Grumpty vs Google Calendar
Reschedules from the day you actually did the job, not a date you set once and forgot.
Google Calendar is brilliant at appointments: a thing, at a time, that repeats. Home maintenance only looks like that. The trouble starts the moment real life knocks the schedule off.
At a glance
| What | Grumpty | Google Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Reschedules from when you did it | Yes | No, fixed from the first date |
| Lead time to book a pro | Built in, per job | None |
| Chases what you ignore | Keeps grumbling till it's done | Nothing does; it sits in the past |
| Record of what got done | A done and skipped history | An event has no done state |
| Knows home maintenance | ~100 jobs with frequencies | Empty grid, you fill it |
| Price | Free | Free |
Where Google Calendar wins
It's free, it's everywhere, it's shared with the family, and it talks to everything. For anything that happens on a fixed date, a birthday, the bin day, an appointment, it's exactly the right tool, and Grumpty won't replace it.
Where Grumpty wins
A calendar event repeats from the date you set, so if you flush the water heater a month late, the next one still lands on the old date, drifting further from reality every year. Grumpty reschedules from the day you actually did it. It also knows a job needs lead time, so it grumbles while there's still time to book someone, keeps a done and skipped history, and chases the things you ignore, instead of leaving a passed event to sit in the past with nothing to nudge you.
So which one?
Use Google Calendar for everything that happens on a date. Use Grumpty for everything that happens on a cycle, because a cycle drifts, and a calendar won't catch it. And if you'd rather see it all in one calendar, Grumpty feeds your due dates straight into Google Calendar anyway.
Questions people ask
Why not just use a recurring Google Calendar event?
Because it repeats from the date you first set, not from when you actually did the job. Do it late and every future one is still wrong. Grumpty re-anchors to the day you finished, so the schedule stays honest.
Can I still see my maintenance in Google Calendar?
Yes. Grumpty gives you a private calendar feed, so your due dates show up in Google, Apple or Outlook alongside the rest of your life. It's one-way: Grumpty keeps the schedule, your calendar just shows it.
Does Grumpty cost anything?
No, it's free, no card. Google Calendar is free too; the difference is that Grumpty understands a maintenance cycle and a calendar only understands a date.
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Stop keeping the house in your head
Grumpty is a free home-maintenance app: add a job once, it tracks the date, grumbles when it's due, and rolls it forward the moment you mark it done. No card.
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