Buhata used to make you pick what kind of place you were creating before you could name it. Several kinds, each with its own rules, its own caps, and its own vocabulary, and none of that ever helped anyone put the groceries on a list.
That changed. Every shared place is a Space now.
Update, October 2026. Since 30 August, five days after this went up, Create a Space asks which of three you're making. It's a Personal Space only you can use, a Household for the people you live with, or a Team.
What a Space is
A Space holds the tools a set of people use together: the calendar, the lists, the chores and the rest of what your plan includes. Your Personal Space is yours alone, it's free, and it never goes away. Beyond that, a Space can be your family, a trip you're planning with friends, or the food truck you run with your cousin. When you make one, Buhata asks whether it's a Household, for the people you live with, or a Team, then asks its name.
What stays yours
Sharing a Space doesn't share you. Money, health, journals and notes always stay each person's own. Everything you write is private until you put it somewhere shared on purpose, and joining someone's Space never opens your own entries to them, including whoever runs it.
How many you get
The free plan gives you one Space of each kind. Plus runs up to 3 of each, Premium up to 6, and a Winner's Circle win doubles whichever you have. Joining somebody else's Team never uses any of your own allowance. A Household you join counts as one of your Households, since you join it as one of its adults, the same as whoever made it. And a friend on the free plan can still join yours, read what's shared, and tick things off.
Seats
Premium includes one extra full seat, so the person you live with gets your plan in every Space of their own too, without paying twice. One subscription covers both of you.
Inside a Household nobody needs a seat for its tools. Since 17 September, the Household tools in a Household admin's plan open for everybody in that Household while they're working there. A Premium Household's Duty Rotation and Handoff Card belong to everyone in it, and so does Household X bought for it.
The smaller things you'll notice
Every theme in the app was checked so the text stays readable on every card, in light and dark, on a phone and a desktop. There were 47 on the day this went up. There are 60 now, and every one is held to the same check. The highlight color is one bright gold now, the one from the logo, instead of a different mustard on every theme. And the tools page on this site wears a cleaner set of marks, drawn in a single line weight rather than a folder of little pictures.
If you already use Buhata, all of this is live in your app today. If you don't, the free plan is the same one everything above is built on: see what's on it.