Spotless: A simply clean home 4+

The Best Cleaning App on the Market

Firstly, there is a once off payment option to remove limitations, no subscription based service. That’s a massive win.

The layout and display of the chores is excellent. Adding rooms and new chores is really easy.

10/10

Not the best

Very disappointed in this app. The premise is great, however once tasks are input, the app seems to have difficulty with updating them. I wanted to change a task from being completed from three monthly to six monthly, and no matter how many times I entered it and saved the data the app did not update it. I had to delete the task and enter the whole thing again. There also seems to be no option to update how clean or dirty a task is, aside from entering it when you first write the task or checking it off your list completely. When I input my tasks, I left the clean scale at the default setting (reasonably clean) expecting I would be able to update this later when I had finished entering all the tasks from the room, but to do this you need to delete the task and enter it again. Pretty disappointed, as I paid for the full version of the app but functionality isn’t as I expected.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thanks for using, and reviewing, Spotless. It sounds like there are two issues you're describing.
1. You're having trouble editing a task, to change its frequency. You should be able to do this by tapping the edit button in a room, then the pencil icon on a task. The next due date for your task won't change immediately, but the next time you complete the task, it will be due again according to the new frequency you set. If this isn't happening for you, please contact us using the support link on our app store page, so we can work out why.

2. You'd like to be able to change the starting state of a task after first entering it. You're right, the app doesn't currently allow that. The starting state of a task is only used to determine the first time it needs to be cleaned after you enter it. After that, it will be automatically due again each time you complete it, according to the schedule you set (which, as above, you can change). If you think it would be useful to be able to change it, we'd love to discuss that with you and find out the reasons and uses. We're always looking for ways to make Spotless work as well as it can for most people, while still focussing on our main goal: being the simplest cleaning app available. Again, please contact us directly if you'd like to discuss it.

Needs additional features

I downloaded the app and while putting in all my tasks it said if I wanted more than 10 I’d have to pay the one off amount, I didn’t have a problem paying as I assumed it would come with additional features but so far I can’t see any difference.

Definitely suggest they update so you can chose what days you want to do tasks, it is super annoying where it picks for you based on “how clean” you say it currently is.

It would be helpful to see what tasks you have coming up that week, so you can plan / adjust what you’re tasks you’re doing.

You also have to delete a task and re-ad if you want to change the cleanliness of a task (so that you could make it due on another day).

Overall it’s just ok, if given then chance I wouldn’t have purchased the app and would have stuck with the free “reminders” app that came with my phone.

Hopefully the developers read some of the reviews and make some changes (I didn’t read the reviews until after I’d purchased which was my own fault).