What FlatTurno is for
Keep chore rotations fair by room, book shared spaces so plans do not collide, and run a household ledger for purchases and who owes whom — same state in the Android app and (for iPhone today) Telegram.
For Flatmates
FlatTurno is the app for people who share a flat. Android is the main way in. On iPhone for now, use Telegram until the iOS app ships.
Explore FlatTurno
Overview, the app, chat, chores, bookings, Away, and shared costs — how each piece works.
One household picture: whose chore turn it is, who booked the TV or kitchen, shared spending and balances, chat with your flat and with Reception, and private tickets when you need help.
Tickets to reception (Desk)
Household and building issues — someone left, change your details, booking help, a request for a new chore or a new shared space, turn problems, or other flat matters. Your company reception sees these. Available once you are in a room.
Tickets to FlatTurno (Admin)
Product feedback — bugs, issues, and suggestions about the app or bot. FlatTurno staff see these; reception does not. Open from My tickets in the app or Help in Telegram (even before you join a flat).
- Open FlatTurno and see whose turn it is for bins, dishwasher, or cleaning.
- If it is your room’s turn, do the chore and mark it done — or Confirm for cleaning week.
- Going away? Set Away so rotation skips your room and duties hand off.
- Need the kitchen or TV? Book a slot. Need a chore or a space the flat does not have yet? Request it, with a picture that fits, and reception accepts or declines.
- Need help? Ticket reception for the building, or FlatTurno Support for bugs and ideas.
- Open Chat to read a Reception notice, talk in the flat group, or message someone in another room.
Android app first. Register, land on Blink · Malaga, then Join a Flat by unit number. Telegram is the iPhone option until iOS.
Download and register
Open Get the Flatmate app. Create your profile with name, email and password. New accounts join the Blink Malaga launch company automatically.
Join a Flat by unit
Tap Join a Flat and enter your unit (for example 2309). If the flat exists, pick a vacant room (2309B). If not, a short wizard sets rooms, which chores are on, economy mode, and TV/kitchen bookings — then you pick your room. Chores, bookings, economy, and chat unlock once you are in a room.
Telegram on iPhone
Until the iOS app ships, use the FlatTurno bot in your flat’s Telegram group for the turn board, bookings, economy and Help tickets. Same household data as the Android app.
Join a room and two chats are already there: your flat, and Reception for the building. You can also start a chat with the other rooms.
Your flat’s group
As soon as you are in a room, you are in that flat’s group chat. Everyone who lives there can read and write. The name is the company, the site, and the unit, then Group Chat — for example Blink Malaga 2309 Group Chat. If the flat also has a Telegram group, that conversation is the same one.
Reception for the building
You are also in the site group, with every flatmate at that building. The title is the company and the site, then Group — for example Blink Malaga Group. You read; reception posts. Each line is shown as the company Reception, not a staff member’s name. A new post can notify you and roll a banner in at the top of the app. A building problem still goes through a ticket — this group is for notices, and you cannot reply in it.
Chat with the other rooms
Open Chat and tap New. Search the flatmates in the other rooms of your flat. If their privacy allows it, you can also find people in other flats at the same site. One person starts a private chat. Two or more start a group named with their names. Choosing the same people again opens that chat.
Who can reach you
In Settings, Chat privacy, choose who can find you: everyone at your site, or only people in your flat. You can ask for a yes before a new chat opens, and choose who may add you to a group — anyone who can find you, only your flat, or nobody. When you leave the room, you leave these chats. The flat group gets a line that you were removed.
Each flat chooses which chores to switch on — bins, dishwasher, cleaning, or none. You can also request a new chore; reception accepts it before it joins the list. Duty sits on a room, and everyone sees the same turn.
Pick which chores are on
When a flat is created (or later from Desk), reception or the create-flat wizard can enable bins, dishwasher, and/or cleaning independently. Another flat may only want bins; yours might run all three. Rotation only applies to chores that are active.
Bins
When it is your room’s turn, take the trash out and mark Done — the next room becomes responsible. If anyone sees the bin full before that, they can send a Remind to the flatmate currently on the bins turn. You can also Undo shortly after Done, or Stand in if you took the turn for someone else.
Dishwasher
Same once-and-done flow as bins when the flat has dishwasher enabled: your room’s turn, mark Done so the next room takes over. Stand-in and Undo work the same way. Skip or reassign stays with reception when needed.
Cleaning
Optional weekly chore when enabled: one room owns the week (Monday 00:00 in the site timezone). Confirm when you have cleaned — that logs it and quietens reminds for the week; it does not jump the rotation. The week owner advances on the next Monday.
Request a chore
Bins, dishwasher, and cleaning come with the flat. Need something else — watering the plants, taking the dog out? Request it from Chores. Give it a name, pick a picture that fits, and choose a turn (it moves when someone marks it done) or a week (it moves every Monday). That opens a ticket for reception. They can adjust the name or the picture, then accept it onto the flat or decline with a short reason you can read. While it is waiting you can edit or cancel it.
Book shared spaces so two plans do not overlap. TV and kitchen start on every flat; you can request more. Reception reviews the form (and can fix the name or hours) before it goes live — or Desk can add the space immediately when the company already wants it.
How booking works
Choose the space, pick a date on the calendar, then a start and end time (or 30m–3h buttons). You cannot book a time that has already passed today. Overnight bookings show both dates. Overlaps are refused unless reception later allows it on a custom space. You can cancel your own booking. Reception on Desk can create a booking for a flatmate and correct the calendar.
New resource
TV and kitchen are the starters. If the flat needs something else, ask from Bookings. Give it a name and a picture that fits — a game controller for a PlayStation — then set the minimum and maximum length, how far ahead people may book, whether two bookings can overlap, and whether several people can use it together. That opens a reception ticket, with a link in your inbox. Reception can adjust the details, then accept or decline. While it is waiting you can edit or cancel it.
Television
Minimum 60 minutes. Book ahead within the flat’s window (typically up to about 60 days). Use it when you want the living-room screen without someone else claiming the same slot.
Kitchen
From 30 minutes — boil eggs or cook a meal. Same date-and-time picker as TV. Overnight ends are allowed when the day window runs to midnight.
Conflicts, limits, and Desk
If the slot overlaps another booking, it cannot be created. Each space has a max number of future bookings per person. Desk staff can add bookings on behalf of residents, edit the calendar, and create extra spaces from the flat’s Bookings view — same rules as the app once the space is live.
Tell the flat you are out. Rotation skips your room; current chores on your room hand off when someone else can take them.
Set Away
Choose from and until dates in My room / Away (app or Telegram). While Away, you stay in the flat but you are not in the active turn order.
What happens to chores
If a chore is on your room when you go Away, FlatTurno hands it to the next available room (when there is one). New turns also bypass Away rooms. A shared purchase still includes you while you are away. Someone can untick you for that one shop.
Coming back
Clear Away when you are home. Your room rejoins the natural rotation order — you do not automatically reclaim an old turn; you wait for the next fair pass.
Shared spending for the flat: who paid, who shares, and who still owes.
Shared spending
Someone pays at the shop, and the flat has to remember who it was for. Economy keeps that record: who paid, who shares the cost, and who still owes. It is the flat’s own money, separate from what the company pays for FlatTurno.
Fair share, a pot, or honour
Fair share is the usual choice. You see your balance and who owes whom. A pot is money the flat holds together. Honour keeps the shopping list and the purchases, and does not show balances. The flat chooses this when it is created. Reception can change it later.
The same record everywhere
You use Economy in the Android app. On iPhone, the same purchases are in the flat’s Telegram group until the iOS app is ready. Reception can open them on Desk, and can correct one after your day to edit it has passed.
One shop, one purchase
A trip to the shop is one purchase, even when the receipt has many items. The flat splits that total. You can name the shop and add a note, so everyone remembers which trip it was.
Who shares a purchase
A weekly shop is for everyone. An air fryer may be for two people. Everyone living in the flat starts included, including someone who is away. You leave out the people who should not share that cost. Four people is a four-way split. Two of four is shown as 2/4, and the others can still see the purchase. The next purchase includes everyone again.
A day to correct it
If you paid, you can change or remove the purchase for 24 hours. After that it stays as it is on your phone. Reception can still correct it, and the purchase shows that it was changed.
Your balance
Your balance is what you have paid for the flat, minus your share of the shops, plus what people have paid you, minus what you have paid them. Above zero, the flat owes you. Below zero, you owe the flat.
I owe and Owed to me
These show that same balance between you and one other person. I owe is who you should pay. Owed to me is who should pay you.
You settle the difference
When two people buy things for each other, paying each shop back separately gets confusing. FlatTurno sets those purchases against each other, so you settle once. If you paid €40 and the other person later paid €60, both shared by the two of you, you owe them €10.
Recording a payment
When you owe someone, you record a payment. They confirm it, or they can record it themselves. The amount starts at what you owe them, and it can be lower. It settles what you owe that person.
One list for the flat
Anyone in the flat can add what you still need. Adding the same staple again does not create a second row, so the list stays one list.
Tick, then log
Tick what you bought. One item, and the button says Log purchase. Several items, and it says Log purchases. That is still one shop, with a line for each item, and those rows are marked bought. With nothing ticked, you type the lines yourself.
Taking something off
Removing an item asks you to confirm first, so one tap does not delete something the whole flat can see.
Scan a receipt
Scan receipt opens the camera. It finds the paper, crops it, and straightens the photo. If that scanner does not start, you can use the camera instead.
Keep what the flat shares
Each priced line becomes an item you can edit. You remove what you bought for yourself. If you ticked shopping-list items first, you match those items to lines on the receipt, and the flat only splits those. The printed total is there to check. The amount you split is the lines you keep.
Anyone can open it
The photo stays on the purchase. Anyone in the flat can open it and read the text the scan found. A long receipt can be up to three photos.
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