Tobi is a home maintenance app for households that share the work. It holds one record of what your home needs: the maintenance log, the electrical panel schedule, the contractors you call, and the full history of who did what. Everyone in the household sees that same record, in real time, on their own phone.

What follows describes the first release, the one on the App Store today. All of it already works. None of it is a roadmap.

The problem it solves

Home maintenance knowledge is scattered, and most of it sits in one person’s head. What the furnace filter schedule is. Which breaker feeds the garage. Which plumber fixed the upstairs leak, and when. None of it is written down anywhere the rest of the house can reach, so when one person handles something, everyone else has no record that it happened.

That is the gap Tobi fills. Not a private to-do list for one person, but a record the household keeps together.

One household, one shared record

A household is the container. Every task, every panel, and every contractor belongs to exactly one household, and you only ever see the households you belong to.

There are two roles. Owners can invite people, promote or remove members, and delete the household. Members can view and edit all of the maintenance data: tasks, home elements, panels, and contractors. A household can have more than one owner, and promoting someone grants ownership rather than handing it over, so a household always keeps at least one owner.

Inviting someone works two ways. Share a link, or read out a six-character code over the phone. Both resolve to the same invitation, and invitations expire after seven days.

Every change syncs in real time to every member’s device. More on household sharing.

The maintenance log

The log has two linked layers.

Home elements are the things you maintain: the furnace, the water heater, the gutters, the refrigerator. Each one carries a name, notes, and an optional link to its manual. One element can have any number of tasks against it.

Tasks are the actual upkeep. “Replace the air filter.” “Flush the tank.” A task is either recurring, repeating on an interval such as every three months, or one-off, scheduled once and then done. Completing a recurring task recalculates its next due date automatically.

Each task can also carry:

an assignee, either a specific person or nobody, which means the whole household
a reorder link for the consumable involved, so the exact air filter is one tap away next time
notes

Then there is the part that makes it a log rather than a checklist. Every completion is appended, never overwritten. Each record holds the date, who did the work, and notes for that occurrence. Open a task months later and the whole history is sitting there. Enter something wrong and you can delete or correct that record; the due-date math recalculates either way.

The task list shows what is due, flags what is overdue, and keeps a done section that surfaces recently finished recurring work, not just one-off items. More on the maintenance log.

Contractors are records, not just contacts

A contractor in Tobi has a name, a company, a trade such as plumbing or HVAC or pest control, a phone number, an email address, and notes. They are kept separately from the maintenance log itself.

The connection between the two is attribution. Any completed task can be credited to a contractor instead of a household member, which means that over time you build something genuinely useful: a filtered view of everything one contractor has ever done in your home, with dates.

Deleting behaves the way it should. A contractor with no history is deleted outright. A contractor with history is archived instead, hidden from future selection while their name and details stay attached to the work they did, so past records are never rewritten.

The electrical panel schedule

This is the part of Tobi people tend to be surprised by, and it is not a checklist item pretending to be a feature. It is an editable model of your actual breaker panel.

It mirrors the physical two-column layout: odd slots down the left, even down the right, paired by row.
The standard residential sizes (12, 20, 24, 30, 40, and 42 slots) are one tap, and anything else takes a custom slot count, so no panel is too large to represent.
A household can keep several named panels, for example the current one and the original as-built.
Circuits cover every real arrangement: single-pole, tandem (two circuits sharing one slot), double-pole (one circuit spanning two slots, such as a range or a heat pump), and combined half-height circuits that also span two slots.
Labels are free text and multi-line, so “Kitchen outlets (except coffee maker)” fits.

The part that matters most in a house you did not wire yourself is the confidence flag. Every circuit is marked Correct (green, verified), Unverified (orange, a guess), or Incorrect (red, known wrong). That turns an inherited panel from something you either trust or you don’t into something a household can correct one circuit at a time, and anyone who opens the box can tell at a glance which labels are trustworthy.

More on the electrical panel schedule, or try the free panel label generator, which prints a directory for the inside of your panel door with no account required.

Reminders that reach the right person

Push notifications fire on the day a task is due, with a second one the day after if it is still open. Assigned tasks notify only the assignee. Unassigned tasks notify everyone, on every device they use. Anyone can snooze a reminder to a date they choose, and snoozing is personal, so two people sharing one task can each push it to a different day. Completing the task clears the pending reminders for everyone at once, since the work only needs doing once.

Email is on by default and can be switched off per type:

a daily digest, sent only on days with something due or overdue, which also bundles anything due in the next fourteen days
a monthly summary of the household’s activity
a note when another member completes something

It works with no signal

The place you most need the panel schedule is the basement, which is also the place least likely to have bars. Tobi stays fully readable offline, and anything you change without a connection syncs once the connection comes back. A banner tells you when you are offline, so the state is never ambiguous.

Accounts

Three ways to sign in: Apple, Google, or an email address and password. All three resolve to a single account, and you can link more than one of them to it later from the account screen. There is one account per email address, so linking never has to reconcile two separate histories.

Account management is complete rather than partial: change your display name, change your password, link or unlink providers, delete the account. Deletion is immediate. If you are the sole owner of a household that has other people in it, you hand ownership over first. If you are the only member, the household goes with you. Past records keep the departed person’s stored name, so the history still reads correctly afterward.

What it costs

One subscription covers the whole household, and only the owner pays for it. Anyone they invite gets full read and write access at no extra cost, with no second paywall. There are monthly and annual plans, both starting with a free trial. Current pricing is on the pricing page.

If you would rather look before subscribing, the paywall has a way through it: a fully populated sample household, with tasks and history and contractors and a labeled panel, held entirely on your device. Explore the real app with it, then decide.

What Tobi is not

Being specific about the edges is more useful than pretending there are none.

It is not a general-purpose to-do list. Tasks attach to things in your home.
It is not a smart-home controller. Tobi records and reminds; it does not talk to your devices.
It handles one household per person for now, so it does not yet serve landlords or property managers with several properties.
There is no projects concept. A kitchen remodel with sub-tasks and a budget is out of scope; discrete maintenance tasks are in.
There is no contractor marketplace or booking. Contractors are records you keep, not a directory you search.
The first release is iPhone only, on iOS 26 and later. No Android app, no web app, no Watch app, no widgets.

Who it is for

People who just moved into a house they did not wire themselves and inherited a panel with no labels, or worse, wrong ones.
Households where more than one person handles upkeep: couples, roommates, multi-generational homes. A private notes app stops working the moment the knowledge needs to be shared.
Homeowners who hire out plumbing, HVAC, pest control, or electrical work and want a durable record of who did what, independent of anyone’s memory or a pile of paper invoices.

Where to get it

Tobi is on the App Store for iPhone on iOS 26 and later. Download it below and start your household’s record.

What is Tobi? A home maintenance app your whole household shares