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What's free and what's premium in Chore Boss

Free covers up to 5 chores in one home, with your whole family, reminders and allowance or points. Premium unlocks unlimited chores and everything else, for your whole household on one subscription. Everyone in your home gets Premium too, at no extra cost.

Most loved

  • Unlimited chores: set up every chore in the house, not just 5.
  • Kids take turns: Rotate passes a chore from one kid to the next, so nobody argues about whose turn it is.
  • Photo proof: with Photo Required, kids add a photo when they finish, and Before Photo Too asks for one before they start.
  • Custom rewards: create your own rewards that kids save up their points for.
  • Chores on a schedule: Repeats During the Day for chores done at set times, a Time Window for when a chore can be done, and a Penalty If Missed.
  • The Assistant: set up and change chores just by asking.

Try it free

If you haven't had a free trial before, the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. On iPhone and iPad, the monthly plan does too. Apple or Google shows the trial before you confirm. To avoid being charged, cancel before the trial ends.

Everything in Premium

  • More than 5 chores in a home.
  • More than one home of your own.
  • Rotating chores (Rotate), where family members take turns.
  • Repeats During the Day, to do a chore at set times each day.
  • Time Window, so a chore can only be done between set times.
  • Penalty If Missed, taken away when a chore isn't done in time.
  • Photo Required, adding a photo when you complete a chore, and Before Photo Too.
  • Your own rooms and areas, and your own tasks.
  • Custom rewards that kids redeem with points.
  • Sending messages in your family's chat about a chore.
  • The Assistant, after the free setup chat.
  • Opening your Family Insights in full.
  • Picking more than 5 areas when Smart Setup creates your chores.
  • No ads.

What you get for free

  • Up to 5 chores in a home.
  • One home of your own. You can still join other families' homes with an invite code.
  • As many family members as you like, with invites so they can use Chore Boss on their own phones.
  • Built-in rooms and tasks.
  • Shared and Individual chores, with once, as-needed, daily, weekly and monthly schedules.
  • Chore reminders.
  • Allowance or points rewards, settling balances and flagging tasks as incomplete.
  • Syncing across your family's phones, once you sign in.
  • A preview of your latest Family Insight on the Progress tab.
  • Reading your family's chat messages about a chore.
  • A free setup chat with the Assistant when you first set up your home, with a limited number of messages. You need to be signed in.

Ads

Free accounts see ads on the chore screens. Ads are never shown while a child's profile is selected: a profile with Limit Access on, or with a Birth Year that makes them under 18.

Your family shares your Premium

Members you invite into your home get the premium features in that home, including a kid's phone or tablet that joined with an invite code. They don't need to buy their own subscription. See Will users I invite into my account also need a subscription?

If Premium ends

Chores you already have keep working, including rotating chores and chores with set times. You can still edit them. You can't add new chores beyond the free limit, or turn on premium features for new chores.

How to upgrade

  1. Tap the Settings tab.
  2. Tap Unlock More Features! at the top.
  3. Choose a plan.

You can also tap any locked feature to open the same screen. When you bought Premium yourself, the top of Settings shows Unlocked!. Tap it to manage your subscription.

Troubleshooting

  • You paid on another phone or reinstalled the app: open the upgrade screen and tap Restore Purchases (or Restore Previous Purchases). Make sure you are signed in to the same Apple or Google account you paid with.
  • "No previous purchases found." means the store found no purchase for the Apple or Google account on this phone.
  • You paid but features are still locked: see I paid and Chore Boss is still locked.

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