For co-living
Shared spaces.
Shared responsibility.
Brownie Points is a household task board for dorms, co-ops, boarding houses, and any shared living space with more than a few people. Everyone sees the same list, points go to whoever does the work, and the Flexible plan has no member cap.
No credit card required. Free plan always available.
The problem
Group chats and printed rotas
were not designed for shared houses.
Informal coordination works at small scale. Once you are managing cleaning, bins, and shared supplies across six or more people with different schedules and different standards, you need something that doesn't rely on everyone reading the same message at the same time and responding promptly.
The bigger the house, the harder it gets
Two people can coordinate informally. Six or eight people cannot. The group chat method falls apart quickly — messages get buried, some people ignore them, and the most conscientious resident ends up doing the most work while everyone else assumes someone else handled it.
Nobody signed up to be the house manager
In large shared houses, one person almost always ends up owning the coordination: posting reminders, chasing people, doing the tasks when nobody responds. It's an unpaid job that should be shared across the whole house.
Cleaning rotas printed on paper don't last
People move out, schedules change, the rota goes stale. A digital task board updates instantly, everyone sees the current state at any time, and you don't have to track down whoever has the rota document.
How it works
One board. Everyone on it.
Set up the house task list
One person creates the household, invites everyone, and posts the recurring tasks with point values. Kitchen clean, bathroom rota, bins, restocking supplies. Open tasks can be claimed by anyone; assigned tasks go to a specific person.
Residents complete tasks and earn points
Mark a task done and the points credit automatically. Photo proof is available for tasks where completion needs to be confirmed — particularly useful in larger houses where not everyone is around to verify.
Spend points on house rewards
Rewards are set by the house: skip a week of rota duty, exempt from one house meeting, choose the common room setup for a night. Whatever the house agrees has value, write it in.
Features
Scales to any size
No member cap on the Flexible plan
The Plus plan covers up to 4 people. Flexible has no cap — useful for houses of 6, 8, or more. One subscription, billed per household not per person.
Shared task board, no login required
Put a tablet or screen in the common area. Anyone can tap their name, see what's assigned to them, and mark tasks done — no account needed. Useful in houses where not everyone wants to install another app.
Assign tasks to specific residents
Some tasks belong to specific people or zones. Assign bathroom duty to whoever is on that floor this week, leave kitchen tasks open for anyone to grab. Both options work.
Points go to whoever actually does the work
No more arguments about who cleaned the kitchen last. The ledger shows exactly who completed what and when. Contribution is tracked automatically.
Rewards that make sense for group living
Skip your week of common area duty, first pick of house meeting night, get your name off the bins rota. Rewards are open text — your house decides what's worth earning.
Fairness Dashboard across the whole house
See contributions across all members over time. Useful context for house meetings when the conversation turns to who has been pulling their weight.
Pricing
Billed per household, not per head.
The Flexible plan is $9.99/month for the entire household with no member limit. Split across six or eight people, that's less than most houses spend on bin liners in a month. One person sets up billing; everyone else just uses the app.
No credit card required.