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The best laundry apps for Android and iOS

No time for laundry with a busy schedule? These apps can take it off of your hands with personalized laundry services. Here are your options and what they do.

If you aren’t lucky enough to have an in-home washer and dryer — or even an in-building laundry room for apartment dwellers — laundry day can be a real pain. It’s not an enjoyable chore under the best of circumstances, and often creates scheduling difficulties.

It’s no wonder all sorts of services have cropped up with people who will do your laundry for you. In many cases, these services will pick up and drop off your laundry for you, saving you from having to lug around a heavy basket. It may not be the cheapest option, but it may save you time.

How it works: Unlike the services above, Delivery.com lets you choose who’s going to do your cleaning. The service charges the businesses, instead of you, so you only pay the cleaner’s fee to clean and deliver your clothes. You can look at the companies’ Yelp and user reviews to get a sense of their reputation, but Delivery.com takes no responsibility if the cleaner shrinks your favorite shirt. The minimums for one zip code we checked ranged from $20 to $45, with some delivery times stretching as long as 48 hours. What’s nice, though, is that it’s all in one place, letting you decide how much you want to pay and how long you want to wait.

Pricing: Depends on which cleaner you choose — making it easy to compare rates

Turn around time: Depends on which cleaner you choose

Available in: More than 100 cities, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Baltimore, and Boston

How it works: TaskRabbit is more of a general service, one meant to connect those in need of help with those looking for work, for everything from moving to cleaning to event planning. Each “Tasker” has been vetted via in-person interviews and background checks, according to the company. Until dedicated laundry services move into more cities, TaskRabbit provides an alternative with a more one-on-one experience that works great when you can find a reliable and effective Tasker to entrust with your laundry.

Pricing: Depends on whom you hire, with the ability to browse taskers by skills and reviews, then chat with them. Current rates for Taskers are around $17 to $18 per hour, but laundry services can vary a lot based on how in-demand they are in your city.

Turn around time: Depends on who’s available

Available in: More than 60, including Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Phoenix, Portland, Omaha, Cleveland, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, and London, plus a strong Canadian presence

How it works: Created by a merger between Cleanly and NextCleaners, this new app offers home cleaning and clothing care options (potentially at the same time, depending on what you want done). The laundry side of the app supports dry cleaning as well as traditional laundry, with options for next-day turnaround and the ability to set washing, drying, and detergent preferences, among others.

Pricing: Varies based on location and services, with a 10-pound minimum charge fee for all wash-and-fold orders, even those under that amount. Delivery fees apply to any order under $35.

Turn around time: 24 hours for wash and fold, two to four days for dry cleaning

Available in: New York City, Brooklyn, Washington, D.C.

How it works: Open the mobile app and schedule a “rinse.” All Rinse customers are on a specified “route” and receive free delivery on their designated day. However, if you need laundry ASAP, there’s a Rush Delivery option that will get you clean clothes in 24 hours or less for an additional $5. You’ll need to separate your wash-and-fold items, including sheets and towels, from your dry cleaning. You don’t have to be home to receive your clean laundry, but you’ll need to give the company access to a safe area to access your clothes.

Pricing: Per bag and per pound options available. Around $2.25 per pound, with extra charges for unusual items (duvets, comforters, etc.).

Available in: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston

How it works: Much like Cleanly and Rinse, you can use the FlyCleaners app to schedule when you’d like to have your laundry picked up and dropped off, from 6 a.m. to midnight (or just pick the next available time slot). If you’re in a rush, you can even request overnight cleaning or reschedule as needed. You can also designate the type of laundry you need washed and the specific cleaning treatment by placing machine-wash loads in a certain bag, dry cleaning in another bag, and hang-dry clothing in yet another container.

Pricing: Fees are highly variable for no obvious reason, and FlyCleaners has yet to provide an explanation for pricing protocol. Delivery is free for orders over $15 but costs $4 for orders under $15.

Turn around time: For regular washes, they provide an overnight service that takes around 8 hours. For example, loads collected at 11 p. m. will be delivered clean and folded to your door at 7 a.m.; dry cleaning takes three or four days 

Available in: Most of Manhattan and Brooklyn

Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.

Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.

Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.

I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.

Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.

I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.