sweepy alternative, checked 2026-08-11
Sweepy alternative, from the app with no points at all
People search for a Sweepy alternative for two different reasons. Some want the same thing for less money. Some want the same job done without points and a leaderboard. Nudge is no help at all with the first one, because it is more expensive than Sweepy, not cheaper. This page is about the second one.
short answer
Sweepy is $19.99 a year and runs on effort points, a leaderboard, and shared household chores. Nudge is $49.99 a year and has no points and no leaderboard, only a forgiving streak that covers a missed day each week. Nudge is the more expensive one. Pick Sweepy if scorekeeping motivates you, and pick Nudge if points and a leaderboard are what made you stop.
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.
What Sweepy is good at
Sweepy is a household chore app and it is a competent one. Its official site describes room cleanliness tracking, automatically generated schedules, household assignments you can share with family or roommates, effort points, and a leaderboard, with tasks you can filter by difficulty and dirtiness. If more than one person is responsible for your home and the argument is about who did what, Sweepy is built for exactly that problem and Nudge is not built for it at all.
See Sweepy's official feature overviewSweepy price vs Nudge price
Sweepy pricing: $19.99 a year. Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year, or $6.99 a month, or $2.99 a week. Both were read on 2026-08-11.
Nudge costs $30 a year more than Sweepy and we are not going to dress that up. Nudge has no free tier at all, only a 7-day trial on Monthly and Annual, so if you are comparing annual subscriptions then Sweepy is the cheaper one and that is the whole story on price.
Sweepy and Nudge, side by side
| What we checked | Sweepy | Nudge |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plan price | $19.99 per year | $49.99 per year, $6.99 per month, or $2.99 per week |
| Cheaper of the two | Sweepy, by $30 a year. | No. Nudge is the more expensive app. |
| Points, streaks, coins, or a leaderboard | Its official site describes effort points and a leaderboard. | No points, coins or leaderboard. It does keep a forgiving streak, which covers a missed day each week and waits during a break, and levels that only go up. Finished tasks fill in Mochi's Place, a companion cat's island of rooms that only grows. |
| What a missed week does | Its site describes room cleanliness that changes as time passes. | The streak starts again from one, unless the week was a break. Mochi's Place keeps every room you filled in, and a missed week takes none of them away. |
| Shared households | Yes. Its site describes assigning and sharing chores with family or roommates. | No. Nudge is a single-user app. A Mochi postcard can ask one person to take one task, but there is no shared list or rota. |
| How the plan gets made | Its site describes automatically generated schedules, filtered by difficulty and dirtiness. | You pick a room, your energy right now, and how long you have. The plan is sized to that. |
| Help with the very first action | Filter the task list by difficulty to find something small. | One tiny task, Start Rescue when you are frozen, Panic Clean, a task broken into steps, or an optional room photo when you cannot pick a starting point. |
| Free tier | See sweepy.com for the current free tier. | No free tier. Monthly and Annual include a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers; Weekly has none. You can try one tiny task before you choose a plan. |
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 cells describe what Sweepy publishes about itself on sweepy.com. Nudge is iPhone only and needs iOS 16.4 or later, so if you are on Android this comparison cannot help you and you should check what Sweepy supports today.
The difference is what happens on a bad week
Every cleaning app is fine on a good day. The one that matters is the app you open after nine days of not opening it.
In a points-and-leaderboard app that reopening has a cost built into it. The number went down, or the rooms drifted, or somebody else in the household is ahead of you. Sweepy is not doing anything wrong there. That pressure is the mechanism, and for plenty of people it is the reason the app works at all.
In Nudge the cost of a gap is small and spelled out. The streak starts again from one unless you took a break, and nothing else you earned moves: no room changes colour, no points drop, and no list is waiting to be cleared before you are allowed to start. If the reason you are looking for a Sweepy alternative is that you quietly stopped opening Sweepy, that gap is the thing worth testing before you pay anyone anything.
When Sweepy is the better choice
- More than one person is responsible for the home and you need to assign and share chores.
- Points, a leaderboard, or friendly competition genuinely get you moving.
- You want the app to build the schedule instead of you designing one.
- You are on Android, or on anything that is not an iPhone.
- Forty dollars a year is a real difference to you.
When Nudge is the better choice
- You live alone, or you are only trying to manage your own share of it.
- A wall of red overdue tasks, or a streak that punished one missed day, is what made you close the last app.
- The hard part is the first physical move, not remembering what needs doing.
- You want the plan to get smaller on a low-energy day instead of staying the same size.
- You are on iPhone and the extra $30 a year is worth having no points and no leaderboard.
Sweepy has a free tier. Nudge does not. Here is ours, exactly.
Nudge has no free tier. Onboarding shows the plans after a few questions, and “not yet” lets you try one tiny task before you choose. Every plan includes the whole app: one tiny task at a time, Start Rescue, Panic Clean, Scan My Mess, voice-guided sessions, task breakdowns, rooms, the five-minute reset, widgets and lock-screen timers, and Mochi's Place, the companion cat whose island of rooms fills in with every finished task.
Weekly is $2.99 with no trial. Monthly is $6.99 and Annual is $49.99, and both include a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, so nothing is charged before day 7. For Sweepy, check sweepy.com for what its current free tier includes, because we are not going to describe a competitor's free plan from memory.
Two other apps worth a look
Tody
The cheapest app we compared, at $9.99 a year for Tody Solo. Its official site describes managing cleaning by area and need instead of by weekday.
Tidywell
The closest competitor to Nudge on tone, at $39.99 a year. The hub says exactly where it beats us and where it does not.
Sweepy vs Tody
Still deciding between the two big ones? They are answers to two different questions and this page separates them.
No points. No leaderboard. A streak that waits.
Nudge is a subscription on iPhone with a 7-day free trial on Monthly and Annual. It costs $49.99 a year, which is $30 more than Sweepy, and what you are buying is help with starting, without points or a leaderboard.
Sweepy alternative questions
Is there a free Sweepy alternative?
No. Nudge has no free tier: it is a subscription with a 7-day free trial on the Monthly and Annual plans, and you can try one tiny task before you choose a plan. It is not a cheaper paid plan either. Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year against Sweepy's $19.99.
How much does Sweepy cost?
Sweepy's paid plan was $19.99 a year when we read its pricing on 2026-08-11, and it also has a free tier. Check sweepy.com for today's price before you subscribe.
Which is cheaper, Sweepy or Nudge?
Sweepy, by $30 a year. Sweepy is $19.99 a year and Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year, both read on 2026-08-11.
Does Nudge have streaks or points?
No points, and one forgiving streak. The showing-up page counts the days in a row you finished something. It covers one missed day each week, and days on a break do not count against it. After a longer gap it starts again from one, and nothing turns red. There are no coins and no leaderboard, levels only go up, and finished tasks fill in Mochi's Place, a companion cat's island of rooms that a missed day never takes back.
Can Nudge handle a shared household like Sweepy?
No. Nudge is a single-user app with no household view and no rota. The most it does is ask one person to take one task with a Mochi postcard. If you need to split chores across people, Sweepy is built for that and Nudge is not.
Is Nudge available on Android?
No. Nudge is iPhone only and needs iOS 16.4 or later. Check Sweepy's own store listing for the platforms it supports today.
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, and Nudge's own details were updated on 2026-10-13, for version 1.3.5. Confirm anything that matters to you in the store before you subscribe. The method, its limits, and how to report an error are on the comparison hub: how we checked, and when.
Nudge organizes cleaning tasks; it does not diagnose or treat ADHD.