Everyone who comes to your door. One slate.
Milk, laundry, paper, water, tiffin, house help. Log the day in a tap, see what the house spent, and hand each person their own sheet at month end.
- Milk
- Laundry
- Newspaper
- Water
- Tiffin
- House help
- Other
iOS v1 available · Home Slate 2 preview
One service free forever. No account needed to start.
The daily ledger
From first launch to the sheet you send.
Set up your services, keep dated records, and see the bills and household budget. These compact illustrations use fictional examples.
Who comes to your door
Milk, paper, water, tiffin, laundry, house help and Other, each with its own rates and usual quantities. Start with one service free; Pro adds more.
October · Milk
A saved zero is different from a blank date.
A tap a day
Open today and save the usual quantities, or change the counts. The calendar distinguishes logged days, recorded days off and dates still unrecorded.
Vacation · Tiffin
7 blank dates → 7 days off
Confirm first. Existing entries stay.
Agreed monthly fees can still apply.
Away for a week
Choose the range for one service and confirm. Blank dates become days off; existing entries stay. Tell the vendor separately about delivery changes.
3 unrecorded days · Tiffin
24–26 September
Usual meals, days off or your own counts.
Review the added quantity and cost before confirming.
Days you forgot
Fill the gap with usual quantities, days off or your own counts. Review the quantity and cost before confirming; uncertain dates can stay unrecorded.
House help · October
Attendance and paid leave are kept for each person.
House help, person by person
Keep each person’s salary, attendance, paid leave and extra tasks separately. Recorded absence beyond the allowance can reduce pay; blanks are not absence.
Each service, its own dates
New dates start after the current cycle. Past bills keep their dates.
Custom billing cycles
Choose each service’s monthly start day to match your agreement. Track full or partial payments and the balance due. Date changes begin after the current cycle; past bills keep their dates.
Spending trend · six months
INR · October is still in progress
Household analytics
Compare six months of service spending, see which services make up the total, and review what is paid and still due. The current month updates as you add records.
October household budget
- Income
- ₹65,000
- Everyday expenses
- ₹22,549
- Service costs
- ₹8,879
- Remaining
- ₹33,572
Service costs count once. Recording a service payment does not add a second expense. Pro enables budget entries and editing.
Income, expenses and what remains
The budget combines income, everyday expenses and service costs without counting service payments twice. Pro enables editing; saved entries stay readable after Pro ends.
One clean sheet each
Their days, their rate, any fee, what you have already paid and what is left. It leaves as a picture, so they read it without installing anything — and now two people have a record instead of one.
Questions
The ones worth answering before you install anything.
What it costs is on pricing, app screens on features, and the rest at support.
Do I need an account?
No account is needed to start a local ledger. An optional account backs up saved records and restores them on another phone. Account-owned records may require sign-in recovery if the saved session expires or cannot be read.
Does my vendor need the app?
No. At the end of the month you hand them a picture — their days, their total, and any days nothing was recorded. They read it like any other photo.
What does it cost?
Your first service is free and stays free. Pro adds more services and, in version 2, household budget editing. Indian reference prices are ₹59 a month, ₹699 a year or ₹2,199 once. Available plans and the price charged are shown by the store in the app.
Is the free tier a trial?
No. One service is free forever, not for thirty days. Pro adds more services and household budget editing.
What happens to my data?
Your ledger is stored on your phone. Signing in enables optional account backup; records need to finish syncing before they can be restored elsewhere. Home Slate has no ads and does not sell your data. Store purchases, configured error diagnostics and optional usage analytics have separate purposes described in the Privacy Policy; sharing or exporting sends the records you choose.
Why it exists
How my mom uses this app. 🏡 And you can too.
Hi, I’m Priya 👋
I built Home Slate.
At the end of every month, my mother and the milkman arrived at two different numbers. Neither of them was wrong.
He kept his count in a notebook. She kept hers in her head. There was no third record — so every month, somebody had to take somebody’s word for it.
The budget apps did not help. The ones she tried organised money into categories, while she wanted a daily record of what had come to the door.
And milk would not sit still: two packets of toned one day, one of full cream the next, never the same price twice. What she asked for was small — one app for the running of a house.
The dairy tools I tried did not fit the way she wanted to keep her household record. So I built Home Slate for her side of the door — and if your house runs on the same small deliveries, it is yours too.
— Priya
Behind the scenesI am building these apps in the open, as it happens.MyPolymathDiaries on YouTube →
My mother
Still logging, every morning.
Every morning
The gate opens, the packets come in, and she taps once on the way back to the kitchen. That is the whole of most days.
Some time mid-month
She looks at the six bars and knows whether this month is running like the last five — before anybody asks her for money.
When the bill is due
The milkman gets the milk month. The laundry gets the laundry month. Nobody gets the household sheet, and nobody has to take her word for it.