Home Story
Appliance and filter reminders
Every home maintenance task, repair, and cost in one private place. Smart seasonal reminders, cost insights, and PDF reports. Offline-first, backed up to your own iCloud. No accounts, no subscription.
On the App Store this is listed as Home Repair & Warranty Log.
The Challenge
Most homeowners track upkeep in their head, a notes app, or a shoebox of receipts. Then a water heater floods, a furnace dies mid-winter, or they go to sell and can’t prove a thing was ever serviced.
Our Approach
Home Story keeps a clear maintenance history for every system in the home (HVAC, roof, plumbing, electrical, appliances, exterior, yard, and safety), each with a smart schedule. Records stay on device and can be backed up and restored through the owner’s private iCloud container. No accounts, no servers, no ads.
Key Features
- Built for homes: system-by-system schedules, not a car app bent sideways
- Complete service log: date, cost, vendor, photos, and notes on every job, DIY or pro
- Scheduled reminders: surface seasonal and recurring upkeep when it is due
- Pro cost insights: see exactly where the money goes, by system and by contractor
- Reports & private backup: Pro exports clean PDFs; iCloud backup and restore are included free
Results
Home Story turns a house full of forgotten upkeep into a system-by-system history with clear, scheduled reminders.
Common questions
Home Story, listed on the App Store as Home Repair & Warranty Log, is an English-language iPhone and iPad app for keeping a house's maintenance history in one place. It covers eight systems: heating and cooling, plumbing, electrical, safety, exterior, interior, appliances and yard, with 66 built-in task templates on recurring and seasonal schedules plus 62 bundled how-to articles on common problems. Every service entry holds date, cost, vendor, photos and notes, and the app adds warranty-expiry and appliance-age alerts, a home screen widget and Siri shortcuts. On a fresh install, free use covers one real home, one active custom reminder, ten new service, utility or issue entries, cost tracking, attached photos, complete JSON export, and iCloud backup and restore; anything already logged stays readable and editable. Pro is an optional one-time purchase at the current local App Store price, not a subscription, and adds unlimited homes, log entries and custom reminders plus PDF reports and detailed cost insights. Records stay on the device and in the owner's private iCloud backups, with no account, ads or behavioral tracking. The app can retrieve verified public task and guide updates; it records what the owner enters and does not diagnose faults or book contractors.