Flatastic alternative: what we built differently, and why

How we checked this

Everything below about Flatastic was read on 21 September 2026 from one public source, its US App Store listing, published by Flatastic GmbH. Every price on this page is a US App Store price, for Flatastic and for Bunkly alike, so the two apps are always compared on the same storefront. Your own country, currency and tax may show different amounts.

That single-storefront rule matters more for this comparison than for most, and the section after next explains why.

We did not install Flatastic to write this, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. So you will not find a line here about how a screen feels after a month, or how a sync behaves on a bad connection. We describe what the listing states. Anything we could not read there is written as not published or not verified, rather than filled in with a plausible guess.

We also make Bunkly. Read the Flatastic figures as facts you can check yourself in one click, and read our opinions as opinions.

Flatastic on the US store, in numbers

The US listing shows a rating of 4.7 across 288 ratings. That is a strong score, on a sample big enough to carry weight.

The download is free. The listing shows four in-app purchases, and their names describe the pricing model better than we could. Premium for one is $1.99 monthly or $18.49 yearly. Premium for everyone is $6.49 monthly, and the yearly version, listed as Premium for everybody, is $34.99. There is no one-off purchase on that list.

Two structural facts follow from those names alone, without any guesswork. Flatastic sells a per-person tier and a whole-household tier, and it sells access by the month or by the year and in no other way. Bunkly does the opposite on both counts: one tier that covers the household, and an option to buy it outright.

We are not going to inventory Flatastic’s features here. We only trust what we read on the listing, and a feature list copied second-hand into a blog post is exactly the kind of thing that is wrong six months later while still sounding authoritative. The listing takes ten seconds to open, and it is the honest place to read that.

The part most English-language comparisons skip

Flatastic is a German product, and its audience is overwhelmingly German. The same app that carries 288 ratings on the US store carries 5,496 on the German one, at 4.6. That is roughly nineteen times the sample, for the same software on the same day.

This is not a criticism. If anything, the two scores agreeing is the reassuring part: 4.6 over five thousand ratings and 4.7 over 288 tell the same story about the app, from two very different crowds.

What the gap changes is everything around the app rather than the app itself. The reviews you can read before committing, the person who already hit your bug and wrote three paragraphs about it, the feedback that shapes what gets built next, all of that is mostly not in your language and not in your market. If your habit is to read a year of reviews before moving a household onto something, plan on reading German.

You are not choosing a worse app. You are choosing an app whose centre of gravity sits somewhere else.

Bunkly has nothing better to offer on this point, and we want to be clear about that. It has zero ratings in every market, which is a worse position than 288, not a cleverer one.

Price, in both directions

Flatastic is cheaper for one person and more expensive for a household, and a comparison that only reports one half of that is not worth reading.

Start with one person. Monthly, $1.99 against Bunkly’s $3.99. Yearly, $18.49 against $22.99. Flatastic wins both, and the yearly gap of $4.50 is small in absolute terms but it is real, and it repeats every year for as long as you keep the app.

Now the household. Flatastic’s yearly plan for everyone is $34.99. Bunkly has no separate per-person tier, so the same $22.99 a year covers up to six members. A solo user pays more with us and a household pays less, which is a deliberate shape rather than an accident of pricing.

The bar that changes the question is the top one. Bunkly bought outright is $49.99, once, and then the line stops. A household on Flatastic’s yearly plan for everyone passes that figure partway through the second year. A single person on Flatastic’s cheapest yearly plan takes closer to three years to get there.

So the useful question is not which app is cheaper this month. It is whether you want to be paying for a chore list in 2031. Flatastic does not offer a way out of that, and we do.

What we decided not to build, and why

Three decisions shaped Bunkly, and all three are written down in its design notes. They are ours, they are not claims about Flatastic, and none of them is a proof. They are the reasons we did not simply build a cheaper copy of something that already worked.

No points, no badges, no leaderboard

There is no scoring in Bunkly, no ranking between flatmates, and no mascot. That is a choice and it is recorded in our design notes.

The reasoning fits in two sentences. A reward that is not renewed stops working, and the housework it was propping up comes straight back. Worse, in a shared home the person who stops playing first ends up looking like the person who stopped caring, and we would rather the app never hand anyone that accusation. If a scoreboard is what gets your flat moving, we are the wrong app and you should ignore this paragraph. What actually holds a shared flat together is closer to the ground rules we set out in five rules that keep a flatshare working, and an app can only support those, not replace them.

Recurrence anchored on the last completion

Most chore apps pin a task to a weekday. Clean the bathroom on Saturday. Miss one Saturday and you are instantly late, miss two and the screen is a wall of overdue items that you start ignoring on sight.

Bunkly anchors each recurrence on the day the task was actually completed. Clean the bathroom on Monday instead of Saturday and the next occurrence counts from Monday. One slip stays one slip, it never cascades, and nobody gets punished twice for the same delay.

Undoing a tick does not wreck the schedule

Small thing, same idea. Tick a task by mistake, undo it, and Bunkly recomputes the next due date from the previous real completion instead of from the mistake. The schedule goes back to where it was.

One honest limit we hit while building it: if you had moved that due date by hand before the mis-tap, the undo restores the calculated date rather than your manual one. The case is rare, we knew about it, and we chose to ship rather than hold the release for it.

Side by side

Two rows deserve a sentence rather than a number. Flatastic’s household plan is sold as Premium for everyone, which is priced for a full flatshare, and the number of people it actually covers is not stated on the US listing, so we are not going to invent one. Bunkly’s number is stated and it is six. If you are seven in the flat, Bunkly is out, and you should learn that here rather than after paying.

What Bunkly does not have

It shipped on 3 September 2026, so it is not yet three weeks old. No reviews, no rating, no update history, nothing for you to read about it except pages we wrote ourselves. That is the honest state of the thing, and no feature list makes up for it.

There is no web version, so everyone needs a phone. A household caps at six members. There is no calendar, no shopping list, no meal planning and no shared expenses feature, so if you want the chores and the money in one app, we do not cover half of that. What is there is set out on the features page, and every plan limit is on the pricing page.

What Bunkly does carry on every plan, including the free one: no ads, no analytics inside the app, and no user photos on our servers, because there is no way to upload one. It works offline, and it syncs when the network comes back.

So which one

Stay with Flatastic if you are paying for yourself alone and the price matters, because $18.49 a year beats $22.99 and that is the end of that argument. Stay if you want an app that thousands of people have already stress-tested, even if most of them did it in German. Those are good reasons and we are not going to talk you out of either.

Try Bunkly if you would rather stop paying at some point, if one subscription needs to cover up to six people instead of one, if your household runs in French, Spanish, Italian or Polish, or if a scoreboard on the housework sounds like the wrong tool for the people you live with. The free plan needs no payment and no household setup: one person, 15 tasks, 3 zones. Load your real list into it and decide before any money changes hands.

Every Flatastic figure on this page was read on 21 September 2026 from the US listing linked at the top. Prices and ratings move. Open it yourself before deciding anything.