About OurSpace

Most households do not fall apart over big things. They fall apart over a dentist appointment nobody wrote down, a bin day nobody remembers whose turn it is, and a direct debit neither of you can account for.

The tools that exist for this are mostly built for offices. A shared calendar assumes you both work the same week. A task app assumes someone is the project manager. A budgeting app assumes one person owns the money. Running a home between two adults is not a small business, and OurSpace is built on that assumption rather than the other one.

Couples and families sharing one household — two adults with separate diaries, separate bank accounts and a joint life. It works whether you are two people in a flat or a family with a week of school runs, clubs and pickups to coordinate.

It is deliberately built for a household rather than a group. There is no team, no admin hierarchy and no permissions matrix. Both of you see the same thing — the one exception is a birthday you deliberately mark as a surprise — and neither of you is anyone’s assistant.

The home screen shows today from both sides — each partner’s events in their own column, above an AI-written digest of what the other one added or ticked off since you last looked. The point is that you catch up in ten seconds rather than interrogating each other at the end of the day.

Underneath that sit both Google Calendars in one view, a shared shopping list with quantities, tasks carrying a due date, a location and the name of whichever of you is doing them, budgets, and a finance screen that totals bank, assets, pensions and debts into a single net worth figure. For families there is the kids’ week, switched on in Settings when you want it — activities per child with times, locations and who is dropping off and collecting — plus birthdays and household contracts, so a renewal never surprises you.

Newer additions close the rest of the loop: an AI meal planner that drafts the week’s dinners around your tastes and sends the ingredients to the shopping list, a notice board for the notes, doodles and links that don’t belong on a list (it clears itself after 24 hours), and bin-day reminders, so whose turn it is stops being a memory test.

OurSpace is made by EdwardsApps, a trading name of KAE Ltd, run by Peter Edwards in the United Kingdom. EdwardsApps mostly builds operational software for the construction trade; OurSpace came from noticing that a household runs on exactly the same problem as a business — everyone acting on slightly different information — with none of the tools.

On iPhone it costs £2.99 once, from the App Store; on Android, from Google Play, and on the web it is free. There is no subscription and no paid tier hiding behind a free one. It is not funded by advertising and your household data is not a product; our privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored and why, and the terms of service cover the rest.

OurSpace is actively developed, and most of what gets built next comes from households telling us where it does not fit. If your week works differently from the assumption in the app, that is worth telling us — it is usually a sign the assumption is wrong.