Rewards
Kids and teens trade chore points for rewards the adults set up. They ask, an adult approves, the points come off.
Layer 04: Work
What needs to happen?
Tasks, chores that rotate, shopping lists sorted by aisle, meals and the small jobs a home needs.
Tasks and errands
A task has an owner, not a hope.
Every task has someone it belongs to, a due date, a priority, a checklist, a repeat and notes. An errand is a task with a place, like “return the drill to the hardware store”.
- Assignee, due date and priority
- A checklist inside the task
- Repeats for the things that come back
Chores
Chores that pass themselves along.
Set up a rotation once. When someone finishes a chore, it moves to the next person. Add points if you like, and a points board shows who is carrying the load.
Rewards, allowance, checklists and routines
The small systems that keep a busy house moving.
Allowance
Paid on schedule into spend, save and give jars. Chores can pay, and kids ask to spend.
Checklists
Reusable lists for packing, cleaning, moving, a new school year or hosting guests, from templates or your own.
Routines
Morning and bedtime routines for kids that start fresh every day.
Shopping lists
Lists sorted by aisle, automatically.
Keep several lists, one for groceries and one for the hardware store. Items are grouped by aisle on their own, with quantities, check-off and who added what.
Meals
Plan the week. The list follows.
A weekly meal planner and recipes with their ingredients, typed in or imported from a link. One tap sends the whole week’s ingredients to the shopping list, and each recipe shows what is already in the pantry.
Pantry
Know what is in before you shop.
What is in the fridge, the freezer and the cupboards, with quantities, best-before dates and a low-stock level. Use one counts down, and when something runs low it goes on the shopping list by itself. Home shows what to use soon.
Pet care
Feeding, walks and litter duty take turns.
Each pet’s care jobs rotate between people like chores. Finish a walk and it passes to the next person on the list.
Home maintenance
The jobs a home needs, on a schedule.
Set each job to repeat every few months, or every so many miles for the car: the filter, the gutters, the oil change. See what is due next, and keep a log of every time it was done, with the date, the cost and who did it. Logging a job can record the expense too.
New to it? The setup assistant asks a few questions about your home and suggests a ready schedule, starter chores and checklists.
Which plans include it
Tasks, chores, rewards, allowance, checklists, routines, pet care, shopping lists, recipe import and the setup assistant are on every plan. Meals, the pantry, home maintenance and car mileage are on Household and Household+. Compare plans.
The rest of the house
Five more layers, all connected.
People
Who is in the household?
- Members
- Roles
- Permissions
- Invites
- Profiles without logins
- Birthdays
- Health
- Pets
- Gifts and wishlists
Time
What is happening?
- Calendar
- Appointments
- Birthdays
- Conflicts
- Reminders
- Countdowns
- Activities and carpool
- Calendar subscriptions
- Calendar feed
Money
What does it cost?
- Bills
- Expenses
- Splits and balances
- Budgets
- Subscriptions
- Income and goals
- Cash flow forecast
Memory
What does the household know?
- Things and the home inventory report
- Documents vault
- Photos and albums
- House manual and guest passes
- Contacts
- Notes
- Memory search
- Activity timeline
Context
What is happening right now?
- Location (opt-in)
- Places
- Weather
- The Right now card
Give your home an operating system.
Start with 30 days of Household+ free. No card needed. Nothing is deleted when the trial ends.