Idle Ideas apps
Home and family apps
Seven apps for the things a household has to keep track of: every pet's health and paperwork, each kid's week and the year ahead, the morning and evening tablets, which box the camping gear is in, the packing list you rebuild every trip, how long the water in the tank will last, and what to put in the pool. Nothing about your family leaves your own phone.
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Free
Mixed Paws
For households with more than one pet
Every pet's health, food, expenses and paperwork in one app.
- Vet visits, vaccinations and medications, each with a due-date reminder
- An emergency card that builds itself from what's already in the app
- Expenses, photos and documents, filed against the right pet
Everything stays on your phone. Not a substitute for veterinary advice.
Free. No trial, nothing to buy.
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Looking for testers
Adds Up
For Australian parents of school-age kids
Each kid's week in one place, and the year ahead planned.
- Sport, lessons and appointments on one week, with clashes flagged
- What to bring and who's driving, with school terms for every state built in
- Spending kept per child, with budgets and fee instalments, so nothing catches you out
Everything stays on your device. Works offline.
14 days free, then A$39.99 a year or A$4.99 a month.
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Looking for testers
DaySheet
For older people managing their own medicines
Meds, scripts and appointments on one calm screen, in big, plain print.
- Today's morning or evening tablets, right on the home screen
- A photo of every medicine box, and why any were stopped
- A one-page summary to show the doctor, ready to print
Everything stays on your phone. Not medical advice.
A one-off A$5.
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Looking for testers
Doovalacky
For anyone with a garage, shed or storage unit full of boxes
Tells you which box your stuff is in, and where the box is.
- A QR label for every box, printed on standard Avery sheets
- Search for a thing and it tells you the box, and the shelf it's on
- Scan a label and the box opens, with everything inside
Everything stays on your device. Works with no signal.
Price to come.
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Looking for testers
Repack
For anyone who packs the same bags again and again
Everything you take, entered once, and a list for every kind of trip.
- Lists built by ticking from your gear, with amounts for the nights away
- A fresh copy for every trip, to tick off as you pack and as you use things
- Pack for the family, and keep your phone and iPad in step
- At home, the list learns what you didn't need
Everything stays on your device. Works offline.
14 days free, then A$19.99 a year or A$39.99 once.
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Private testing
Water Paddock Utility
For rural homes and small farms on tank water
Dip the tank, see how many days of water are left, and ring the carter in time.
- Usable litres and days left from one dip of the stick
- Stock and household use, hot weather, rain and fire reserve
- An order-by date from your carter's notice, with the text ready to send
- Leak test, chlorine dose and tank size from a tape
Everything stays on your device. Works with no signal.
A$14.99 once.
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Looking for testers
Pool Chem Dip
For Australian backyard pools: salt, mineral and chlorine
Dip a strip, slide to match, and know exactly what to add.
- The exact dose for your pool, in mL, grams and 20 kg bags of salt
- In the right order, with how to add each one and how long to wait
- Test history, and guides for summer start-up, the filter, storms and green water
Everything stays on your device. Works offline.
A$14.99 once. No subscription.
The other groups
Three free apps sit on the home page; the rest are grouped by what you do.
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Business apps
For small businesses run from a phone: cleaners, sparkies, plumbers, caterers, market stallholders and farms. Bookings, run sheets, quotes, invoices and records, with no per-user fees.
Moppa, Bright Spark, RiserOps, CaterPass and Stallie. One more is still being built.
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Work and shifts apps
For people paid by the roster or the hour: your swing worked out a year ahead, and the shift tracked right up to knock-off.
Boots Off and Tools Down.
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Travel and going out apps
For time away and nights out: what your savings buy on the ground, which cellar-door wines you liked, and what's on tonight in Singleton.
Ground Value and Singleton Tonight. One more is still being built.
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Art and hobbies apps
For painting, drawing and making things: a drawing grid and composition lines sized to your real canvas, so the picture lands where you planned it.
Graticola.
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