You shouldn't be the only one who remembers.

The rule we break

Most home apps do one thing. That was never about you. It was about what they could sell.

A calendar app. A list app. A meal app. Another for what's in the cupboards. Each one solves a single problem for a single person in the house, because a single problem is the easy thing to sell.

It was never a limit on what a household could handle. So we ignored it, and built for the whole house instead, which is how you get back the hours you were spending holding it together.

One subscription instead of six or more, and it grows as the household does.

Everything in one place

HomeAtlas holds it for you

You won't use all of it on day one, and you're not meant to. Start with the corner that's bothering you most; the rest is waiting for the day it matters. It all runs off one household record, so each part already knows what the others do.

• My Family

  Who's meant to be where, and the dates on the letters.

  • Family calendar
  • School paper inbox
  • Children & kid logins
  • Homework help

  • Per-child tasks and chores
  • Circle access for helpers
  • Food profiles for fussy eaters
  • Home invites and codes

• My Kitchen

  What's in there, what to cook tonight, what to buy.

  • Pantry, fridge, freezer & bar
  • Use-by dates & inventory
  • Meal planning & recipes
  • Shopping list

  • Cook mode with timers
  • Kids' versions of a dish
  • Barcode and receipt scanning
  • Cocktails and the bar
  • What you actually paid

• My Workshop

  The room or project you keep meaning to get to, broken into steps.

  • My Inspiration
  • My Tools
  • My Projects
  • Materials & costings

  • Project & decor inspiration from photos
  • Task plans you can share out
  • Where each tool lives
  • Lending to friends
  • Public project pages
  • Events and gatherings

• My Garden

  What needs watering, feeding and pruning, and when it last was.

  • Plant identification
  • Plant & lawn care
  • Plants by location
  • Garden shopping

  • A photo tells it what the plant is
  • Lawn areas and their schedules
  • Swapping produce with friends

• My Pets

  Who needs feeding, worming and a vet, without one person remembering.

  • Care schedules
  • Training
  • Vet passports
  • Vaccination records

  • A handover pack for whoever's minding them
  • Weights and history over time
  • Pet shopping

• My Admin

  The drawer of paperwork, and the dates hiding inside it.

  • Snap a bill onto the calendar
  • Receipts
  • Manuals, warranties & insurance
  • Appliance & vehicle service dates

  • Model and serial numbers for when it breaks
  • Bill reminders before the due date
  • Vehicles, mowers and their servicing

Your shopping, handed over

The list leaves your head, and it leaves the house

Whoever is at the shop opens the list and sees what the house actually needs, put there by whoever noticed it first. Tap an item and it opens at your usual store, ready to add.

Over 120 stores are built in, across supermarkets, hardware, garden, pet and chemist. You pick your regular one and it stays picked.

The fair questions

You've never felt this free before

You already have a system: a shared calendar, a group chat, a notes app and a drawer: four places, none of which know anything about the other three. Other apps don't do it the way we do. Here's that claim broken down, and every fair question we get asked, in one place.

• We use a shared calendar and a group chat.

  They hold dates and messages, and they hold them well. What they can't do is know anything. Every entry is one somebody had to remember first, and then type.

  • A calendar stores what you typed. HomeAtlas reads the school letter and fills the dates in for you.
  • It knows the dishwasher's warranty runs out in March, because it read the sticker on the back.
  • It knows there are three meals in the freezer, because it saw the shelf.
  • It knows you already own that drill bit, so you don't buy a second one.
  • It knows when the vehicle registration is due, and which manual you need when something stops working.
  • One place. Nobody has to check four and hope.
• I've tried apps like this. I stopped after a fortnight.

  Almost certainly because it wanted everything entered before it gave you anything. That's the trade we refused.

  • No setup wall. Photograph a shelf and get dinner ideas the same evening.
  • The camera is the keyboard. There is nothing to type in.
  • It's useful on day one, not after a weekend of data entry.
  • If you never open the settings, it still works.
  • Seven days free. If it hasn't earned its place by then, it hasn't, and you'll know.
• Another subscription, on top of all the others.

  Fair. This one is meant to end a few of the others, not sit alongside them.

  • One price for the whole household, not per person.
  • The meal planner, the pantry tracker, the pet reminders, the document vault and the room designer are one bill here, not five.
  • Your partner, the kids and anyone helping all join free.
  • If it turns out to be an addition rather than a replacement, don't buy it.
• I'd have to get everyone else to use it.

  No, and this is the part most people get wrong about it.

  • It's useful with exactly one person in it.
  • The point isn't coordinating everybody. It's that the house stops living in your head.
  • If the others join, they join free and see it already filled in. There's nothing to explain.
  • If they never join, you've still put the load down.
• I don't want photographs of my house on someone's server.

  Reasonable. So the controls are yours, and they're immediate.

  • You choose exactly what each person in the household can see.
  • Children's accounts are locked down by default.
  • Export everything, or delete the lot, from a button in your account. No email, no waiting on us.
• What if I only want one part of it?

  Then use one part of it. Plenty of people will only ever open the kitchen.

  • Nothing nags you about the parts you're not using.
  • The smallest plan is priced for exactly that person.
  • The rest is still there the day it matters, already set up.
• What happens after the seven days?

  Your plan starts automatically: $2.99 a week for Home on weekly billing, or $9.99 a month if you picked monthly billing, charged to the payment method you started with. We'll email you before that happens, with the amount, the date, and a one-click way to cancel. Cancel during the trial and you're never charged; everything you added stays saved either way.

• Do I have to set it all up before it's useful?

  No. Pick one thing (dinner tonight is the usual one) and the rest can wait until you want it.

• Someone invited me. Do I need to pay?

  No. Open their invite link and create your account. You're covered by their subscription. No card, no charge, no trial clock.

• What about my family's information?

  Kid accounts are locked down. You choose exactly what each person can see. You can export or delete everything at any time.

• How accurate is the photo scanning, really?

  Good enough to save you the typing, not good enough to trust blind, which is why nothing it finds is saved until you've looked at it. It reads a shelf into a list, sorts that into new, already-yours and can't-see-it-any-more, and waits. Anything it misreads you fix in a tap; anything it misses you add the normal way.

• Does it order the shopping for me?

  It doesn't buy anything. It takes you to the shop with the list. For most shops that means each item opens as its own search and you tap through them, because they won't accept a whole list from another app. The part that saves the real time is the other direction: one tap when you get home and everything you bought files itself into the right cupboard.

• Is my usual shop supported?

  Probably: over 120 are built in across supermarkets, hardware, garden, pet and chemist, and you pick your regular one as the default. If yours isn't there, the list still works as a list.