Household and members

You share a home. Not an account.

You log in as yourself, your partner as themselves. The lists, the calendar and the receipts are still one and the same for both of you. You invite with a code, and you approve whoever wants in.

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  • A login of your own, each of you
  • 4 members free, 8 with Premium
  • Up to five households per person
Who lives here 2 of 8 members
  • Anna Founder (Owner)
  • John Reader
Our home, with the invite code in the middle of the screen. The ones already in are listed under it.
How we thought about it

Whoever downloaded the app became the one who keeps track.

Below are the four things we built the household around: the home, the code, the boundary, and room for more of you.

It usually starts with one of you downloading an app. The list ends up on your phone, and the one without the app gets a screenshot of it when it is time to shop. Next week another one.

Saying "can you add me?" is a small thing. But it has to happen when you both have the time and the energy, and so it never does. And one of you goes on being the one who keeps track, not because you decided it but because the app decided it for you.

We wanted the home to be the thing the app keeps track of. Then nobody is juggling separate apps and accounts, where one of you ends up being the one who keeps track anyway. You log in as yourself, your partner as themselves, and the home is one and the same for both of you.

Scenario 01

The household is its own thing.

The household has a name. Here it is Our home, it runs on Europe/Stockholm and it counts in euro. Those are not settings on your phone but the home's own, and they hold for everyone in it.

Everything else sits under the home. The lists are the household's, the calendar is the household's, the receipts are the household's. Your partner ticks off the milk in the shop and you see it at once, without anyone having to say so.

The household's name, timezone and currency. The home's own, not your phone's.
Lists

The weekly shop sits with both of you, with the same rows ticked off. You add from home, and whoever is standing in the shop sees it right away.

Read about lists Calendar

Football practice goes in the household's calendar instead of on one of your phones, so nobody has to be the one who reminds.

Read about the calendar Receipts

The receipt you scan shows up for everyone in the household, and the app works out what you owe each other.

Read about receipts
Scenario 02

Inviting someone is a code.

You open Household. The invite code is there, twelve characters with an expiry date under them, and beside it sit QR Code and Share. On the same sofa, the QR code is enough. If your partner is at work, you send the code in a chat.

They download the app, log in with their own Google or Apple account and type in the code. And here is the whole difference: the code lets nobody in by itself. It sends a request to you. Only when you press Approve under Pending Requests are they in.

The same code in plain text and as a QR, with its expiry date under it. Your partner only needs one of them.
Scenario 03

What is yours stays yours.

My Lists sits beside the household's lists and looks exactly like them. The difference is spelled out under the heading: private, only visible to you. The Ski trip packing list and Christmas gift ideas are yours, and nobody else in the home sees that they exist.

The boundary is the whole point. A shared home does not mean everything is shared, and a Christmas list the rest of the household can read is no Christmas list.

Same app, same view. But these two are seen by you alone.
Scenario 04

The home grows with you.

There are two of you today. If you become more, four members fit for free and eight with Premium, and one subscription covers the whole household.

Roles are there when you need them, not before. John is a Reader here: he sees everything but changes nothing. Members create and edit, owners manage members and settings. You can also be part of up to five households and move between them without anything getting mixed up.

Anna is Founder (Owner), John is Reader. Under them sit the requests and your households.

Also.

What comes along the moment the household exists.

Pending requests

The requests gather in one place, with Approve and Reject side by side. When the list is empty it says so outright: no pending requests.

A QR code in the room

Sitting next to each other, you hold up the code and they scan it. Nobody has to read twelve characters out loud.

The code has an expiry date

Every code has an expiry date, and you can generate a new one whenever you like. The old one stops working the same moment.

Payment sources

Anna's card, John's card and the Joint account belong to the household, so a receipt can show who actually paid.

Calendar export

The household's calendar can be read in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, if one of you would rather do it there.

The trash

Deleted lists, recipes, receipts and projects stay for 30 days, so what you delete by mistake can be taken back.

Frequently asked questions

How do I invite someone?

You share an invite code or a QR code. Your partner types the code into their own app and sends a request. You approve it, and from then on they see the household's lists, calendar, receipts, meals and projects.

How many can join?

Up to 4 members free, and up to 8 with Premium. One subscription covers the whole household.

Can I be part of several households?

Yes. You can be part of up to five households at once, for example your own and a shared one, and switch between them without anything getting mixed up.

Anything else?

Write to support@epihem.com, we answer ourselves.

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