custom events for birthdays, parties, inspections, or flat meetings. Never get caught off guard. EVERYTHING AT A GLANCE Your dashboard gives you a live snapshot — outstanding bills, today's tasks, active laundry sessions, pending nudges, and any Heads Ups from your flatmates. Priority tasks are colour-coded: overdue in red, due today in orange, this week in blue. FEATURES AT A GLANCE Nudges: anonymous reminders for any occasion Unlimited bill splitting: equal, custom, or itemised Receipt uploads (photo or PDF) Fair chore rotation with push reminders Real-time laundry activity logs Maintenance issue tracker with priority levels Pinned Heads Up announcements with auto-expiry Shared shopping list with household notifications Shared household calendar with colour-coded events Up to 15 flatmates per household Light, dark, and system theme support Works offline — syncs when back online FREE TO START. PLUS FOR POWER USERS. FlatFlow is free for households getting started. Upgrade to FlatFlow Plus to unlock recurring bills, unlimited nudges and maintenance issues, unlimited Heads Ups, advance laundry slot booking, rota reordering, and more. Terms of Use: https://flatflowapp.com/terms-of-service

Home works better together. Know who paid, who owes, and whose turn it is. OctoFlat is one shared space for the things a household has to keep track of together - the shopping list, the money, the chores, the meals, the calendar. Everyone sees the same thing, so nobody has to be the flat admin. Built for flatshares, families and couples. SHARED COSTS THAT ADD UP CORRECTLY • Log an expense once and OctoFlat works out who owes what • Split evenly, by share, by percentage, or by exact amounts • More than one person can pay for the same expense • Settle up when it suits you, with a running balance in between • Point your camera at a receipt and let it fill in the details for you A SHOPPING LIST EVERYONE CAN SEE • Add from a catalogue of everyday groceries, or type your own • Watch items get ticked off while someone is still in the shop • See roughly what the basket will cost before you reach the till • Turn a finished shop into a shared expense in one tap • Keep a history of what your household actually buys MEALS, AND THE LIST THAT COMES OUT OF THEM • Plan the week together, a meal at a time • Keep the meals you cook often in a shared recipe library • Import a recipe from a link, or paste the text and have it read for you • Search the library, filter it by meal or diet, and vote on what to cook again • Send a whole week of planned meals to the shopping list at once CHORES THAT ROTATE FAIRLY • Set a chore once and let it repeat on its own schedule • Rotate turns automatically, so it is not always the same person • See what is due, what is overdue, and whose turn is next • Fairness scores, streaks and awards, if your household is into that ONE HOUSEHOLD CALENDAR • Shared events everyone can see and add to • What is coming up this week, right on the dashboard DECIDE THINGS IN ONE PLACE • Household chat with polls, pins and reactions • Keep the household decisions out of a group chat full of everything else BILLS, CONTRACTS AND METERS • Rent, insurance and subscriptions in one list • Keep the paperwork alongside them • Recurring expenses that create themselves each month • Log the electricity or water meter and see how usage is tracking AN ASSISTANT THAT KNOWS YOUR HOUSEHOLD • Ask a question about your own spending and get a straight answer WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT PREMIUM ADDS OctoFlat is free to use, and the free tier is a real product rather than a trial: shared lists, chores, meal planning, the calendar, chat, expenses and settling up are all included. Premium removes the ads and lifts the limits for every member of the household - one subscription covers everyone, including members who join later. It raises AI receipt scanning from 1 to 100 scans a month and recipe imports from 3 to 100, removes the daily cap on manually added expenses, and unlocks unlimited chores, saved recipes, budgets, recurring expenses and contracts, the full activity history, and the detailed spending breakdown. There is a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled, you can cancel any time in the App Store, and Premium stays active until the end of the period you paid for. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app before you buy. YOUR HOUSEHOLD'S DATA Your data belongs to your household. You can export all of it whenever you want, on the free tier too. Receipt photos are processed to read the amounts off them and are stored in your household's account. Exactly what is collected and why is set out in full at octoflat.com/privacy. On iPhone and on Android, with the same account and the same household whichever one you pick up. octoflat.com support@octoflat.com