Calm over completeness
We resist the urge to add. If a feature does not earn its place in a real week, it is not in here.
The platform
The household,
on one quiet page.
A shared workspace for your manager and your family. Calendars, routines, a handover note, the pantry, and the documents the home actually runs on. We chose calm over completeness — there is nothing in here you do not need.
Built forManager + family
Available oniOS, iPad, web
Included for$49 per month
The Hartleys · Wednesday
Wednesday, 14 May
Sunny · 22°Today · 4 items
School runEleanor
Plumber — laundry sinkEleanor
Dry cleaning pickupEleanor
Hazel · piano (online)Sam
How it is made
Three principles. The rest follows.
Built with managers, not at them. Every shipped change is reviewed against these three.
A note, not a meeting
Manager and family hand the day over in writing — short, dated, and read in the margins of an evening.
Two registers, one place
A managers app made for repeated daily use. A family view that stays out of your way until you need it.
The week · in detail
Monday morning, already settled.
The home view a manager opens with their first coffee and a family glances at on the way to school. Today, the next two days, anything off-rhythm — surfaced in the order it matters.
The Hartleys · Week of 12 MayEleanor · Sam · Priya · Otis
Wed-Fri · 14-16 May
WeekDayMonth
School runEleanor
Plumber — laundry sinkEleanor
Dry cleaning pickupEleanor
Hazel · piano (online)Sam
School runEleanor
Window cleaner — gate code 4421Eleanor
Otis · swimming carnivalSam
School runEleanor
Grocery deliveryEleanor
Sam & Priya — dinner outFamily
Lunchboxes packed · Bins out · Dishwasher on · Plants watered · Linen check · Mail in · Plumber confirmed →
Tap to settle
A done item folds away. Nothing celebrates itself.
Privacy layers
Family-only items hide from the manager view, and the reverse.
Tabular numerals
Times line up. Eyes move down a column, not across it.
Quiet hours
No notifications until 7:30am. Manager has a pass.
Six spaces
Everything a home actually runs on. Nothing it doesn't.
§ i
Calendar
family + manager
Two views, one source. Privacy layers per event so a date night does not show up on the manager view, and a tradesperson does not show up on the family one.
Wed 14 May
● ManagerPlumber
Pilates · Sam
Dry cleaning
Hazel · piano
§ ii
Routines
morning, evening, weekly
Cadences instead of checklists. Plants on Tuesday and Friday. Bins on Wednesday night. The manager runs them; the family see the rhythm without managing it.
This week's rhythms
EleanorMorning100%
Lunchboxes100%
Bins out · Wed100%
Plants · Tu/Fr50%
Linen change0%
Evening50%
§ iii
Handover
a note, not a meeting
A short, dated paragraph at the start and end of each working day. Read in the margins, never in a meeting. Tags lift the things worth searching for later.
Notes between us
Eleanor
Plumber at 9. Linen for guest room out. Otis off dairy this week.
Sam
Hazel left her recorder at school — collect Wed. Sister landing 4pm.
§ iv
Pantry
low-stock, surfaced
A running tally of what the home actually uses. The next order builds itself; the manager confirms or edits, and it goes.
Pantry
Order builds ThuOlive oil2 left
Long-life milk1 left
Otis's crackersout
Wholemeal breadtoday
Coffeeok
§ v
Documents
manuals, codes, warranties
The boring archive a household needs once a year. Gate codes, NBN credentials, dishwasher manuals, the upholsterer who did the couch in 2021. Searchable.
Documents
32 itemsSearch the household...
Front gate codefile
NBN credentialsfile
Miele dishwasherfile
Otis · care planfile
§ vi
Properties
one home, or several
Some households keep a place at the coast or interstate. Each property has its own routines and pantry, and rolls up into the same week.
Properties
2 of 5P
Paddington · NSWPrimary residence
4 todayB
Bowral · HighlandsWeekend cottage
gardener Sat+ Add a property
Two apps · one rhythm
Made for repeated use, and made to be put down.
The manager — at the kitchen bench
Manager · Eleanor Voss · Wed 14 May
The Hartleys · Wednesday
School run · Otis & Hazel
Plumber — laundry sink
Linens · guest room
Dry cleaning pickup
Sister · arrival, kettle on
End-of-day handover → draft saved · sends 5pm
Quick add from anywhere. Receipts photographed straight into the pantry. The day closes itself at 5pm with a single confirm.
The family — on the way out
Wednesday
Already settled.
From Eleanor
Plumber at 9. Sister arrives 4. Otis off dairy. I have the school run.
Your day
Standup — work
Lunch · Cumulus
Hazel · piano
One screen, one glance. The family app does not buzz at you.
Quiet by design
A platform you can put down.
Most household software is loud — streaks, badges, gamification, AI suggesting things at you. We have built the opposite: a calm shared workspace that does its job and stays in the background.
Notification preferences
No advertising, ever
You pay for the platform — so the platform works for you. We do not run ads, we do not sell behavioural data, and we do not read your handover notes.
Hosted in Sydney
Your household lives on Australian-based infrastructure. Stored encrypted at rest, read by your household only. Quietly Kept's support has read-only access.
Privacy layers per item
Family-only events stay invisible to the manager view. Manager-only notes stay invisible to the family. Both can see what is shared, and only what is shared.
Quiet hours, by default
No notifications between 9pm and 7:30am, weekends off by default. The manager has a single pass for true emergencies.
Not sold separately
The platform comes with the engagement. It is not a SaaS.
Software without a person to run it is what most households already have, and is not what is missing. We do not licence the platform on its own. If you have a manager and want the platform too, we are glad to help — speak to us privately.
Take the tour
Twelve minutes,
guided by a partner.
We will walk through a real anonymised household together — what the manager sees on a Wednesday, what the family sees, and how the week settles itself.
“Software should sit out of the way of the home it serves.”
iOS, iPadOS and modern web · Hosted in Sydney · Documents encrypted at rest · No advertising, ever