About Home Heads Up
Running a home is a hundred small deadlines nobody wrote down. Home Heads Up exists to carry that mental load — quietly.
The idea
Bin apps know bins. Weather apps know weather. Calendars know what you remembered to type in. None of them know your household — so none of them can tell you that tonight is bin night and it’s going to blow a gale, or that the washing on the line has two hours before the rain arrives.
Home Heads Up combines address-specific council data, weather, UV and Australian maintenance know-how into one question: what does this household need to know next?
The principles
- Actionable beats informative. “Bin night tonight” — not a waste management dashboard.
- Quiet by default. One UV heads-up a day. One bin reminder. Quiet hours out of the box. A notification you ignore is a notification we shouldn’t have sent.
- Honest data. Official sources with proper attribution, and a straight answer (“manual setup”) where none exists. Forecast language stays humble.
- Private by design. No account, minimal address data, no trackers, one-tap deletion. See privacy.
- Free means free. No ads, no subscriptions, no premium tier, no data monetisation.
Australian, practically
The product feels Australian because the functionality is: G-NAF addresses, council bin cycles, ARPANSA UV, storm-season gutters, termite inspections and rego dates. No mascots required.
The website and the app
This site offers the public pieces — bin day lookup, UV information, reminder guides and the blog. The app does the ongoing work: watching schedules and forecasts for your address and nudging you at the right moment, on iOS and Android.
Who makes it
Home Heads Up is created and maintained by Grigory Frolov — the developer behind the app, this website and its data integrations.