iPhone
£2.99once, from the App Store
One payment, no subscription and no adverts. Two people, one household, everything in it.
OurSpace
One household. One app.
OurSpace keeps a household's moving parts in one place — shared tasks, calendars, meals, budgets, lists and reminders — so the mental load is easier to share. It's live on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
£2.99 once on iPhoneFree on Android and the web.
Prefer the browser? OurSpace also runs at our-space.me.
The problem
Did you book that?
Most households don't fall apart over big things. They fall apart over a dentist appointment nobody wrote down, a bin day when nobody can remember whose turn it is, and a direct debit neither of you can account for. The tools that exist for this were mostly built for offices: a shared calendar assumes you both work the same week, a task app assumes somebody is the project manager, and a budgeting app assumes one person owns the money.
OurSpace is built on the household's assumptions instead: both of you see the same day, the same lists and the same money, and the app does the remembering.
What it does
The household admin, handled together.
Shared to-do lists that both of you can see and tick off. A calendar that shows the whole household's week, not just one person's. Budgets and money overviews you can talk about over the same screen. In full:
- Both calendars in one view: each of you connects your own Google Calendar (read-only — OurSpace can look, never change anything) and the events appear side by side. You can add events inside OurSpace too, which both of you see.
- Shared tasks: due dates, priorities, who's doing it, and a place on the map so the errand can be found as well as remembered.
- One shopping list: live on both phones, with quantities, who's picking it up, and quick search links to Amazon or your own supermarket.
- Dinner plans: an AI meal planner drafts the week's dinners around your tastes; accept the ones you fancy and the ingredients land on the shopping list in a tap.
- A recipe library: save the dinners you'd happily eat again, and future weeks are drafted around your own favourites first, using your ingredients and steps exactly as you saved them.
- A household handbook: the Wi-Fi password, how the front door works, where the stopcock is, who to ring — written down once, and shareable with a grandparent, sitter or guest as a read-only link that expires when you say.
- Budgets and money: accounts, direct debits, debts, pensions and assets, totalled into one net-worth figure.
- Setting up without the typing: download a ready-made spreadsheet, fill in what you already have, and upload it — accounts, assets, direct debits and contracts all land at once.
- Or hand it a statement: upload a bank statement PDF and OurSpace reads off the closing balance and the payments that look regular, then asks you to approve each one before anything changes.
- Household contracts: insurance, utilities, broadband and the rest, each with its renewal date, account details and notes, and a reminder in the app before it rolls over.
- Bin days: tell it your collection rotation once (weekly, fortnightly or monthly) and the app shows which bins go out, the day before and on the day.
- Birthdays: pulled from your Google Calendar, with a week's notice and gift ideas on tap.
- The kids' week (optional): each child's school days, clubs and routines, with who's dropping off and who's collecting.
- A noticeboard for the two of you: sticky notes, doodles and links, each clearing itself after 24 hours.
- Catch Up: a short digest, written for you each time you open the app, of what your partner has added or ticked off since you last looked.
OurSpace also runs in the browser at our-space.me, and installs straight to your home screen from there. The stores are the easy route; the web app is the same thing.
A look inside
Built for the phone in your pocket.
Your day, your lists and your money — side by side, so both of you are looking at the same thing. Shown here with sample data from a made-up household.
On a bigger screen
And the same household on a laptop.
OurSpace is a web app as well as a phone one, so the same household opens at our-space.me in any browser — the same data, with more of it in front of you at once. Useful for the Sunday-night sort-out, when you're going through the month's money or planning the week's dinners properly.
What it costs
£2.99 once on iPhone, and not paid for with your data.
On iPhone, OurSpace is a one-off £2.99 from the App Store. On Android and on the web it's free. Either way it's one payment or none for the whole household: there's no subscription, no trial clock, no advert in the corner, and no paid tier hiding behind a free one.
It isn't funded by advertising, and nothing about your household is sold to anyone. The AI features each get a deliberately narrow slice and no more: the Catch Up digest sees the names of things and who they're for, never your balances, locations or calendar events. The one exception is the optional statement reader: it passes the PDF you give it to Google Gemini to be read, and honestly, we can't promise you that Google or the platform underneath us never retains or trains on it — so it only runs on a file you choose to upload, and it changes nothing until you approve each suggestion. Google Calendar is connected read-only, so OurSpace can show your diary but never alter it. The household handbook is the one thing you can choose to show someone outside the household, and even then only the entries you've marked as shareable, only for as long as the link lasts, and never to an AI. Link with your partner when you're ready and unlink any time; deleting your account removes the lot. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
The details
What you notice after a week.
The screens are the easy part. The point of OurSpace is the small connections it makes on your behalf, so less rests on one person's memory.
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Catch up in ten seconds
Open the app and a short AI-written digest covers what changed while you were away, so you're already up to date before anyone has to ask.
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Dinner, decided
Tell it your tastes once and the meal planner drafts a week of dinners, with sides if you want them and step-by-step cooking instructions. Accept the ones you fancy, swap any day, and every ingredient lands on the shared shopping list. Save the winners to your recipe library and the next plan starts from them — favourites first, then whatever you haven't had for a while — before it reaches for new ideas.
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A handbook for whoever's minding the house
Every household has the same ten questions from a sitter or a visiting parent: the Wi-Fi, the key safe, the stopcock, the bins, the vet. Write each one down once, mark which ones a guest may see, and hand them a link that opens in any browser with no app and no sign-in. It shows the next bin day worked out for them, counts how often it's been opened, and stops working the moment you switch it off.
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Birthdays with the work done
A week's warning, the age they're turning (once you've told it the year), and an AI-written gift idea with a link straight to Amazon. Mark a birthday as a surprise and it hides from your partner; it's the only thing in the app that does.
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Renewals that join up
Give a contract its monthly cost and payment day and OurSpace creates the matching direct debit, ready to pull into the budget in one tap. The renewal is flagged in the app ahead of time, with a price-comparison link where one exists.
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The setting-up problem, solved
Money apps ask you to type in a life before they're any use, which is where most people stop. OurSpace gives you a formatted spreadsheet to fill in instead — or you hand it a bank statement PDF and it reads the balance and the payments that repeat, then puts them in front of you as a list to approve. Nothing is saved until you say so.
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Errands that group themselves
Tasks carry a place as well as a date. Two jobs near each other are flagged as one trip, and when a calendar event has a location, the tasks you could do on the way are shown beside it.
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A board that tidies itself
Pin a sticky note, a doodle drawn with a finger, or a link for later. Your partner gets a nudge on their phone, and the board clears itself after 24 hours; little moments rather than clutter.
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Notifications you choose
When your partner adds a task or a shopping item, your phone gets a push notification. Which kinds you get is up to each of you, in Settings.
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Built for two
Link accounts with a six-character couple code and you both see the same household from then on. There's no team, no admin and no permissions matrix; neither of you is anyone's assistant.
Where it comes from
Where OurSpace came from.
EdwardsApps mostly builds operational software for the construction trade, where the whole job is keeping several people working from the same information. OurSpace came from noticing that a household faces exactly the same problem (two people acting on slightly different versions of the week) with none of the tools to meet it.
It's made in the UK: designed and built in Buckinghamshire, priced in pounds, with bin rotations and renewal reminders that fit how British households actually run, and supported by the person who wrote it.
It's actively developed, and most of what gets built next comes from households saying where it doesn't fit. If your week works differently from an assumption in the app, that's worth an email; it usually means the assumption is wrong.
Guides
Honest guides on our-space.me.
Written by the developer and meant to be useful whether or not you use OurSpace: Google's own methods covered first, competitors included, prices in pounds.
Questions about OurSpace?
Have a look around first at our-space.me, or email peter@edwardsapps.co.uk and you'll hear back from the person who built it.
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