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.

What it costs

Premium is a monthly or a yearly subscription for your whole home. The price, in your own currency, shows on the upgrade screen: tap Settings, then Unlock More Features! at the top. You can also ask the Assistant "How much is Premium?" and tap the link in its answer to open the same screen. Prices can differ between countries and between Apple and Google, so the upgrade screen is the place to check what you would pay.

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. The starter rewards you tick when you set up a points home are free.
• 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 the upgrade screen offers a free trial, Apple or Google shows it, and its length, before you confirm. Usually the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial if you haven't had one before, and on iPhone and iPad the monthly plan does too. Some new homes get a free week of Premium instead, which starts without a subscription; the upgrade screen then has no store trial. To avoid being charged after a store trial, cancel before it 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.
• Custom rewards that kids redeem with points, beyond the starter rewards picked during setup.
• Sending messages in your family's chat about a chore.
• The Assistant, after the free setup chat.
• Opening your Family Insights in full.
• Home Screen widgets that show today's chores and let you tick them off, and Siri shortcuts on an iPhone (iOS 18 or later).
• 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, and your own rooms, areas and tasks.
• Suggest Chores on the Home tab of a home with no chores, which creates up to 5 chores for you.
• Starter rewards (Screen time, Movie night, Pocket money) when you set up a points home.
• 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.
• Shortcuts on the app icon that open someone's chores for today.
• 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 month and year that make 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, and they can always be finished. Their premium settings are kept but paused until you have Premium again:

• Photo Required and Before Photo Too: a photo is optional.
• Time Window: the chore can be done at any time on its day.
• Rotate: the chore stays with whoever has it, and takes turns again when Premium is back.
• Penalty If Missed: nothing is taken away, and nothing is charged for the time without Premium.

Repeats During the Day keeps working. You can still edit your chores, but you can't add new chores beyond the free limit, or turn on premium features.

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. On a kid's profile with Limit Access, it shows Ask a grown-up instead, so switch to your own profile to upgrade. 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 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.
• "Purchases aren't allowed on this device right now. Check that in-app purchases are allowed in Settings > Screen Time, or try another device." (iPhone and iPad): Screen Time is blocking purchases on this device. Allow in-app purchases in Screen Time, or upgrade from another device signed in to the same Chore Boss account.
• "Purchases aren't available on this device right now. Make sure Google Play is installed and signed in, or try another device." (Android): Google Play can't take payments on this device or account, which is common on a child's supervised account. Sign in to Google Play with your own account, or upgrade from another device signed in to the same Chore Boss account.
• You paid but features are still locked: see I paid and Chore Boss is still locked.