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September 24, 2026

Flipping between days and months answers straight away

On Chores, Budget and Transactions, tapping the arrows now changes the date or month the moment you tap. What's underneath gently pulses while the new one loads, then slides in from the side you tapped. You can tap ahead several days without waiting for each one.

Easier to see which page you're on in Money

On a phone, the Transactions · Budget · Bills · Accounts switcher now marks the page you're on in green, like the Add button, so it stands out at a glance.

Meal ideas go straight on the grocery list

There's no longer a separate switch for meal requests. A meal you'd like goes on the list like anything else — just type it in, and your name shows beside it so whoever does the shop knows who asked. The box to add things is a line shorter too. And ticking something off now works like a chore: the circle fills, the item fades, then it drops to Got it — so you can see it took before it moves.

Chores show they're working on it

When you skip a chore, remove one, or take back a tick, its row now gently pulses until the change has gone through, instead of sitting still for a moment as if nothing happened.

Cards that stand out from the page

The page behind your cards is a shade darker in light mode, and the cards are a shade lighter in dark mode, so each section stands clearly on its own. Lighter grey text is a touch darker to match, so it stays easy to read.

Edit a chore right from the day, and ticks that get out of the way

Owners and admins now see a pencil beside each chore on the day's list. Tap it to change the chore's name, its days or who does it, all in one place. The small "Anyone" menu under each chore is gone; who a chore is for is still shown beside its name. And a chore you tick now fills in, fades away and drops to the done list, so the next one moves up under your finger.

Change a chore after you've added it

Chores now has an All chores list under the day, showing every chore, how often it repeats and who it's for. Owners and admins can tap one to change its name, its days, its start or end, or who does it, using the same form you added it with. Changes apply from today, so what was done before stays on the record. Move a one-off to a new day and it leaves the list it was waiting on and turns up on that day.

September 23, 2026

Add several groceries at once

Type or paste a whole list into Groceries — one per line, separated by commas, or straight from a spreadsheet — and each becomes its own item. A list copied from your notes or a recipe comes in clean, without its dashes, bullets or numbers, and the button tells you how many it's about to add. On a computer, Shift+Enter starts a new line.

A sign of life while pages load, and no accidental sign-outs

When you move to another page, a thin green line now glides along the top of the tabs on your phone until the page has arrived, and a small spinner turns over the page's outline while it loads. And Sign out has moved: it sat at the bottom right of More, right where your thumb lands to open it, so a quick double tap could sign you out. It's now under your name on the left, and asks for a second tap. Tap your name to go to your account.

A little light behind the app

The background behind your household's pages now has the same soft green glow, faint dots and fine texture as our front page, falling from the top right corner. It's quiet on purpose, in light and dark mode alike.

Members has room to breathe

Each person on Members now has more space around them, and what they can see of the money sits in its own panel under their name, so it's clear whose setting it is. On a phone, the choices stack neatly instead of squeezing into one row.

A new calendar for picking a day on Chores

Tap the date on Chores and a calendar opens right under it: today is marked, the day you're looking at is filled in, and days out of range are dimmed. Use the arrows beside the month to move between months, or the arrow keys on a keyboard. Back to today is one tap at the bottom.

New tabs on your phone: Home, Chores, Groceries, Money

The bar at the bottom of your phone now has Groceries, and one Money tab in place of Transactions and Budget. Money opens on whichever money page you used last, and Transactions, Budget, Bills and Accounts are one tap apart, just above the tabs where your thumb already is. In More, Hide amounts and Light or Dark mode are buttons now, and you'll find yourself, your household and Sign out at the bottom. On a computer, the sidebar hasn't changed.

Every page opens at the top

In the installed app, moving to another page could leave you partway down it, with the title hidden under the top of the screen. Pages now always open at the top. Going back still returns you to where you were.

Swipe left to delete

On your phone, swipe a transaction, a grocery item or a one-off chore to the left to uncover Delete, then tap it. On Members, the same swipe uncovers Remove, which asks first what removing someone means. Tapping the × still works everywhere: instead of a question popping up over the list, a Delete button now slides in beside it, and tapping the × again keeps the item. Past imports can be undone the same way. The Add buttons at the top of each page are shorter on a phone, too.

Import transactions from your bank's CSV

If your bank lets you download your transactions as a CSV file, you can now bring them in instead of typing them. On Transactions, tap Import, pick the account and the file, and check the preview: Pitch In works out which column is which, and you can correct it. Anything you've already imported is skipped. A row that looks like a transaction you typed yourself — same amount, a few days later — is matched to yours instead of added twice, keeping your description and category; when the names don't agree either, you choose. Card files that list purchases as positive numbers can be flipped. If the file shows a running balance, an owner or admin can set the account to what the bank says it holds. The file itself stays on your device. Changed your mind? Undo the whole import from the same page. It's free, like typing.

Faster pages, and smoother moves between them

Pitch In now runs right next to where your household's information is stored, and asks for less each time a page opens, so pages should load noticeably quicker. Moving from one page to another also eases in now instead of snapping. If you've turned on Reduce Motion on your device, pages still appear straight away.

Look back and ahead on Chores

Chores is no longer just today. Use the arrows to go a day back or forward, or tap the date to pick any day from the last year or the year ahead. You can still tick off a past day's chores — for when you did the bins yesterday and forgot to say so. Days still to come show what's on them, and you can skip one ahead of time if you'll be away, but they can't be ticked until the day.

Invite a nanny or sitter as a helper

When you invite someone, you can now choose Helper — for a nanny, a sitter, or anyone who helps run the house without being family. They get their own sign-in, see the chores and the rest of the house, and never see any money, from the moment they join. The members list shows them as a helper. If that changes later, you can adjust what they see like anyone else's.

A grocery list everyone can add to

There's now a Groceries page under House. Anyone in the household can add something that's run out, or ask for a meal they'd like this week — meal requests sit at the top so whoever plans the shop sees them first. Tick things off as you shop, and clear them when you're home. While anything is on the list it also shows on Home, with a box to add to it from there.

Remove a chore for a day, from now on, or completely

When an owner or admin removes a repeating chore, they can now choose: just today, today and every day after (days already done are kept), or the whole chore and its history. Deleting the whole chore asks one more time first.

One-off chores wait until they're done

A "Just once" chore nobody got to no longer disappears at midnight. It stays on the list, marked "from yesterday" or "from Monday", until someone ticks it off, skips it or removes it.

Know when a new chore starts

Add a chore that doesn't start today, like one every Thursday, and Pitch In now tells you when it's first due instead of closing onto a list it isn't on yet.

"Today" means your today, evenings included

In the evening, Pitch In could jump ahead to tomorrow: the chores list showed tomorrow's chores, and a chore added for tonight didn't appear. Today now follows where you are, and if you leave the app open overnight it moves to the new day when you come back to it.

Set up two-step without scanning a code

If you can't scan the QR code when turning on two-step verification, tap "Can't scan it?" to see the key on its own, spaced out for easy typing, with a button to copy it into your authenticator app.

Chores everyone does, and chores that are yours to tick off

When you give a chore to two or more people, you can now choose "Each person does it": everyone gets their own to tick off every day, so two kids each owe a high five instead of the first one finishing it for both. "Up for grabs" is still there for chores where whoever gets to it first is fine, and chores you already have stay that way. Chores are also now ticked off by the person they're for (or anyone, if they're for anyone). Only they or a household admin can tick theirs or un-tick it, and when an admin ticks someone's chore, it counts for the person it was for.

September 22, 2026

Two-step sign-in now covers Google sign-in too

If you've turned on two-step verification, Pitch In now asks for your code whether you sign in with your password or with Google. Before, signing in with Google skipped the code. If you ticked "Trust this device" after entering a code, that device still won't ask again for 30 days, either way you sign in.

Light or dark follows you across open tabs

If you have Pitch In open in more than one tab and change your light or dark setting, the other tabs now switch too, straight away, instead of waiting until you reload them.

A record of sign-ins, to protect your account — and an updated privacy policy

We now note each time someone signs in to your account, or tries to and is refused, and how: with a password, Google or a two-step code. We also note when a password or two-step sign-in changes. It's there so that if something happens you didn't do, it can be spotted and you can ask us. No IP address, device, browser or location is kept with it, and sign-ins are deleted after 90 days. We've also stopped keeping IP addresses with your signed-in sessions. The privacy policy says all of this, so you'll see a note asking you to take a look.

Ask to join with one tap, and a hint for Google sign-ins

Anyone waiting for an invitation can now ask with their Google account instead of typing, and the form itself is down to just an email. If you signed up with Google and try a password on the sign-in page, it now reminds you to use Continue with Google, or to set a password with "Forgot your password?".

A dot when there's something new

What's New now shows a small green dot when there's an update or an announcement you haven't read. On a phone it's on More as well. Opening What's New clears it. The current announcement is also pinned at the top of What's New, so you can read it again after closing it, and closing it on one device closes it on all of them.

Tick off chores with a circle

Each chore on today's list now has a circle beside it. Tap the chore and the circle fills in and the chore is crossed off, straight away. Changed your mind? Tap the filled circle to un-tick it.

Changing a budget is easier to find

On the Budget page, each amount has a pencil beside it. Tap it and the amount turns into a box right where it was — type the new figure and press Save, or Cancel to leave it. A category with no budget yet says "Set budget" instead of $0.00.

Easier-to-read summaries, and overdue warnings that suit dark mode

On a computer, the labels and icons over each page's summary figures are a size larger. In dark mode, the red warnings — money going out, an overdue bill — were showing as a pale pink box on the dark page; they're now a dark red that matches everything around them.

Page labels are one quiet color

The small MONEY and HOUSE label above each page's title is now the same soft gray everywhere, instead of blue on the money pages and violet on chores. The words still tell you where you are.

Change, pause or delete a bill

Bills now has an All bills list at the bottom. Tap one to change its name, amount, account, category or when it's due. A change to when it's due applies from today, so it never turns into a missed payment you didn't owe. Pause a bill to stop new due dates until you resume it. Delete one you no longer have, and the payments you've already recorded stay in your transactions.

Rename an account, or set its balance to what your bank says

Owners and admins can tap an account to rename it, change what kind it is, or correct its balance. Setting the balance leaves every transaction you've recorded as it was — no more made-up transaction to make the numbers match. Archiving an account has moved in there too.

Dashboard is now called Home

The first page of your household — the one that says welcome back and what's next — is called Home in the menu and in the bar at the bottom of your phone. Nothing on it has moved.

Fix a transaction instead of re-entering it

Tap any transaction to change it — the amount, the date, the account, the category, or what it was. Account balances follow the change, so moving a purchase from one account to another, or correcting what you paid, keeps every balance right. Before, the only fix was to delete it and type it in again.

Deleting a transaction asks first

Deleting a transaction, or taking a chore off today's list, used to happen on the first tap — easy to do by accident on a phone. Both are now a small × that asks before anything goes. On a phone, pages you reach from More have a round back button beside the title, and the figures at the top of each page take up less room.

Money and the house are easier to tell apart

The side menu now groups its pages under Money and House, with icons, and each part has its own quiet colour: blue for the money pages, violet for chores. The same colour sits above each page's title and on the icons in the bar at the bottom of your phone, so you can see where you are at a glance. The page you're on is still green.

September 21, 2026

Pull down to refresh

In Pitch In on your Home Screen, pull down from the top of any page to bring it up to date. Before, the only way to see something new was to close the app and open it again.

Tapping a notification opens the page it's about

On an iPhone, tapping a notification while Pitch In was in the background could open the app on whatever page you had left it on, instead of the one the notification was about. It now goes to the right page.

Say who a chore is for

When you add a chore you can pick who it's for: one person, several, or nobody, which means anyone in the household. Pick two people for a job they share, like the rat cage three times a week, and either can do it. Whoever marks it done gets the credit, and the list now says who did it. Owners and admins can change who a chore is for from today's list.

“Bring the household in” ticks off when you invite someone

The last setup step on the dashboard waited for the person you invited to join before it ticked itself off, so it looked like inviting hadn't worked. It now counts as done as soon as you send an invitation or make a join link.

Chores that happen once, every two weeks, or every month

When you add a chore you can now choose Just once, for a one-off task like renewing a registration, as well as every two weeks on the days you pick, or every month on the same date. Repeating chores can also have an end date, so something that only matters for the summer stops on its own.

Tell us what you think, from inside the app

There's a new Send feedback page in the menu. Write what's broken, confusing, missing or good, and it goes straight to the person building Pitch In, with your name and email so it can be answered. You can send up to five a day.

American spelling throughout

Words like “Uncategorised” and “colour” are now “Uncategorized” and “color”, and the examples speak American too: take out the trash, vacuum upstairs, a checking account.

Choose light, dark, or match your device

Your account page has a new Appearance setting: System, Light or Dark. System follows your phone or computer, including when it switches to dark at night. The Dark mode and Light mode switch in the menu still changes it for the moment, and Pitch In goes back to your setting the next time you open it. If you had used that switch before, your last choice is already saved as your setting.

Removing someone now asks first

Pressing Remove next to someone on the Members page used to take them out of the household right away. Now it asks you to confirm, and says what removing them does, before anything changes. Canceling an invitation and stopping a join link ask first too. Making someone else the owner no longer asks you to type their name, just to confirm.

Your household's name at the top of your phone

On a phone, the dashboard now opens with the small Pitch In icon and your household's name, instead of the full logo, and the month that sat beside your greeting is gone (it's still on the This month card). If you belong to more than one household, tap its name to switch to another one.

The top bar stays with you as you scroll

On the website and the sign-in screens, the bar with the logo and the Sign in button now stays at the top of the screen as you scroll, instead of scrolling away, so the way in is always one tap from wherever you are.

A smoother logo, and an app icon that says In

The Pitch In logo has softer, more even corners, and the small rough spots in a few of its letters are gone. The app icon is new too: the arrow from the logo arriving at “In”. You’ll see it in your browser tab, on shared links, and on your Home Screen. If your Home Screen still shows the old icon, remove Pitch In and add it again; phones hold on to app icons for a while.

New sign-in screens

Signing in, creating an account, asking for an invitation, resetting a password, two-step verification and accepting an invitation all have a new look: the form on one side, with nothing else competing for your attention, and Pitch In’s green on the other. Each has a Light mode / Dark mode switch at the bottom, and they all open in the same theme, so moving from one to the next no longer flips between light and dark.

Tabs answer the moment you tap them

Tapping a tab at the bottom of the screen used to do nothing visible until the page had finished loading, which could feel like the tap hadn’t registered. Now the tab lights up and darkens under your thumb right away, and the new page appears at once in outline while your numbers fill in. The same goes for the sidebar on a computer.

The website is dark by default, with a switch at the bottom

Pitch In’s public pages — the home page, pricing, the demo and the sign-in screens — now start in dark mode unless you’ve chosen otherwise, and there’s a Light mode / Dark mode switch at the bottom of each. Whatever you pick is remembered, inside the app too. The app itself still follows your phone or computer until you choose.

A welcome email with the way onto your phone

When someone sets up or joins their first household, they now get a short welcome email with one button: put Pitch In on your phone. Open it on the phone and it shows the two or three taps that phone needs. Joining a second household later doesn’t send another.

Notifications for the things you'd want to know

With notifications on, you now get a nudge the day before a bill is due — one a day at most, however many bills — if you can see the household’s money. Owners and admins also hear when someone joins the household. Tap one and it opens the right page. Nobody on “No money” is ever told about a bill.

Getting Pitch In onto your phone

Pitch In lives on your Home Screen — there’s no app store version, and on an iPhone that’s also the only way it can send you notifications. On a phone, your dashboard now shows exactly the taps it takes on your phone: one Install button on Android, three pictured steps on an iPhone. Once it’s installed, turning notifications on is one tap, right there. The same steps are at pitchin.house/install to share with anyone in your household.

Budgets are set by an owner or admin

How much each category is budgeted for is now changed by an owner or admin of the household. Everyone who records spending still sees the budget, can add a category while recording something, and watches the numbers move — but the plan itself belongs to the people running the household, so it doesn’t change under anyone’s feet.

Adding something is quicker, and you can make a category as you go

Adding a transaction, bill, account, category or chore now closes the panel when you save, so you see it land in your list — or press “Save and add another” to keep going. Recording a transaction, pick “+ New category…” at the bottom of the list to file it under a category you don’t have yet; if one with that name already exists, it goes there instead of making a second. Money in and money out is now a clear two-way switch, and the small gray writing across the app is darker and easier to read. On a phone, every page that isn’t one of the four tabs now has a Back button at the top.

Show someone Pitch In without inviting them

There’s now a sample household anyone can try at pitchin.house/demo — no account, and nothing they do is saved. They can tick off a chore, record something they spent and watch the budget move, and switch to seeing it as the family’s 16-year-old, for whom the money isn’t there at all. If someone asks you what this is, that’s the link to send.

Choose how much of the money each person sees

On Members, an owner or admin can now set each person to see Everything, Only what’s shared, or No money. “Only what’s shared” starts from nothing and shows just the accounts you pick — including leaving out any account added later, until you share it. “No money” is chores and people only: the money pages disappear for them entirely. Inviting someone under 18, you can now accept the terms for them as their parent or guardian and choose what they’ll see before they arrive, so they never see more than you meant them to.

A green app icon

Pitch In’s icon — in your browser tab, and on your Home Screen if you’ve added it there — is now our green, with the mark in a single color. If your Home Screen still shows the old one, remove it and add Pitch In again; phones hold on to app icons for a while.

Less scrolling to reach your lists

Transactions, Budget, Bills, Accounts and Chores each opened with three big separate cards for their totals — on a phone that was most of the first screen before you reached anything you’d recorded. The totals now sit together in one card: a short list on a phone, three columns on a computer. The month switcher is one control with the arrows at either end, and the count under each page’s title no longer wraps halfway through.

Members is easier to use on a phone

Pending invitations squeezed the email address down to a single letter on a phone, so you couldn’t tell who each one was for. The address now gets its own line with the buttons underneath. Making a share link has a label over each choice instead of a sentence that fell apart when it wrapped, the invite form keeps each label next to its own box, and roles like “owner” sit beside the person’s name instead of on a line by themselves.

A new household’s dashboard is never blank

In a household with nothing in it yet, “Skip for now” on the welcome card hid the only thing on the page and left an empty screen — and it stayed empty every time you came back. The welcome card no longer offers to skip itself, and if you’d already skipped it, it’s back. Once there’s something in your household, the smaller “Finish setting up” card still has Skip for now.

Getting around on a phone is one tap

On a phone, the menu used to hide behind a button in the top corner — the hardest place to reach with the hand holding it. Now Dashboard, Transactions, Budget and Chores sit in a bar along the bottom of the screen, always there, right where your thumb is. Everything else — Bills, Accounts, Members, What’s New, your household’s settings and your own account — is under More, in the same bar. The logo bar across the top of every screen is gone too, so each page starts with what it’s about, and you get more of it on screen. On a computer nothing has changed.

Adding things slides in from the side

Accounts, Transactions, Budget, Bills and Chores each had their add form sitting permanently beside the list — and on a phone it sat underneath, after scrolling past everything. Now there’s an Add button at the top of each page that slides the form in from the right. On a phone it fills the screen and the button to save stays at the bottom however long the form is; on a bigger screen your list stays visible beside it, and the panel stays open after you add something so you can add the next one right away.

Choose how you appear

Under Your account there’s now “How you appear”: pick one of twelve marks — a sun, a wave, a mountain and the rest — and that’s what everyone in your household sees next to your name, instead of your initials. It’s the same across every household you’re in, and you can go back to your initials whenever you like. We deliberately don’t take photo uploads: some of the people in these households are teenagers, and a picked mark doesn’t hold anybody’s face or where they live.

Easier to find yourself in the members list

Everyone in your household now has a circle with their initials, and your own row is marked — a hairline and a faint tint, so you can see which one is you instead of reading for it. Nothing about who can see what has changed.

Notices from us now follow you around the app

A message from us — like “Pitch In is still being built” — only appeared on the dashboard, so if you opened Bills and stayed there you never saw it. It now sits at the top of every screen in your household. It also has a level now: green for something worth knowing, amber for something that affects you, red for something actually wrong. The level is written out as well as colored, so it doesn’t depend on telling green from red.

The logo got a little friendlier

Same mark, softer corners — and the arrow in the middle of “Pitch” is now the same color as the letters around it instead of green. Color still lands on “In”, which is the part that means everyone taking part. You’ll see it in your browser tab, on your Home Screen if you’ve added us there, and anywhere we show up in a link.

The price on the pricing page is the price

Our paid plan was shown as “$8.33 a month” — what it works out to if you pay for a year up front — with the real monthly price underneath. That’s how the rest of the industry quotes it and it still wasn’t straight with you. It now says $10 a month, which is what you’d be charged on the day you signed up, and the yearly option ($100, two months free) is stated once at the top where you can find it.

Setting up a household is one question now

Creating a household asked for a name and an invitation code, even when the code was already in the link that brought you there — a box with the right answer already in it, in the way of the only button on the screen. The code is now just shown back to you, with a way to change it if it’s wrong. We also suggest a name based on yours, so for most people it’s one tap. You can rename it whenever you like.

You can put the setup checklist away

The “Finish setting up” card on your dashboard now has a “Skip for now”. If you’re never going to set a budget, you shouldn’t be told to every time you open the app. It stays hidden in that browser; it still disappears by itself once the steps are done.

A better page when a link goes nowhere

A mistyped or out-of-date address used to land on a bare browser error with no way back. There’s a proper page there now, with a way home. Opening a household you’re not a member of gets its own page too, which explains what to do about it.

Tidy up an account you didn’t mean to add

Accounts could be added and never removed, so a mis-typed one stayed on your list forever, counted into your net worth, and turned up on every member’s visibility settings. Owners and admins can now archive an account: hover a row under Accounts and choose Archive. It drops out of your lists and totals right away, and the transactions and bills that ran through it are kept exactly as they were — archiving hides the account, it doesn’t erase what really happened. The name becomes free to use again afterwards.

One press, one thing added

Pressing Add twice — or leaning on the button while the page thought about it — could add the same account, bill, chore or transaction several times over, and sending an invitation twice sent two emails to the same person. Every Add and Send button now goes quiet while it’s working and tells you what it’s doing, and the form empties itself once it’s done so there’s nothing left sitting there inviting another press. Adding an account with a name you’re already using now says so instead of quietly making a second one.

September 20, 2026

Send a pending invitation again

Under Members, every invitation you're still waiting on now has an “Email again” button next to it. It sends the same invitation to the same address — the link doesn't change, so anyone still holding the first email can use either. Handy when the first one went to spam or got buried. You can send it again every few minutes rather than on demand, so nobody's inbox can be hammered by accident; Share is still there if you need it to reach them right now.

A dashboard that tells you what to do next

If your household is still finding its feet, the dashboard now opens with the handful of things left to set up — add an account, record something you spent, set a budget, bring everyone in — and ticks them off as you go. It disappears once they're done. Before this, adding a single chore was enough to swap the welcome screen for a page of zeroes with nothing to click, which was a poor way to meet a product.

We have a name: Pitch In

Until now this has worn a working title. It's called Pitch In from today — because that's what it's for: everyone who lives in your household pitching in, on the chores and on the bills. You'll see the new name and logo everywhere, including the icon on your phone if you've added us to your Home Screen. Nothing about your household, your numbers or who can see what has changed. Because our terms and privacy policy mention the product by name, they've been reissued under the new one, and you'll be asked to accept them again the next time you sign in — the wording is otherwise the same.

Notifications, on your phone

You can now get a nudge when something happens — turn it on under your account. It's per device rather than per account, so switching it on here says nothing about your phone. On an iPhone or iPad you'll need to add Pitch In to your Home Screen first; that's an Apple rule rather than ours, and the page says so rather than leaving a button that quietly fails. We'll mention it once on your dashboard when there's a second person in your household, because that's the first point notifications have anything to be about — and “not now” means not now.

Notices from us, and your account keeps the sidebar

Your dashboard can now carry a message from us — what's being worked on, what to expect, what's changed. You can put most of them away, and they come back if we change what they say. Separately: opening your account used to strip the whole sidebar away, which made it feel like you'd left the app rather than opened a page in it. It keeps the frame now, and says plainly that your account is you rather than one household.

Notifications when someone joins a household

Creating a household sent a push; joining one that already existed sent nothing, so a second or third person arriving was invisible — which is the half that matters more, because a household growing is the sign the product is being used rather than just signed up for. That now notifies, by invitation or share link, and so does somebody creating an account before they've done anything with it. There's a list under Notifications on the console overview for choosing which of the five kinds you want. Anything you haven't touched stays on.

Being removed, or made an admin, now tells you

Joining a household sent an email and everything after it was silent — which was the wrong way round, because losing access is the more notable half. If someone removes you from a household you're now told, and told who did it, rather than opening Pitch In to find it missing and wondering what broke. Its owner and admins are told too. Being made an admin, or having it taken away, now sends you a note saying what that actually changes, and handing a household over tells both people where they stand. Removals and role changes also show up in the household's activity now, which they didn't before.

You'll be told when the terms change

The privacy policy always said we'd tell you when it changed in substance, and nothing actually did — the version you agreed to was recorded at signup and then only shown back on your account page. Now a change puts a notice at the top of Pitch In with links to both documents, and it stays until you've said you've seen it. Two corrections while we were in there: the policy said there was one cookie, and since two-step verification arrived there are two — the second is what remembers a device you trust for 60 days. And the policy now says we tell you in the product rather than by email, because that's what happens: an email can sit in a spam folder unread, and a notice on the page is one you actually get.

Somewhere to send someone who's joining your household

The front page only ever offered one thing: ask us for an invitation. That's the wrong errand for someone joining a household you already set up — and it doesn't work, because only you can add them, not us. There's now a page at /join that says so, and tells them the two things that do work: open the link you sent, or sign in with the address you invited. Send them there if they get stuck.

Signing up is the same two steps either way

Setting up used to work differently depending on which button you pressed. With Google you made an account and named your household on the next screen; with an email and password you did both at once on a form of five fields — so the page had to carry a paragraph explaining which button led where. Now it's an account first, your household second, whichever way you came, and each screen says where you are. If you signed in with Google to ask for an invitation, the link in the email no longer asks you to make a second account — it takes you straight to naming your household.

Teenagers can be in a household

The terms used to say you had to be 18 to hold an account at all, which ruled out exactly the people a household tool is for. They now say what was meant: you must be 18 to create a household, and a parent or guardian can invite someone aged 13 to 17 into theirs, accepting the terms on their behalf. Pitch In still isn't for under-13s — a household can record chores against a younger child without giving them a login. The privacy policy says the same, and because this changes what you agreed to, it's recorded as a new version.

Forms tell you what's actually wrong

When a form wouldn't accept something, it used to say an error had occurred — which reads as the site being broken rather than as the thing you typed needing another look. Now it says what it is: that the amount isn't a number it can read, that a bill needs a name, that what you typed didn't match. Adding a weekly chore without picking any days used to replace the whole page with an error; it now just asks you to pick a day.

You're told when someone joins

Whoever owns or helps run a household now gets an email the moment somebody joins it, saying who it was and whether they used a share link or an invitation. A share link can sit in a message thread for a week, so this is how you find out it was used — and how you find out if it was used by someone you didn't mean to send it to.

Belong to more than one household

If you're in two households — your own and a parent's, say — there's now a switcher at the bottom of the sidebar, and it keeps you on the same screen when you move. And if an invitation was sent to a different address than the one you're signed in with, the page now says which, instead of listing three things that might have gone wrong.

Two-step verification

Your account can now ask for a code from your phone as well as your password, which makes a stolen password useless on its own. Turn it on under your account — you'll scan a QR code with an authenticator app and get backup codes for the day you replace your phone. Devices you trust won't be asked again for 60 days.

Choose what each person can see

Under Members, an owner or admin can now set what each member sees of each account: everything, spending only (what was spent, never the balance), or hidden entirely. Everyone still sees everything unless you decide otherwise — this is here for the cases where that isn't right, like a teenager who should tick off chores without reading the mortgage. Hidden accounts drop out of totals and budgets too, not just lists.

Budget and Accounts tell you the headline first

Budget opens with what you planned, what's gone and what's left, and says up front if any category has gone over rather than leaving you to find it. Accounts separates what you hold from what you owe, because one net figure hides the difference between a household with savings and one with a card to clear. Both use the width of the screen now.

Overdue bills say so first

Anything overdue now leads the Bills page in red, with what it adds up to — rather than being something you find by reading down a list. Above the list: what's still to pay, what's been settled, and what's due soonest. The form for adding a bill sits beside the list on a wide screen.

Search and filter a month of transactions

A search box and a category filter above the list, answering as you type. The page also uses the width it has now: the form for adding something sits beside the list on a wide screen instead of below a month of rows, and the month's in, out and net are three cards at the top.

Rename your household

Settings, at the bottom of the sidebar, now lets an owner or admin change the household's name, currency and language. Renaming doesn't break any links you've shared.

Invitations you can send yourself

Inviting someone to your household said “Invitation sent” whether or not the email actually went — and while we're on a shared sending address, most don't. You now get the invitation link on screen every time, to send however you like. When email is working it says so instead.

Settings, at last

Your household's name, currency and language were fixed when it was created and couldn't be changed by anyone — so a household set up in the wrong currency had every amount in it rendered wrong forever. Settings in the sidebar fixes all three, and shows you what an amount will look like before you save. Your own name and password now have a home too: click your name at the bottom of the sidebar.

Signing in with Google needs an invitation too

Creating an account with a password has always needed an invitation; doing it with Google didn't, which meant anyone who found the page could end up with an account they couldn't use. Both doors now ask for the same thing. If you were invited — by us or by a household — nothing changes.

One place for letting people in

Requests and invitations were two lists describing the same thing — who asked, and what you gave them. They're one list now. Every row carries what it can do: grant, withdraw, undo a decline, issue a fresh code when the old one expired, or delete the record. Inviting someone who never asked files the request for them, so there's still only one way in.

A way in when you don't have an invitation yet

Signing in without an invitation used to land you on a form asking for a code, with nowhere to get one. Now it tells you where you stand and lets you ask, in one click — we already have your email. If you've been granted an invitation, the code is on that screen rather than waiting in an inbox, and if the one you were given has been used or withdrawn you can ask again instead of being stuck holding it.

One address for Pitch In

The website and the app are now the same place. Signing out takes you to the front page rather than back to the sign-in form, and every page you can reach without an account — sign in, set up your household, ask for an invitation — has the Pitch In name at the top to get you back out.

Readable warnings in dark mode

Confirmation and warning panels had dark text on a dark background in dark mode — technically there, practically unreadable. Every accent color now has a proper dark-mode equivalent.

Owners, admins and members

You can now change someone's role after inviting them, and remove people who've left. An admin manages the household day to day; the owner is the one person who can delete it or hand it to someone else. Making someone else the owner keeps you as an admin, so you lose nothing but the ability to delete it. The owner can't be removed without transferring first, so a household always has someone in charge of it.

Bills that remind you before payday

Set up what goes out regularly — rent, subscriptions, the electric bill — monthly, every two weeks, weekly or yearly. Bills shows what's due, what's overdue at the top, and what it all adds to. Recording a payment writes it straight into your transactions and moves the account balance, and you can change the amount for the bills that vary. Pick the 31st and short months use their last day instead of skipping.

A clearer way in

The first thing to do is ask for an invitation, so that's what the front page offers. Opening the signup page without an invitation now explains that rather than showing you a form you can't finish, and the Google button says what it actually replaces.

A clearer message when Google sign-in can't be used yet

If you already have an account with a password, Continue with Google won't attach to it until you've confirmed your email address — that's deliberate, since otherwise someone could claim an address they don't own and wait to inherit the account. Previously it just failed silently; now it tells you what to do.

Ask for an invitation

If you don't have a code, you can now leave your email and we'll send you one when there's room. No account needed to ask.

It has a name: Pitch In

The app, the emails and the sign-in screen all say Pitch In now instead of a placeholder.

Sign in with Google

You can now use your Google account instead of choosing another password. If you already signed up with an email and password, using Google with the same address signs you into the same account rather than making a second one. You'll still need an invitation to create a household.

A dashboard worth landing on

Your household's home page now shows what you actually have across your accounts, what's gone in and out this month, the budget categories closest to their limit, today's chores and your recent transactions. A brand-new household gets a short setup list instead of a screen of zeroes.

Everything reads a little larger

Text throughout the app was sized for a dense desktop dashboard rather than something you read on a phone. It's all a notch bigger now.

September 19, 2026

Accounts, transactions and budgets

The budgeting part is here. Add your accounts with what's in them today, record what you spend and earn, and set a monthly budget per category. Transactions move the account balance automatically, and the budget screen shows what's left in each category with a bar that turns red when you go over. Step back through previous months with the arrows.

You can sign out before joining a household

If you had an account but weren't in a household yet, there was no way to sign out — the only escape was clearing your cookies. There's now a sign-out link on that screen.

Skipping a chore works on a phone

The Skip and Remove buttons on a chore only appeared when you hovered a mouse over the row, which meant they were invisible on a phone — tapping just marked the chore done instead. They're now always visible on touch screens.

Hide amounts when someone's looking

There's a Hide amounts switch in the menu. Turn it on and every figure on screen blurs until you turn it back off — useful on a train, or when you're sharing your screen. It remembers your choice on that device.

Dark mode

The whole app now follows your device's light or dark setting, and you can override it from the menu. No more being flashbanged at midnight.

Invite the rest of your household

Members lets you invite someone by email and choose whether they can manage people as well as use the household. Invitations show as pending until accepted, and you can cancel one you sent by mistake. Forgotten passwords can now be reset by email too.

Chores

Set up a chore to repeat every day or on the days you choose, and it appears on the right days by itself. Tap one to mark it done. Skip one that doesn't apply today and it moves to a Skipped list showing who skipped it, with an Undo if you change your mind.

Households

Create a household when you sign up, and everything you add lives inside it. You can belong to more than one — your own, and a parent's, say — with a different role in each.