Kempt is live on the App Store
Not a review score, not an install count. One house, kept.
Kempt is on the App Store as of this morning. iPhone, $39.99 a year, seven days free before you pay anything.
That is the announcement. The rest of this is what it does and what it doesn’t, because I would rather you know before you pay than after.
What it does
A year into our house, the list in my head was longer than the one on paper. The filter I forgot. The dryer vent I didn’t know to check. The water heater I had no idea how old it was.
Kempt keeps that list now. You tell it about the house once, roughly, and it works out what’s due and when. Every Sunday it sends a Brief.
The Brief is short on purpose. It names what’s coming up, what to do about it, and what to buy if you need to buy something. Not “check your HVAC tasks.” Something closer to:
“Air filter due Saturday. The 16×25×1 above the return vent.”
Nothing to translate, no size to look up. That part is already done.
Between Briefs it watches the weather and tells you before a hard freeze instead of after. It keeps a tally of what staying ahead has saved you. And it holds a record of everything that’s been done to the house, which is worth more than it sounds like on the day you sell.
What it costs
$39.99 a year, or $7.99 a month. Seven days free before either one.
There’s no free tier. A free tier would mean the version most people use is the version that doesn’t remember anything, and the remembering is the whole product.
Cancel from your device settings. No phone call, no retention specialist. If you do cancel, you keep read access to everything Kempt knows about your house, and you can take the whole record with you as a file or a clean PDF.
What it doesn’t do
iPhone today. Android is on the list, and I’m not putting a date on it until it’s real.
It won’t touch your thermostat or your locks. It won’t book your plumber; nobody is paying me to send you one. And this is version 1.0, so there are corners of your house it doesn’t know about yet. Tell me when you find one.
I keep my own house on it. Garford House, where all of this got built. That’s the proof I have, and I would rather say it plainly than dress it up. Not a review score, not an install count. One house, kept.
By Brian Garland · Updated August 13, 2026 · About