Tody, Sweepy or TidyLens: which cleaning app do you need?

A photo of a messy living room, an arrow, and the cleaning plan made from it on a phone

These three apps get mentioned together, but they solve different problems. Two of them are about keeping a home clean over time. One is about the mess in front of you right now. Picking the right one is mostly a matter of knowing which problem you have.

Tody: cleaning by need, not by date

Tody has been around since 2013. You list the rooms in your home and the tasks in each, and say how often each one should be done. Tody then shows what is most overdue, so you clean what needs it instead of following fixed days. It has no deadlines unless you want them, and households can sync a shared plan.

Good for: people who want a steady routine and like seeing the whole house at a glance.

Sweepy: a schedule you share and score

Sweepy also tracks how clean each room is and builds a daily schedule from it. Its focus is the household: chores are split between the people who live there, and points and a leaderboard turn it into a bit of a game.

Good for: families and roommates who want chores divided fairly.

TidyLens: a plan for the room you are looking at

TidyLens starts from a photo. You photograph a messy room and get a plan made for what is actually in it: the plates on the coffee table, the blankets on the couch, the toys on the rug. The plan is split into zones with small steps and a time estimate, and there is a mode that shows a single step at a time. When you finish, you can put a before and an after photo side by side.

Good for: the moment a room has gotten away from you and you don't know where to begin.

Side by side

	Tody	Sweepy	TidyLens
Starts from	A list of your rooms and tasks	A list of your rooms and tasks	A photo of the room
Best at	Recurring upkeep	Sharing chores	Getting out of a mess
Setup	You enter tasks and how often	You enter tasks and who does them	None
Tasks are	The same each cycle	The same each cycle	Written for this room, this time
Motivation	Seeing what is overdue	Points and a leaderboard	One step at a time, before and after

Which one, then?

Your home is mostly fine and you want to keep it that way: Tody.
The argument is about who does what: Sweepy.
You are standing in a room thinking "where do I even start": TidyLens.

They also work together. Plenty of people need a rescue first and a routine after. If today is a rescue day, this is the order to follow.

Tody and Sweepy are described here from their own store pages. They belong to their makers and have no connection with TidyLens.