Support & FAQ

Home Logbook is a local-first home maintenance tracker for iPhone. It helps you:

• Log repairs, maintenance tasks, and home improvement projects
• Organise tasks by room (kitchen, bathroom, roof, HVAC, garden, and more)
• Schedule repeating tasks like seasonal maintenance
• Save contractor contacts and link them to tasks
• Track warranty expiry dates and get alerts before they lapse
• View a home health score and year-end maintenance reports

All data is stored on your device — no accounts, no cloud, 100% private.

Free tier:

• Up to 10 maintenance tasks per home
• All room types and task categories
• Photos and notes on tasks
• Repeating task scheduling
• Reminders and notifications
• Contractor directory
• Home health score

Premium:

• Unlimited maintenance tasks
• Full year-by-year maintenance reports
• Contractor usage reports
• All future Premium features

• Monthly: $2.99/month (auto-renews)
• Yearly: $24.99/year (auto-renews)
• Lifetime: $39.99 one-time — pay once, own forever

All prices in USD. Prices may vary by region.

1. Open Home Logbook and complete the quick onboarding (select your rooms)
2. Grant notification permission to receive task reminders
3. Your home is ready — tap any room to add your first task
4. Use the Dashboard to see your home health score and upcoming tasks

When you mark a repeating task as complete, Home Logbook automatically creates the next occurrence based on the recurrence interval you set (e.g. every 3 months for gutter cleaning, every year for boiler service).

The follow-up task appears in your Schedule immediately, so your calendar is always current without any manual effort.

The home health score is a live indicator of how well-maintained your home is. It's calculated from:

• Number of overdue tasks (each overdue task lowers the score)
• Number of tasks completed on time (improves the score)
• Upcoming tasks due this month (shown as a prompt to act)

The Dashboard also surfaces seasonal suggestions relevant to the current time of year to help keep your score healthy.

1. Go to Settings → Contractors to add a contractor (name, trade, phone, email)
2. Open any task and tap the contractor field to link a saved contractor
3. From the task detail, tap the contractor's name to call or send an SMS directly

All contractor data is stored locally — never uploaded or shared.

You can set reminders two ways:

• Exact reminder time: Pick a specific date and time in the task's Reminder section — the notification fires at exactly that moment
• Lead days: Set how many days before the due date you want to be reminded — the notification fires at 9 AM on that day

Warranty expiry reminders work the same way. Make sure Home Logbook has notification permission in iOS Settings.

Yes. From any task detail or task form, tap the photo attachment area to:

• Take a new photo with your camera
• Choose an existing photo from your library

Photos are copied into Home Logbook's local storage on your device and are never uploaded. You can attach multiple photos per task.

Premium subscribers can view year-by-year maintenance reports showing:

• All tasks completed in a given year, grouped by month
• Contractors used and tasks they were linked to

Reports are useful for insurance documentation, property sale disclosures, or simply reviewing your year's work. They're generated from your local data — no internet connection required.

Home Logbook is local-only — there is no cloud backup managed by LynxApps. Your data is protected by whichever iOS backup method you use:

• iCloud Backup: If enabled in Settings → [Your Name] → iCloud → iCloud Backup, your Home Logbook data is included in your device backup
• Mac/PC backup: Backing up via Finder or iTunes also captures app data

We strongly recommend keeping iOS backups active. We cannot recover data from a lost or reset device.

1. Open Settings on your iPhone
2. Tap [Your Name] at the top
3. Tap Subscriptions
4. Find Home Logbook and tap it
5. Tap Cancel Subscription

You'll keep Premium access until the end of the current billing period. All your data remains on your device.

• iOS 18.0 or later (iPhone)

Home Logbook uses SwiftData, which requires iOS 17 or later, and takes advantage of iOS 18 features for the best experience.