Turnsweep
Now on Google Play
Your calendar already knows. Your cleaner doesn’t.
Turnsweep reads the booking calendar you already publish, works out the gap between one guest leaving and the next arriving, and sends that gap to your cleaner as a job with a list attached.
Free for one property, permanently. No card to add and no trial running down in the background. The paid plan is for the second property and every one after it.
One turnover, Tuesday
That is the whole job, and it is the only thing Turnsweep is trying to get right.
Why any of this matters
Nobody writes a review about the check-in. They write one about the bathroom.
A turnover is the only part of hosting a guest never sees and always judges. It usually goes fine. The times it does not are almost never a cleaner who could not be bothered, and almost always a message that was never sent, a date somebody read wrong, or a booking that arrived after the schedule was agreed.
I have two Airbnb listings. My cleaner needs to know when to clean, what to do, and send me pictures. That’s it.
Everything in the app had to earn its place against that sentence. Most things did not.
If you run twelve units with a rotating crew and need bidding, invoicing and payroll, there are good tools for that and this is honestly not one of them.
Four things happen. Nothing else does.
Paste one link. Then stop thinking about it.
Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, or anything else publishing a standard iCal export. Turnsweep reads the bookings, finds every point where one stay ends, and turns it into a clean with a start time and a deadline taken from your own check-in and checkout hours.
After that it checks again every fifteen minutes, on its own, up to three months ahead. A booking taken tonight is on the schedule before you next open the app. A guest who extends moves the clean rather than stranding it on a day nobody is coming.
Write the list once, in your own words.
Room by room. Mark the tasks you actually want proof of, and those become photo required: the clean cannot be marked finished until the picture exists. Not a reminder, not a nag. A gate.
Editing the template later never touches a clean already done. What happened on the day stays as it was on the day, which matters the one time you need to look back at it.
Your cleaner is asked, not told.
They get a job with the date, the place and the work in it, and they answer yes or no. If they say no you hear immediately and can give it to somebody else, which is a great deal better than finding out on the morning.
They install the same app and open a much smaller version of it. Their own work, and nothing about your other properties, your calendars, your rates or your other cleaners. That is enforced by the database, not by hiding a button.
You get photographs. Not a phone call.
They work down the list and take the pictures you asked for. You watch it happen if you want to, and see the finished clean afterwards with every photograph filed against the task it belongs to.
Anything they could not do gets a reason attached instead of silence. A broken kettle, a stain that would not lift, a key that was not where it should have been.
Most of the work went into what it does not do.
These are not gaps in the roadmap. Each one was considered, argued about, and left out on purpose.
There is no marketplace. You bring your own cleaner, usually somebody you already trust with a key. Turnsweep will never suggest a stranger, take a cut of what you pay them, or put your Tuesday out to tender. The relationship is yours and the app has no opinion about it.
There is no invoicing and no payroll. Whatever you have agreed stays between the two of you. Adding money to this would double the size of the app and change what it is for.
There is no inbox. Messages belong to a turnover, so a question about last Tuesday is filed under last Tuesday and is still there in six months. Nothing to scroll, nothing to search, nothing to lose track of.
There is no dashboard. No completion rate, no efficiency score, no chart of your own cleaning. With two properties those numbers are noise dressed as insight, and nobody has ever changed a decision because of one.
There are no advertisements, and nothing about you or your cleaner is sold to anybody. Usage analytics are on by default so that a small team can see which screens actually get used, and there is a single switch in Account that turns them off for good.
Four things that only matter on the day.
It works with no signal
Basements, stairwells, thick stone walls, rural cottages with one bar. The checklist works offline and the photographs queue on the phone until there is something to send them over.
Same-day changeovers get flagged
When the next guest arrives on the day the last one leaves, the clean has hours instead of a day. Turnsweep says so on the card, before you promise anybody anything.
A broken calendar cannot empty your schedule
If a booking platform has a bad hour and stops answering, the cleans it already gave you stay exactly where they are, and the app tells you which calendar broke and what it said.
Photographs stay private
They are pictures of the inside of somebody’s home. Never on a public address, visible only to the host who owns the property and the cleaner who did the work, through links that expire within the hour.
One limit in the entire product.
It is a property count, and that is the only thing paying changes. Photo verification, unlimited cleaners, offline working and the whole schedule are on the free plan too.
Free
For your first place, for as long as you want.
No card. Nothing to cancel.
- One property
- Calendar sync and the full schedule
- Checklists and photo verification
- As many cleaners as you work with
Turnsweep
For the second place, and every one after it.
Or $149.99 a year, which works out at two months free.
- As many properties as you have
- Everything on the free plan, unchanged
- Cleaners never pay, on either plan
- Cancel any time, and keep the plan until it runs out
Straight answers.
When can I actually use it?
Today, on Android: Turnsweep is on Google Play. You can subscribe here on the site, and the plan lands on your account the moment you sign in with it.
The iPhone app is with Apple for review. Until it is through, ask and we will add you to TestFlight, which is the same app installed a different way.
Does my cleaner have to pay?
No, and they never will. Cleaners use Turnsweep free on both plans. The subscription belongs to the host and counts properties, not people, because charging somebody for the privilege of receiving work is a strange thing to do.
Can it change or cancel my bookings?
It cannot, by design. Turnsweep only reads the calendar export your platform publishes. It has no access to your booking account, it never writes anything back, and the worst it can do to your listing is nothing at all.
Which booking sites work?
Anything publishing a standard iCal or .ics export, which covers Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com among others. Turnsweep does not need to recognise the platform to read it. A property listed in two places can have both calendars connected and the bookings are merged.
Is there an Android version?
Yes, on Google Play. It is the same app as on iPhone with one difference: it does not sell the subscription. Selling one on Google Play needs a Google Payments merchant account, and that is not available in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where this was written.
So on Android the plan is bought here, on the site, and it appears in the app as soon as you sign in with the same account. The free plan needs nothing at all.
What happens if I stop paying?
Nothing is deleted, ever. Properties past the first become read-only until you subscribe again or remove them. Your history, photographs and checklists stay exactly where they are.
Two properties and one cleaner is enough to lose track.
One property is free for as long as you want it. The paid plan is for the second, and you can start it now.