Your family's admin, sorted in one place.

Nell keeps your household's admin in one place. The Vault holds your policies, renewals and documents and reminds you before things run out. The Family hub has shared shopping lists, to-dos and a calendar. Links keeps the websites your family uses together, and the Legacy plan is a private guide for your loved ones if the unexpected happens.

It's made for UK households, so reminders follow UK norms, like 9 months' notice for a passport.

There are apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and a web app you can use in any browser at nell.weareoneapps.com. Sign in with the same email everywhere and your items sync between them.

Scanning and reading documents, notifications and showing your own calendars are in the apps. The web app is handy on a work or family computer, and its start page makes a good browser homepage.

There's no password. Enter your email, and we'll email you a 6-digit code that lasts 10 minutes. Type it in and you're signed in. If it's a new email address, this creates your account.

On iPhone, iPad and Mac you can also use Sign in with Apple.

Nell is free for one person, with up to 25 items. Nell Family adds unlimited items, a household of up to six, sharing and the full Legacy plan for £2.99 a month or £29.99 a year, with a two-week free trial. Only the household owner pays; everyone they invite uses it free. See your plan in Settings under Family plan.

When you scan or photograph a document in the app, it's read on your device. Nell reads the machine-readable lines on a passport's photo page and the fields on a UK photocard driving licence exactly. For other documents it looks for the provider, reference, date and price, and on devices with Apple Intelligence it uses Apple's on-device model to fill any gaps.

What it finds appears under “Filled in for you” so you can check it before saving. The text is also kept with the item, so a search finds words inside your scans.

Each item gets sensible UK reminders from its type as soon as you add a date. For example: car, home, travel and pet insurance 30 days, 7 days and on the day; MOT 30 and 7 days; vehicle tax 14 days and on the day; passports 9 and 6 months; driving licences 3 months; broadband, mobile and energy contracts 45 and 14 days.

You can change them in the item's Reminders section: remove any you don't want, or use “Add a reminder”. Turn “Remind me” off to stop them for that item.

Only you, until you choose otherwise. Everything new is private by default, and nobody else in the household can see your private items, including the household owner.

When you add or edit an item, “Who can see it” lets you choose “Only me” or “Everyone in the household”. To pick specific people, use Share on the item.

On a shopping list, tap “I'm going” on the “Going to the shop?” banner. Everyone else who can see that list is told straight away and has 10 minutes to add anything last-minute. If someone else is already going, you'll see their banner instead.

You need to be signed in, as it lets the rest of your household know.

During the beta, files are stored encrypted on Nell's server in the UK, and cached on your devices so you can open them offline. Saving to your own Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive is coming.

If you use the app without an account, everything stays on your device only.

No. Reading your scans happens on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Where Apple Intelligence is available, Nell uses Apple's on-device model, and nothing is sent to an outside AI service.

Add trusted contacts in the Legacy plan and choose which areas each person can read. They need a Nell account with that email address. They're told you've named them, but can't see anything until the plan is released.

If one of them asks for your plan, you're told straight away. If you don't decline within your waiting period (you choose from 48 hours to 30 days; it's 3 days unless you change it), the areas you chose for them are released. You can also “Release now” or “Decline” yourself.