Chore Apps for Adults: 6 Compared by What Keeps You Cleaning

Search for a chore app and most of what comes back is built for parents: star charts, allowance, a kid’s avatar. If you’re an adult who just wants the bathroom cleaned before it becomes a project, you need something else.

Adult chore apps split by one question: what happens when you finish a chore? In some, a room’s dirt meter drops. In some, your flatmates see your name on the list. In some, you earn something you can spend. That answer decides whether you’re still opening the app in a month. So here are six, grouped that way. One of them is ours, Habit Rewards; we’ve tried to describe the others the way their own users would.

At a glance

Prices are the US App Store list prices on 2026-10-22.

Three ways a chore app keeps you going

Most people know which of the three is theirs. Pick the app that fixes that one.

1. Tody: clean by need, not by date

Tody is built around one idea: chores should come up when they’re needed, not on a fixed day. Each task has a bar that fills as the room gets dirtier, and cleaning resets it. There are no deadlines, and notifications are optional. For a bit of fun, a dust-bunny called Dusty challenges you to a new race every month. It’s free, with a yearly Premium ($9.99 for one person) and Premium+ for synced households (from $24.99 a year), both with a 30-day trial.

Good for: people who hate rigid schedules and want to see, at a glance, what actually needs doing.

Less good if: you need a nudge at a set time. Tody is deliberately relaxed about that.

2. Sweepy: rooms, schedules and a leaderboard

Sweepy also tracks how clean each room is and puts the most urgent jobs first. It builds a daily schedule for each person in the house and splits the workload between them, and a leaderboard shows who’s doing the most. Free, with a Premium subscription ($3.99 a month or $19.99 a year, 3-day trial).

Good for: couples and families who like a little friendly competition.

Less good if: you live alone. A leaderboard of one isn’t much of a game.

3. FlyLady: a cleaning method in an app

FlyLady has been a home-routine method for over twenty years, and FlyLadyPlus puts it in your pocket: morning, afternoon and evening routines, room-by-room lists organized into weekly zones, reminders, daily messages, and points and achievements as you go. It’s free to start; the full app is a subscription ($1.99 a week, $3.99 a month or $37.99 a year).

Good for: people who don’t want to design a system and would rather follow one that works.

Less good if: you want to build your own. FlyLady works best when you follow the method.

4. Flatastic: fair chores for flatmates

Flatastic is for shared living. Everyone sees one chore list; the app rotates jobs so the work stays even, reminds each person when it’s their turn and records who did what. It also has a shared shopping list, a bill splitter and a pinboard for notes. Free, with Premium for one person ($1.99 a month or $18.49 a year) or the whole household ($34.99 a year).

Good for: flatmates, students and anyone tired of being the one who notices the bins.

Less good if: you live alone. Most of what makes it good is the sharing.

5. Habitica: housework as an RPG

Habitica turns your chores, dailies and to-dos into a role-playing game. Finish a chore and you earn Gold and experience for your pixel-art avatar; miss a daily and you take damage. You can add your own rewards and buy them with Gold, and joining a party with friends means your missed dailies hurt them too. Free, with an optional subscription.

Good for: people who like games, and anyone who works better when other people are counting on them.

Less good if: you just want the dishes done. There’s a whole game around them.

6. Habit Rewards: chores that pay you coins

This one is ours. It skips the room meters and the game and keeps one thing: every chore pays. Add your regular chores as habits, daily or on the weekdays you pick (or monthly, for the oven), and one-off jobs like “return the parcel” as tasks. Each pays the coins you give it: 1, 4, 8 or 16, or your own number. Then you make a list of real rewards, like a coffee out, a takeaway night or a guilt-free gaming evening, each with a price, and claim one when your balance covers it. You can group chores (Kitchen, Weekend), get reminders, check them off from a home-screen widget, and skip a day without breaking a streak.

It’s on iPhone and Android, free for three habits, and tasks don’t count toward the three. There’s an optional Pro subscription for more.

Good for: people doing chores for themselves who need the boring ones to feel worth it.

Less good if: you want to share chores with a household. Habit Rewards is a personal app: there’s no shared list or rotation.

Chore apps for adults with ADHD

If starting is the hard part, a few features matter more than any others:

There’s more on this in our ADHD habit tracker guide and in how to reward yourself for cleaning.

Free chore apps for adults

All six are free to download. The free versions that do the most on their own: Habitica (almost everything is free), Tody (the core cleaning plan for one person, no ads; Premium adds multiple homes and a focus timer), and Habit Rewards (three habits plus unlimited one-off tasks). If you’d rather not use an app at all, our free chore chart maker builds a printable weekly chart with a coin value for each chore and a reward menu.

How to pick

Whatever you pick, price your chores by how much you dread them, not how long they take, and keep the reward list somewhere you’ll see it. Need ideas? Here are 70 ways to reward yourself.

FAQ

What is the best chore app for adults? It depends on what stops you. If you don’t know where to start, Tody or Sweepy show what’s overdue. If you share a home, Flatastic keeps chores fair. If you want a routine to follow, FlyLady. If you need chores to feel worth doing, Habitica or Habit Rewards pay you for each one.

Is there a chore app for adults that gives rewards? Yes. Habitica pays Gold you can spend on rewards you add yourself, and Habit Rewards pays coins you spend on rewards you price yourself. Sweepy and FlyLady use points, a leaderboard or achievements to show progress instead.

Is there a chore game app for adults? Habitica is the full game: an avatar, quests and a party. Tody has a monthly race against Dusty the dust bunny, and Sweepy has a household leaderboard.

Can couples use a chore app? Sweepy, Flatastic and Tody’s Premium+ all let two or more people share one chore list. In Habitica you can join a party, but each person keeps their own list; Habit Rewards is personal.

✅ Try Habit Rewards: the habit tracker that pays you

Every habit pays coins by how hard it is (1, 4, 8 or 16). Write your own reward list, put a coin price on each treat, and claim it once you've earned it.

• Daily, weekly and monthly habits, plus one-off tasks that pay coins
• Reminders, streaks and home-screen widgets
• A 10-coin Skip for the days you can't
• Free for three habits, on iPhone and Android

Get Habit Rewards free

On a computer? Scan the code with your phone (it opens the App Store or Google Play), or get it on the App Store.

Using Notion?

Start with our free Notion habit tracker and formulas, or get the aesthetic Notion Habit Tracker template with heatmaps and streaks.