
Built an iOS app with zero coding background because my wife was tired of being the household's project manager
A while back my wife told me she wasn't exhausted from doing chores, she was exhausted from being the only one who remembers them. Appointments, birthday gifts, when the kids need new shoes, all of it lived in her head and I honestly didn't see it.
I looked for an app where a couple could actually map this stuff out and compare. Couldn't find one very good. So I decided to make it myself, which was a questionable decision since I can't code at all.
It took forever. Way more evenings than I'll admit to her. Got rejected by App Review over my paywall wording, twice, and the second rejection took me a full weekend to figure out.
Anyway it's live now. It's called Balance. You and your partner each swipe through the same deck of everyday tasks and it shows you where your answers don't match on who actually handles what. When we tested it on ourselves the mismatches were... humbling.
Free to try, iOS only for now (Android is in progress). If anyone here tries it I'd love feedback on the onboarding, that's where my drop-off is ugly. Also happy to answer questions about shipping an app when you're not a developer, it's doable but painful.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/balance-your-mental-load/id6766533067