Chore Boss is free to use.
A few features need Chore Boss Premium.
When you tap a locked feature, Chore Boss shows you the upgrade screen.
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.
What needs 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.
- Photo Required, and adding a photo when you complete a chore.
- 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.
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.
They don't need to buy their own subscription.
See Will users I invite into my account also need a subscription?
How to upgrade
- Tap the Settings tab.
- Tap Unlock More Features! at the top.
- Choose a plan.
When you bought Premium yourself, the top of Settings shows Unlocked!.
Tap it to manage your 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.
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.