Most maintenance apps hand you the same checklist as everybody else. A house in Phoenix and a house in Minneapolis do not fail the same way, and they should not get the same reminders.
Type it once and WellKept looks up what public records already know about the building — the year it went up, how big it is, how it is built. That is most of a maintenance plan before you have answered a single question.
The location settles the rest. Water hardness decides how often the water heater wants flushing, because scale is what kills them and some places have far more of it. First and last freeze dates decide when outdoor plumbing gets winterized — a date that is meaningless in Tucson and unforgiving in Duluth. Climate decides how hard the roof, the seals and the cooling system are working.
Records know the building; they do not know your appliances. So you add what you have — the furnace, the dishwasher, the water heater, the disposal. Point the camera at a nameplate and it will read the make and model off the sticker rather than making you type it.
If you do not have a sump pump, you never hear about sump pumps. That is most of the difference between a plan you follow and a list you ignore.
Each make and model on your list is matched against federal recall data, and checked again as new recalls are published. A clear result shows on the appliance; a match tells you what the recall is and what the manufacturer will do about it.
Once a model is known, WellKept finds its manual and keeps it on the appliance's page. Receipts, invoices and warranty papers file there too, so the record of the house is in one place when you sell it, claim on it, or hand it to whoever comes next.
Jobs explain themselves. Every task comes with the how, not just the what — so "flush the water heater" is something you can go and do, not something to look up first.
A house is rarely one person's problem. Invite whoever else needs it and you share one plan — the same jobs, the same history, so nobody flushes the water heater twice or assumes somebody else did.
There are apps for iPhone and Android, and the whole thing works in a browser too. The apps add the part a website cannot do: a reminder that arrives on the morning something is due, whether or not you thought to open anything.
Nothing, for a home you live in. There is no trial and no tier that hides the plan.
Questions, trouble, or something the plan got wrong for your house — support@wellkeptonline.com. A person reads it.