Sweepy Alternative: Pick One By Why You Are Leaving

You did not type "sweepy alternative" out of curiosity. You hit something: a paywall when you tried to add your partner, a setup screen asking how often you clean the toilet brush, or the slow realisation that the app tracks your floors beautifully and knows nothing about the rest of your week. (This is about Sweepy: Home Cleaning Schedule, not the unrelated phone storage cleaner with a similar name.)

One disclosure first, because almost nobody on this search result page makes it: we build Houseloop, which is one of the options below. Sweepy is a good app, and for a lot of people reading this, the honest answer is to stay on it.

Why do people search for a Sweepy alternative?

Four specific limits send people looking:

• You cannot get a second person in for free. The free version is one user. Multiple users, their assignments and the leaderboard sit behind premium.
• The setup is heavy. Cubby's review describes an overwhelming setup that asks you a frequency question per task, and that is the shape of it: you model every room, task and interval before the app does anything useful.
• The red gets loud. Reviewers describe stacked red overdue bars as demotivating rather than motivating once you fall behind.
• Scope. Sweepy is cleaning-only by design. No groceries, no shared calendar, no general household to-dos.

What does Sweepy's free version actually include?

Free Sweepy is essentially one person managing tasks manually. Google Play's store description states the free version allows one user while premium allows a family to add multiple users with their own assignments and a leaderboard, and Sweepy's own site puts the auto-generated everyday checklist (Smart Schedule) on the premium side. On price, the US App Store currently lists Sweepy at $3.99 a month and $19.99 a year with a 3-day trial, while older write-ups still quote lower figures, so verify the live listing rather than trusting any blog, including this one. And to be fair to a genuinely liked product: 4.7 stars from around 10,000 App Store ratings, 4.5 stars from roughly 18,400 Google Play reviews, and over a million downloads.

Which Sweepy alternative fits a cleaning-only household?

If cleaning really is the whole problem, stay inside the cleaning category rather than upgrading scope you do not need.

• Tody if the points system is what is not landing. It uses area-based dueness instead of leaderboards, with a free tier, Premium at $9.99 a year, and Premium+ sold as Duo, Family and Team ($25, $40 and $80) for household sync and FairShare targets.
• Donetick if you want free and are technical. Open source, AGPL-3.0, self-hostable with Docker, listed with web and mobile clients. You maintain it.
• HomeRoutines if your objection is the subscription itself: listed at $4.99 once, offline, on iPhone.
• Cozi if you want the family calendar more than the cleaning model, with Cozi Gold at $39 a year.

One selection criterion nobody mentions: check when the app was last updated and whether you can get your data out. OurHome, a longtime fixture of these lists, was reportedly unpublished from Google Play in September 2023, with users saying they can no longer log in. A chore app that dies takes your history with it.

What if cleaning is only one of the things your house runs?

Then you did not outgrow Sweepy's cleaning model, you outgrew its scope. This is the only case where Houseloop is the answer, and we will not pretend to beat Sweepy at room-by-room cleanliness scoring. What we do instead is hold the other systems: a shared grocery list, tasks with a real handoff and reminders that reach the person actually assigned, repeatable routines, and a baby tracker with shared night duty, so a cleaning app plus a list app plus a calendar plus a notes app stops being four places to fall out of sync. If the split between two adults is the sore spot, our chore app for couples page covers that specifically.

On price, plainly, because this whole post is about verified pricing: new households can create up to three active tasks and invite one other person before starting the trial. Plus is $7.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial on the monthly plan that auto-bills unless you cancel, or $69.99 a year with no trial. It is billed once per household, so one person pays and everyone else joins at no extra cost, which matters if your reason for leaving Sweepy was being charged to include your partner. The iPhone app is live and it runs in any browser, including on Android, with a native Android app still to come. Invited guests can view the shared workspace read-only.

Who it is not for

Skip Houseloop if any of these describe you:

• You live alone. Sweepy free covers one user and costs nothing. Nothing here is an upgrade.
• You want cleanliness scoring specifically. Room decay, effort points and a leaderboard are Sweepy's actual product, and we do not replicate them.
• You want free, or a one-time purchase. We have neither. Donetick and HomeRoutines are the honest answers.
• Your complaint is one bug. Report it and wait a release rather than migrating a year of history.

Whatever you pick, do not repeat the setup mistake. Screenshot your current frequencies, then enter about ten tasks in the new app for week one, not fifty. The test that matters is whether anything still gets logged in week two.