HouseHoldKeaper

What This Is

A local-first Flutter app for organizing household chores and one-time projects, built for personal/couple use on Android. Takes the room-based task scheduling model (inspired by BeTidy), strips cloud/account/social features, and wraps it in a calm, minimal Material 3 UI. Fully offline, free, privacy-respecting — all data stays on-device.

Core Value

Users can see what needs doing today, mark it done, and trust the app to schedule the next occurrence — without thinking about it.

Requirements

Validated

(None yet — ship to validate)

Active

Room CRUD with icons and optional photos
Task CRUD with frequency intervals and due date calculation
Daily plan view with overdue/today/upcoming sections
Task completion with auto-scheduling of next due date
Bundled task templates per room type (German only)
Daily summary notification
Light/dark theme with calm Material 3 palette
Cleanliness indicator per room (based on overdue vs on-time)
Task sorting (due date, alphabetical, interval, effort)
Task history (completion log per task)

Out of Scope

User accounts & cloud sync — local-only by design
Leaderboards & points ranking — not a gamification app
Subscription model / in-app purchases — free forever
Family profile sharing across devices — single-device app
Server-side infrastructure — zero backend
Data export/import (JSON) — deferred to v1.1
English localization — deferred to v1.1 (ship German-only MVP)
Real-time cross-device sync — potential future self-hosted feature
Tablet-optimized layout — future enhancement
Statistics & insights dashboard — v2.0
Onboarding wizard — v2.0
Custom accent color picker — v2.0

Context

Inspired by BeTidy (iOS/Android household cleaning app) — taking the proven room-based model, removing cloud/social, refining the UI
Built for personal use with partner on a shared Android device; may publish publicly later
Code and comments in English; UI strings German-only for MVP
Room photos are nice-to-have for MVP — icon-only rooms are sufficient initially
Developer is new to Drift (SQLite ORM) — plan should account for learning curve
Gitea (self-hosted on Hetzner) for version control; no CI/CD pipeline yet

Constraints

Tech stack: Flutter + Dart, Riverpod for state management, Drift for local SQLite
Platform: Android-first (iOS later)
Offline: 100% offline-capable, zero network dependencies
Privacy: No data leaves the device, no analytics, no tracking
Language: German-only UI for MVP, English code/comments
No CI: No automated build pipeline initially

Key Decisions

Decision	Rationale	Outcome
Riverpod over Bloc	Modern, compile-safe, less boilerplate, Dart-native	— Pending
Drift over raw sqflite	Type-safe queries, compile-time validation, migration support	— Pending
Android-first	Primary device is Android; iOS follows	— Pending
German-only MVP	Primary user language; defer localization infrastructure	— Pending
No CI initially	Keep scope focused on the app itself	— Pending
Calm Material 3 palette	Muted greens, warm grays, gentle blues — calm productivity, not playful	— Pending
Clean Architecture	Feature-based folder structure with data/domain/presentation layers	— Pending

Last updated: 2026-03-15 after initialization

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