More than doing
Mental load also sits in anticipating, figuring out, deciding and following up. That work often stays invisible. (Daminger, 2019)
ROOM is live
The external brain for your family
ROOM remembers and organises what keeps your household running: appointments, school letters, weekly menus, groceries and tasks. So nobody has to carry the mental load in their head alone.
“What a great app, I especially appreciate the AI integration!”
“The school days feature is brilliant!”
“My partner and I are both fans of the Room app!”
You can't see mental load, but you can feel it
Who remembers that the cat is due at the vet? Who notices the toilet paper is nearly out? Who thinks of the swimming kit that has to go to school tomorrow?
ROOM takes all those small and big things out of your head and makes them visible. So you get a clearer overview yourself, and if you share a household, you can also see together what's on the list and who is picking up what.
Because doing something is one thing. Always having to think of it is something else.
That's why ROOM works as an external brain for the whole family: record a thought, snap a photo of a note or paste a link, and ROOM puts it in the right place. Everyone looks at the same family memory and can find what was agreed with a single search.
For every home
Whether you live alone, as a couple or as a family, with or without children: ROOM adapts to how your home really works.
Overview or sharing
Plan for yourself or divide things together. You get one clear picture of everything that needs attention.
A weekly rhythm
A few minutes a week to look together: what's coming up, what's still open and who takes what? It stays clear, without turning home into one big to-do list.
The science behind ROOM
Built on what research tells us
Keeping a household running is about far more than ticking off tasks. Research shows that remembering, anticipating, planning and following up also shape how heavy the division feels. That's why ROOM looks not only at who does something, but also at who thinks of it.
Responsibility weighs
Truly handing over a task is different from getting help with carrying it out. As long as you are the one who has to think of it, follow up or check, part of it stays in your head. (Dean, Churchill & Ruppanner, 2022)
Fragmentation costs energy
Interruptions and tasks tied to fixed moments can feel heavier than the same work in one calm block. (Offer & Schneider, 2011)
Balance doesn't have to be 50/50
What feels well shared doesn't have to be perfectly equal. What matters most is that the split fits your life, your possibilities and what feels right for both of you. (Adams, 1965; Lennon & Rosenfield, 1994)
Relationships under pressure
How the household is divided is one of the themes couples clash about most. Not surprising: when the split doesn't feel right for one of you for a long time, it can weigh on the connection and the relationship. (Ruppanner, Brandén & Turunen, 2018)
Children grow with it too
Planning, remembering, starting a task and taking responsibility: these are all executive functions children develop step by step. By giving them something to hold on to and letting them carry a bit more each time, they practise skills they can fall back on for a long time. (Moffitt et al., 2011)
How ROOM works
No complicated setup. Just start.
1
Capture what needs attention
In a few minutes, note which visible and invisible tasks are on your plate.
2
See the balance
ROOM shows what's on your plate and, if you live together, who carries what. Without judgement or a scoreboard.
3
Plan your week
A short, recurring moment to look ahead, on your own or together with your household.
4
Celebrate what works
Small wins count too. ROOM helps you notice them, instead of moving straight on to the next thing.
Walkthrough
Take a look inside ROOM
We take you through the app: capturing tasks, making the mental load visible and planning the week together.
Keep ROOM close at hand
Add ROOM to your home screen
ROOM works like a real app on your phone, with no download from the App Store or Play Store.
iPhone or iPad
Open ROOM in Safari, tap the share button and choose ‘Add to Home Screen’.
Android
Open ROOM in Chrome, tap the three dots at the top right and choose ‘Install app’.
Computer
Open ROOM in Chrome or Edge and click the install icon in the address bar.
See how to install ROOM
Everything your family needs to remember, in one place
Speak, snap or type
Record a thought, take a photo of a school letter or paste some text. Roomie picks out tasks, appointments or shopping items, and you check them before they're added.
One family memory to search
Search tasks, calendar, recipes, weekly menu and groceries in one go. No more digging through chats or emails.
Share tasks and the mental load
Bring tasks and the thinking behind them into view. Agree on who takes on what and keep track together of what's still open.
Smartschool, clubs and calendars together
Add your Smartschool calendar, plus schedules from sports clubs, hobbies and other calendars through their calendar link. If you like, you can also connect Google Calendar: ROOM creates a separate ‘Room’ calendar there and changes go both ways.
Kids join in
Children get their own overview of their tasks and schedule. Younger kids get pictograms, and a focus mode with a timer helps them tackle one task at a time.
From weekly menu to online basket
Plan your weekly menu and put the ingredients on the shared shopping list. In beta, you can also send that list to the basket of an online supermarket.
Also handy in everyday family life
One tablet, several kids
On a shared device, each child picks their own profile and signs in with a PIN. They don't need their own smartphone.
Together with another household
With ‘Samen’ you share selected tasks, appointments and shopping items with another household or a helper, such as a grandparent. Only what you share together is visible to both sides.
Recipes from a link
Paste a link from a cooking website and ROOM copies the ingredients and steps into your recipe collection.
Wish lists to share
Collect gift ideas and share a list with family or friends. Through the share link they can reserve a gift.
Recipes for the number of eaters
For recipes with a number of servings, you can scale the quantities to the number of people at the table.
Can I use ROOM without AI?
Yes. You can add and manage tasks, appointments, weekly menus and shopping lists yourself. Roomie is extra help for when you want it. What you share with Roomie goes through a secure business interface and is not used to train AI models. You can read more about how data is processed in our privacy policy.
ROOM in the press
What the media write about ROOM.
Maison Slash
Free to read16 October 2026
“Just quickly do the laundry. And then we're supposed to feel like having sex too? Lies and Fré wanted to get rid of that damn mental load and built the ROOM app”
What matters most is that you both feel the balance is manageable and fair.
By Lobke Gielkens
Read the article (Dutch) on maisonslash.be
Het Nieuwsblad·Gazet van Antwerpen·Het Belang van Limburg
Free to readOctober 2026
“This couple launches an app to share household tasks more fairly”
It's not about splitting everything exactly equally, but it does give a much clearer picture.
By Chloë Stylemans
Read the article (Dutch) on nieuwsblad.be, gva.be or hbvl.be
What families say
Feedback from families who use ROOM every day.
“For years I told my partner at home that I needed a “co-pilot” instead of just an executor — that I was carrying everything, at work and at home, until I actually crashed. This tool makes letting go and taking responsibility together evolve much faster. I'm convinced I will now find my energy back much sooner.”
Calm & mental load
Thanks for the app! My head feels so much lighter, and my family helps out more with the invisible tasks.
We've been using Room for over a month now and we're very happy.
Smart & AI
How good is this... you upload a photo of the athletics schedule and Room puts it in the calendar on the right day. Love it!! 🤩
Very happy with the app and with lovely Roomie, who thinks along with our family.
School & family
I see huge potential, especially now that the kids are excited to see their own app!
The school days and routines feature is brilliant.
Pricing
Yearly
For your own family.
€99,99/year
- ✓ Full access to ROOM
- ✓ Unlimited household members
- ✓ Personal help getting set up
- ✓ Renews automatically each year
Want to surprise someone else?
🎁 Give ROOM as a gift
Give a family or couple a year of ROOM. The gift card includes 1 year of full access and does not renew automatically. Choose a printed card by post or a digital card in your inbox.
€99.99 · one-off
Order a gift cardAll subscriptions renew automatically through the payment method you chose. You can cancel at any time from your account.
Why yearly?
Because ROOM wasn't made for a quick fix ❤️
Making mental load visible, sharing things differently and finding new habits doesn't happen overnight. ROOM helps you with that step by step, until the new way slowly becomes the normal way.
A year gives you the space to discover together what works, try things out, adjust and let new habits grow. Not just during busy weeks, but through all the seasons of your family life.
That way ROOM doesn't become an app you try for a moment, but something that gradually runs along with your daily life. Not to tie you down, but to give change the time it needs to really last.
The subscription also includes personal help getting set up. We're happy to think along whenever you have questions or get stuck.
About us
We are Fre and Lies. Both psychologists, both entrepreneurs, and together parents of four children.
A household with children, you know how that goes. The endless grind of school, work, who picks up whom where, what's for dinner tonight, that one email still waiting for an answer, a hobby here, an appointment there. Add a healthy dose of neurodivergence and the accompanying absent-mindedness in our case, and you'll understand: our heads never really stood still.
We also noticed that we were both remembering, arranging and thinking ahead, without always knowing what was going on in the other's head. Although it wasn't quite evenly shared. Especially the invisible part, thinking ahead, remembering, keeping an eye on what still had to happen, often sat with me, Lies (in my head).
And that caused the occasional argument. I felt like I was juggling a hundred things nobody could see. Fre found it hard that he was expected to take into account things he sometimes didn't even know were going on. Not exactly the best soil for cosy evenings. :)
And yes, sometimes things simply slipped through the net. A parents' evening we forgot. A kids' hobby that fell by the wayside. Those things.
We tried a to-do app and a shared calendar. They definitely helped us along, but they weren't quite what we needed.
Because we weren't looking for yet another place to make lists. What we really wanted was a place where everything that otherwise keeps spinning around in your head could land. Where we could see: what's actually there? Who carries what? And how can we share that a little better?
And the longer we worked on it, the more we realised: we're obviously far from the only ones who could use this. Whether you're a couple, live alone, are trying to keep a family running or have children slowly taking on more responsibility, almost everyone knows that head with just a few too many tabs open at once.
And honestly: our four children could use some ROOM too. Each of them a little absent-minded professor, sometimes needing a bit of extra structure to remember what's expected of them.
That's how ROOM came to be.
Not just another to-do app, but a place that helps you make a bit more room at home. In your head, in the planning and for each other.
Because when no single person has to remember everything all the time, when you know better what's going on with the other, and when things feel a bit more in balance at home, space opens up for something else.
More time for each other. More lightness. More fun. And simply a bit more room to be together, easily.
Share the load. Keep the love.
Fre & LiesFounders of ROOM