Five OurHome alternatives, for when the points stop syncing
Chore and reward systems to move to from OurHome: a hub with allowance and rewards, a wall display, a free organizer, and a chart that never syncs wrong.
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Quick answer
Chickadee Bandit if you want the chore economy kept and the rest of the household added around it. FamilyWall for free chore checklists inside a full organizer. Skylight for chore charts on a kitchen screen. A printable chore chart if the kids are young and paper was working.
OurHome's free chores-with-points system is the reason a lot of kids got invested in helping out, and the idea has not aged. The app has: no significant feature development in several years, and widely reported sync problems, which land hardest on the one number a child checks every day. This list is for the household that wants to keep the idea and lose the unreliability, and it is ordered by how much of the idea each option keeps.
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The list
Chickadee Bandit
That's usBest for: Keeping the points-and-rewards idea, on something maintained
OurHome's idea — a chore has points and a child spends them — is the one a generation of kids got invested in, and it is exactly what our Chores, Allowance, Piggy Bank, Streaks and Rewards & Privileges apps do, with per-member assignment, rotation and a kid-friendly checklist view that works on a wall tablet with a PIN. The difference is what surrounds it: a full calendar, meals and pantry, documents, messaging and location, on web as well as both phones, and a product that is actively developed. It is not free, which OurHome is.
Cost: $6/mo or $60/yr for the whole household, up to 10 members. 30-day trial, no card, no ads.
Best for: Chore checklists inside a complete organizer, for free
If what you want is a working chore list attached to a calendar, lists and a messenger, FamilyWall's free tier has all four. It is checklists rather than a points economy — there is no reward store for the kids to buy from — so it replaces the reliability problem by replacing the idea. Premium adds location, place alerts and timetables; unlimited members either way.
Cost: Free tier with calendar, lists, messaging and chore checklists; Premium $4.99/mo or $44.99/yr for unlimited members.
Best for: Chore charts the kids tap on a kitchen screen
A chore chart on a wall is the version children actually see, and Skylight ships one as an appliance. The core calendar works without a subscription; chore rewards, meal planning and the photo screensaver are Plus features. You are buying hardware, and editing from a phone is through a companion app rather than the display being one surface of a bigger hub.
Cost: $150 to $600 for the display; chore rewards need Skylight Plus at about $79/yr.
Best for: Young kids, and a household where paper was working
Our free chart maker builds a weekly chore chart with names, rotation and a print button, and nothing you type leaves your browser. A sheet on the fridge cannot sync wrong, cannot lose a week of points, and for a five-year-old a sticker is a better reward than a number. It also cannot tick itself off or roll the rotation on when someone is away — which is where an app earns its keep, and where OurHome was failing you.
Cost: Free. Runs in your browser, no account.
Best for: A household that decided chores were never the app's job
Some families leave OurHome and conclude the chore app was the problem, not the chore app. Cozi is the free calendar and grocery list with flat to-do lists: no per-person assignment, no points, no rewards. If the chores go back to a conversation and the calendar is what needed an app, it is the simplest option here, ads accepted.
Cost: Free with ads; Cozi Gold to remove them and unlock the full calendar view.
Prices and features are restated from our head-to-head comparison pages and reflect each product's published pricing as of August 2026. Products change — always check the other product's site for current details.
Why people look for an OurHome alternative
Reliability, almost always. A points system only works if the points are right, and when a completed chore does not sync from one phone to another the child learns the app cannot be trusted before the parent does. The second reason is platform: OurHome is iOS and Android only, with no full web experience, so there is no version for the laptop in the kitchen or the tablet on the wall.
The third reason is that OurHome's calendar, grocery list and messaging are basic, so most households run it beside another app. Consolidating to one place is a reasonable thing to want, and it is what most of this list does.
Choosing between them
- If the points economy is the thing the kids respond to, keep it: we do points, allowance, streaks and a rewards store; the others do checklists or charts.
- If chores need to be seen to be done, put them on a wall — Skylight as an appliance, or our wall-display mode on a tablet you already own.
- If the household is large and the budget is zero, FamilyWall's free tier has chore checklists inside a full organizer.
- If the kids are young, try the printable chart before another app. Paper fails less often than sync.
- Check the web rule: OurHome has no full web experience, and we run in a browser as well as on both phones. Check any other option's site for the devices your household uses.
What you give up by leaving
Free, with no paid tier, and a reward store the kids already understand. Any paid option here costs money OurHome never asked for, and any checklist option drops the economy that made it work. The chores app was never the whole problem; be sure what you are replacing before you replace it.
No option here imports OurHome's chore history or point balances. Settle the balances first — pay out the points — so nobody feels the switch cost them.
The feature list is not fixed
Every other product on this page is a fixed set of features: it does what it does, and a need it did not anticipate gets a no. Chickadee Bandit is built from small apps, and a household can add one of its own. An admin describes the app in a paragraph on the Apps page and the hub builds and installs it, using the AI credits that come with every plan; someone who writes code can start from any of the open-source apps and install their own version from a URL. A custom app gets the same checks as the ones we ship: it declares what it reads and writes, keeps its data in your household's own database, and the hub refuses anything it did not ask for.
Where this list comes from
We make one of the products on it, and it is marked. Every claim about another product is restated from the head-to-head page that links from its name, where it was checked against that product's own site on the date shown there — nothing on this page was researched separately. The order is how close a like-for-like replacement each one is for someone leaving OurHome, not a ranking of merit.
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