Free · iPhone and iPad · No accounts
Nothing counts as done until you say so.
Chore Chart is a chore chart for parents of two or more kids. Your children tap Done. The chore then waits for you — it isn’t finished, and no points are earned, until you approve it.
Approve
Approving is what awards the points. Sending it back awards nothing.
The part that stops working
A tick in a box isn’t proof.
Most chore charts, on paper or on a phone, let a child mark their own work as finished. So you either take their word for it or go and check yourself, which is the job you were trying to hand over. Add a second child and you get the other argument: who did more, and who got away with less.
- You decide what counts. A child’s tap moves a chore into your queue and no further.
- The rota is fixed in advance. Turns are worked out from the calendar, so approving or rejecting can never shift whose turn is next.
- Kids install nothing. No child account to create, no password for them to forget, no second device to buy.
- Setup takes a couple of minutes. Add a child, pick three chores from a starter list, and the day is on screen.
How it works
One loop, four steps.
The same sequence every day, for every chore. There is no setting that turns the approval step off.
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You assign it
Give a chore to one child, or put two or more in a rota and let it take turns automatically.
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They do it, then tap Done
Hand over your phone. The child sees only their own chores for today, and nothing else in the app.
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It waits for you
The chore moves to waiting for approval. You get one notification. No points exist yet.
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You approve or send it back
Approving credits the points. Sending it back puts the chore in front of the child again, unpaid.
Maya6 points earned
A grown-up needs to check these before they count.
Child mode
Hand over the phone without handing over the app.
Switch to child mode and the tabs disappear. A child sees their own list for today and can tap Done — that’s all. Getting back to the parent side needs a four-digit code, or Face ID.
What’s in version 1.0
Enough to run the week, and no more.
Fair turns, worked out in advance
Put several children on one chore and it rotates in order. Each day’s owner comes from the calendar, so nobody can gain or lose a turn by being approved or sent back.
Three schedules, not thirty
Every day, certain days of the week, or once a week. Each chore carries a title, an icon and a point value.
One notification, when it matters
A single alert tells you a child has marked something done. Several chores at once collapse into one banner instead of a stack.
Points that only come from approval
Each child’s page lists every point they’ve earned and where it came from. The balance is the sum of what you approved — there is no counter to nudge and no way for a tap to pay itself.
Editing that can’t rewrite history
Rename a chore or change its points and only untouched future days move. Days you already approved stay exactly as you approved them.
No game wrapped around it
No pets, no levels, no XP, no streaks, no leaderboard. A chore chart that stays a chore chart, on purpose.
Not in version 1.0. Chore Chart doesn’t sync between devices, so it runs on the one iPhone or iPad you set it up on. There is no second-parent account, no widget, and no photo proof. Approving is final, with no undo and no way to edit a balance by hand. Photo proof and a screen showing every child at once are the two things under consideration for a later release — neither is in this version.
Privacy
Your family’s chore list never leaves the device.
Chore Chart 1.0 has no server, no analytics and no third-party code of any kind. It contains nothing that makes a network request, so there is no point at which your children’s names or chores could be sent anywhere.
- No account, for you or your children. Nothing to sign up for and no email address to hand over.
- No analytics, trackers or ads. The app ships with zero third-party libraries.
- Works with no connection at all. Everything is stored locally, so aeroplane mode changes nothing.
- Deleting the app deletes the data. That is the whole of it — there is no copy on a server to ask us about.
One less thing to keep track of.
Set it up in a couple of minutes, hand the phone to your kids, and approve the day when you get a moment.