It started with
a forgotten load.
The smallest chores are the easiest to forget. This one happens in almost every home, every week.
You know the moment. You open the washer to start your own load and find someone else’s, finished hours ago, still wet and starting to smell. Or it’s your own, and you remember it at 11 p.m. with a sinking feeling. Back in it goes for another cycle.
Nobody forgets laundry on purpose. A washer runs for about an hour, and an hour is a long time in a real household. Someone starts dinner, someone takes a call, the kids need a bath, and the buzzer goes off in a room nobody is in.
The appliance industry’s answer is the smart washer and smart dryer: new machines with Wi-Fi built in. They work, but they ask you to replace two appliances that are working fine, and the alert usually goes to whoever installed that brand’s app.
We wanted something simpler. Not a new machine. A small, friendly sensor that sticks onto the washer and dryer you already have, feels when the cycle ends, and tells the whole household.
Sensing the cycle the simple way
Every washer and dryer gives away what it’s doing: it shakes when it runs and goes still when it stops. LaundrySense listens to that vibration (never to sound). A quick calibration teaches each sensor what “off” and “running” feel like on your machine. The washer gets extra patience so that soaking and rinse pauses don’t count as done.
When the load finishes, every phone in the house gets the alert. When the wash is done and the dryer is free, LaundrySense says it’s time to move it over. Tap Moved it! and everyone else knows it’s handled.
Making the chore a little more fun
Reminders are good. Reminders that feel like a game are better. With LaundrySense Plus, the household earns points for moving loads quickly, builds streaks and unlocks badges, and a little leaderboard settles who really does the laundry.
Small, cheerful, and out of the way
Each sensor has one button and a big, bold screen that says READY, RUNNING or DONE!. Between checks it sleeps to save its rechargeable battery. Setup happens once over Bluetooth, and after that it runs quietly on your Wi-Fi.
That’s LaundrySense: your same washer and dryer, made a little smarter, and a household that never forgets a load again.