Family Xchange Chores
Routines, chores and responsibilities that work without you standing in the hallway repeating yourself. Each child gets a list they can follow on their own, the deal on rewards is agreed before the argument starts, and you can see how it is going from your phone without hovering.
What this is actually for
Almost no family argument about chores is really about the chore. It is about having to ask — the fourth time, at the door, already late. The job itself takes a child ninety seconds.
So Family Xchange Chores moves the asking somewhere else. The routine is agreed once, in a calm moment, by the two of you. After that the list does the reminding and the child does the work, and you are back to being a parent instead of an alarm clock, a referee and a nag, all before eight in the morning.
What a child picks up along the way is not tidiness. It is that they are a person whose family depends on them for something — which is a surprisingly short route to a child who offers before being asked.
How it works
Choose morning, afterschool or bedtime, add the tasks, assign them to each child and put a value on the ones that earn something. Two minutes, at a kitchen table, with the child who has to do them.
Simple, age-appropriate tasks in the order they happen, so a child can work through them without being prompted. They know what is next before you say a word.
Updates arrive on your phone in real time, from wherever you are. In the loop without standing over anyone's shoulder — which is the whole trick.
What is inside
Routines are the backbone, but a family needs the other pieces too — the part where effort turns into something, and the part where you can see whether any of it is actually working.
Morning, afterschool and bedtime, each with its own tasks in its own order. The three moments of the day that decide whether it was a good one.
Tasks carry points, and points buy rewards you set — screen time, an outing, a treat, whatever moves your particular child. The terms are visible to everyone, in advance.
Something bigger than today to aim at, so a week of small jobs adds up to a thing the child chose and can see getting closer.
Shared goals rather than individual ones — the whole family pulling at the same thing, which lands differently to a chart on the fridge.
What is getting done, what keeps getting skipped, and by whom. Useful far less as a scoreboard than as a hint about which part of the routine is wrong.
Separate profiles for each child under a single family subscription, each with their own tasks. Add as many children as you have.
Ages 4–10
Checklists are built for where a child actually is, not where they will be in five years. A four-year-old needs three picture-simple things in a fixed order. A ten-year-old needs to be trusted with something that matters and left alone to do it. The same app has to do both without one of them feeling patronised.
Short, physical, and the same every single day. Shoes on, bed pulled up, plate to the sink. Repetition is the feature, not a limitation.
A list long enough to need an order, and the first jobs that other people actually depend on. This is where earning something starts to make sense.
Responsibility with a bit of weight on it — a job that is genuinely theirs, a goal they chose, and the dignity of nobody checking every five minutes.
Chores meets game night
A child who finishes everything for the day is offered one fun challenge — the same kind of silly, do-something card the board game uses. Pass four and they bank a power play to spend at the next family game night, in front of everybody. One a day, so it takes at least four days: slow enough to feel earned, and the reward arrives at a table rather than on a screen.
In development · not in the app yet See Family Xchange Games →
What it costs
Core features, no time limit, no card needed.
One subscription, the whole family.
Your child's data is never sold and never shared with third parties. You stay in control of your family's information.
Free to start, no credit card. Set up one routine tonight and see what happens.