One studio, one app, no dark patterns.

Cozysweep is made by aqlis, a one-person studio in Germany. No team, no investors, no growth targets that would need you to feel bad.

Cozysweep is an independent iOS app by aqlis. It was built after reading more than two thousand reviews of cleaning apps, most of them about apps that kept score against their users. It has no servers, collects no data and keeps its daily list free. You reach the studio directly by email.

Daisy, the Cozysweep cat, waving.

Why it exists

Cozysweep started with a stack of reviews. Before writing a line of code, we read 2,338 reviews of the cleaning and chore apps people actually use. The pattern was hard to miss: the apps work for people who already keep up, and they turn on everyone else. A missed day becomes a red counter, the counter becomes a pile, and the pile becomes the reason the app never gets opened again.

So the brief was simple. Show one room and one small thing, not the whole house. Let finishing something earn a coin and make the room a little cosier. Make skipping a normal move. Make coming back after a week just coming back, without a word about the week.

That is a design conviction, not a therapy. Cozysweep is an organisation tool and makes no medical claims. It refuses to add shame to a job that already has enough of it, and it is honest about what it is: a small, warm way to keep a home in shape.

Every line of the app is written in-house, in Swift, and so is every line on this site. If something in Cozysweep feels off, the email at the bottom of this page reaches the person who built it.

How it's run

  • No servers, on purpose

    Your rooms, tasks and history live on your device and in your own iCloud. There is no Cozysweep backend that could be breached, sold or shut down.

  • Nothing to track

    No analytics SDK, no ads, no tracking permission. The privacy label reads 'Data Not Collected' because that is the truth, not a setting.

  • Paid for by a subscription, not by your attention

    Cozysweep+ funds development. It covers sharing and extras; the daily list stays free for everyone, always.

Fact sheet

App
Cozysweep for iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later
Status
In TestFlight beta; App Store release to follow
Price
Free. Cozysweep+ at €2.99/month or €24.99/year (EU storefront), 7-day free trial
Studio
aqlis, Germany
Built with
Swift 6, SwiftUI, CloudKit, StoreKit 2
Data
On device and in the user's iCloud; no servers, no analytics
Legal
Provider details in the legal notice

Say hello

Press, questions, or just a thought about the app — one address for all of it.

Email the studio