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Quiltd — shared chores, bills and upkeep

Quiltd is a shared home for the things a household keeps track of together: the chores, the bills, the filter that needs changing, the policy that quietly expires in March. If something isn't behaving, the answer is probably below. If it isn't, write to me — it's one person reading, and I do reply.

Getting everyone else in

A household can have up to six people, and everyone needs their own account. One of you creates the household, then sends the others an invite link.

• First run ends by offering the link. Any time after that, it's in More → Setup → Invite someone: tap Share invite link on an iPhone, or Copy invite link, and send it however you like.
• When they tap it, Quiltd opens with your invite already in. If they don't have Quiltd yet, the link opens a page with the App Store button. Once it's installed, they come back to that page and tap Open Quiltd, or open Quiltd and tap Paste invite.
• They make their own account, tap Join, and choose the name the household sees.

On a computer, the link lets them join on the website instead. The code on its own still works too: Invite code in Setup shows it, and it goes into Join with an invite code.

They skip the setup questions — the household already exists, and they land straight in it. Treat the invite link and the code like a key: anyone holding either can join and read everything. New invite code in Setup stops both working.

Their changes aren't showing up

Changes travel in about a second. If they aren't:

• Check you're all in the same household. Open More — the name under your own is the household you're in.
• If one of you joined with a code just now, close and reopen the app once.
• Quiltd needs a connection to sync. Reminders still fire offline, but ticking a chore won't reach the other phone until you're back on.

My checkmarks disappeared

That's deliberate. Chores clear on their own cycle — daily ones overnight, weekly ones on Monday morning, monthly ones on the first. A weekly chore with its own day clears at the start of that day instead. A list that stays ticked is a list that stops telling you anything.

A chore that falls on a set day

Open a weekly chore and choose its Day. It shows up on Today on that day and stays until one of you ticks it off. Once it's ticked, it's gone until the same day next week. Give it a day that's already gone this week, and it first appears next week. Chores left on Any day run Monday to Sunday, as before.

A tick counts for the week it was made in, so a Thursday chore done on Wednesday night is back on Thursday.

Whose turn is it?

If Take turns is on, Quiltd passes each chore to the next person every cycle, through everyone in the household in the order they're listed in Setup, and the name under a chore is whose turn it is now. A weekly chore with its own day swaps on that day. It's worked out from the calendar, not from a tally, so nobody has to keep score. To hand one chore to one person permanently, open it and set Whose job.

Reminders

Open More → Setup → Reminders and turn on Remind me on this phone, then allow notifications when iOS asks. You'll get bills three days before they're due and again on the day, upkeep when its interval comes round, and renewals a month before they lapse.

They're scheduled on your phone, so they arrive with no signal. They're also per-phone: turning yours off changes nothing for anyone else. If nothing arrives, check iOS Settings → Notifications → Quiltd — if it was declined once, iOS won't ask again and it has to be switched on there.

Locking Quiltd with Face ID

Open More → Setup and turn on Lock with Face ID (it says Touch ID on a phone that has that instead). Quiltd checks your face once, to be sure it works. After that, it asks for Face ID whenever you open it after it's been closed for a minute or more, and the app switcher shows a lock screen instead of your household.

It can't shut you out: if Face ID doesn't recognise you, your iPhone passcode works instead. It's per-phone, like reminders, and signing out turns it off. If Setup says Needs a passcode, set one in iOS Settings → Face ID & Passcode first. And as a last resort, deleting Quiltd and installing it again from the App Store removes the lock — sign in, and your household is all still there.

Where are my passwords?

Quiltd doesn't store them, on purpose. There's nowhere in the app to type an account password or a Wi-Fi key. What it records is where each one lives — your password manager, the keychain, the drawer — so whoever needs it knows where to look.

Getting your data out

More → Setup → Download a copy of everything gives you a single file with everything you've entered.

Setup → Send it to your calendar exports bills, renewals, upkeep and events as a calendar file you can import once into Apple, Google or Outlook. Repeating rules travel with it, so a bill due the 15th keeps landing every month.

Living with roommates

Starting a roommate household. When you set up, choose Roommates instead of Partner or family. Quiltd starts with the bills and chores roommates share, and never asks anyone about their income. Already set up? More → Setup → Household type switches it.

Splitting the rent. Open a bill and choose Split: Evenly divides it between everyone, Custom lets you type each person's part (the bigger room pays more), and One pays puts all of it on whoever owns the bill. A custom split has to add up to the whole bill before it saves. Everyone sees their own share on Today, Money and The month.

Ticking off your share. On Money, the circle next to a bill is your share. Tap it once you've paid. The bill says who's left ("2 of 3 paid · Jo not yet") and turns Paid when everyone has ticked. Only you can tick or untick your own share, and your reminders for it stop once it's ticked.

Leaving. More → Setup → Leave this household takes you out and keeps your account, so you can start or join another one. Your chores go back to anyone. If you're the last person in it, the household is deleted, so download a copy first.

When someone moves out. In More → Setup, under the people in the household, tap Remove under their name and tap again to confirm. They lose access straight away, and your invite code changes so the old one stops working. Their chores go back to anyone, and whose turn it is reshuffles from then on.

Deleting your account

More → Setup → Delete account. If anyone else is still in the household, they keep it and everything in it. If you're the last one in it, the household goes too — permanently. Download a copy first if you want one.

Who runs Quiltd

Quiltd is made and operated by Brandon Redwine, an independent developer based in Texas, United States. There is no company behind it and no team — one person builds it and one person answers the email below.

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