Every member pulls their weight.
Xtra Hands runs your household's chores, allowance, stars and rewards — on one shared family tablet, on personal phones, or a mix of both.
No feature locked behind a premium tier.
We call them members, not kids.
One word changes who this is for. A household is whoever lives there — a nine-year-old, a teenager, two parents in two houses, a flatmate, a carer. Everyone gets a name, a list and a balance.
Earning is half of it. Spending is the other half.
Each member earns one way: money, or stars, or nothing at all — your call, member by member. The Rewards Store turns that into screen time, a sleepover, ice cream, or the thing they're saving for. Big ones wait for your approval.
A powerhouse under a calm surface.
Set once, repeats forever
Daily, weekdays only, every other Sunday. The schedule keeps itself.
Earned, owed, settled
Balances update the moment a chore is checked off. No kitchen-counter mental math.
A request inbox
Members request, you approve or reject. Balances only move when you say so.
Kitchen, bath, their room
Tag chores by place so "tidy up" finally means something specific.
Safe on a shared tablet
Lock the parent side so the kitchen iPad stays a chore board, not a settings menu.
The app does the asking
Quiet, timed reminders that arrive from the app instead of from you.
If someone has to keep asking, it shouldn't be you.
A chore opens, a photo comes in, you approve it. That's the whole conversation — and the app does it, not you.
One tablet is enough. Phones are a bonus.
Start with the tablet on the kitchen counter — that alone runs the whole household. Add personal phones for the members who have them.
The kitchen command post
Park an iPad where everyone walks past. Members tap in, you lock the rest down.
iPhone and Android
Every member gets their own list, stars and balance. Parents get approvals and reports.
Members without a phone
A member with no phone of their own checks in on the shared tablet — or a parent does it for them.
Both parents, one household
Invite the other parent — free — and they get the same chores, ledger, and approvals from their own phone, wherever they live.
An 88% completion rate, and nobody had to nag.
Three members, 318 chores on the board this month, ten missed so far. The report is the part parents screenshot.
"I stopped being the person who reminds everyone. That alone was worth it."
"Stars for the little one, cash for the teenager. Same app, different motivators."
"My husband and I are always on the same page — same chores, same approvals, from either of our phones."
Things parents ask before signing up.
Built by a parent of three, used in his own house before yours.
Your first member is free, forever — run the whole household with one chore-doer at no cost, no trial required. Paid plans start when a second person joins the chores and scale up to Crew (five or more, unlimited), set in the app stores. Cancel anytime. Parents and co-parents are always free and never count.
Any age — the app never asks for one. A member is anyone with a chore role: a five-year-old checking off "feed the dog" on the family tablet, a teenager managing their own balance, or an adult sharing the load. You set what each one takes on.
Yes, and co-parents are free. Pricing is per household, not per user. They get full admin rights — same picture, same ability to approve chores and manage the ledger.
A parent can belong to multiple households with separate PINs and separate chores. Members can be represented separately in each one, with no shared state forced.
Yes. A member is anyone with a chore role — the engine doesn't care about ages or relationships. Skip earnings and you have a chore tracker with fair rotations and a real ledger.
Those products earn a cut of each transaction; we charge a flat household subscription. Payouts post to the ledger as chores get approved — we never touch the money itself.
Names or nicknames, an avatar color, an optional PIN, and what they've checked off. Never ages, birthdays or schools — data the app doesn't need.
PINs are hashed, never stored in plaintext. Devices revoke cleanly from the web. Account deletion is parent-only and removes the household plus all chore and ledger data.
A chore app should not be a data business.
No ads, ever
Nothing in the app is trying to sell your household anything.
Members don't need accounts
A member joins by pairing a device. No email, no profile to find.
Parents hold the keys
Approvals, money and settings sit behind the parent side, lockable on shared devices.
Your household, your data
Export it or delete it. We don't sell it, and there's nobody to sell it to.