Home renovation can be an organisational nightmare. Think of the multitude of big and small jobs that have to be undertaken, many of which have to be done in a specific order; some things can be managed by the home owner, while others require professional help. Friends and family can sometimes come to the rescue, but how do you keep track of who buys the paint, who takes charge of the clean-up and who deals with contractors?

When you’ve got myriad tasks to tackle for your home spruce-up, enlist one more assistant to rule them all: Meistertask.

The app helps you to manage any project with simple steps: create tasks and assign them to your hard-working helpers. Your partner can take care of the craftsmen, your daughter will clean out the mess and your friend will provide the supplies to paint the walls. Meistertask follows the Kanban principle: every job, no matter how small, is put on a card, which you then move into different columns, from “to do” to “in progress” to “done”. This way, you can keep track of every task and always know its status.

On top of this, Meistertask tracks the time to completion for each to-do item. Get an overview of how long it took to clean the windows, assemble the new furniture and for the final house cleaning to commence. You can also easily measure how long it took the carpenter to install the new door and whether the number of hours on the bill is correct.

With all of these great management and tracking features – all of which are available in the free version – and friends and contractors hard at work, you could occupy yourself by setting up a little competition: who’s ticked off the most tasks, who’s worked the fastest and who’s spent the most time on the project? Announce the winner at the housewarming party; but, really, everyone’s a winner – after all, you’re all celebrating in your newly renovated dream home.