Upkeep

Every fix, every property.

Three years from now something will break and you will stand there asking the same three questions. When did we last do this? Who did it? Is it still under guarantee? Upkeep is the only place that will know — because it is where you wrote it down on the afternoon it happened.

The Upkeep property list showing two properties: Home at 42 Alder Road, Portland, with 7 fixes totalling $1,737 and a red line reading Chimney swept — 65 days overdue; and Mum's flat at Apt 4B, 12 Mill Street with 3 fixes totalling $157. A row underneath reads Across all properties, $1,894. — A house and a flat, side by side

The Home property screen. A Due section lists Chimney swept, 65 days overdue in red, and Annual boiler service, due in 7 days in orange, each with a Log again button. Below it, $1,737 spent in total, $214 this year, 7 fixes logged, then the address, a note about the stopcock, and the start of the 2026 log. — What is due, then what it has cost

The detail screen for Annual boiler service, heating and cooling, dated 24 August 2025. It shows a cost of $129, the room Utility, done by Marsh Heating with a tappable phone number, a green Covered until 24 August 2026 guarantee, an Every year section reading Due in 7 days with a Log it as done again button, and a note that the pressure was low and was topped up. — One job, and everything about it

What it does

A log for each place you look after. Your house, the flat you rent out, your mother’s apartment. Each keeps its own history, its own running total and its own list of what is due. Nothing about the app assumes you only have one address.
The whole job, not just the date. What you did, which of twelve categories it falls under, the room, what it cost, whether you did it or someone else did — with a phone number you can tap to call them back — any guarantee on the work, notes for next time, and photos.
The jobs that come round. Mark the boiler service as yearly, the gutters as before-winter, the chimney as whenever. It moves to the top of the property when it falls due, orange when it is close and red when it is late, and your phone tells you on the morning of the day.
Logged again, not ticked off. When the work is done, one tap gives you a fresh entry already filled in with the same job and the same tradesperson, and the schedule moves onto it. The old entry stays exactly where it was. A log is a history, and history does not get ticked off.
Where the money went. A total per property, what you have spent this year, and a breakdown by category — so you can see which part of the house keeps taking it.
Findable years later. Search covers the title, the room, the notes and the person who did the work, because that is where a half-memory actually lives. “That guy who did the boiler.”

What it deliberately is not

It is not a to-do list, a home inventory, or a project manager. There is no “planned” state, no percentage complete and nothing to tick. You write an entry after the work is done, which is the only moment you actually know what it cost and who did it.

It also does not try to be your filing cabinet. Photograph the part of the receipt that matters and move on.

Where your data lives

On your iPhone. Nowhere else. There is no account to make, no email address to hand over, and no server anywhere in this app — not one of ours, and not one of anybody else’s. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing can leak.

The practical consequence is worth knowing before you start: because the log lives on the device, it does not appear on your other devices, and it goes when the app does. Deleting Upkeep deletes the log with it.

Requirements

iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Free, with no in-app purchases, no subscription and no advertising.