Best Chore Apps for Kids in 2026

At a glance

The apps, one by one

1. 1. KitQuest (that's us)

   Free · paid from $1.99/moiOS, Android, WebPricing checked August 10, 2026Features checked August 10, 2026

   KitQuest is a chore (Quest) tracker with a full allowance system that runs on points instead of money. Parents set a recurring allowance for each child, weekly or on whatever schedule suits, and the points arrive automatically alongside anything they've earned from individual chores. Kids spend them in a rewards store the parents build, so your family decides what's worth earning and what it costs, with an optional approval step before a redemption goes through. Kids can also pin one reward as a savings goal and watch their balance climb toward it. That's the choice that separates it from most of this list. An allowance does its teaching through the mechanics: it shows up on a schedule, you save for something, you spend it and it's gone. Those work the same way whether the unit is a dollar or a point. Doing it in points just means there's no bank connection, no card, no card fees, and no argument about whether kids should be paid cash for helping at home. We should say the obvious thing too. KitQuest is years younger than the established apps on this page, and it shows in the gaps: no card, no bank connection, no shared family calendar. What it does have is turnaround. There's a feature request board in the app where parents post and vote, and a good share of what shipped this year came straight off it.

   Free for up to 2 kids, and that free tier includes the full chore engine, allowance, rewards, and family dashboard. Ad-Free is $1.99/mo or $19.99/yr. Pro is $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr and adds more kids, custom rewards, and linked families. One subscription covers the whole household.

   What it does well

   • Recurring scheduled allowance, paid in points
   • Parent-built rewards store with custom prices and optional approval
   • Savings goals — kids pin a reward and track progress toward it
   • Free tier covers 2 kids with the full chore engine
   • Recurring chores, achievements, and levels
   • In-app feature request board where parents post and vote
   • No GPS, no ad IDs, no behavioral profiles on kids
   • No birthdate or contact details collected for children

   Where it falls short

   • Allowance and rewards are points-based — no real money, no debit card, no bank connection
   • No shared family calendar
   • Free tier is limited to 2 kids and shows contextual ads
   • Years younger than the established apps here, with a correspondingly smaller feature set

   Sources

   • KitQuest plans
   • KitQuest privacy policy
   Try KitQuest free

2. 2. Greenlight

   From $5.99/moiOS, AndroidPricing checked August 11, 2026Features checked August 11, 2026

   Greenlight pairs a kids' debit card with a chore and allowance system. Parents fund a card for each child, set spending controls, and can have allowance pay out automatically when chores get done. All four plans cover cards for up to five kids and include the chore tools. What the higher tiers add is investing, cash back, and safety features, not more chore functionality, so most families are choosing between them on everything except the chores. If what you actually want is for your child to learn how money works, by earning it and spending it and watching a balance drop, Greenlight is built squarely for that. If you mainly want a chore chart a seven-year-old will stick with, you're paying at least $5.99 a month for a banking product you didn't need, and there's no free tier to try the chore side on its own.

   Four paid plans: Core at $5.99/mo, Max at $10.98/mo, Infinity at $15.98/mo, and Family Shield at $19.98/mo. Every plan includes debit cards for up to 5 kids and the chore and allowance tools. New customers get a trial period, with the first monthly fee billed seven days after registration.

   What it does well

   • Debit cards for up to 5 kids on every plan
   • Chore tracking with automated allowance payouts
   • Parent-set spending controls
   • Investing and stock trading for kids
   • Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partner bank
   • Greenlight Level Up, a built-in financial literacy game
   • One app for parents and kids — no separate child app to install

   Where it falls short

   • No free tier — every plan is paid
   • Cheapest plan is $5.99/mo
   • Every plan bundles the debit card; there is no chore-only tier
   • Managed from the mobile apps; we could not find a parent web dashboard

   Sources

   • Greenlight plans
   • Greenlight on the App Store
   Visit Greenlight →

3. 3. FamZoo

   $5.99/mo (from $4.99/mo prepaid)iOS, Android, WebPricing checked August 11, 2026Features checked August 11, 2026

   FamZoo has been running since 2006, which makes it far and away the longest track record here, and it's a family banking system first. It models accounts, transfers, interest, and IOUs between parents and kids, with chores and allowance sitting on top as one of the ways money moves around. Cards are optional; if your kids aren't ready for one, the IOU accounts track money you're holding for them instead. The subscription is billed per family with no cap on kids or cards, so it gets cheaper per child the bigger your family is. Depth is the whole pitch. If you want a teenager to understand what interest actually does, FamZoo will show them in a way a points system can't. Two things to weigh against that. There's real setup before anyone completes a single chore, and the iPhone app is showing its age: Apple lists it as version 3.1, last updated in July 2018. The Android app is current and there's a full web version, so this really only bites if your household is on iPhones.

   $5.99/month month-to-month after a one-month free trial, or $59.90 prepaid for 12 months (an effective $4.99/month) with an extra free month thrown in. FamZoo bills per family rather than per child, and there's no limit on family members or cards.

   What it does well

   • One fee covers unlimited kids and cards
   • Chores, allowance, budgets, goals, and loans in one place
   • IOU accounts for tracking money held elsewhere, without a card
   • Optional prepaid cards for kids and teens
   • One-month free trial
   • Running since 2006 — the longest track record here

   Where it falls short

   • No free tier after the one-month trial
   • The iOS app is version 3.1, dated July 2018; the Android app is actively updated

   Sources

   • FamZoo home and pricing
   • FamZoo on the App Store
   Visit FamZoo →

4. 4. Cozi

   Free · Gold $39/yr · Max $79/yriOS, Android, WebPricing checked August 11, 2026Features checked August 11, 2026

   Cozi is a family organizer that handles chores, rather than a chore app that also organizes. The way it works is that you build a list and assign it to a child, and Cozi gives you template lists already populated with age-appropriate chores to start from, which is a genuinely helpful on-ramp. What you don't get is chores as individual things: no per-chore schedule, no approval step, no points or rewards for finishing one. It's a list with a name on it. Where Cozi is strong is the schedule. Everyone sees the same calendar, color-coded per person, with grocery and to-do lists running alongside it. For plenty of households that's the bigger problem anyway. Two things to know about the free tier, because they're easy to miss. It shows ads, and the calendar only lets you look 30 days ahead. Seeing further out is one of the things you're paying for with Gold. If your real problem is that nobody knows who has practice on Thursday, Cozi solves it and most chore apps don't. If your problem is the dishwasher, it won't.

   The free plan covers the shared calendar, grocery and to-do lists, and recipes for the whole family across devices, though the calendar only looks 30 days ahead and you'll see ads. Gold is $39/year direct, removing ads and adding calendar search, month view on mobile, extra reminders, and a birthday tracker. Max is $79/year and layers on AI event import, recipe creation, and meal planning. One purchase covers everyone. Note that in-app purchase prices on the App Store differ from the prices on Cozi's own site.

   What it does well

   • Shared color-coded family calendar
   • Shared grocery and to-do lists that sync in real time
   • Recipe box, and meal planning on the top tier
   • Free tier covers the whole household on any device
   • Daily or weekly agenda emails

   Where it falls short

   • Chores are lists assigned to a child, not individual assignments with their own schedules
   • No points, rewards, or approval step for completed chores
   • The free calendar only shows 30 days ahead; seeing further requires Gold
   • The free tier shows ads
   • No allowance or money tracking of any kind

   Sources

   • Cozi plan comparison
   • Cozi on the App Store
   Visit Cozi →

5. 5. BusyKid

   $4/mo billed annually ($48/yr)iOS, AndroidPricing checked August 11, 2026Features checked August 11, 2026

   BusyKid pairs a chore list with a real prepaid Visa card. Parents attach dollar values to chores by age, and completed work funds the child's account, which then splits across spending, saving, giving, and investing. The investing piece is more serious than the category norm. Kids get access to over 4,000 stocks and ETFs with no transaction fees, and it's included in every account rather than sold as an upgrade. There are also around 60 charities they can donate to, which is a nicer touch than it sounds. At $48 a year covering up to five kids, it's the cheapest card-based option here. The catch is the one that applies to this whole half of the list: the model assumes chores are paid work. If you've deliberately decided not to pay your kids for helping around the house, there's no points-only mode to fall back on.

   $4 a month billed annually, so $48 a year, covering the whole family and up to five children's accounts and cards. That's a family fee rather than a per-child one, which starts to matter once you have three or more kids. BusyKid's FAQ says there are no refunds on annual subscriptions, and there's no free tier.

   What it does well

   • Up to 5 Visa prepaid cards included per subscription
   • Chores and allowance amounts suggested by age
   • Splits earnings across spend, save, share, and invest
   • Investing in 4,000+ stocks and ETFs with no transaction fees
   • Around 60 charities available for donations
   • Parental approvals, savings matching, and bonuses

   Where it falls short

   • No free tier
   • The model assumes chores are paid — there is no points-only mode
   • No refunds on annual subscriptions

   Sources

   • BusyKid features and pricing
   • BusyKid FAQ
   • BusyKid on the App Store
   Visit BusyKid →

6. 6. OurHome by Elusios

   Free · Premium $1.99iOS, Android, WebPricing checked August 11, 2026Features checked August 11, 2026

   OurHome is actively maintained, with version 1.8.0 shipping in July, and both of its store listings frame it around shared living rather than parenting. It describes itself as simplifying "household management and collaboration with roommates." You get shopping lists organized by store and category, tasks assigned by room with deadlines and recurrence, and a calendar tying it together. That framing is the thing to weigh. It handles the mechanics of splitting chores across a household well, and the free tier is genuinely usable. But it isn't built around a child's experience the way the kid-facing apps here are, and the reward mechanic that actually motivates younger children sits behind the $1.99 Premium purchase. For a house of adults sharing the load, or for older teenagers, it's a strong and very cheap option. For a seven-year-old, probably not.

   Free to download, with an in-app OurHome Premium purchase listed at $1.99 on the App Store. Premium is where rewards, events, tags, and custom messages live, so the reward mechanic isn't part of the free tier. Beyond that App Store entry, Elusios doesn't publish a pricing or plans page anywhere we could find, so we can't tell you whether $1.99 is a one-off or a recurring charge.

   What it does well

   • Shopping lists organized by store and category
   • Tasks assigned by room, with deadlines and recurrence
   • Shared calendar
   • Runs on iPhone, Android, and the web
   • Invite others in the household to contribute
   • Rewards, events, and tags on Premium

   Where it falls short

   • Rewards are a Premium ($1.99) feature, not part of the free tier
   • Positioned around roommates and shared households rather than children specifically
   • No published pricing or plans page, so the billing period for Premium is unclear
   • Sign-up on the web is email and password only, with no social login

   Sources

   • OurHome by Elusios — App Store listing
   • OurHome — Google Play listing
   • OurHome web app
   Visit OurHome by Elusios →

Feature comparison

How we put this together

One rule governs everything on this page. A claim only appears if we read it on a first-party source, meaning the company's own site, its help center, or the App Store or Play Store listing it publishes. Other people's "best chore app" roundups don't count, and that especially includes the ones written by chore apps.

We learned that rule the hard way. An earlier draft of this page described another app as possibly abandoned, on the strength of comparison articles published by two of its competitors. It was wrong. The app was actively maintained, aimed at a different audience than we'd assumed, and priced differently too. We'd repeated a rival's marketing and called it research, which is the exact thing this page is supposed to be an alternative to.

So pricing and feature claims are tracked separately now, because they go stale and go wrong in different ways. Each app carries two dates, one for when we last checked its pricing and one for its platforms and features, and every source is linked in its section so you can go check rather than take our word for it.

Worth being precise about what "verified" means here, though. It means we read it on a first-party page, not that we installed the app and lived with it for a month. Where a listing didn't answer a question, like whether Cozi can assign a task to a specific child, we left the claim out rather than guessing from user reviews. Those gaps are the next round of work.

We haven't scored these apps on how good they feel to use, because we build one of them and that judgment wouldn't be worth much coming from us. We re-check every row quarterly. If you find something out of date or wrong, tell us, and the correction usually ships the same week.

Common questions

• What is the best free chore app for kids?

  KitQuest is free for up to two kids with the full chore engine, allowance, and rewards. Cozi and OurHome both have real free tiers, though OurHome keeps its reward mechanic behind a $1.99 Premium purchase. Greenlight, FamZoo, and BusyKid have no free tier at all.

• Which chore apps come with a debit card?

  Greenlight, BusyKid, and FamZoo all issue real cards for kids. Greenlight and BusyKid use them as the center of the product; FamZoo offers cards alongside a broader family banking system. KitQuest, Cozi, and OurHome have no card and no bank connection.

• What is the cheapest chore app with a debit card?

  BusyKid, at $48 a year for the whole family and up to five children. FamZoo is $59.90 prepaid for a year with no cap on kids or cards. Greenlight starts at $5.99 a month and covers up to five kids. All three are per family rather than per child.

• Do chore apps work for younger kids?

  The points-and-rewards apps generally suit younger children better, because the reward arrives straight away and doesn't require understanding money first. The banking apps suit older kids and teens, where the whole point is learning what a balance and a transaction actually are.

• Should chores be paid?

  Families genuinely disagree, and the app you pick tends to settle the argument for you. BusyKid and Greenlight are built around chores paying real money. KitQuest runs the same allowance mechanics, meaning a recurring payout, saving toward a goal, and spending it in a store, but in points, so you can keep the habit without committing to pay cash. There's a longer piece about the trade-off on our blog.

• Can a chore app do allowance without real money?

  Yes, and it's worth understanding why it works. An allowance does its teaching through the mechanics: it arrives on a schedule, you save up for something, you spend it and it's gone. Those work the same way whether the unit is a dollar or a point. KitQuest runs a recurring points allowance into a rewards store the parents build, with no bank connection anywhere. Greenlight, BusyKid, and FamZoo do it with real money and a card.

• How current is this comparison?

  Every app carries two dates: when its pricing was last checked, and when its platforms and features were last checked. Both are against first-party sources, and those sources are linked in each app's section so you can go and check rather than take our word for it. We re-verify every row quarterly.

• Why is KitQuest first if KitQuest wrote this?

  Because we built it and we think it's a good fit for a lot of families, and because every chore app publishing a list like this one puts itself first. We'd rather say that out loud than let you work it out later. Download two or three and decide for yourself.

Before you pick an app

An app is not the only way to do this, and it is rarely the first step. These are free and take about five minutes.

• Free printable chore chartIf you would rather start on paper than pick an app, this is the one to print first.
• Responsibility ladderWorks out which chores are age-appropriate before you assign anything in an app.
• Weekly family scheduleThe paper version of what Cozi does — useful for seeing whether you need an app at all.
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