TidyCalm vs Somehow

Sometimes it's hard to start cleaning. You stand in the doorway of a messy room, and there is so much to do that your brain shuts down and you do nothing. TidyCalm is the solution to the overwhelm. Take a few photos of the room, and TidyCalm turns the mess into a short, easy-to-do list of cleaning steps. Each task includes a rough time estimate with a timer to keep you on track. The big, impossible job becomes just a handful of small, manageable tasks. How it works 1. Snap a photo. Take a few photos of the mess in a single room with your phone's camera. That's all you need to do. 2. Get your steps. TidyCalm reads the room and gives you a short, specific to-do list, like "clear the dishes from the desk," "wipe down the counter," or "collect and throw away the trash," each with its own time estimate. 3. Clean at your pace. Work through the to-do list one task at a time with a timer to keep you mindful, not frantic. The order does not matter, and you can stop whenever you like. The task suggestions and time estimates adapt to how you actually work, so they get more accurate over time. There are no streaks to keep and nothing to lose if you skip a day. You can clean one corner and be finished until you're ready to do more. Your privacy Photos stay private. They live on your device and are sent for analysis only to generate your list. Photos are never stored on our servers and are never used to train AI models. Location and other details are stripped from each photo before it leaves your phone. You can export or delete everything we hold, whenever you want. TidyCalm asks you to sign in with Apple so your rooms and history follow you between devices. For when starting is the hardest part. Privacy Policy: https://tidycalm.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

The hardest part of cleaning is not knowing how. It's starting. Somehow tells you one thing to do. When that's done, it tells you the next one. You never have to look at a messy room and decide where to begin. HOW IT WORKS Pick a room. Somehow shows you a single task, with the steps if you want them. Do it, or skip it — no question asked either way. Three things out of seven is three things done. Tell it how long you have and it gives you a list that fits. Ten minutes, thirty, or whatever's due. WHAT IT NEVER DOES No streaks to break. No red badges. Nothing is ever "overdue" — it will tell you a room was last cleaned twelve days ago, because that's information, but it will never tell you that you're behind. Skip anything, any time, one tap, no follow-up question. Come back after three months and it picks up where you left off without a word about the gap. YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Photos of a room stay inside the app. Not your camera roll, not a server. There is no account and no server at all — Somehow works in airplane mode, because everything it does happens on your phone. FREE All of it. No subscription, no trial, nothing locked. There's a tip jar in Settings if you want it, and it buys nothing.