Tend your home,
keep the lore.
Tendlore is a calm home-maintenance coach for Windows: a private binder for your home's systems, a seasonal plan that never scolds, and playbooks that teach you how to do the work — all in plain files on your own PC.
Fully functional for 90 days · no account, no email, no cloud
The dashboard on a real home — overdue is shown, never shamed.
Built for people tired of losing paper manuals — and trusting apps that vanish.
Your home's history can't be shut down
Centriq, the most-loved app in this category, shut down in January 2025 and permanently deleted every user's data. Tendlore's records are plain files on your own disk — readable in any text editor, backed up in one click — not a subscription to someone else's servers.
Buy it once
Tendlore is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Try everything free for 90 days; if it earns a place in your home, it's $39 once. No recurring fee for keeping your own home's records.
It teaches, not just reminds
Every task comes with a playbook: why it matters, where the thing is, which tools and supplies you need (with your model numbers filled in), step-by-step instructions, safety notes, and an honest “hire a pro” boundary.
Zero cloud, by design
No account, no signup, no telemetry. The only network calls Tendlore ever makes are license activation and checking for app updates. Your home's data never leaves your PC.
A private binder, a plan, and a patient teacher.
Tendlore is built for homeowners who treat their house as a system worth tracking properly — without it becoming a second job:
- ▸A guided setup that turns your home's age, climate, and systems into a maintenance plan staggered across the seasons — not a wall of overdue tasks.
- ▸A digital binder for your systems and appliances: model numbers, install dates, warranty windows, manuals, receipts, and the specs you always have to look up (filter size, battery type, paint color).
- ▸Playbooks that teach each task, with your own equipment's details surfaced right in the steps.
- ▸A supplies list pulled from what's actually coming due, ready to copy into any shopping list.
- ▸A history ledger of everything done — DIY or contractor, with costs — that becomes the maintenance record you hand a buyer when you sell.
- ▸An emergency runbook: where the water shut-off is, which breaker is which, who to call.
- ▸One-click zip backup and CSV export. Calm tray reminders, opt-in, at most one a day.
Tendlore provides general homeowner education. Playbooks include safety notes and call-a-pro boundaries, but they don't replace manufacturer instructions, licensed trades, or local code.
The screens you'll actually live in.
The plan, staggered across the year
Every task explains why it matters and what you'll need. Done, later, skip, or hand it to a pro — all one click.
Every task comes with a teacher
The tool worth owning, the steps in order, what “done” actually looks like — and an honest line about the point where you should stop and call an electrician.
A binder for every system
Model and serial numbers, install dates, warranty windows, manuals and receipts — filed by room, found in seconds.
A shopping list that builds itself
Pulled from what's actually coming due in the next 60 days, with your own sizes and models. Copy it to your phone.
The record you hand the next owner
Logging a job takes seconds — you or a contractor, cost optional. What builds up is a dated history of the house: proof for a buyer, and an answer to “when did we last do this?”
There's no database to be locked out of.
Everything Tendlore knows about your home lives in a handful of plain YAML files under
Documents\Tendlore, next to your attachments. Open them in Notepad. Read them
in ten years. Put the folder in OneDrive and every change is backed up off-machine
automatically.
That's the whole reason Tendlore exists: when the app you trusted shuts down, the records should still be yours.
Try it on your own home.
Every feature is on for 90 days — long enough to watch a real season of maintenance come due. If it earns its keep, it's $39, once.