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LetClock is a compliance deadline tracker for landlords in England who manage their own lets. Add a property with the move-in date and the day you received the deposit, and five checks appear with their deadlines: protecting the deposit and giving the prescribed information within 30 days, the gas safety record before move-in, the EPC, and the written tenancy information required since 1 May 2026. Every check starts red and turns green when you record the date. The records stay on your phone, with no account.
Type a label for the property, the move-in date and the date the deposit reached you. LetClock lays out all five checks at once, starting from red, with a clock counting down the 30 days to protect the deposit. The count starts from the day the money arrived, not from move-in, because that is how the Housing Act 2004 measures it.
Tap a check and enter the date it was done. For the deposit you also pick the scheme you used, Deposit Protection Service, MyDeposits or Tenancy Deposit Scheme, and can keep a reference number in a note. The light switches to green with one short haptic tap, then sits still. Any date can be corrected later.
The overview adds up your lets: how many checks still need a record, which are coming due, and the single nearest deadline across all of them. A long-running tenancy turns amber once its annual gas safety check comes within 30 days, so the renewal does not slip past.
Letting a home in England puts several dates on the landlord, and they do not all start from the same day. Under section 213 of the Housing Act 2004, a deposit has to go into a government-approved scheme within 30 days beginning with the day you receive it, and the prescribed information about that scheme has to reach the tenant within the same 30 days. GOV.UK lists three approved schemes for England and Wales: the Deposit Protection Service, MyDeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme.
The gas rules run on a different clock. Regulation 36 of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 requires each gas appliance and flue to be checked at intervals of no more than 12 months, a copy of the latest record to go to a new tenant before they move in, and a copy to existing tenants within 28 days of each check. A valid EPC has to be given to the person who becomes the tenant, and GOV.UK says an EPC lasts 10 years. Since 1 May 2026, a new tenancy also needs written information about its key terms, given before the tenancy is agreed.
LetClock turns those rules into five checks per tenancy and works out each deadline from the dates you enter. Gas safety and the EPC belong to the property and carry over to the next tenancy. The deposit, the prescribed information and the written tenancy information belong to the tenancy and start again with each new one.
Most landlords with one to a handful of properties keep these dates in several places at once: a diary entry for the gas engineer, the confirmation email from the deposit scheme, a spreadsheet tab per house, a folder of paper certificates. A letting agent tracks them if you pay for full management, and property management software does it inside a subscription with an account.
The gaps show up at the edges. The deposit deadline gets counted from move-in instead of from the day the money arrived. The annual gas check drifts because last year's record is in a different folder. A second property arrives and the spreadsheet grows a tab nobody opens. And the rules changed on 1 May 2026, so a checklist written in 2024 may still list the How to Rent guide, which GOV.UK withdrew that day.
Red means a check still needs a record, or its deadline has passed without one. Amber means a date is close: a deadline within seven days, or an annual gas check within 30 days. Green means recorded and in date. Every light also carries a symbol and a word, so the status reads without relying on colour.
The board is a picture of what you have written down, not a ruling on whether you have complied. If you protected a deposit and never recorded it, LetClock still shows red. That is deliberate: the app only knows what you tell it, and a line under the board says so.
Nothing flashes or beeps. A light changes at the moment you record something, with one short haptic tap, and then stays still. A board full of red is the normal first view of a tenancy you have just added, and a tenancy entered months after move-in may show several deadlines already past. The card for each one starts with what you can do now.
Part 1 of the Renters' Rights Act 2025 came into force in England on 1 May 2026. Section 21 can no longer be used, and a landlord seeking possession gives notice under section 8, relying on one or more grounds for possession. GOV.UK's possession guidance says that where a deposit was taken, a court will only make a possession order if the deposit was protected, the scheme's requirements were met and the tenant was given the correct information, or the deposit was returned, or a court challenge about it was decided, settled or withdrawn. Grounds 7A and 14, for antisocial behaviour, are outside that rule.
Separately, a tenant can apply to the county court if a deposit was not protected or the information was not given in time, and section 214 of the Housing Act 2004 sets the award at between one and three times the deposit.
LetClock answers that with a date and a next step rather than a warning. Each check opens a card that says what is due, by when, and where to do it, with links to GOV.UK and the three schemes that open in your browser, and the date its source was last checked.
When a tenancy ends, the property goes quiet rather than disappearing. Start a new tenancy and a fresh 30-day deposit track begins from the new receipt date, while the gas safety and EPC records you already hold carry across. Changing a move-in or receipt date later recalculates every deadline and keeps the checks you have already recorded.
Reminders are local notifications from your phone: seven days and one day before the deposit deadline, 30 and seven days before an annual gas check, 30 days before an EPC runs out, and a week before move-in for anything due by then. Several on the same day arrive as one. The lock-screen wording stays neutral and never shows the property address.
LetClock tracks compliance dates and nothing else. There is no rent ledger, no repair tickets, no tenant contact list and no store for certificate scans. A tenancy is identified by a property label and its dates, so you never type a tenant's name. It does not write the prescribed information, the written tenancy information or any notice for you, and it does not judge whether a notice would be valid.
There is no account and no server. Everything stays on your phone, the app sends nothing anywhere, and there are no analytics. A backup file you can restore on a new phone covers a lost or replaced device, and Settings has one option that deletes everything. LetClock is not affiliated with GOV.UK or any deposit scheme, and its checklist follows the rules for England only.
LetClock is a deadline and record-keeping tool, not legal advice. It does not decide whether you have met your obligations as a landlord. The rules change; check GOV.UK, your deposit scheme or a solicitor about your own tenancy.
When you receive it. Section 213 of the Housing Act 2004 counts 30 days beginning with the date the deposit is received, so the day it arrives is day one. A deposit received on 28 September has to be protected, and the prescribed information given, by 27 October. LetClock asks for the receipt date as its own field, which starts out matching the move-in date until you change it.
No. The checklist follows the rules for England. Wales has its own deposit rules under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016. In Scotland a landlord has 30 working days from the start of the tenancy to pay the deposit into an approved scheme, under the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011. GOV.UK notes that Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate deposit schemes.
No. It shows what you have recorded against the deadlines it calculates. Green means you entered a date, not that a court or a council would agree with how it was done. Each check links to the official guidance so you can read the source yourself.
On your phone. LetClock has no account, no server and makes no network requests of its own; links to GOV.UK and the deposit schemes open in your browser. You can export a backup file, restore it on a new phone, or delete all data from Settings.
No. There are no fields for tenant names, phone numbers or email addresses. A tenancy is identified by the property label you choose and its dates.
No. It records the date you gave each one. GOV.UK publishes what the prescribed information and the written tenancy information must cover, and each check links to that page. LetClock does not produce forms, notices or tenancy agreements.
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