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, no leaderboard, and no streaks. Nudge is the more expensive one. Pick Sweepy if scorekeeping motivates you, and pick Nudge if a broken counter is the thing that stops you.
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 overviewWhat each one costs
Sweepy is $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 a free tier that stays free and Premium is optional, but 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. | 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. | Nothing changes and nothing resets. Momentum counts the sessions you did and has no idea about the ones you did not. |
| Shared households | Yes. Its site describes assigning and sharing chores with family or roommates. | No. Nudge is a single-user app. |
| 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, 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. | Unlimited rooms, tasks, and timer. Three guided sessions, two Panic Cleans, and three task breakdowns a week. One Scan My Mess scan. |
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 there is nothing to come back to. No counter moved, no room changed colour, 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.
- Thirty 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 broken streak or a wall of red overdue tasks 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 not being scored.
Both have a free tier. Here is ours, exactly.
Nudge free includes unlimited rooms, unlimited tasks, and the cleaning timer, plus three guided cleaning sessions a week, two Panic Clean sessions a week, three task breakdowns a week, one Scan My Mess starter scan, and the five-minute reset and Momentum view.
Those weekly caps are the honest shape of it. The free tier is usable on its own and it does not expire, and the caps are the point where Premium starts to matter. 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. It leads with “Never red, never angry”, offers unlimited streak freezes and a Low Spoons mode, has a more generous free tier than ours, and costs $39.99 a year. If gentle is what you are shopping for, it belongs on your list.
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. No streak to break.
Nudge is free to download on iPhone. The free tier does not expire and Premium is optional. Premium is $49.99 a year, which is $30 more than Sweepy, and the thing you are buying is the absence of a score.
Sweepy alternative questions
Is there a free Sweepy alternative?
Nudge has a permanently free tier on iPhone: unlimited rooms, tasks, and the timer, plus three guided sessions, two Panic Cleans, and three task breakdowns each week, and one Scan My Mess scan. It is free to download and Premium is optional. It is not a cheaper paid plan though. Nudge Premium is $49.99 a year against Sweepy's $19.99.
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. Nudge has no points, coins, levels, streaks, or leaderboard. Momentum shows the sessions you finished, and a missed day does not remove anything or turn anything red.
Can Nudge handle a shared household like Sweepy?
No. Nudge is a single-user app with no chore assignment and no household view. 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. 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
Nudge organizes cleaning tasks; it does not diagnose or treat ADHD.