Share the household. Not everything in it.

Everyone sees the house. Not everyone sees everything.

A household is not one audience. Four people can share a kitchen and a bin rota without sharing a car insurance renewal, and two of them can run a joint account the other two have nothing to do with. Haushold has groups for exactly that: a named subset of the people who live there.

Five things can be kept to a few of you

Bills, expenses, tasks, calendar events and wiki pages can each be scoped to a group — two of the four of you, or three of the five. Everything else stays household-wide, because a grocery list nobody can see is not a grocery list.

A group can only ever narrow

The rule the database applies keeps “is in this household” and adds “and is in this group” on top of it. There is no arrangement of groups that shows anything in your house to somebody who does not live in it. Narrower is the only direction it goes.

A group you are not in leaves no mark

Not a padlock, not a greyed-out row, not “1 hidden item”. The app does not draw a placeholder where something private would have been, because it cannot: the database will not tell it the group exists. Nothing you see is missing a shape.

What it looks like

Three of the app’s surfaces, drawn here in the app’s own colours, type and components rather than photographed — so what is below moves whenever the product does. The bottom row is a bill kept to two of the four people in the house; the other two do not see a locked row where it is, they see a list with three bills on it.

Nine places, one house

• Calendar — Everyone’s plans in one month, with repeats that actually repeat.
• Groceries — Lists that tick off in front of the other person, in the shop.
• Meals — A week of dinners and the recipe box behind them.
• Tasks — Who has the bins, and by when.
• Finance — Bills, what they cost, who paid, and who owes whom.
• Inventory — What is in the house and what has run out.
• Maintenance — The boiler, the filter, the gutters — and when each was last done.
• Wiki — The bin day, the router password, the landlord’s number.
• Noticeboard — The thing everyone needs to have read.

There is an assistant as well, which can read the household’s own lists and answer out of them — 3 messages a person a day on the free plan. And every household gets its first 14 days with everything unlocked, with no card asked for and nothing to cancel.

The apps are coming. Leave an address.

The apps are not out yet. Leave an address and you get one email when they are — not a newsletter, not a drip, and not passed to anybody. What we do with it.