The cabin, kept.
The peace, too.
Three siblings, one lake house, zero July 4th feuds. CabinKept holds the fair-turns calendar, the shared-expense ledger with settle-up that's exact to the penny, the open/close checklists, and the dock-duty rotation — so the whole season lives in one calm place instead of your head.
Free for one property and up to 4 members, on your device. Nobody else needs an account — one organizer runs it.
- Fair-turns calendarRequests, approvals, holiday rotation on the record.
- Shared ledgerSplits exact to the penny. Tracks it — never touches it.
- Open & close listsWinterize right, open easy — earn the season badge.
- Duty rotationDock in, dock out, deep clean — the wheel decides, not the guilt trip.
The whole job, three moves.
Set up the cabin and the crew
Name the place, add the co-owners (and their deed shares if you want share-based splits). Two minutes, one device — yours.
Book stays, see fair turns
Log requests, approve them, tag the holidays. The fair-turns view shows everyone's nights as gentle stacked tokens — the season, visible, without a single accusation.
Split costs, settle up cleanly
Taxes by deed shares, propane by nights used, groceries even — your rules, exact to the penny. At season's end, one settle-up round brings everyone level.
Everything the group chat lost, in one place.
Request & approve calendar
Stays start as requests and get approved on the record. Overlaps get flagged gently, holidays get tagged, and "who had July last year" is a lookup, not a memory contest.
The fair-turns view
The signature. Every member's nights as calm stacked tokens, in roster order, in neutral tones. No rankings, no red, no leaderboard — information, never ammunition.
Ledger with real split rules
Even, deed-shares, usage-weighted by nights, or custom — per expense, exact to the penny, frozen when saved. Tracker only — never holds or moves money
Settle-up that ends the math
One suggested round of transfers — the fewest that bring everyone level, computed from the whole season. Record what the family did; the money itself moves wherever it always has.
Open & close checklists
Editable seasonal templates built from real winterization guidance — water off and drained, heater safe, traps protected, dock out in time. Finish a run, earn the year's camp badge.
Louie, the Cabin Counselor
House-rules templates, fair-use frameworks, opening and closing guidance — answered from a 53-card graded, cited knowledge base, on your device, free. Never legal or tax advice. AI add-on optional
Fair by design, on the record.
The fairness view informs. It never shames.
Nights show as neutral stacked tokens in roster order — no rankings, no red, no "worst sibling" arrow. The point is a family that can see its season, agree on what fair means, and talk about it once a year instead of all July. The numbers inform the family meeting; the family decides.
The ledger never touches money
Every split is computed in integer cents and sums to the amount exactly — the math is published and unit-tested. Settle-up suggests the fewest transfers that bring everyone level, and then your family moves its own money wherever it already does. CabinKept has no connection to any payment network. Ever.
And it will never play lawyer
LLC or trust? Buyout clauses? What the deed should say? Those are real questions with real stakes — and they belong to a licensed attorney, not an app. CabinKept's counselor shares what the succession-planning literature says families should discuss, cites its sources, and routes the structure itself to counsel. Same for taxes: that's your CPA's porch.
Honest pricing for a shared place.
One organizer pays for the property; the whole family benefits. Nobody else ever needs an account or a subscription.
Free
- One property, up to 4 members
- Request & approve booking calendar
- Holiday tagging on stays
- Louie's knowledge-base counselor
- Everything on your device
Cabin Pass
- Everything in Free, plus up to 12 members
- The fair-turns view with season history
- Holiday rotation tracker ("who's up next")
- Full expense ledger — even / deed-share / usage / custom splits
- Settle-up math, exact to the penny
- Open & close checklists with earned season badges
- Duty rotation and document pointers
That's $6.58 a month to retire the spreadsheet, the group-chat archaeology, and the annual who-owes-what summit.
AI Cabin Counselor
- Conversational answers grounded in the same cited knowledge base
- House-rules templates talked through for your family
- Fair-use frameworks and opening/closing guidance
- Never legal, tax, or insurance advice — by design
Straight answers.
Does CabinKept hold or move our money?
Never. The ledger is arithmetic on numbers you type: expenses recorded, splits computed, settle-up transfers suggested. It has no connection to any payment network. How your family actually moves money — checks, transfers, cash at Thanksgiving — stays exactly as it is.
Do my siblings need accounts?
No. Version one is deliberately single-organizer: one person (probably the one already carrying the cabin) runs it on their own device and shares screenshots or the screen. No accounts, no invites, no sync — and no family member's data sitting on a server.
Is this legal advice for our LLC / trust / deed situation?
No, and it never will be. CabinKept's counselor can tell you what the cottage-succession literature suggests families discuss — always with the source named — but ownership structure, buyouts, and deed questions need a licensed attorney in your state. The app will tell you the same thing.
Can it store our deed and insurance documents?
It stores pointers — "deed: safe-deposit box at First National," "policy: Meg's blue folder" — never the documents themselves. Your family's papers shouldn't live in a browser cache, so they don't.
Where does our data live?
On the organizer's device, in the browser's local storage — that's the whole story for the free tier and the Cabin Pass. The optional AI Counselor sends your question (plus the retrieved knowledge cards) to the server when you ask one; the free on-device counselor never makes a network call. See the privacy page.
What's the fairness view going to do to our family?
Cool things down, by design. Nights show in neutral colors, in roster order, with no rankings and nothing red. It exists so "they always get July" becomes a checkable record instead of a grievance — and so the conversation can happen once, calmly, with the facts already agreed.
One lit window, zero feuds.
Set up the cabin and see this season's fair-turns view in under two minutes. Free, on your device.