About

A simple observation: sharing chores in a household — couple, flat-share, family — is more complicated than it looks.

Several factors come into play, often at the same time:

• Long-horizon tasks — cleaning the windows, descaling the kettle, changing the bath towels every 10 days: without a reminder, time slips by.
• Balanced vs. fair — a child shouldn't do as much as a parent, nor someone with a heavy workload as much as someone with more time.
• Personal preferences — Pierre prefers vacuuming, Paul prefers washing dishes.
• Effort — not all tasks weigh the same.
• Away time — going away for 2 weeks should pause certain tasks, so you don't come back to a backlog.

Keeping all of this in mind is the mental load I'm trying to reduce as much as possible. I built Torchons & Serviettes to absorb this complexity and make sharing chores simple — even playful.

A solo project

I design and develop the app on my own, in my spare time. No company behind it, no investors, no plan to resell data. I want an honest tool, useful day to day, that respects the people who use it.

I use it myself every day in my own household. I built it then shared it because existing alternatives are either paid or incomplete. By opening it up, I hope to improve it through feedback — and possibly contributions — from others who use it (see Open-source below).

No tracking, on principle

I don't include any usage analytics, audience measurement, advertising tracker, or third-party crash reporter. The app doesn't ask for an e-mail, a password, or a phone number. This site itself sets no cookies and loads no external resources. More details in the privacy policy.

Open-source

I publish the app's code under the AGPL-3.0 license: anyone can inspect, modify and reuse it, provided they republish their changes under the same license. The public repository is being opened up; I'll add the link here and on the Contact page as soon as it's ready.

Concretely, anyone with technical knowledge can verify in the code that your data is neither shared nor exploited in any way.

Supporting the project

The app is fully free, with all features — no paid version, no reserved feature, no ads.

What the project costs me out of pocket:

To give an idea of the work behind it: ~45,000 lines of code (Kotlin + Python), 29 commits over the last 7 days and 108 in total since April 10, 2026. (figures as of May 16, 2026)

Buying me a coffee — or a small donation — unlocks nothing: it simply encourages me to keep the app 100% free and to keep developing it. If you use it often, please consider it: it genuinely matters to me. See the Contact page.