Built in the UK, for UK homes

The most boring
app in the world.

Deliberately. Bills, boiler, MOT, warranties, meter readings — your whole home, quietly filed and gently remembered. No streaks. No dopamine. No dashboard confetti.

Yes, I’m fun at parties.

Free to use — your own Claude key, or our credits.

The House Holder dashboard on a phone, showing what's overdue and due this week

Reviews nobody asked for

“F**king boring. I use it every day.”
— Mark, the founder (biased)
“I opened it to log a meter reading and fell asleep. Five stars.”
A beta user, allegedly
“10/10. Would file paperwork again.”
Someone’s dad
“I used to keep everything in a drawer. The drawer has been released back into the wild.”
A reformed drawer owner
“It nagged me about the gutters. The gutters, for f**k’s sake. …They did need doing.”
Mark’s neighbour, probably
“My other half asked when the boiler was last serviced. I knew. I KNEW.”
A household hero, unverified
“It’s like having a very boring butler. We love him.”
A household we didn’t pay
“Renewal came round. I switched in time. I felt nothing.”
An early user, emotionally beige
“Four passports, four expiry dates, and it warns me a year early. I’ve never been so bored — or so unlikely to be turned away at the airport.”
A dangerously organised parent

We wrote these ourselves. Except the founder’s — he really does talk like that.

What it actually does

Here is the exciting part.
There isn’t one.

Instead, here is everything it quietly does so you never have to think about it again.

thehouseholder.diy/belongings
Boiler detail page: make, model, serial, replacement estimate and maintenance notes

Belongings

Every appliance. Every manual. One boring place.

Give it a make and model; it finds the manual, a photo, what it’d cost to replace, and where the paperwork lives. The boiler now has a file. So does the lawnmower.

“The good boiler. Ten-year warranty, on the condition we never miss a service. So we do not.”

thehouseholder.diy/finance
Finance page showing money in, money out and where it goes

Bills & budget

Bank statement in. Budget out. No spreadsheet was harmed.

Forward a statement and it sorts the outgoings into where your money actually goes — then flags the renewals quietly draining you, a month before they auto-renew.

Comfortably in the black — the takeaways are where it leaks.

thehouseholder.diy/meters
Meters page with electricity and gas usage charts

Meters

Meter readings that draw their own charts.

Photograph the meter on the 1st. The number lands, the line moves, and a year later you can prove exactly what the cold snap cost. Riveting stuff.

POV: it’s the 1st of the month and the reading takes 11 seconds.

thehouseholder.diy/documents
Documents page: paperwork read, named and filed against the right belonging

Paperwork

Snap it. It reads, names and files itself.

Upload any bill, receipt, manual or certificate. It reads it, names it, files it against the right boiler or car, and pulls out the dates that matter. The three ring binders under the stairs can retire.

Warranty claim approved because I had the receipt. HAD. THE. RECEIPT.

Empty, and already tidy

Most apps greet you with a blank void. This one gives you shelves.

Before you’ve added a single thing, it already knows where things go. Boring, yes. But the tidy kind — the kind you can actually start from.

thehouseholder.diy
Get started checklist: add belongings, file paperwork, add vehicles, invite household
A checklist, not a blank pageFour calm steps, in any order.
thehouseholder.diy/inbox
Empty inbox with a single tidy line explaining what will land here
Nothing waitingAn empty inbox that still tells you what it’s for.
The same empty inbox on a phone
Same calm, in your pocketMobile-first, because house admin happens standing up.

Email your receipts in

Forward the receipt. Forget the receipt.

Every household gets its own inbox address. Forward a bill, a receipt or a warranty PDF and it lands in your Inbox — read, named and filed against the right thing. Senders it doesn’t recognise are politely held for you to approve.

1

Forward it

To your private inbox address — from any phone, any inbox, mid-queue at the tip.

2

It reads it

Supplier, amounts and the dates that matter, pulled out automatically.

3

It files it

Against the right boiler, car or bill. You never touch a folder.

thehouseholder.diy/settings
Settings: your private inbound email address and the list of allowed senders
Your own inbound addressWith an allow-list, so only your mail gets in.
thehouseholder.diy/inbox
The inbox where forwarded documents land, waiting to be filed
Lands in your InboxWaiting to be filed — or already sorted, if you let the AI.

Your data, always yours

Leave whenever you like.
Take the whole house with you.

One click zips your entire home into a tidy folder tree that mirrors your properties — documents, photos, manuals and receipts, filed exactly where you’d expect. Drop it onto any computer. No lock-in, no hostage-taking.

Passports and passwords are flagged and kept separate — because some things should never sit quietly in a shared folder.

thehouseholder.diy/settings
Data export: a folder tree that mirrors your properties, with a heads-up that passports and passwords are handled separately

On the big screen too

Also boring on a bigger screen.

A phone app that grew up. The same calm, with room to spread out — a proper sidebar, and your whole home at a glance.

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The House Holder desktop dashboard with sidebar navigation
thehouseholder.diy/belongings
Belongings grouped into home systems on desktop
thehouseholder.diy/finance
Finance and budget on desktop

A word of warning

“I put the sarcasm slider on brutal. Now the app calls my budget ‘The Haemorrhage’ — and I’ve never respected software more.”
— A man who asked for this, and got it
Settings with sarcastic mode on: modules renamed to The Haemorrhage, The Guilt Pile, Wishful Thinking

Join the waitlist.
Try to contain your excitement.

New households get in a few at a time. It’s free to use — bring your own Claude key, or use our credits for the AI bits.

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Built for my own use — made for everyone’s.