The best chore apps for kids in 2026, and who each one is for

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Three questions that pick the app for you

Most lists rank chore apps by features. A better place to start is the problem you are trying to fix, because the apps below are good at different things and weak at others.

• Does the money need to be real? If your child should spend from an actual card, you want a banking app with chores attached, not a chore app.
• Who decides a task is done? Some apps pay out the moment a child taps done. Others wait for a parent to approve it. If your arguments are about whether something was really done, that difference matters more than any feature list.
• Does your child need a game to get started? Younger children often respond to pets and quests. Older children tend to find them babyish within a few weeks.

The short answer

The best chore app for each kind of family

• Reward Study: best when every credit should be approved by a parent, with the reason on record, and when reading and maths count as much as chores.
• Chorsee: best for a colour-coded family chore chart on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with photo proof.
• Joon: best for younger children, and for children with ADHD, who will do their tasks to look after a virtual pet.
• S'moresUp: best if you want chores, rewards and family organising in one app.
• Homey: best if chores should pay a real allowance, with savings goals.
• Chores & Allowance Bot: best for a simple chore and allowance tracker at a low yearly price, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Greenlight: best if your child should have a real debit card, with chores and allowance attached to it.
• BusyKid: best if chores should pay onto a prepaid card, with saving, giving and investing.
• Cozi: best if what your family really needs is a shared calendar and lists rather than rewards.

Prices change often, so they are not on this page. I keep them on a separate page, every app checked on the same day: what chore and allowance apps cost.

Chore charts

Chorsee, S'moresUp and Homey

Chorsee is a chore chart done well. Chores are colour coded, run on flexible schedules, can ask for a photo as proof, and pay either points or allowance. It syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac, has widgets, and gives children a restricted mode of their own. It also sells a lifetime plan, which most apps in this list do not.

S'moresUp aims wider than chores: tasks and rewards sit next to family organising, so it suits a household that wants one app for more than the chore chart.

Homey leans towards money. Chores carry an allowance, children can save towards goals, and the premium plan adds transfers to a bank account. If the point of chores in your home is a real weekly allowance, it is built around that.

Games

Joon, for children who need a game

Joon turns tasks into quests. A child earns coins for finishing them and spends the coins caring for a virtual pet and moving through a game world. It is designed with children with ADHD in mind, and for a child who will not start a task without a reason they can see, that loop works.

The trade-off is that the game is the point. A child who outgrows pets usually outgrows the app with them, so it suits the early years better than the later ones.

Real money

Greenlight and BusyKid, if the money should be real

Greenlight and BusyKid are money apps first. Each gives a child a card, and chores are one of the ways money arrives on it. BusyKid adds giving and investing in real shares. Greenlight adds savings goals, parental spending controls and features for the wider family.

Both are bank products, so opening an account takes identity details and the subscription pays for the card as much as for the chores. If your child is not ready for a card, a chore app with a plain allowance is the simpler start.

Chores & Allowance Bot sits between the two groups: it tracks chores and allowance per child, lets you approve payments and set savings goals, and runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a premium plan that is among the cheapest here.

Calendars

Cozi, if the real problem is the calendar

Cozi is a family organiser: a shared calendar, shopping lists and to-do lists that everyone in the house can see. It can hold a chore checklist for a child, but it has no points or rewards. If your evenings go wrong because nobody knows who is where, rather than because nobody empties the dishwasher, start here.

Reward Study

Where my app fits, and where it does not

Reward Study is built for the argument about whether something was really done. A child marks a task done, and nothing pays out until a parent approves it. Every credit then lands in a ledger with the reason beside it, and nobody can quietly edit that history, parent or child. Children spend their credits in a reward shop you stock yourself.

• Learning counts the same as chores: reading, homework and a maths generator that writes story word problems in a theme your child picks.
• An Apple TV scoreboard shows everyone's balance to the room, and can never approve anything.
• Two households are included, for families split across two homes.
• No account and no server of mine: your family's data stays in your own iCloud.

Where it falls short: it runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV only, so an Android family cannot use it. There is no free version after the trial. And no money moves through it, so a child who should learn on a real card is better served by a money app.

Reward Study Pro is free for 14 days, then $39.99 a year, or $99.99 once for lifetime Pro. See pricing for every plan.