Tody Ratings and Reviews

Worth The Money

There are three modes of cleaning. Relaxed, Standard, and Proactive. By choosing your style of cleaning it will automatically suggest the amount of days, weeks, or months for the preprogrammed cleaning guide. This is really amazing especially since it suggests things that someone might forget like washing your outside Windows or wiping down your inside doors. I highly suggest you just load everything in that is listed for each area unless of course you don't own it (e.g. I don't have glass shower doors in our upstairs bathroom so I didn't add in that task). It's well worth the money and the capsule colors keep you in line with what area needs the most attention. I personally check each zone every day to see what's in the red (meaning what's either due or behind). Also I love how it keeps track of how overdue I am on a task. For instance I actually made a zone called cat, lol. In the zone I put throughly wash cat box every two months, empty poo every day, and change the pellets monthly (we use the Breeze system), as well as change pee pad every ten days. It is amazing how many times I get busy and time slips by and it will read throughly clean litter box as all red and I will think to myself man two months went by already? My only suggestion for using this app is not to wait for the main area to be red. Check the areas daily. There is notifications that you can set to remind you when tasks are due or overdue so you can set those up as well. I love this app.

Great Household Organizational Tool

This tool allows you to set a frequency for each household task. Tasks are organized by room, and there are also options for the whole house, garage, and outdoors tasks. Initially, you choose one of three levels for how clean you want to keep things. This sets a default frequency for each task to get you started. Then, you go through and adjust the tasks, areas, and frequencies to your liking. The app creates a cleaning list and shows tasks with color coding to represent how urgent/ close to due the tasks are- green for not due for awhile, red for overdue, etc. There is a pause button for seasonal tasks. For example, packing school bags can be paused for the summer and weeding the garden can be paused for the winter. It is also possible to schedule infrequent tasks that happen every few months or even yearly. The thing that makes this better than a typical cleaning checklist or schedule is that items can easily be scheduled for unusual frequencies. Maybe every week is too often to clean the shower, but two weeks is too infrequent. It is easy to set the frequency to 10 days because the app will keep track for you, optimizing your use of time. And if you don’t get to it, the app will keep rolling it over to the next day for you. If you decide to do it a couple days early, the app will adjust for that, too. This is one of the most helpful apps that I use day-to-day. I highly recommend it.

Helps me focus

This app is wonderful. I’m generally a pretty tidy person but struggled with how to maintain our household once I had three young kids close together. I’ll admit sometimes the app overwhelms me because it bosses me around. But it’s a good kind of bossing and three main benefits have come of using this app: 1. It has helped me not get so hung-up on certain tasks. It has helped me to just get it done with the tasks I tend to put off. Cleaning the fish tank used to be something I’d let slip because it’s a pain. But in reality it only takes like 10 minutes and I’d rather just get it done than have the app turn red on the task! Haha! 2. It has helped me to only focus on what’s right in front of me. In the past I’d look at all the things not getting done and berate myself about them but those days are gone because I know that messy room or that cluttered closet will have its designated time, and if that time isn’t today, I can let it go! 3. I just love having everything in the same place. I put my freelance work, bills, garden tasks, daily Bible reading, cooking, hobbies, random reminders like signing kids up for swimming lessons, even taking showers (yes, apparently I need an app for that, haha), in this app. I love that it helps me prioritize all types of things - not just cleaning! This app is a total game-changer and worth every penny!

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review! Our team is happy to know that you find the app useful. We will continue to work on improving the app to make it even better! Thanks for the 5 stars!

Love it!

You definitely need to learn how to use this. The key to cleaning is to PICK UP STUFF! I have been working with a professional organizer and the place to start is at the front door. Whenever anyone comes over, you want to first clean what they will see. Then work on your bedroom. This sets the tone. I also do dishes and trash daily and laundry on a slow day at home - Sundays. My personal organizer calls it the “illusion of cleanliness” and her name is Marie Ricks. She has written many books on cleaning and organization! I’ve used Tody in the past and love it, but it becomes SO BURDENSOME depending on how it is used. I group cleaning into an “area” called “cleaning reboot” for surface cleaning, vacuuming, kitchen/bath, etc. I love that I can assign this to professional cleaners and other family members. I also have an area for “morning routine” “daily clean” “tasks” and “evening routine”. I skip tasks I don’t want to do that day by pausing them. The order of the areas I work through somewhat chronologically. SET TO RELAXED! It is still sparkling. Key is that many presets are missing TIDY! Do TIDY tasks every day and surface cleaning as far out as you can handle. This gives the illusion of cleanliness! Don’t just trust me. Trust a professional organizer. Marie is the best!

99% perfect app

I love this app dearly and I make attempts to use it all the time, because the idea is truly genius. I love the status bars for tasks, grouping by areas, ability to customize completion frequency. The only major drawback for me is the lack of notifications for individual tasks. For someone with ADHD like me, seeing a notification like “you have 7 tasks due today” is just so discouraging. I end up never opening the app to look at specific tasks that are due because it’s an extra step and I already start feeling like there are several things I need to get done. Tasks pile up, I see a red bar, I stress out, eventually stop using the app all together… It would be so helpful to have an option to turn on (or off) notifications for each task individually, what time of the day I want to receive it (e.g., do the dishes at 7pm, wipe the stove at 8am), and whether I want it on the day it’s due and/or maybe a few days before. That way I’d know when I need to get things done without feeling overwhelmed. For other tasks that take longer periods of time to become relevant again, I can open the app and actually see the status bar when I check off things I got done because of individual notifications. Otherwise, excellent app and I’ll keep making attempts at making it work for me!

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review! Our team appreciates it. We can understand that the tasks that are due can be overwhelming. We went ahead and added your feature requests to our list and we hope to have them available in our future releases. If you have other concerns or issues, please do not hesitate to bring them to our attention and we would be happy to assist you.

Most useful app EVER

I’ve been using Tody everyday for over a year. It helps me to prioritize chores as a working mother—since I can only do so much in a day! I never have that feeling that I don’t know where to begin because it shows me what needs my attention the most. And then once I accomplish that, I often end up doing the next item on the list, then the next and the next. I also love that it shows my progress over time and I am always challenging myself to keep the level lower than before. My house has definitely become consistently cleaner over time and I spent 0 time thinking about it.

And for those days that I’m exhausted but could maybe accomplish “just one thing”... I know what to do. It manages that “overwhelmed and don’t know we’re to start” feeling because it shows you exactly what needs your attention the most. And it gauges my progress over time so I’m always trying to challenge myself. It has improved my home and my attitude over housekeeping and takes the thought process out, which is usually the very thing that keeps from getting started at all.

Great for ADD adults! (And everybody else)

This app has changed my life. No more time writing out to-do lists or wondering when I last did something, it’s all right here and so customizable! As an adult with ADD-i, remembering simple routines is difficult for me. I was able to create categories for my own self-care and for my children as well. No more missed showers, vitamins, or teeth brushing! (Well, less anyway.) I’m able to delegate tasks to my husband and it all syncs between our devices, which is wonderfully helpful. (We use the points system to make a game of who can get more- no more arguments about whether we’re pulling our weight) Plus the developers really listen to feedback. I mentioned just a few months ago that it would be really nice to be able to visually see how much progress you’ve made on each room that day. In today’s update they added a feature that leaves a ghost print of where each bar started so as the day goes on you can watch your progress! I’m so excited they listened and I absolutely recommend this app!

Best app ever

Having suffered from depression for many years, I have struggled with maintaining everyday routines. I set up this app for my household chores, as it is intended, and took awhile to get using it. But, once I did, it made a huge difference. If I’m behind on one thing or another, I feel so much less stress, because I can easily see what to prioritize and be more productive overall. Within a week of using this daily, I noticed that my mind was clear of the chores I needed to do, even if I was still behind, because I knew if I kept working, I would get to them eventually. The system is so beautiful, that it made a psychological impact on my life.

Many reviewers have mentioned that they use this app for other life lists, but I’ve had bad luck in the past combining too many things into one place. I wrote the developers with a suggestion to create another app that uses this concept for work / life / self care balance, and they kindly responded. So, not only is the app great, but clearly the creators are as well.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for this wonderful review! This made our day. We're delighted to know that you find this app useful.

Life Saver!!

I have been trying to find a method to track chores and know what needs to be done, making my own spread sheets/charts, all sorts of to do lists and apps, and nothing worked for more than a few days. I’ve slowly been personalizing this app and it fits my life much better than anything has before.

There are only two little suggestions I would have for future improvement, but they don’t make me want to use this less. One I’ve modified for, it would be nice to have a way to denote something that isn’t necessarily a “home chore” and have it not look like a room of the house. I’ve named my own “space” for my morning routine, etc., and it works, so this isn’t a huge deal. The other suggestion I have is to include a way to have chores that come due on certain days of the week or dates of the month for chores like taking the garbage can out or paying the utility bill. Little things that I can set to have other ways to remind me.

Overall, well worth the small cost to finally have my household chores managed with little stress to me.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the review! We are currently working on making task that become due on fixed week/month days available.

Can’t manually order tasks.

I do really like this app. It helps me keep track of what needs to be done and prevents me from over-cleaning when something doesn’t need to be done yet. The features are simple and not overdone and it is intuitive to use.

However, it is lacking one specific ability. While I can manually order the areas, I cannot manually order tasks within an area. When cleaning, tasks need to be completed in a certain order. For example, one always dusts the tops of cabinets first and vacuums last. This way one is not re-vacuuming cabinet dust that may fall on the floor after the floor has already been vacuumed. This app determines it’s own order of tasks and it is not in a good order. I have to try to hunt through the list of tasks to figure out what to do next and inevitably miss a task. I end up dusting the tops of cabinets after I have vacuumed and have to re-vacuum. I spend as much time managing the app as I do cleaning and find myself just not using the app because of this.

I really want to use this app on a daily basis so I really, really hope the developers are able to make the task list be ordered manually .

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thanks for your input. You are actually not the first user to suggest this. We are hoping to add this possibility in the future. Your satisfaction is important to us. Please let us know if there's anything else that we can do improve your experience and earn your 5 stars!