Upkept - Home Maintenance

Consumer Reports

About this app

Your home is one of your biggest financial investments. Say hello to confident homeownership and goodbye to costly mistakes. Upkept is your all-in-one app for maintaining your home inside and out.

Upkept simplifies home maintenance with tools that remove the hassles, keep you organized, and guide you through caring for your home, inside and out.

1. Add your things, get instant, tailor-made plans

The hardest part of home maintenance is knowing what to do. Add anything in your home that needs maintaining and Upkept instantly creates a maintenance plan to keep each one in tip-top shape for years to come.

• appliances
• heating and cooling systems
• foundation and exterior
• roof and gutters
• lawn, plants, and trees
• electrical
• plumbing
• flooring
• bathroom fixtures
• countertops and cabinets

2. Do the right work at the right time

No planning and no remembering needed. Based on your home and what's in it, Upkept builds you a custom "Upkeeps" program, with automatically scheduled tasks and reminders that pop up throughout the year.

3. Get things done confidently

When you're ready to tackle a task, Upkept helps you wipe your to-do list clean with how-tos and hacks for every upkeep. Along with step-by-step how-tos, you'll see how much time and money to budget, what tools you'll need, and whether you should tackle it yourself or if it's time to call in a pro.

Features:
• Home Hub - A snapshot of your home. One place to add and track all your home systems and appliances, upload receipts, manage parts, and keep repair notes.
• Instant Maintenance Plans - Add any major system, appliance, or surface and Upkept instantly creates a maintenance plan to keep each one in tip-top shape for years to come.
• Automatically Planned Tasks - A smart to-do list, tailored to you. Based on your home and what's in it, Upkept builds you a custom ""Upkeeps"" program, with automatically scheduled tasks that pop up exactly when they need doing throughout the year.
• DIY How-tos - Tackle any DIY task with confidence with step-by-step how-tos.
• Timesavers and Critical Information - Know how much time and money to budget, what tools you'll need, and whether you should tackle it yourself or if it's time to call in a pro.
• Automatic Reminders - Stay on top of tasks without needing to remember a thing.
• Guided Goals - Build smart habits, see your progress, and group tasks together so you stay motivated and get more done.

Keeping up with home maintenance has never been easier.
First-time homebuyers, busy homeowners, DIYers.
Use Upkept to maintain your house, condo, or townhouse

Ratings and reviews

Very promising. The app has a lot going for it: building out individual tasks based on what equipment you have and how old it is, connections to local pros, and the layout is good. Some things must be added to make this app truly valuable. 1) Allow for multiple people to have accounts and connect them together, and be able to assign tasks. 2) Find a way to customize the occurrences, such as adjusting a monthly to every 5 weeks.

Was under the impression the trial would last 90 days but 30 days was the trial period. Which is odd, I was really enjoying the app as I became acquainted with it. 30 days isn't enough time for me to commit to it. So I'll return to the way I previously handled home maintenance. it's a great app but I already knew to complete these tasks. The feature that kept me interested in subscribing to upkept was the organization of tasks, receipts, and the simplicity it brought to my life.

Edit: Since this was a isolated issue, I am revising my review. Really enjoy this app because I am not the handiest of men, nor have a good memory. This is perfect for me! Was working fine for a couple of weeks, so I subscribed. Then all of a sudden getting "Something went wrong." When logged in, same message. Signed out and back in, now can't login. Rebooted phone, uninstalled and reinstalled app. Same. Any help appreciated!

What's new

Upkept now offers the ability to book a professional for home maintenance, repairs, updates and more through our friends at Thumbtack.