Yes, we make a chore app. Yes, we're writing a comparison post. We know how that looks. So here's the deal: we'll be honest about what each app does well, what it doesn't, and where ours fits. If another app is a better match for your household, we'd rather you use it than download ours and quit in a week.
What we looked at
We focused on apps that handle shared household chores — not solo productivity apps, not deep-cleaning schedules, not habit trackers that happen to have a "clean bathroom" preset. The question was: if two or more people live together and want to split the work fairly, which app actually helps?
OurHome
Best for: families with younger kids who respond to rewards.
OurHome leans hard into gamification. Kids earn points, redeem them for rewards you set (screen time, a trip to the store, whatever currency your family uses). The interface is colorful and kid-readable.
Where it falls short: the reward system can feel transactional for adults. If you're two partners trying to share the load, turning your relationship into a points marketplace isn't always what you want. There's also no concept of task weight — unloading the dishwasher and meal-planning for the week earn the same points.
Sweepy
Best for: people who want a cleaning schedule, specifically.
Sweepy is focused on cleaning — rooms, surfaces, frequencies. It's good at what it does. You walk through your home, set up rooms, assign cleaning intervals, and the app tells you what's dirty.
Where it falls short: it's a cleaning app, not a household-coordination app. Groceries, meal planning, school pickups, bill payments — the non-cleaning chores that eat most of a household's time aren't part of Sweepy's model.
Flatastic
Best for: roommates splitting rent and chores.
Flatastic combines chore tracking with expense splitting. If your main friction points are "who bought the toilet paper" and "whose turn is it to vacuum," Flatastic handles both in one app.
Where it falls short: the chore side is basic — no burden levels, no recurring-task intelligence, no bankruptcy mechanism. It's a checklist with a payment ledger bolted on. Fine for a college apartment, less fine for a family with complex, overlapping responsibilities.
Cozi
Best for: families who want a shared calendar with a chore layer.
Cozi is really a family organizer — shared calendars, shopping lists, meal plans — with chores as one feature among many. If you need a single hub for "where is everyone and what needs doing," Cozi's breadth is its strength.
Where it falls short: because chores are one feature among many, they don't get much depth. No burden tracking, no analytics on who's carrying what, no mechanism for when the system breaks down. The chore piece feels like a checkbox someone added to the calendar, not a tool someone designed for fair division.
Tody
Best for: detail-oriented cleaners who want per-room, per-surface tracking.
Tody's cleaning model is genuinely sophisticated. It tracks grime levels per surface, suggests optimal cleaning times, and adapts to your pace. If you care about when the shower grout should be scrubbed, Tody knows.
Where it falls short: it's a solo tool in a shared-living problem space. Multi-user support exists but feels added on. And like Sweepy, it's cleaning-specific — the cognitive-load tasks (planning, remembering, deciding) that cause most household arguments aren't in Tody's scope.
ChoreChamp (ours)
Best for: households where the real friction isn't "who does the chores" but "who remembers them."
This is our app, so take this with appropriate salt. ChoreChamp was built around three ideas that most competitors don't have:
- Burden levels: every task is tagged light, medium, or heavy. Weekly meal planning (heavy) and taking out the trash (light) don't score the same.
- Task bankruptcy: a formal reset button for the weeks when life explodes. The queue restructures, no guilt.
- Recurring rhythms: tasks regenerate on completion rather than nagging on a schedule.
Where it falls short: it's iOS only right now (Android is coming, but it's not here today). The gamification layer is lighter than OurHome's — we have achievements and leaderboards, but we don't have a full reward-redemption economy. And if you want expense splitting, you'll need a second app.
So which one?
| If your household is... | Try this first |
|---|---|
| Parents with kids under 12 who need motivation | OurHome |
| Roommates splitting rent + chores | Flatastic |
| A family that needs one calendar for everything | Cozi |
| Deep-cleaning obsessives who want per-surface tracking | Tody or Sweepy |
| Adults who fight about invisible labor, not visible chores | ChoreChamp |
There's no single best. The best chore app is the one your household actually uses past the first week. If you're reading this because the last three apps you tried didn't stick, the problem might not be the app — it might be that the app was solving for execution when your household's real problem is coordination.
That's what we built ChoreChamp for. But if another app on this list fits better, use it. A working system beats a perfect system that nobody opens.