Best chore app for roommates: five listings, and the price question nobody asks

What the best chore app for roommates has to get right

Roommates are equals who did not choose each other, so the questions differ from a family’s. We asked three of every listing.

• Does anybody have to be in charge? Some apps are built around an admin or a parent account, and roommates who are equals do not want one.
• Who pays? A subscription for one person and a subscription for the whole apartment are different products with different prices.
• Is it still updated? The date of the last build on the App Store listing, because a roommate app that stops working mid-lease is worse than none.

Alpacto is our own app, so it gets no row here: our own listing would prove nothing. It appears once, at the end.

The chore app for roommates, one row each

Prices, ratings and build dates were read from each App Store listing on October 2, 2026. The words about who each app is for were read on September 18, 2026. Apple and Google Play ratings are never added together.

The five, one by one

Flatastic

The only listing that names all three households in its opening description, and the only one with a plan named for everybody in the apartment. It was updated on September 30, 2026, two days before we read it, which is the freshest build in the table.

Tody

Tasks come up by how dirty a room is rather than on a date. It suits roommates who dislike being nagged, and its price climbs with the size of the household: $9.99 for one person, up to $79.99 for a team.

OurHome by Elusios

Tasks by room and a shared shopping list for $1.99, from a developer different from the one behind the old OurHome. It has the smallest audience here, 88 ratings, so its 4.1 says less than Tody’s 4.8 from 11K.

Sweepy

Cleaning by room, the workload split between residents, and a leaderboard its own listing tells you to fight for. At $19.99 a year it costs less than Tody or Chap, and its last iPhone build is from February 2026.

Chap

Rotating chores, reminders and a calendar, sold at $39.99 and $49.99 a year on the same listing. Read the price you are tapping, because the store prints both under one plan name.

Who pays for a roommate chore app

Flatastic is the only listing with a plan named for everybody: Premium for one costs $18.49 a year, and Premium for everybody costs $34.99 a year and covers the apartment.

The arithmetic is ours. With three roommates, $34.99 shared is $11.66 each, and three separate one-person plans would cost $55.47 together.

Tody prices by household size instead, in tiers named Solo, Duo, Family and Team, at $9.99, $24.99, $39.99 and $79.99. For two roommates the Duo tier at $24.99 is the one to compare with Flatastic’s $34.99 for everybody.

OurHome prints one Premium line at $1.99 with no billing period, the same number as Flatastic’s one-person monthly plan, and a reviewer on the listing complains about its subscription model. Its name is older than this app: on September 18, 2026 the old OurHome address ourhomeapp.com refused the connection, and a reviewer on the current listing calls the new app “pretty much identical to the previous OurHome app from years back”.

The apps that need an admin do not suit equals

Chap lists “control your household with our admin feature” as a reason to buy. In a family that is a feature. Among roommates it means one of you manages the rest, and that is the argument the app was bought to avoid.

Tody dodges it by tracking rooms instead of people, and its listing says plainly “no deadlines, alarms and notifications”. Sweepy turns it into a leaderboard.

If you would rather agree the split on paper first, a roommate chore chart costs nothing, and a chore split calculator divides the jobs by the minutes they take. For the full nine-app comparison, including family apps, see the best chore app by who you live with.