What is Kepthouse?
The home maintenance app that actually keeps you on top of things.
Kepthouse is a free Android app that brings together everything you need to run your home smoothly — maintenance tasks, warranties, subscriptions, assets, and service contacts — in one simple, offline-first app.
Sound familiar?
- Boiler service was due three months ago — you only noticed when it broke
- Your dishwasher warranty expired last week and you had no idea
- You can't find the plumber's number from two years ago
- Subscription renewals keep surprising you
- Receipts are scattered across drawers, emails, and camera rolls
Kepthouse fixes this.
One app. Everything about your home, kept in one place. Set it up once, and Kepthouse reminds you before things slip through the cracks.
See what matters at a glance
Your personalised dashboard shows overdue tasks, expiring warranties, and upcoming payments. No digging required — open the app and instantly know what needs your attention.
- Overdue, today, and upcoming items colour-coded
- Quick-add buttons to create items fast
- Personalised greeting with your name
Never forget a job again
Create one-off or recurring tasks with priorities, categories, and smart reminders. Kepthouse nudges you before things are due — so you fix problems before they become emergencies.
- Recurring schedules: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
- Priority levels with colour indicators
- Configurable reminders (1, 3, 7, 14, 30 days ahead)
- Overdue counter so nothing slips through
Claim before it's too late
Store warranty details, purchase dates, and claim info for every item in your home. Get alerts before warranties expire so you can make claims while you still can.
- Status badges: OK, Expiring Soon, Expired
- Scan receipts with built-in OCR
- Attach photos, manuals, and PDFs
- Track appliances with brand, model, serial number, and location
- Track vehicles with MOT, tax, insurance, mileage, and service dates
- Track pets with microchip, vet, vaccinations, insurance, and medication
- Track properties with EPC, gas safety, EICR, insurance, and lease dates
- Track plants with species care data, harvest logs, soil pH readings, UK frost dates, and real-time frost, disease, and outbreak warnings by postcode
Know exactly what you're paying
Track every home-related subscription and recurring payment. See your total monthly and yearly spend at a glance, and get reminded before renewal dates so you're never caught off guard.
- Monthly and yearly cost totals
- Billing cycles: weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly
- Free trial tracking with end-date alerts
- Cancellation URL storage for quick access
Your trusted tradespeople, always to hand
Save contact details for every plumber, electrician, gardener, and tradesperson you use. Log every visit, rate each job, and build up a picture of who's worth calling back.
- Usage history — log every visit with date, rating, and notes
- Average star rating calculated across all visits
- Personal review for your overall opinion
- Phone, email, address, and website fields
- Organise by service type or company
- Link contacts to related tasks and assets
- Verify limited companies on Companies House — spot dissolved or insolvent tradespeople
Your whole home schedule at a glance
See everything that's coming up on one colour-coded calendar. Switch between month and week views, filter by type, and tap any item to jump straight to it.
- Month grid with colour-coded dots
- Week view with full daily agenda
- Filter by tasks, warranties, subscriptions, or vehicles
- Tap to navigate — scrolls to and highlights the item
Renovations and big jobs, organised
Group related tasks, contacts, warranties, and assets under one project. Set a budget, track every pound spent, and see progress at a glance. Ideal for kitchen refits, bathroom renovations, or any job that involves multiple tradespeople.
- Budget tracking with yellow (80%) and red (over) warnings
- Individual spend items with categories: Materials, Labour, Permits, and more
- Attach receipt photos to each spend item
- Progress bar from linked task completion
- Primary contact for your lead tradesperson
- Deadline reminders before target end date
Enter your reg, fill in the rest
Type your registration number and Kepthouse fetches your vehicle details, full MOT test history, and outstanding recall status from the DVLA and DVSA. See every past MOT with pass/fail results, mileage, advisories, and defects — colour-coded by severity. Free for everyone, with unlimited lookups and automatic daily background checks so dates update on their own.
- One tap to auto-fill MOT, tax, make, model, and more
- Full MOT history with pass/fail, mileage, and defects
- Outstanding recall warnings if your vehicle is affected
- Unlimited lookups and automatic daily background refresh — free for everyone
- Notifies you when your MOT or tax is renewed
Every important date, one screen
Your dashboard now shows upcoming dates across all your assets — not just tasks and warranties. Vehicle MOTs, pet vaccinations, property gas safety certificates, and insurance renewals all appear with colour-coded urgency so you never miss a deadline.
- Red for overdue, amber for due soon, teal for upcoming
- Covers appliances, vehicles, pets, properties, and plants in one view
- Tap any reminder to jump straight to the asset
- Works alongside task and warranty reminders
And there's more
OCR Receipt Scanning
Point your camera at a receipt and Kepthouse extracts the date, amount, and retailer automatically. Works on warranties, subscriptions, and project spend entries.
Calendar View
Month and week views with colour-coded dots. See tasks, warranties, subscriptions, and vehicle dates all in one place.
Global Search
Find any item instantly. Search by name, phone, email, registration, address, brand, model, breed, retailer, and more.
Google Drive Backup
Manual or automatic daily backups to your Google Drive. Your data, your account, fully encrypted.
Linked Items
Connect related items together. Link a warranty to the asset it covers, or a task to the contact who does the work.
CSV Export
Export your data as a spreadsheet whenever you need it. Your data is never locked in.
Manuals & Documents
Attach product manuals, warranty certificates and PDFs to assets and warranties. Link URLs that auto-fetch page titles.
Privacy First
No ads, no third-party tracking. All data stays on your device unless you choose to back up.
EPC Lookup
Look up your property's Energy Performance Certificate. Auto-fills rating, efficiency, energy costs, and building details from the government register.
Companies House
Verify your tradespeople on Companies House. See status badges — green for active, grey for dissolved, amber for insolvency or overdue filings. Auto-verifies on save, with unlimited manual re-checks and daily background refresh — free for everyone.
Address Mapping
See your properties and contacts on an interactive OpenStreetMap. Tap the location icon to find your address with GPS, or type it and tap Show on Map.
Scan Number Plates
Point your camera at a registration plate or VIN label. OCR reads the number, fills the field, and triggers a DVLA lookup automatically. The photo is attached to your vehicle.
Dashboard Customisation
Reorder and hide dashboard sections to focus on what matters. Tap the menu or long-press any section header to personalise your home screen.
Home Screen Widgets
Add widgets to your home screen for quick access to upcoming tasks, warranty expiries, subscription payments, bin days and plant care at a glance. Read more →
Archive & Recycle Bin
Archive items you don't need right now but want to keep. Deleted items go to the recycle bin for 30 days before permanent removal.
Bin Day Reminders FREE
Toggle on from any property and Kepthouse detects your council automatically. Evening-before push notifications, over 90% of UK councils supported, completely free. Read more →
Weather Alerts FREE
Turn on weather alerts for any property and Kepthouse watches the forecast three times a day — frost, gales, heavy rain, snow and ice, extreme heat — plus live Environment Agency flood warnings for England. Pick which conditions to watch per property; push notifications fire before the worst hits. Read more →
Guided Setup Wizards
Ten step-by-step flows for vehicles, properties, projects, subscriptions, bin reminders, weather alerts, reminders, contacts, plants and calendar import — keyword search finds the right one fast. Read more →
Plant Care & Plant Warnings FREE
Look up a plant by name from a 350,000-species catalogue. Push reminders for watering, pruning, feeding and mulching. Real-time frost and disease warnings matched to your plants and your postcode. Outbreak alerts when pests or diseases are reported nearby. Read more →
Snooze Reminders
Can't act on a reminder right now? Snooze it — tasks, warranties, subscriptions, vehicle dates, bin days and plant care all have snooze buttons that show the exact time you'll be reminded again. Tap "Other…" for "this evening", "tomorrow morning" and more. Bin and frost reminders cap at midnight, since there's no point snoozing past collection or frost time.
Ready to take control of your home?
Kepthouse is free to download with 15 items included. No sign-up required.
Data Sources & Disclaimer
Kepthouse is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the UK government, the DVLA, DVSA, Companies House, the Met Office, the Environment Agency, MET Norway, any local council, or any other government or public body. Vehicle, MOT, EPC, company, bin collection, weather, flood warning and plant information shown in the app is sourced from the official services listed below. Most are UK government services; weather forecasts come from MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute), and some plant data comes from open scientific datasets. Your use of this information is solely at your own risk.
- Vehicle tax and details — DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service: https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/
- MOT history — GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history
- Energy Performance Certificates — GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/find-energy-certificate
- Limited company verification — Companies House: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/
- Bin collection schedules — sourced from individual UK local council websites. Find your council: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council
- Weather forecasts (frost, gale, heavy rain, snow/ice, extreme heat alerts) — MET Norway, Locationforecast API: https://api.met.no/
- Flood alerts and warnings (England) — Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring service: https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/
- UK frost dates — Met Office / RHS regional climate averages (1991–2020 normals): https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages
- Plant species, taxonomy, pests and diseases — GBIF, Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, the DEFRA Plant Health Portal, and the BRC Database of Insects and their Food Plants. Full attribution: https://kepthouse.app/licences/plant-data.html
The information returned by these services may be incomplete, delayed, or incorrect. Always verify important details with the official source before making decisions.