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The Wash Guide

Laundry, made personal

Straight answers about the things nobody agrees on.

How often to wash it, what the symbol means, how much detergent it actually needs. Written carefully, sourced where sources exist, and free.

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Out now on Android. Free, and no account needed to start.

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The label says

Your white cotton shirt

The one you iron badly on a Sunday night.

Your grey jumper

Merino, and it will not forgive a hot wash.

Your dark jeans

The indigo is not as permanent as it looks.

Your silk blouse

The label is stricter than the fabric, usually.

Your running kit

Technical fabric, and the softener is the enemy.

Your bath towels

The one load where hot is genuinely the right answer.

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Start here

  1. The thinkingMost of laundry happens between washes.The wash is the smallest part of looking after clothes. What you do in the days between decides how often you need it, which is why a schedule is a starting point rather than a rule.
  2. The frequency setHow often to wash everythingHonest intervals for the things nobody agrees on: sheets, towels, jeans, gym clothes and the rest. Knowing the number is the easy part.
  3. The decoderEvery care symbol, decoded.The international and American systems side by side, searchable in plain words, with a page for each of the symbols on your labels.
  4. The RecipeExactly how much detergent to use.The dose for the load in front of you, in millilitres, grams, pods or sheets, and how hot to wash it, worked out for your water and your machine with the reasoning shown.
All of the guide

Inside the app

Everything a proper wash needs, and nothing it doesn’t.

The recipe

The right dose, every time.

Tell it the load, the soil and your machine, and you get a precise dose and a sensible temperature. No more guesswork, no more wondering whether you’ve overdone it.

Your cupboard

Everything you own, catalogued.

Keep your detergents, softeners and sprays in one place, drawn from a catalogue stocked for the US and Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Anywhere else, add your own in seconds; the Recipe doses for what you actually have, not a generic bottle.

Machine care

The machine gets looked after too.

The appliance behind every wash, finally in the picture: when it needs a maintenance wash, how many loads since the last clean, and what your water is doing to it.

Smart home

It talks to your house.

Finished washes, the cupboard and the machine, published to your smart home; there’s a Home Assistant integration built and maintained by us.

Learn

Stains, drying, the chemistry of clean.

Short masterclasses on the things that trip everyone up, from red wine to line-drying when the weather won’t play along. The reasoning behind the routine, never a lecture.

For the fun of it

A wash personality, and a yearly Unwrapped.

Seven archetypes, gentle tiers and a recap of your whole washing year. The data made playful, the kind of thing you actually want to share.

The Household Hub

A shared cupboard for the people you live with.

Laundry as a household, not a rota stuck to the fridge. A shared cupboard, washes assigned and settled fairly, and a little friendly rivalry to keep things moving.

All of the guidance is free, always. PRO carries the record and the choreography: schedules, allowances, and the household’s own reading of the machine.

On iPhone

Tell me when iOS lands.

The Android app is out now. The iPhone one is being built with the same care, which takes as long as it takes. Leave your address and you’ll get one email the day it arrives, which is the only reason we’ll ever use it.

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