The short answer
The best chore app for a couple is the one that gives every recurring job a clear owner and that both of you will open. If you want ownership plus a weekly conversation about the split, use Tiptoe. If you only want a cleaning schedule with an agreed split, Tody’s Duo plan is strong and inexpensive. If you want free and simple, start with Homsy or a shared Apple Reminders list.
- Clear owners and a weekly check-in: Tiptoe.
- A cleaning schedule with a target split: Tody, on Premium+ Duo.
- A game layer with points and streaks: Sweepy, or Nipto for a weekly winner.
- Free for two, with rotation: Homsy.
- A family calendar first, chores second: Cozi or OneHaus.
- You both already use it at work: Todoist. Two iPhones and nothing to buy: Apple Reminders.
Disclosure: Tiptoe makes one of these apps, and this page is written by its founder. We put Tiptoe first because it is the one built around a single owner per job for two people, not because we checked it against a scoring system. Where another app is a better fit, we say so.
How we compared
We looked at each app from the point of view of the partner who currently keeps the household running in their head. That person does not need another place to type reminders. They need jobs to leave their head for good. So we judged each app on five questions:
- Ownership: can each recurring job belong to one person, so that person also remembers it?
- Repeats: do chores come back on their own schedule without someone re-adding them?
- Planning: does the app do anything about the noticing and planning, or only the doing?
- Cost for two: what does it cost for both of you, and does one plan cover both?
- Tone: does it keep score between partners, and can you turn that off?
Every competitor fact on this page comes from the app’s own website, help pages or official App Store listing, checked on September 30, 2026, and each entry links to the pages we used. We list prices only where the company publishes them, in US dollars unless noted. We did not copy star ratings or download counts, because they change and they do not tell you whether an app fits your home. We left out OurHome because we could not confirm it is still available in the US App Store.
Comparison table
Checked September 30, 2026 on each app’s official site or store listing. US prices unless noted, which can change by region and over time. Scroll sideways to see every column; app names stay pinned on the left.
| App | Built for | Recurring chores and owners | Rotation, points or targets | Planning and noticing | How two people share | Platforms | Cost for two, as checked | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiptoe | Couples | Yes. One owner per chore, with a repeat | Neither. Handoffs you both agree to | Weekly check-in, insights by person | One shared space for two. One Pro covers both | iPhone and web | Free for both of you. Pro is $9.99/month. | Couples who want clear owners plus a weekly check-in |
| Tody | Individuals, couples, families, roommates | Yes. Each task has its own interval | Assign or auto-rotate. FairShare targets | FairShare contribution target per person | Premium+ Duo covers 2 household members | iPhone, iPad, Android | Premium+ Duo $25/year | Couples who want a cleaning schedule with an agreed split |
| Sweepy | Households, including families and roommates | Yes. Room-by-room tasks with a dirtiness level | Points by difficulty, leaderboard, streaks | Premium builds a daily schedule split by effort settings | Invite household members | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android | Premium $3.99/month or $19.99/year | Households that like a game layer |
| Homsy | Couples, families, roommates | Daily, weekly or monthly, with rotation | Auto-rotation and streaks | Not described | Shared household, each person has an account | Web, iPhone, Android | Free for a household of two, with limits. Pro from $3.99/month | Couples who want a free start and rotation |
| OneHaus | Families, couples, shared houses | Assign to a person, recurring jobs on Pro | Auto-rotation | Not described | One subscription covers everyone in the home | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android | Pro £4.99/month or £49.99/year (UK prices) | Shared houses that also want a calendar and lists |
| Nipto | Partners, families, roommates | Recurring task groups | Points and a weekly winner with a reward | Not described | Shared group | iPhone, Mac, Android | Premium $1.99/month or $12.99/year (App Store) | Couples who enjoy a friendly weekly competition |
| Cozi | Families | Shared to-do lists. No owners or repeats described | Neither | Shared family calendar and lists | One family account. One upgrade covers everyone | iPhone, Android, web | Free with ads. Gold $39/year, Max $79/year | Families who mainly need a calendar and shopping lists |
| Todoist | Individuals and teams | Recurring due dates, assign tasks in shared projects | Neither | Comments on tasks | Shared project, up to 5 people on personal projects | iPhone, Android, web, desktop | Free plan. Pro $5/month billed yearly, per person | Couples who already live in Todoist |
| Apple Reminders | Anyone with an Apple Account | Shared lists, assign reminders to a person | Neither | Not described | Share an iCloud list by invite | iPhone, iPad, Mac, iCloud.com | Free | Two iPhone users who want something free, today |
The apps
Each entry says what the app does well, who it is not for, and what it costs for two people as of our check.
Tiptoe
Tiptoe is a couples planner, and Chores is one part of it. Each recurring chore gets one owner and a repeat, and you log it done. When life changes, either of you can propose a handoff, and the other person accepts it or keeps things as they are. Nothing moves without both of you agreeing. Tasks, shared lists and a calendar for two sit in the same app, so a chore like “restock the pet food” can live next to the grocery list it depends on.
The part most chore apps skip is the conversation. Tiptoe has a weekly check-in: you add topics during the week, then talk through them at a time you both chose and save decisions and next steps. A next step can become a task with an owner. Insights in the Us tab chart completed tasks and chores by person over the weeks, without a leaderboard or streak shaming. Think of it as a CRM for your life together: one shared record of who owns what.
The limits are real. Your free account includes your first 30 tasks and chores, and Insights and check-in history are part of Pro. There are no points or automatic rotation, by design. There is no native Android app, though the web app works in any browser.
- Good for
- Two people who want every recurring job to have one owner, and a weekly place to talk about the split.
- Not for
- Families who want kids to earn points, or anyone who needs a native Android app.
- Cost for two
- Free for both of you. Pro is $9.99/month. No card needed. Your first 30 tasks and chores are free.
Checked September 30, 2026: Chores in Tiptoe, Tiptoe pricing.
Tody
Tody is a cleaning app that treats each job as having its own natural interval: the bathroom might be due every week, the oven every few months. Its site talks openly about mental load. You can assign a task once or let it rotate automatically, and FairShare turns an agreed split into a contribution target for each person. For a couple whose friction is mostly about cleaning, that is a thoughtful design.
Watch the plan names. Household sync and FairShare are only on Premium+, and the Duo size covers two household members. The free and Premium plans are for one person.
- Good for
- Couples who mainly want cleaning on a schedule, with an agreed contribution target for each person.
- Not for
- Anything beyond cleaning, such as calendars, errands or admin. Household sync is not in the free or single-person plans.
- Cost for two
- Premium+ Duo is $25 a year for 2 household members and includes household sync and FairShare. The free plan is for 1 person.
Checked September 30, 2026: todyapp.com/pricing, todyapp.com.
Sweepy
Sweepy organizes cleaning by room and tracks how dirty each area is getting. Tasks are worth points by difficulty, and the app adds a leaderboard, coins, an in-app shop, streaks and challenges. Premium can generate a daily schedule from an effort setting for each person and split the work between residents. Families with kids also get a parent approval step.
If competition motivates both of you, Sweepy is fun. If the real issue is that one of you notices everything, a points table can feel like keeping score with extra steps.
- Good for
- Households that are motivated by points, streaks and a daily cleaning plan.
- Not for
- Couples who find a leaderboard between partners unhelpful, or who need non-cleaning jobs tracked.
- Cost for two
- Free to download. The US App Store lists Sweepy Monthly at $3.99 and Yearly at $19.99. Whether one Premium covers the whole household is not stated, so check before you buy.
Checked September 30, 2026: sweepy.com, App Store listing.
Homsy
Homsy runs in the browser as well as on iPhone and Android, which helps if one of you uses Android. Chores can repeat daily, weekly or monthly and rotate automatically between household members, with completion streaks. Its site describes it as free for a household of two, which makes it an easy, low-risk first step.
The free plan has limits on repeating chores and active tasks, so a full household list may push you to Pro. Homsy also publishes its own comparison of chore apps for couples, which is worth reading alongside this one.
- Good for
- Couples who want a free way to start, with chores that rotate between you.
- Not for
- Couples with many recurring chores on the free plan, which has limits, or anyone who wants a check-in alongside.
- Cost for two
- The site says it is free for a household of two. The App Store lists Pro at $3.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $49.99 one time.
Checked September 30, 2026: gethomsy.com, App Store listing.
OneHaus
OneHaus combines tasks with a calendar and lists for a whole household. Jobs can be assigned to a person or rotate automatically, and the site says one subscription covers every person in your home. Repeating tasks are on the Pro plan, which the site prices in pounds; we could not find a published US price.
- Good for
- Shared homes that want tasks, a calendar and lists in one place, under one household subscription.
- Not for
- Couples who want repeating chores for free: repeating tasks are a Pro feature.
- Cost for two
- Free tier for basic shared tasks. Pro is listed at £4.99 a month or £49.99 a year, and the site says one subscription covers every person in your home. A US dollar price was not published, so see site.
Checked September 30, 2026: onehaus.app/pricing.
Nipto
Nipto turns chores into a weekly competition: each chore has points, there are bonus points, and at the end of the week a winner claims a reward before scores reset. It also has a personal goal mode. For some couples, a playful wager is exactly the push they need. For a couple already arguing about who does more, it can make that argument official.
- Good for
- People who enjoy a weekly competition with a reward at the end.
- Not for
- Anyone who wants to stop keeping score. The weekly winner is the core mechanic.
- Cost for two
- Free with 5 groups of recurring tasks. The US App Store lists Premium Monthly at $1.99 and Annual at $12.99. Whether Premium covers the whole group is not stated.
Checked September 30, 2026: App Store listing.
Cozi
Cozi is a long-standing family organizer built around a shared calendar, shopping lists and to-do lists. It is excellent at being the one place a family checks. As a chore tool it is thin: its to-do lists do not describe chore owners, repeats or rotation. If your bigger problem is the calendar, see our best shared calendar apps for couples.
- Good for
- Families who mostly need one calendar and shared shopping and to-do lists.
- Not for
- Couples who want each recurring chore to have one owner and a repeat.
- Cost for two
- Free with ads. Cozi Gold is $39 a year and Cozi Max $79 a year, and Cozi says one upgrade covers everyone in the family.
Checked September 30, 2026: cozi.com/compare-plans, cozi.com/faq.
Todoist
Todoist is a general task manager with recurring due dates and shared projects where tasks can be assigned to people. If you both already use it, a shared “Home” project costs nothing extra on the free plan and keeps chores next to everything else. It knows nothing about households, though: no handoffs, no chore history by person, and Pro is priced per user.
- Good for
- Couples where both people already use Todoist for work and want chores in the same place.
- Not for
- Couples who want one subscription for both of you. Pro is priced per user.
- Cost for two
- Free Beginner plan with 5 projects. Pro is $5 a month billed yearly or $7 month to month, per user, so two Pro accounts cost twice that.
Checked September 30, 2026: todoist.com/pricing.
Apple Reminders
A shared list in Apple Reminders is free, already on your phones, and lets you assign a reminder to a person once the list is shared. For a small home it can be enough. It gets harder when chores repeat on different schedules, when you want to see who handled what over the last month, or when one of you is on Android.
- Good for
- Two Apple users who want a free shared list and can live without chore history.
- Not for
- Mixed iPhone and Android couples, or anyone who wants to see who handled what over time.
- Cost for two
- Free with an Apple Account. You can assign a reminder to a person once the list is shared.
Checked September 30, 2026: Apple Support: share reminders, iPhone User Guide.
Chore apps vs a chore chart
A chore chart on the fridge works when the list is short and you are both home to see it. An app earns its place when chores repeat on different schedules, when one of you travels, or when the real problem is remembering rather than doing. The test is simple: if one person still has to update the chart and remind the other, the chart has moved the doing but not the noticing. We cover the trade-off in more detail in chore chart or chore app.
How to get your partner to actually use one
Most chore apps fail for social reasons, not technical ones. One partner installs it, loads every job, and assigns half of them to the other person. To the other person, that feels like a new manager. Here is what works better.
- Agree on the problem first. “I want fewer jobs living in my head” is a shared goal. “You need to use this app” is not.
- Each person sets up their own jobs. Your partner adds the chores they already own, in their words, with their own reminders.
- Move one whole job. Pick one job, including the noticing and planning, and hand it over completely. Use the chore split calculator to find a good candidate.
- Review weekly, briefly. Ten minutes at the same time each week to look at what worked. In Tiptoe that is the check-in. In another app, put it on your calendar.
- Skip the scoreboard. If the app has points and they start a fight, turn them off or ignore them.
One useful rule
If you still remind your partner about a job, it has not moved yet. Hand over the remembering with it.
How to choose in 5 minutes
- Phones: if one of you is on Android, rule out Apple-only tools and check that the app has a web or Android version.
- Scope: cleaning only points to Tody or Sweepy. The whole household, including errands, admin and plans, points to Tiptoe, Cozi or OneHaus.
- Score or no score: decide together whether points would help or hurt. Be honest about it.
- Cost for both of you: check whether one plan covers both partners. Per-person pricing doubles the cost.
- Try it for two weeks: load five jobs, not fifty, and keep the app only if both of you opened it without being asked.
If you are still deciding how to divide the work at all, start with our guide on how to split chores fairly, then come back for the tool.
Questions couples ask
- What is the best free chore app for couples?
- For a free start, Homsy says it is free for a household of two, with limits on repeating chores, and Apple Reminders is free if you both use iPhone. Tody's free plan is for one person, so couples need Premium+ Duo to sync. Tiptoe is free for both of you. Your first 30 tasks and chores are free, and Pro is optional.
- Do chore apps help with mental load?
- Only if they move the noticing as well as the doing. An app that assigns tasks still leaves one person deciding what goes on the list. Look for one owner per recurring job, so that person also remembers when it is due, and a regular time to review the split together.
- Should a chore app give points?
- Points suit some households, especially with kids, but they turn partners into competitors. If you already argue about who does more, a leaderboard tends to sharpen that. Couples usually do better with clear owners and an agreed split than with a weekly score.
- Which chore apps cover both partners on one subscription?
- As of our check, Tiptoe is free for both partners and one Pro subscription covers both, Tody's Premium+ Duo covers 2 household members, OneHaus says one subscription covers everyone in your home, and Cozi says one upgrade covers the family. Todoist Pro is priced per user. Others do not say, so check first.
- What if my partner won't use the app?
- Start with the jobs they already own, not the ones you want them to take. Let them set up their own chores and reminders. Keep the first week tiny, review it together, and drop anything that feels like surveillance. An app neither of you opens is worse than a paper list.
- Is a shared reminders list enough?
- For a small home with few recurring jobs, often yes. A shared list breaks down when jobs repeat on different schedules, when you need to see who did what over time, or when one person still ends up adding every item. That is when a dedicated chore app earns its place.
