Chores become quests. Quests pay gems. Gems buy whatever you decide is worth earning, right up to real money.
Launching on iPhone. Two-week free trial on every plan.
Same dishes, different frame. Tap done, the bar fills, the sound hits.
Hatch it, name it, keep it healthy. Skip too many days and it starts to slip — it never dies.
Screen time, movie night, twenty dollars. You write the list and set the price.
Earned by working, never bought. Progress they can see stacking up.
Your phone becomes the Family Hub. Add quests and approve work from anywhere.
Earn furniture, art and paint. Their space, arranged their way — the reason they open it unprompted.
After setup your only job is tapping approve.
Dishes, teeth, homework, trash. Set what each one pays in gems, how often it repeats, and whether it needs your approval before it counts.
Your kid opens the app and sees a quest log, not a chore chart. Tap done, the bar fills, the sound hits, the monster perks up.
Approved work pays out. The balance sits on screen right next to the thing they are saving for and cannot afford yet. That gap is the whole point.
Screen time at 50. Movie night at 80. Twenty real dollars at 265. You write the menu and set every price.
The exchange rate is yours
You set every price
Nothing is priced in real money by default and kids cannot buy gems. The only way in is doing the work.
A chore chart your kid avoids is worth nothing.
Every one is hatched from an egg, named by your kid, and raised by real work around the house.
Crumb
Dusty
Odds
Quilt
Suds
Tangle
All of it is free. No in-app purchases.
Pick one, hatch it, name it. From then on something is depending on them daily, whether or not they feel like it.
Crumb
Odds
Dusty
Whichever they pick is theirs to raise.
Four ways to look after them, every day. The monster reacts to each one, and its health tracks whether anybody actually showed up.
That is the whole lesson a real pet teaches, minus the part where a real animal pays for a bad week. Care brings it back, so effort visibly undoes neglect.
Never gets sick. It just goes very sleepy when quests get skipped, and perks straight back up. Soft enough for a five-year-old.
Real neglect makes it genuinely unwell — drooping, miserable, health bar sliding. One finished quest starts it recovering. It still never dies.
You set the mode in the Parent Zone and can change it any time.
Choreby ships with no opinion about what a chore is worth. You add the rewards, you set the gem price, and you change both whenever you want.
Screen time
Movie night
Pick dinner
$20 cash
Add a cash reward at whatever amount and gem price you decide, and hand the money over yourself when they cash it in. Choreby never touches the money and takes no cut. It is the scoreboard, you are the bank.
Or invent your own
Most chore apps wave at “dopamine” and move on. Here is the actual research, including the parts where the popular version is wrong.
900+
kids in the replication
The marshmallow test got oversold, and a bigger replication shrank the effect once family background was counted. What held up is that children hold out far longer when the situation is designed to help them.
In the app
Gems sit on screen next to a reward they picked and cannot afford yet.
Age 3
when it mattered most
Rossmann followed 84 people from age three into their mid-twenties, and helping around the house early was the strongest childhood predictor of adult outcomes. Small sample, so take it as a strong hint rather than a law.
In the app
Quests are grouped the way a house runs: Chores, Hygiene, Brain.
128
experiments reviewed
128 experiments show that paying someone for something they already enjoy kills the enjoyment. That effect needs enjoyment to destroy, and no child is born loving the dishes.
In the app
You set what gems buy and what things cost, then raise prices as habits stick.
Both
earning and losing, together
Systems where something is lost through neglect work, and they work best sitting next to something being earned rather than replacing it. Choreby runs both: gems are earned by doing, and the pet is what slips when nobody shows up.
In the app
Skip your quests and the pet's health drops. Care brings it back. You set how far it can fall.
180
children tested
180 children got a dull ten-minute task with a tablet game sitting right there as temptation. The ones playing a character lasted longest; the ones being themselves quit soonest.
In the app
Your kid picks an avatar and levels a hero. Trash duty is something the hero does.
66
median days to automatic
Twenty-one days is a myth. The real median was 66 days with people landing anywhere from 18 to 254, and skipping a single day barely dented anyone's progress.
In the app
Streaks reward showing up without punishing a missed Tuesday.
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basic needs: competence
Feeling capable is a basic psychological need, not a nice-to-have. Finishing something you were working toward lands before any prize does.
In the app
Progress bars, a Today's Quest meter, and a pet that reacts the moment work is done.
The star drops a Chore Tip into the quest screen: short, plain-language explanations of why finishing things feels good. Kids who understand the mechanism stop thinking of chores as punishment.
Where we draw the line
Choreby is not a clinical intervention and no app raises your kid. These are real studies with real limits, described the way the researchers described them rather than the way the headlines did. Every citation links out so you can check us.
One kid on one device plays the whole thing forever without paying. What a plan adds is more people and the sync that puts approvals on your phone.
$0
One kid, synced across your devices.
$19.99 /yr
Two months free versus monthly
$2.99 /mo
Monthly
Every plan includes
Two weeks free, then $19.99/yr or $2.99/mo
The whole crew, parents included.
$34.99 /yr
Best value for more than one kid
$4.99 /mo
Monthly
Every plan includes
Two weeks free, then $34.99/yr or $4.99/mo
Big crews, blended families, grandparents included.
$49.99 /yr
For households that outgrew Family
$6.99 /mo
Monthly
Every plan includes
Two weeks free, then $49.99/yr or $6.99/mo
Growing family
When you add a second kid, Choreby offers the Family upgrade right there. Apple pro-rates whatever is left on your Solo term, so you never pay for the same month twice and nothing you set up gets lost.
Prices are US dollars and may vary by region. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. See the terms for full detail, or email support@choreby.com.
Built for families first
There is no login for a child, ever. Family Sync uses one parent account, and only you control it.
Leave it off and nothing leaves your device. Turn it on and your family's game data syncs so approvals reach your phone.
No ad network, no third-party trackers, and we never sell data. We ask for no photos, birthdays or location.
Gems are earned, never bought. Every monster, room item and badge is free. The only purchase is the parent subscription.
Five to fifteen. Younger kids come for the monster and the confetti. Older kids come for the gems and the payout. Same app, different reasons, and you can run both at once in one household.
The whole game, on one device, for one player, forever. Quests, gems, XP, streaks, your monster with both care modes, every room item, the reward shop, the Parent Zone and approvals. What a plan buys is seats and syncing: more kids, parent players, and Family Sync so your own phone can approve work.
Not to play. Choreby runs fully on one device with no sign-up at all. If you want the family version — approving quests from your own phone, or running a kid's phone and the family iPad in step — you create one parent account with an email address, and that links your devices. Kids never have accounts.
It keeps every device in your household on the same page. Your kid marks the dishes done on their phone, it appears on your phone for approval, and the gems land the moment you tap approve. Quests, gems, streaks and the monster all stay in step. You turn it on, and you can turn it off.
You can set a reward to any cash amount you like, price it in gems, and hand over the money yourself when they cash it in. Choreby does not move money and takes no cut. It is a scoreboard, not a bank.
It is the reason a seven-year-old opens the app without being told. They hatch it from an egg, name it, feed it, play with it and bathe it, and it reacts to them. That daily pull is what carries the habit through the boring weeks.
No. Monsters in Choreby never die, in either care mode. There are two modes. In Magical mode the monster stays healthy no matter what — that is the right setting for younger kids. In Life-like mode neglect makes it genuinely unwell: it droops, it looks miserable, and the health bar drops. It still never dies, and one finished quest starts it recovering. You pick the mode in the Parent Zone and can change it whenever, so start soft and raise the stakes when they are ready.
Because for an older kid, a consequence that never lands stops being a consequence. A twelve-year-old works out fairly fast that nothing really happens, and the lesson goes with it. Life-like mode lets neglect actually show — a sad, sick monster they have to nurse back — without ever handing a child a dead pet. If that is not your kid yet, leave it on Magical.
Only if you let them. Any task can be flagged Needs Approval, which holds the payout until you tap approve. Use it on the chores that matter and skip it on the easy ones.
You keep everything. Your first player keeps playing on that device, free, forever. The family features — extra kids, parent players, and syncing to your phone — pause until you pick a plan. Nothing is deleted and no progress is lost.
Add the second kid and Choreby offers the Family upgrade. Apple pro-rates whatever is left on your Solo term, so you never pay twice.
Kids never have accounts. With Family Sync off, nothing leaves your device at all. With it on, your family's game data is stored under your parent account so the devices stay in step. We never ask for photos, birthdays or location, we show no ads, and we run no third-party trackers. Use nicknames instead of real names if you prefer. The privacy policy has the full detail.
Ten minutes of setup, two weeks free, and a kid who checks the app before you have to say anything.
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