Best chore app for families: seven store listings read against what a household with kids needs
The best chore app for families is the one that matches how your house pays: in money, in points, or not at all. We read seven family chore apps off their own App Store listings on October 2, 2026, and sorted them by that choice, because the star ratings do not separate them. Four apps pay out in some form, one is free with no purchases, and two work differently from a kids’ chore board.
In short
Pays real money into a child’s account: Homey. Runs on points, with parents of teenagers describing it: Chorsee. Wants a photo of the finished chore: Chores & Allowance Bot.
Free, with no purchases section at all: MyChoreBoard. Cleans by room instead of by child: Tody. The two to check before paying are Chores & Allowance Bot and S’moresUp, whose last iPhone builds are dated December 2025 and October 2025.
Three questions that pick the best chore app for families
Every listing below answers the same three questions, and the answers sort the apps better than any rating does.
- What does a child get for a finished chore? Real money moved into an account, points a parent converts, or only a ticked box.
- Who has to say it is done? A parent account, a photo, or nobody.
- What does the whole family cost for a year? The App Store prints a list of purchases, and the same plan name often appears at two prices.
One caution before the table. Alpacto is our own app, so it does not get a row of store figures here: quoting our own listing back at you proves nothing. The one place it fits is at the end.
The chore app for family use, one row each
The price column was read from each App Store listing on October 2, 2026, and the descriptions of who each app is for were read on September 18, 2026. We do not add Apple and Google Play ratings together, because they count different things.
| App | Built for | What a child gets | Store price list, Oct 2, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homey | Parents teaching children how money is earned | Allowance, transferable to a savings or checking account in the US, per the listing | Monthly $6.99, Yearly $59.99, Premium $4.99, Unlimited $6.99, chore packs $0.00 to $4.99 · 4.1 from 2.8K ratings |
| Chorsee | Families, with a profile for each member | Points; chores rotate or sit “up for grabs” | Monthly $8.99, Yearly $39.99 and $89.99, Lifetime $119.99 and $224.99 · 4.6 from 12K ratings |
| Chores & Allowance Bot | Parents who want the finished chore photographed | A photo attached to the chore, approved from the parent account | Premium Monthly $9.99, Semiannual $17.99, Annual $39.99 · 4.5 from 11K ratings · last build Dec 9, 2025 |
| S’moresUp | Families; the free download is a 45-day trial | Runs on a parent account | Monthly $7.99, Yearly $79.99 · 4.2 from 896 ratings · last iPhone build Oct 23, 2025 |
| Chap | A household with someone running it | Rewards; the listing sells an admin feature | Weekly $6.99, Monthly $5.99, Yearly $39.99 and $49.99, Lifetime $119.99 · 4.5 from 285 ratings |
| MyChoreBoard | Children, by its own name: “Kids Chore App” | A chore board | Free, and the listing has no In-App Purchases section · 4.9 from 75 ratings · updated Sep 30, 2026 |
| Tody | Adults who want rooms kept clean, no assigning | Nothing: it tracks rooms, not children | Solo $9.99, Duo $24.99, Family $39.99, Team $79.99 · 4.8 from 11K ratings |
An app for chores and allowances: the ones that pay
Homey is the most literal about money. Its listing says allowance can go to a child’s savings or checking account in the US, and it sells that as teaching banking.
Its two stores disagree: 4.1 from 2.8K ratings on the App Store, 2.7 from 682 reviews on Google Play on September 18, 2026. Both sit on a build last updated in January 2026.
A chore app for teens
Chorsee turns chores into points, and the review that explains it best is from a parent of teenagers on its listing: “Chores = points = money added to their debit cards”. The conversion from points to money is the parent’s own step, and the app does not do it for you.
If your children are small, ask the reverse question: who will press the button on a finished chore? In Chores & Allowance Bot it is a parent looking at a photo, which ends the “did you really” argument and adds one more thing for the parent to do each day.
Free chore app for families: what free means on each listing
Only one listing here is free in the plainest sense. MyChoreBoard has no purchases section on its App Store page at all, which is the absence of a price list, not a free tier. It also has the smallest audience in the table, 75 ratings, so a 4.9 tells you little yet.
S’moresUp is free for 45 days. Its own description calls the free download “45-day access to the premium features”, so after day 45 the choice is $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year.
The other five sell a paid plan on top of the download. Three of them print a $39.99 yearly plan: Chorsee, Chap and Chores & Allowance Bot. Of those, Chorsee and Chap print a second, higher yearly price on the same listing, $89.99 and $49.99, so check which one you are tapping.
What a year costs, from the price lists
Prices below are the lines each App Store listing printed on October 2, 2026, cheapest first. Only plans billed for a year or less are counted; lifetime purchases are left out.
- Chores & Allowance Bot: Semiannual $17.99, which is two payments a year, or Annual $39.99.
- Chorsee and Chap: Yearly $39.99 each, with a second yearly line on both listings at $89.99 and $49.99.
- Homey: Yearly $59.99, or Monthly $6.99, which is $83.88 over twelve months.
- S’moresUp: Yearly $79.99 after the 45-day trial.
- Tody: the Family tier, $39.99, built for rooms and not for children.
The arithmetic is ours: two Semiannual payments are $35.98, $4.01 less than the Annual plan on the same listing.
Before paying for the best app for family chores, check two things
- When it was last built. Chores & Allowance Bot shows a last build of December 9, 2025 and S’moresUp of October 23, 2025, with 11K and 896 ratings behind them. A busy listing does not mean a maintained app.
- Whether the family tier is a family. Tody’s Family plan costs $39.99, but Tody tracks rooms, so nobody is assigning a child anything. It suits parents who want a clean house, not a child who earns.
If nobody wants another subscription, paper costs nothing. Start from a family chore chart and a household chores list, and move to an app only when the paper stops being checked. For the other half of the household calendar, see the family organizer apps we compared the same way.
Questions people ask
What is the best chore chart app for kids?
It depends on the reward: Chorsee if you convert points, Homey if you move money, MyChoreBoard if you want no price list. All three are in the table with their store prices, and none of them is a winner on stars alone.
What is the best free app for helping kids do chores?
MyChoreBoard, because its App Store listing has no purchases section, but it is new and small at 75 ratings. S’moresUp is free only for 45 days, which is a trial rather than a free app.
What is the best app for paying kids for chores?
Homey, whose listing describes transferring allowance to a child’s savings or checking account in the US. Chorsee works through points that a parent turns into money by hand, as the parent of teenagers quoted above describes.
What is the best free family organizer app?
That is a calendar question more than a chore question, and we read nine of those apps separately on the family organizer page. For chores alone, the free options are MyChoreBoard and the 45-day trial of S’moresUp.
Which chore app works for adults, not only children?
Most of the apps above need a parent standing over a child. For two adults, or a couple with a parent’s role in neither seat, our nine-app comparison sorts them by who you live with.
When the chore is an agreement, not an assignment
Alpacto turns a chore into a pact both sides agreed to: what counts as done, by when, and what it is worth in coins. Accounts start at age 13, and coins are a reward you choose together, not money.