We built the app we couldn't find.
Untangled Life started the way a lot of things do: with a couple who loved each other and were slowly being buried by the admin of living together with four kids to run around behind.
Two phones, two calendars, and a running conversation that never quite ended. Are you working Saturday? Did you book the dinner? When is your mum's birthday again? Who's got the car on Thursday? Whose turn is it to sort the thing we said we'd sort? Not one of these is a big problem on its own. Together, they were the background noise of our whole relationship, and the good stuff kept getting pushed to the edges by it.
So we did what everyone does. We tried the apps.
We tried the couples calendars. We tried the family organisers. We tried sharing a Google calendar, then an Apple one, then both, and colour coding them, then the handwritten fridge calendar with whiteboard markers, and setting reminders on reminders. Each one solved a slice of the problem and then stopped. One would show both diaries but had no idea when we were actually free. One did to-do lists nicely but didn't know our anniversary from a dentist appointment. Another wanted us both to give up the calendars we already used and move everything across, which lasted about a week. The trip planning lived in a group chat with ourselves. The gift ideas lived in a notes app one of us couldn't find. And not one of them understood that one of us doesn't work a nine-to-five, so “free on Tuesday night” isn't a thing you can assume, it's a thing you have to work out.
What we wanted was simple to say and, it turned out, hard to find: one place that held everything a couple actually needs to run a life together. Both calendars, side by side, with the free nights found for us. The dates and the trips. The birthdays and the anniversary, remembered early enough to do something about them. The to-dos, split so both of us could see them. And a little bit of room for the things that make a relationship a relationship and not a roster.
We couldn't find it. So we built it.
The name
The knots were the point. Two lives, tangled together in every good way and a few frustrating ones. We didn't want an app that pulled them apart into neat separate lanes. We wanted one that untangled the knots that didn't need to be there, so the ones that did could be enjoyed. Two calendars. One life. No knots.
How we work
We use it ourselves, every day.
Every screen in the app has been argued about at our kitchen table, or on the lounge. When something annoys us, it gets fixed. When something is missing, it gets built.
Your relationship is not our product.
Nothing you share with your partner is shared with anyone else. There are no ads, no analytics inside the app, and no selling of anything to anyone. We charge a fair price once a year and that's the whole business model.
Each of you decides.
Everything in the app that touches your own calendar is off until you turn it on, and you choose how much your partner can see, calendar by calendar. We built it that way because the alternative isn't a relationship app. It's a tracking app.
Small on purpose.
Untangled Life is run by a couple in New South Wales, not a company with a marketing department. You'll get a reply from a person at hello@untangledlife.com.au, usually the one who built the thing you're asking about.
Where we're up to
The app runs end to end on real phones today: two calendars in one view, free nights found, dates booked onto both phones, key dates, working hours, to-dos, wishlists and trips. We're finishing the polish and the app store paperwork now, and the first 100 emails on the waitlist get it free for life. Your place is set the day you register and is tied to that email address, so sign up to the app with the same one when it lands. The pricing page has the detail.
Come and untangle yours.
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