The best chore app depends on who you live with: nine listings, read on one day

How we compared, and two things we will not pretend

Six questions, asked of every household chores app in the same order:

• Who it is built for. Read off the listing’s own words, not off the icon.
• Where the free version stops. Sometimes free means a tier, sometimes it means a trial.
• What paid costs. The App Store prints a list of purchases, and the same plan name turns up at several prices on it.
• Who else sees the work. Everybody, one chosen person, or a parent account.
• Where it runs, and whether the Android build is the same age as the iPhone one.
• When it was last updated, on each store separately.

First thing we will not pretend: Alpacto is our own app, and its row carries dashes instead of store figures, because quoting our own listing back at you proves nothing.

Second: the three round-ups on the first page of Google here are written by chore apps about their rivals, and each one wins its own comparison.

KidKarma ranks seven apps and picks KidKarma. The Today app reviews six and crowns Today. MyChoreBoard writes the longest, 6,420 words, and puts itself first, on 1,000+ Play installs: the smallest audience named here.

From a roommate chore app to a family chore app, sorted by who is in the house

Four columns, because a phone screen holds four. Everything in the third column was read on September 18, 2026 from the listings linked in the first.

What each one is actually for

Flatastic

The only listing here that names all three households in its first line: “Whether you live with roommates, your partner, or as a family”. It is also the only one that has thought about who pays: Premium for one costs $1.99 a month, Premium for everybody costs $34.99 a year and covers the flat. In a shared flat that difference is the whole negotiation, and no round-up we read mentions it.

Chap

Rotating chores, reminders, rewards and a calendar, with the same subscription sold at $39.99 and $49.99 a year on one listing. Its description lists “control your household with our admin feature” as a selling point, which tells you the shape: somebody is the admin, and the others are managed.

OurHome by Elusios

The name is older than this app. The OurHome that older round-ups recommend answered at ourhomeapp.com, and on September 18, 2026 that address refuses the connection.

What is in the store now is version 1.8 from a different developer, and a reviewer on its listing calls it “pretty much identical to the previous OurHome app from years back”. Worth knowing before following a 2021 recommendation into a 2026 subscription.

For the flat-share apps on their own, with the price of one plan against the whole flat, see the best chore app for roommates.

For two adults who share a home and want to see the same split, see the best chore app for couples.

For apps that reward children, with points, privileges or real money, see the best reward chart app for kids.

Tody

The one that does not assign anything. Tasks come up by how dirty a room has got rather than on a date, and the listing is blunt about it: “no deadlines, alarms and notifications”. It is also the clearest about household pricing, with four tiers named for household size: Solo $9.99, Duo $24.99, Family $39.99, Team $79.99.

Sweepy

Cleaning by room with the workload split between residents, and a leaderboard its own listing tells you to fight for. Cheapest paid tier of the nine at $19.99 a year. The catch is on Android: the iPhone build is from February 2026 and the Android one from November 2025, nine months apart.

Chorsee

A chores and allowance tracker for families, built around a profile per person, with chores that rotate or sit “up for grabs”. A parent of teenagers describes the loop on its listing: “Chores = points = money added to their debit cards”. Its yearly plan appears on the same listing at $39.99 and at $89.99, and its lifetime at $119.99 and $224.99.

Homey

The most literal about money: allowance can be transferred to a child’s savings or checking account in the US, and the listing sells that as teaching banking. Its two stores disagree more sharply than anywhere else here: 4.1 from 2.8K ratings on the App Store, 2.7 from 682 reviews on Play. Both numbers sit on a build last updated in January 2026.

Chores & Allowance Bot and S’moresUp

Both are parent-run, with a wrinkle on the listing rather than in the app. The Bot lets a child attach a photo to a finished chore, which settles the “did you really” argument. Its last build is dated December 9, 2025, and we found no Android build.

S’moresUp says in its own description that the free download gives you “45-day access to the premium features”, so free here is a trial with a date on it, not a tier.

For these family apps on their own, with a year of each priced from the store lists, see the best chore app for families.

A chore app for adults is not a chore chart app with the stickers removed

Read the nine listings back to back and five of them sell the same shape:

• Chap sells an admin feature as a reason to buy.
• Chorsee creates “a profile for each family member to whom you wish to assign chores”.
• Chores & Allowance Bot has a parent account approving what a child photographed.
• Homey pays the allowance out.
• S’moresUp calls itself “Your Partner in Parenting” and runs on a parent account.

Every one of those sentences needs somebody standing above somebody else.

That is the right shape for a family chore app, and it is why these apps are good at what they do, and the wrong shape for two adults. Nobody assigns the bins to their partner, and nobody signs off a roommate’s work like a shift supervisor. Yet a chore tracker app for adults is what people want: the searches landing here include roommate chore app, chore app for adults, and chore app for husband and wife.

The thread that ranks first for chore app shows what happens next. A husband asked r/productivity for an app to “keep a shared list of repeated and non-repeated chores” for him and his wife. A dozen recommendations later he reported the ending: “I ended up stick with with things for my chores and she used WhatsApp for listing hers.”

Two people, two tools, no shared list. In a newer thread on the same subreddit the first suggestion is not a chore app at all, but a notes app with a widget.

Three of the nine dodge the problem instead of solving it:

• Tody drops assignment altogether and tracks rooms, not people.
• Sweepy turns it into a leaderboard.
• Flatastic keeps a score of who did how much.

That works until the question is not who did more, but who agreed to do what and by when.

What two equals need is smaller than a management tool: a thing both of you wrote down that says what counts as done. Then the person doing the job is not also the person judging it.

Three things a chore app price hides

• One plan name, several prices. Chorsee’s yearly plan is printed at $39.99 and at $89.99 on the same listing, and its lifetime at $119.99 and $224.99. Chap’s yearly appears at $39.99 and $49.99. Any article quoting one of those as the price picked a line out of a list.
• Some are priced by the household, not the head. Tody sells Solo, Duo, Family and Team; Flatastic sells Premium for one and Premium for everybody. If four of you are splitting the cost, that is the number that matters, and it is the one nobody prints.
• The Android build can be a year behind. Sweepy’s iPhone version is dated February 4, 2026 and its Android version November 10, 2025; Chorsee’s are September 5 and April 11, 2026. A rating tells you about the app, not about the build on your phone.

If nobody in the house wants another subscription, the paper version costs nothing: a household chores list to start from, or a roommate chore chart with a name against each job. For splitting the work in the first place, the chore split calculator divides it by the minutes each job takes.