How did we check this
Our method was deliberately narrow. Everything below about Sweepy was read on 21 September 2026 from two public sources: its App Store listing and its Google Play listing. Every price on this page is the US App Store price, for Sweepy and for Bunkly alike, so the two are always compared on the same storefront. Your own currency and tax may differ.
We did not install Sweepy to write this, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. That means we describe what the listings state and what the publisher says, not how the app feels after a month of use. Anything we could not read from a source is marked as such rather than guessed.
We also make Bunkly. Read the Sweepy figures as facts you can check yourself in one click, and read our opinions as opinions.
What Sweepy is, in numbers
Sweepy is published by Appsent (U.S.). It first reached the App Store on 25 March 2020, and version 6.2.0 shipped on 4 February 2026. That is five and a half years of continuous work.
The ratings are consistent across storefronts, which matters more than any single number. On the App Store it sits at 4.7, across 10,538 ratings in the United States and 1,876 in the United Kingdom. On Google Play it shows 4.5 across 18,400 reviews, with more than a million downloads.
The download is free. The US App Store lists exactly two in-app purchases: Sweepy - Monthly at $3.99 and Sweepy - Yearly at $19.99. There is no one-off purchase on that list. The Play listing carries an in-app purchases badge and no advertising badge.
Sweepy declares eight interface languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian. It requires iOS 15.1 or later.
That is a serious product with a real audience. Nothing in the rest of this article changes those numbers.
The three-year cost, laid out
Prices are easier to judge over the life of a habit than per month. Here is what each option costs over three years, using the prices above.
Two things stand out in that chart.
On a monthly plan the two apps cost exactly the same, $3.99. On a yearly plan Sweepy is cheaper by $3 a year, which is real but small. The meaningful gap is the top bar. Bunkly bought outright costs $49.99, once, and that is already less than three years of Sweepy’s yearly plan. After that the line stops, and Sweepy’s does not.
So the price question is not which app is cheaper. It is whether you want a subscription at all. Sweepy does not offer a way out of one.
What did we decide not to build, and why
This is the part where the two apps genuinely diverge, and it comes down to three decisions we made while building Bunkly.
No points, no badges, no leaderboard
Sweepy is built around points and a household ranking. We looked hard at that model while designing Bunkly and chose against it. It is written down as a rule in the project’s design notes, alongside the other things Bunkly will not do.
The reasoning is simple enough to state in one sentence: a reward that is not renewed stops working, and the housework it was propping up comes back. In a shared home the failure mode is worse than a reset, because the person who stops playing first looks like the one who stopped caring. We would rather the app never create that accusation. Our full argument is in why gamification does not work for housework, and it is an argument, not a proof. Plenty of households will disagree, and for them Sweepy is the better product.
Recurrence anchored on the last completion
Most chore apps pin a task to a weekday. Clean the bathroom on Saturday. Miss a Saturday and you are instantly late, miss two and the app is a wall of red that you start ignoring.
Bunkly anchors recurrence on the day you actually completed the task, not on the calendar. Clean the bathroom on Monday instead of Saturday and the next occurrence counts from Monday. One slip stays one slip. It never cascades, and you are never punished twice for the same delay.
A list that turns red after one bad week is a list you stop opening.
Undoing a tick does not wreck the schedule
Small thing, and it comes from the same idea. Tick a task by mistake, undo it, and Bunkly recomputes the next due date from the previous real completion rather than from the mistake. The schedule goes back to where it was.
We flagged one honest limit while building it: if you had moved a due date by hand before the mis-tap, the undo restores the calculated date rather than your manual one. That case is rare and we chose to ship rather than delay for it.
Two concrete situations
For example, take two households.
You live alone and the flat drifts. Sweepy’s points have nobody to compete with, so the mechanic is mostly idle. Bunkly’s free plan is designed exactly for this: one person, 15 tasks, 3 zones, no payment, no household to set up. It is the case where the price comparison above does not apply at all, because one of the two costs nothing.
Four flatmates and a rota nobody respects. Here Sweepy’s ranking is a real tool, and it will probably work for a few months. Bunkly instead rotates assignments automatically on the Pro plan, so no one has to be the person who reminds everyone. Which one suits you depends on whether your household finds a scoreboard motivating or passive-aggressive. We have a strong opinion and you should ignore it, because you know your flatmates and we do not.
Side by side
| Sweepy | Bunkly | |
|---|---|---|
| On sale since | 25 March 2020 | 3 September 2026 |
| App Store rating | 4.7 over 10,538 ratings (US) | No rating yet |
| Play rating | 4.5 over 18,400 reviews, 1M+ downloads | No rating yet |
| Yearly price | $19.99 | $22.99 |
| Monthly price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| One-off purchase | Not offered | $49.99 |
| Points and leaderboard | Yes, central to the app | None, by design |
| Interface languages | 8, no Spanish, no Polish | 6: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish |
| Advertising | No ads badge on Play | None on any plan |
Two rows deserve a comment rather than a number. Sweepy covers Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian and Dutch, which Bunkly does not, so on raw language count it wins. Bunkly covers Spanish and Polish, which Sweepy does not. Neither is better, they are different bets.
What Bunkly does not have
It is three weeks old. No reviews, no rating, no update history, nothing for you to read except this page, which we wrote. That is the honest state of it, and no feature list compensates.
There is no web version. A household caps at six members. There is no shopping list, no calendar and no meal planning. Full details sit on the features page and the pricing page.
So which one
Stay on Sweepy if points work in your house, if $3 a year is worth having, or if you simply want an app that a million people have already stress-tested. Those are good reasons and we are not going to argue with any of them.
Try Bunkly if you want to stop paying at some point, if you need the interface in Spanish or Polish, if a scoreboard on the housework sounds like the wrong tool for your household, or if you live alone and a free single-person plan is all you need. Start there, load your own list, and decide before you pay anything.
Every Sweepy figure on this page was read on 21 September 2026 from the two listings linked at the top. Prices and ratings move. Open them yourself before deciding anything.