Everything Stead does, in detail.
The main things Stead does today, area by area. It is not the whole product, and coming soon items are flagged. Nothing is faked. Missing something? Open the request form and let me know.
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If there's something missing (a feature you'd pay for, a workflow that doesn't fit your situation, a UK quirk that's not covered), please tell me. Requests get logged, prioritised, and (if there's enough demand) scheduled.
Your house knows itself before you've finished onboarding.
Most home apps ask you to type in everything. Stead works it out for you. Type your postcode, pick your address, and the app pulls your full Energy Performance Certificate from the gov.uk register and uses it to fill in your property profile.
- Postcode auto search via Postcodes.io and Ideal Postcodes
- Direct lookup against the gov.uk EPC register
- Property type, built form, year, floor area, EPC band auto filled
- Heating type, wall type, roof type, glazing all detected
- Editable later from Account settings if anything's wrong
Your EPC, but actually readable.
The gov.uk certificate is full of useful information buried in tables. Stead pulls it apart and shows you what's actually relevant. Annual costs current and potential, building fabric efficiency by component, recommended improvements with indicative costs, environmental impact, and a one tap link to the official certificate when you need it.
- Rating ring with potential band shown alongside current
- Annual costs broken down by heating, hot water, lighting
- Energy performance breakdown across nine building features
- Recommendations with cost, saving, and indicative effort
- Real PDF of the official certificate, generated on demand
Tasks that recur the way real life does.
20 UK essential tasks preloaded out of the box, filtered to your mode so a renter is never nagged about a landlord's duty. Add your own at any cycle from daily to yearly. Mark done and the next due date calculates from today, not from when you originally set the task.
Smart recurrence
Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, biannual, annual. Next due date calculates from when you actually did the task.
UK essentials preset
Boiler service, gas safety, electrical safety check, smoke alarms, gutter clearing, drain checks. The non glamorous stuff that catches you out.
Filter views
All, overdue, upcoming, done. See what needs doing now without scrolling past everything that's already sorted.
Tap to undo
Tick a task as done by mistake? Tap the green check again to revert. Lastdone date clears, status returns to active.
The dates that bite, and the record that proves it.
The Tasks tab has three panels. Tasks is the recurring work. Key dates is a single timeline of everything Stead can put a date on: deposit protection windows, notice periods and the use-it-by long stops that follow them, Right to Rent re-check anniversaries, certificate and warranty expiries, tenancy ends, energy tariff end dates. Each one is worked out for your nation and dated, and the whole timeline (or a single row) goes to your own calendar: an .ics download on the web, a dated share sheet on the phone. Logs is the property's history.
- Deadlines derived per nation for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, not one English rule applied to everyone
- Add the whole timeline, or one date, to your calendar — an .ics with a 7-day reminder built in on the web, the same list shared as dated text from the phone
- Repairs and issues logged with the day you reported them, status updates, and an export you can hand to anyone who asks
- Rent paid or received, service history with who did the work and what it cost, and your tradespeople directory
- The home logbook: one record of every work, service, certificate and improvement at the address, exportable to hand on when you sell
One number for how your home is actually doing.
Every other screen tells you about one thing. Home Health is the single view across all of them: a score out of 100 built from what is overdue, what is expiring, what is uncovered and what is unserviced, with the trend since last month next to it. It is not a vanity metric. Every point it deducts is a row you can tap and fix.
- Scored from your real records: tasks, documents and certificates, appliance servicing, warranties and cover
- Quickest wins first, each showing the points it recovers, so ten minutes is spent on the thing that moves the number
- A "looking after itself" list too, so a well-kept home gets told it is well kept rather than nagged
- Copy or download the whole summary for a valuer, an insurer or a buyer
An inventory the next owner will thank you for.
Add the rooms in your home from 47 preset types, or roll your own. Per room, log the appliances, white goods, and fittings that matter. Brand, model, age, warranty status. The kind of thing nobody writes down until something breaks.
- 47 room presets and 33 appliance types, covering most UK homes
- Per room appliance log with brand and model
- Floor plan editor: multi-floor, wall thickness, merged party walls, anchored doors and windows, true room areas, ceiling heights, deep undo and PDF export, plus a drag-and-tap visual view with room drill-in and appliance badges
- Stays with the property when occupants change
A vault that warns you before things expire.
95 categories across 15 groups, from Gas Safety (CP12), EICR and EPC through tenancy paperwork, title deeds, surveys, warranties, manuals, bills and vehicle records, plus your own custom ones. Upload PDFs and images. Set expiry dates. Get amber warnings 30 days out and red ones when something's already lapsed. Files preview inline. Download to disk in one tap.
The top of the list is the part people actually use: a key-documents checklist that tells you which of the papers every UK home should have on file are missing, a guarantees and workmanship register, a storage meter so you see the free allowance before you hit it, and a share panel listing every link you currently have out and the day it dies.
Upload and preview
PDFs and images, from the file picker or straight from your camera, with an upload queue that holds anything you add offline and sends it when you are back on signal. Preview inline, no need to leave the app.
Expiry warnings
Amber 30 days out, red on the day. Colour coded on the list itself, not buried in a settings menu, and the renewal date goes to your calendar — an .ics download on the web, a dated share sheet from the phone.
Time-bound share links
Send a conveyancer, letting agent or tradesperson a link that expires on a date you choose, or bundle several documents into one pack. A share panel shows every link you have out and when it expires. A timed link stops working on its own, and forgetting one clears it from your list rather than pulling it back, so keep the window short for anything sensitive.
EPC stored as PDF
When Stead detects your EPC, it generates a real PDF of the official certificate and files it in your vault.
Smart scanning
Point your camera at a certificate, or drop a PDF in on the web, and the title, category and expiry fill themselves in. Built and in beta. Uploading by hand is always free; smart scanning is a Pro feature.
A storage meter and a key-documents checklist
See exactly how much of your free allowance is used before you hit it, and work through the short list of documents every UK home should have on file. Landlords can view every property's documents at once or one at a time.
The house remembers itself, not just its current occupant.
This is the part of Stead nothing else in the UK does. When you move out, the things that belong to the address stay with the address. Two mechanisms are built and in beta: passive inheritance for anyone who moves into a home Stead already knows, and an active handover you hand over deliberately, with a code.
Passive inheritance
Set up at an address another Stead household has already recorded and the durable facts are waiting for you: the floor plan, the bin schedule, the appliance inventory, paint and decor, manual links, service months and broadband facts. Personal data never travels, and spare key locations are deliberately excluded.
An active handover code
Moving out on purpose? Tick the sections you want to pass on, attach the documents that belong to the house, and Stead mints a single-use code. The person taking over enters it and the home arrives set up. Codes are single use, expire, and were adversarially security reviewed in the session they were built.
The move-day chain
Add the new address, carry across what is yours, hand over what is the house's, and Stead archives the old home rather than deleting it. You keep the history of where you used to live without it cluttering where you live now.
The handover pack
One readable summary of the whole property: systems, suppliers, shut-offs, rooms and appliances, documents on file, service history, guarantees and bin day. Download it, file it in Documents, or send it to a buyer, a new tenant or a house sitter.
Your tenancy record is yours, not your landlord's.
Most landlord software ships a tenant portal, and in every one of them the tenant is a guest inside the landlord's account. Stead is the other way round. A renter opens their own account with the full renter product in it, whether or not any landlord ever links to them, and keeps it when the tenancy ends. Linking is built and in beta.
Your tenancy, on one page, from either side
The tenancy record holds the type of tenancy, the term and how much of it is left, the rent and when it is due, the deposit and which scheme it sits in, and the paperwork. Renters get rent and renewal reminders, a dated rent payment log, and the repairs record. Landlords get the same tenancy from the other end: the ledger, the notices, the deposit clock and what has been served. Switch the shot to see both.
- Deposit protection deadline worked out per nation, including instalments, with the scheme and the prescribed information tracked
- Renewal nudge roughly three months before the term ends, so nobody is surprised by a rollover
- Once linked, repairs the renter logs and rent they mark paid appear on the landlord's side automatically
An account of your own
Your rights, the rights assistant, repair logging, the evidence pack and the deposit tools are all there on day one, free, with no landlord involved. Nobody can switch them off, and no landlord can see them.
Link only if you both want to
An invite from either side opens a shared tenancy record: the repairs loop, the rent ledger and the documents you both agree to share. Either side can end it, and the record of what you reported and when stays in your own account either way.
It works from the first pair
There is no network to wait for. One landlord and one tenant is enough for the repairs loop, the deposit clock and the shared paperwork to be useful on day one. It gets better with more, but it does not need more.
You keep it when you leave
When the tenancy ends the link ends, and your account does not. The repair history, the dates, the photos and the documents you uploaded stay with you and carry into your next home.
The bills, but with context.
Log your gas, electricity, water, and broadband bills as they come in. Stead shows month on month spend, six month bar chart, and the EPC band sitting right next to it so you can see the relationship between fabric and cost.
- Overview tab: monthly spend, comparison, six month bar chart
- Bills tab: log by type, amount, date, with notes
- Providers tab: store supplier, tariff, monthly cost
- Save tab: tailored insights based on your actual EPC fabric
- Octopus smart-meter link in beta; n3rgy to follow
What the house costs, and whether you're actually covered.
Running costs, mortgage and insurance in one place instead of three apps and a spreadsheet. Money this month totals every bill you track and tells you which one is the biggest. The remortgage reminder shows what the standard variable rate would cost you a month if you do nothing when your deal ends. The cover check is a reality check on what this specific home needs, with a contents valuation and a room-by-room inventory feeding it, and a buildings rebuild-cost estimate that is not the same number as the market value.
- Household bills with renewal reminders, so the auto-renew price rise gets caught before it lands
- Mortgage, overpayment, remortgage and sale-proceeds calculators using your numbers, with no quote form attached
- Home value tracker with equity and loan-to-value, and a home improvements log that cuts your capital gains bill at sale
- An insurance claim helper that assembles the dates, photos and documents you already have into the pack an insurer asks for
Rent roll, tax and notices, included in Pro.
Portfolio is every property on one screen: monthly rent, anything in arrears, the next tenancy to end, and a compliance row per property showing gas safety, EICR, EPC, legionella, deposit, Right to Rent and the written statement at a glance. It exports as a dated report you can hand to an accountant or a lender.
Rental P&L tracks income and allowable costs per property, grouped the way HMRC's UK property (SA105) pages are grouped, so the totals map onto a self-assessment return. Tax year or calendar year, one property or all of them, with an MTD-ready export.
Notices drafts the possession notice for your nation and ground, then records how and when you served it and re-anchors every printed date on deemed receipt, files a dated proof-of-service record to Documents, and puts the use-it-by long stop on your Key dates.
- Expense groups follow the SA105 pages; an MTD-ready export is live
- Rent log, receipts, arrears letters, rent-increase notices and a tenant referencing scorer
- Inspection and inventory reports, the written statement of terms, and the setting-up-a-rental checklist
- A paperwork pre-flight above Generate: deposit protected, prescribed information served, Right to Rent, written statement — read from your own records
Honest status: the portfolio overview, the rent roll, the rental P&L with its MTD-ready export, the notice generator and the proof-of-service record builder are all live. The safety compliance reminders and the agency organisation with staff accounts are built and in beta. Our notice wording has not yet been reviewed by a housing solicitor, so every draft says so and tells you to have it checked and transcribed onto the current prescribed form before you serve it. Connecting your bank so rent and expenses import themselves is not available yet.
Every smart home brand, one place.
5 main platforms as a tappable grid, plus 25 more brands in the searchable picker. Four of them connect today in beta: Home Assistant, LIFX, SwitchBot and Shelly. Toggle devices, run scenes, read sensors, control locks and media, switch and recolour bulbs, and see smart-meter consumption through the Octopus Energy link in beta. Build automations in plain language and Stead runs them for you, no syntax to look up in a forum at midnight. Amazon Alexa works with Stead now: enable the Stead: Home skill in the Alexa app or on the skill store and control your Home Assistant devices by voice. Philips Hue, Google Home and SmartThings are in development.
- 5 main platforms plus 25 more in the picker, and 3 voice assistants
- Plain language automation builder, no code
- Device control via Home Assistant, LIFX, SwitchBot and Shelly, plus the Octopus Energy smart-meter link, all in beta
Honest status: the Amazon Alexa skill is live. The Octopus Energy smart-meter link and Home Assistant, LIFX, SwitchBot and Shelly device control are working in beta, which means they are built and running but have not been through a full end-to-end verification pass yet. Philips Hue, Google Home and SmartThings are in development.
Ask Alexa
Enable the Stead: Home skill in the Alexa app and control your Home Assistant devices by voice. That one is shipped and on the skill store. Google Home and SmartThings are separate pieces of work, still in development, and we will say so until they are not.
Wall display mode
Turn an old tablet into a hallway panel: a big clock, the date, today's bin day and what's due, your Home Health score, and the smart-home controls you use most. It dims itself after dark and wakes on a tap, and tells you if the device readings behind it have gone stale.
Your meter, not your bill
The Octopus Energy link reads consumption straight from your smart meter and feeds it into the energy screens, so spend stops depending on you typing a bill in. Built and in beta: it has not been through an end-to-end pass on a real Octopus account yet. n3rgy follows.
The right number, not the closest one.
12 emergency scenarios with the correct UK numbers preloaded. No "search the web" prompts when you need a number now. Plus a contacts section for your gas engineer, electrician, plumber, and the friend with the spare key, with auto fill suggestions from your utility providers.
Behind the guides sits the part you need the week after: the claim helper. It pulls one incident into a single dated record for your insurer — cover type, cause, the dates it happened and you found it, the damaged items (pulled straight from your contents inventory), photos of the damage and what you did to limit it — with a checklist of the proof they will ask for, so the claim is not reconstructed from memory a fortnight later.
12 scenario guides
Gas leak, carbon monoxide, fire, break-in, burst pipe, flooding, blocked drain, storm damage, power cut, electrical fault, boiler, lockout. Steps to take and the right number to call.
Contacts manager
Add, edit, delete, tap to call. Auto fill suggestions appear from your utility providers if you've added them.
UK numbers right out of the box
Gas Emergency 0800 111 999. Power Cut 105. Emergency Services 999. Pre populated, can't be deleted by accident.
A second opinion that knows your house.
Describe a problem in plain language and get a step by step walk through. Stead passes your property profile in the background, so the answer accounts for your boiler type, your wall construction, your heating system, your mode (renter or owner), and what you've already logged. Multi turn chat, so follow ups continue the same conversation.
- Property aware troubleshooting, not generic web answers
- Multi turn conversations with full history
- Renter mode flags landlord responsibilities for you
- Quick prompts for common scenarios
- Diagnostic history saved, deletable per entry
Different mode, different content.
Stead doesn't show landlords what renters need and vice versa. Each mode gets the right starting set of legal context. Possession notices, deposit deadlines and the right scheme run per nation across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Tenant rights and landlord duties are written for England and Wales; set a Scottish or Northern Irish postcode and you get a referral card to Shelter Scotland or Housing Rights rather than a restatement Stead has not verified. General guidance, not legal advice, and every screen says so.
Not a reading list. A worked answer.
Both screens carry three things beyond the guides. Tools: the deposit cap and deadline calculators, the rent-increase challenge, the repair-responsibility check, the notice builders, the written statement, the deposit dispute pack. Ask AI: a question in your own words, answered against your property, your nation and what you have logged, with sources. And a live banner when the law itself moves — the Renters' Rights Act changes are already folded into the guides and the tools.
Landlord duties also run a "needs attention" strip off your own certificate expiry dates, so a duty stops being a paragraph and becomes a job with a date on it.
Renter Rights
25 tenant rights in England across 7 groups (16 in Wales), summarised plainly and dated so you can see when each was last checked. The right to a written tenancy, deposit protection, repairs, quiet enjoyment, the right not to be evicted without notice. Each links out to Shelter and Citizens Advice for depth when you need it.
Landlord Obligations
30 legal duties in England across 10 groups, each with the deadline it runs to. Gas safety annually, electrical safety check every five years, energy rating every ten, smoke alarms tested at start of tenancy, deposit protection within 30 days, plus the written statement of terms and the registration and redress duties under the Renters' Rights Act. Sorted by what you need to do and when.
The whole move, including the bits people forget.
A 41 item checklist split into 7 categories with a progress bar so you can see how far through you are, and separate versions for renters and first-time buyers, including Scottish and Northern Irish variants of the buying process. Postcode based area research that pulls real data on the neighbourhood you're considering. A library of 27 viewing questions you can take to the next property, plus optional area tailored questions that incorporate flood risk, conservation status, leasehold prevalence, and other things specific to that postcode.
- 41 checklist items across preparing to sell, legal and financial, utilities and services, address changes, packing, moving day and after moving in
- Area research with live data via web search
- 27 general viewing questions in 5 categories, with a separate renter set
- Area tailored questions specific to the postcode you're looking at
Real data, no smoke and mirrors.
Stead is built on real UK data sources. Nothing is faked, padded with placeholder content, or scraped without consent.
Live EPC lookup
Pulled directly from the gov.uk register. The full 90+ point certificate is kept, not just the headline rating. The lookup itself runs on free public data so it doesn't eat into your smart feature allowance.
Address lookup
Postcode and address search powered by Postcodes.io and Ideal Postcodes, with manual entry as a backup if the lookup runs short.
Real PDF certificates
A small dedicated service renders the gov.uk certificate page and saves the actual PDF to your private vault. Filename includes your property name.
EU hosted, access controlled
Hosted in the EU, with row level access controls so only your account can read your data. Documents are private by default and reachable only through a short lived signed link.
Smart features, capped sensibly
The smart features are powered by a language model running behind Stead. Capped at 20 questions per person per 24 hours so nobody can rack up costs by accident.
Sign in your way
Email and password, Google, Apple, or Microsoft. Pick whichever you already use. Two-factor authentication and a biometric app lock are available now. Passkey sign-in with Face ID, Touch ID or Windows Hello is built and in beta, managed from Account then Security.
What we've just shipped, and what's next.
Stead is in active development, with new work shipping most weeks. Some of these are already available; the ones flagged Soon are on the way. Full picture on the roadmap page.
Smart document scanning
Point your camera at a certificate and the title, category and expiry fill themselves in. Uploading photos and PDFs by hand is always free; smart scanning is a Pro feature.
App Store and Google Play launch
Stead is in closed beta now, public beta is targeted for late 2026, and the App Store and Google Play release follows that. Nothing has been submitted to either store yet.
Smart meter data
The Octopus Energy link is built and in beta, pulling usage direct from your meter. No more manual bill entry, no more guessing. It has not been through an end-to-end pass on a real Octopus account yet. n3rgy support follows.
Real device control
Home Assistant, LIFX, SwitchBot and Shelly device control is working in beta: toggles, scenes, sensors, locks, media and Wi-Fi bulbs. Amazon Alexa is live, so you can enable the Stead: Home skill in the Alexa app. Philips Hue, Google Home and SmartThings are in development.
Tailored maintenance schedules
Suggested schedules tailored to your property type and age are live, going beyond the generic 20 UK essentials.
Landlord Compliance Pack
The notice generator and the tax-ready profit and loss are live, built for the new renting laws; the confirmation-of-service record builder and the safety compliance reminders are built and in beta alongside them. Our notice wording has not yet been reviewed by a housing solicitor, so every draft says so and tells you to have it checked and transcribed onto the current prescribed form before you serve it. Included in Pro at no extra cost.
Renter tools
Repair issue logging with timestamps, a deposit deadline tracker, and a tenancy document vault are live. The renter side is free on principle: your rights, the rights assistant, the evidence pack and repair logging never get gated.
Portfolio and agency tools
Built and in beta, included in Pro today rather than sold as a separate tier: a portfolio hub across every property, a rent roll, and an agency organisation with staff accounts, a rotating join code and a standing agency link. Up to 10 active staff per agency, per-property rent ledger access the landlord opts into, and a Monday compliance digest for the agent.
Stead Tools
88 free calculators and checkers for UK home admin, live today, no sign-up needed. Stamp duty edge cases, the council tax band challenger, the leasehold service charge analyser, the Child Benefit charge optimiser, and 84 more.
Carry on reading.
Free forever core, Pro for everything else.
How Stead's pricing works, what's free, what's paid, and what each tier unlocks.
RoadmapWhat's coming next.
The property knowledge network, wider sharing with family and friends, and native iOS and Android apps. The register is generated, so it never falls behind the product.
See it in motion.
The beta is invite only for now. Sign up for updates and we'll let you know when public access opens.