Working name · in development

Hallboy

A maintenance schedule built around your actual house — and every reminder opens straight into how to do that particular job.

Quiet by design, and honest about money

One local notification when something is actually due — no streaks, no guilt, no climbing badge count. Reminders are scheduled on the device itself, so there is no push server and nobody but your phone knows what you have coming up.

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Accounts required
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Streaks and nagging
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Third-party analytics
Day one
iPad support

What it does

A schedule for your house

Intervals come from what you actually own — the age of the water heater, the kind of roof, the climate you live in — rather than one generic checklist. Mark a job done and the next is dated from when you did it, not when it was due.

The how-to is in the reminder

A reminder that only says “change the filter” leaves you where you started. Every task opens into real instructions for that task, so the thing that fires and the thing you need to read are the same thing.

Quiet, and honest about money

One local notification when something is due. Whatever is free stays free, the price is stated before you pay it, and the setup asks rather than insists.

What it stores, and where

Your home’s details
What you enter about the house and its systems, kept on the device. Nothing about your home is transmitted to the studio.
Location
Only as coarse as the schedule needs — a city or postal area, for seasonal timing. No precise tracking, and manual entry always works.
Accounts
Not required. If an account is ever offered it will be Sign in with Apple, never a forced sign-up before you can see the app.
Reminders
Scheduled on the phone itself. There is no push server, so nobody but your device knows what you have coming up.
Photos
Any photograph you attach to a task or an appliance stays on the device with everything else.

Hallboy is not on the App Store yet, and the name is not final. This page will say so until it ships.

Questions

What is Hallboy?

Hallboy is a home-maintenance app for iPhone and iPad. It builds a schedule around your actual house and its systems, and every reminder opens straight into instructions for that particular job.

Is Hallboy on the App Store?

Not yet. It is in development, and Hallboy is still a working name. It is made by Anchorwright LLC, a one-person software studio in Texas.

How is it different from a reminders list?

A reminder that says “change the filter” leaves you where you started. In Hallboy the thing that fires and the instructions you need are the same thing, and intervals come from what you own rather than one generic checklist.

Does Hallboy need my location?

Only as coarse as the schedule requires — a city or postal area, so seasonal timing is right. There is no precise tracking, and manual entry always works.

Does it require an account?

No. If an account is ever offered it will be Sign in with Apple. Reminders are scheduled on the device itself, so there is no push server.

Will it nag me?

No. One local notification when something is actually due — no streaks, no guilt, no climbing badge count.

Know when Hallboy ships

One email when it reaches the App Store — nothing else. Questions about how it works get a real answer at the same address.