Apps · A calm home routine
Daily routines, one zone of the house each week, and the pantry, in a quiet app that two people share.
Private build
I follow the FlyLady system for keeping house: small routines every day, and one zone of the home each week. I wanted a calm cleaning app that would help me focus, and the FlyLady app felt too clunky and outdated.
I also wanted it somewhere my husband could see and use it too. So I built Hestia, and now we keep one household across both our phones.
The problem
The routines worked. The app I used to follow them was clunky, and it wasn’t something I wanted to open every morning.
The list lived on my phone, so my husband couldn’t see what was done or what was next.
I needed help to focus: one thing at a time, with a timer running.
The pantry, the shopping and the week’s plans belong in the same place as the chores.
Who it’s for
Daily routines, a zone a week and a timer, in a calmer app.
Join with a six-letter code, and both phones show the same list.
Filter the list down to the small jobs, or to the tools you already have out.
The pantry knows what has run out, and the shopping list sorts itself by where you buy things.
What it does
Daily essentials are marked for the morning or the evening. Tick one off and it moves to the bottom of the list.
Each week has one part of the house to focus on, from the kitchen to the bathrooms. The progress bar fills as you go, and on Monday Hestia offers the next zone.
Choose low, medium or high effort, and Hestia hides whatever is too much for today. You can also filter by the tools you have out.
Tap a task to give it the whole screen, with a timer and a soft chime. Done takes you to the next one.
Mark something as run out and it goes on the shopping list, sorted by where you buy it: the supermarket, the wet market, the pharmacy or online.
Dinner plans, class times and bin day for each day of the week, rotating at the top of the home screen.
Each day you tick something off, a plant grows. Miss a day and the plants wilt until you water them, and none of them are lost.
Share a six-letter code and the other person joins. Whatever one of us ticks off shows on the other phone straight away.
How it was made
Hestia is built with agentic assistance. The agents wrote the app and the server behind it. Which parts of FlyLady to keep, how it should feel, and what the two of us needed, I decided.
Where it’s heading
Next is switching on the routine reminders: a nudge in the morning and the evening when something on the list is still waiting, and nothing when it’s all done.
Private for now
Hestia was built for our home and stays private. If you follow FlyLady, or want a calmer way to keep house, I’d like to hear from you.
Tell me how you keep your home running now. If enough people ask, it’s the kind of thing I’d open up.
I build private tools like this for a family, a team or a single project. Yours would be made around how you work.
About an app, copy, training or a talk. I'd love to hear what you're working on.
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