comparisons, with the price gap left in
Compare cleaning apps, including ours
Nudge publishes these comparisons and Nudge is one of the apps in them. That is a conflict, so the pages are built to survive you checking them. Every price and feature was read on 2026-08-11 from each app's own website or current App Store listing, and where a claim comes from a competitor we say whose claim it is.
Built from the can't-start problem, not a perfect-home ideal
I build Nudge alone, and I live with executive dysfunction. I designed it around one tiny action, changing capacity, and restarting without a missed-day penalty—the cleaning support I wanted to use myself.
Three things to get out of the way first
Nudge is the expensive one
Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year. Tody Solo is $9.99 a year, Sweepy is $19.99, Tidywell is $39.99. If price is the deciding factor you already have your answer and you can stop reading here.
Nudge is iPhone only
There is no Android version and no web app. If you are not on an iPhone, Nudge is not an option for you, and these pages can only tell you about the other three.
We wrote this
Nudge is one of the compared apps, which is exactly the reason to check us. Where a competitor is the better fit, each page names it and says why instead of burying it near the bottom.
Four cleaning apps, on price and on scorekeeping
The first column is what we checked. The rest is what each app publishes about itself, plus the prices we read on 2026-08-11. Swipe sideways to read every column.
| What we checked | Sweepy | Tody | Tidywell | Nudge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid plan price | $19.99 per year | $9.99 per year for Tody Solo | $39.99 per year | $49.99 per year, $6.99 per month, or $2.99 per week |
| Cheaper than Nudge | Yes, by $30 a year. | Yes, by $40 a year. | Yes, by $10 a year. | No. Nudge is the most expensive app in this table. |
| Points, coins, levels, streaks, or a leaderboard | Its official site describes effort points and a leaderboard. | Its official site describes rooms that build up a dirtiness level over time rather than a fixed weekday calendar. | Its marketing describes streaks, with unlimited streak freezes. | None of them. No points, no coins, no levels, no streaks, no leaderboard. |
| What a missed week does | Its site describes room cleanliness that changes as time passes. | Areas keep building up until you clean them. | The streak survives, because freezes are unlimited. | Nothing changes and nothing resets. Tasks wait. |
| Free tier | See sweepy.com for the current free tier. | Its official site describes the basic version as feature complete for a single user. | More generous than the Nudge free tier. | Unlimited rooms, tasks, and timer. Three guided sessions, two Panic Cleans, and three task breakdowns a week. One Scan My Mess scan. |
| Where it is strongest | Shared chores and game-like motivation across a household. | A flexible recurring routine that is not tied to weekdays. | Gentle framing with streaks that forgive a miss. | The moment before starting, when choosing the first action is the barrier. |
Every price and feature in this table was read on 2026-08-11 from each app's own website or current App Store listing. Apps change their pricing and their free tiers. Confirm anything that matters to you in the store before you subscribe.
Sweepy and Tody descriptions come from sweepy.com and todyapp.com. The Tidywell column comes from its own marketing. We are not going to characterise a competitor's free tier or platform list from memory, so where a cell says to check their site, that is because we would rather send you there than guess.
The one column Nudge owns outright
On 2026-08-11 we looked at ten cleaning and chore apps that market themselves to people with ADHD or executive dysfunction. Every single one shipped at least one of: points, coins, streaks, a leaderboard, or a levelling avatar. Nudge ships none of them.
That is not a claim that scorekeeping is bad. For a lot of people points are the exact thing that gets them off the sofa, and if that is you then Sweepy will serve you better than Nudge will. It is a claim about one specific day: the day you come back after not opening the app for a week. In Nudge nothing accumulated, nothing decayed, and nothing turned red, because there is no counter to break.
Pick the comparison you actually came for
Sweepy alternative
Sweepy is $19.99 a year and runs on effort points and a leaderboard. What you keep and what you give up by leaving it.
Tody alternative
Tody Solo is $9.99 a year, the cheapest app here. Leaving it costs you $40 a year, so here is what that money buys.
Sweepy vs Tody
Two apps doing two different jobs at two different prices. Neither of them is ours, which makes this the easy one to write.
If you are shopping for gentle, look at Tidywell too
Tidywell is the closest thing Nudge has to a direct competitor on tone. Its marketing leads with “Never red, never angry”, it offers unlimited streak freezes and a Low Spoons mode, its free tier is more generous than ours, and it is $39.99 a year against our $49.99.
We are not going to pretend we are the only gentle option, because we are not. The honest difference is narrow: Tidywell has a streak and lets you freeze it as often as you like, and Nudge has no streak to freeze. Which of those two you want is a real preference and there is no correct answer to it. Look Tidywell up and decide for yourself.
How we checked, and when
Prices and features were read on 2026-08-11 from each app's own website or current App Store listing. Where a claim comes from a competitor's own material we say so and link to it. We do not hold paid accounts on every app and we have not run them side by side for months, so treat this as a careful reading of what each maker publishes rather than a lab review.
Apps change their pricing and their free tiers, sometimes in the same week. Confirm anything that matters to you in the store before you subscribe. If something here is out of date or wrong, email support@nudgeclean.app and we will correct it. Read the corrections policy
Want the one that keeps no score?
Nudge is free to download on iPhone. The free tier does not expire and it is not a countdown to a paywall. Premium is optional, and it is $49.99 a year, which is more than everything else on this page.
Questions people ask before they pick one
Is Nudge cheaper than Sweepy or Tody?
No. Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year. Sweepy is $19.99 a year and Tody Solo is $9.99 a year, both read on 2026-08-11. Nudge has a free tier you can use for as long as you like, but on the price of the paid plan the other two win and it is not close.
Can I trust a comparison written by one of the apps?
Only as far as you can check it, which is why every competitor claim here points at that company's own website or store listing. Where a competitor is the better fit, each page names which one and why. If you find something we got wrong, email support@nudgeclean.app.
What does Nudge actually have that the others do not?
No scorekeeping. Of the ten cleaning apps we looked at on 2026-08-11, every one had points, coins, streaks, a leaderboard, or a levelling avatar. Nudge has none of those, so there is nothing to break on a bad day and nothing to rebuild after one.
Is Nudge on Android?
No. Nudge is iPhone only and needs iOS 16.4 or later. If you are on Android, Nudge is not an option for you. Check each of the other apps' own store listings for the platforms they support today.
Does Nudge treat ADHD?
No. Nudge organizes cleaning tasks. It does not diagnose ADHD, treat ADHD, or replace medical care.
Nudge organizes cleaning tasks; it does not diagnose or treat ADHD.