A Family Chore Chart That Does The Reminding For You
A family chore chart on the fridge works right up until nobody looks at it. Then you become the chart.
You are the one asking whether the bathroom got done and keeping track of whose week it is for dishes, out loud, repeatedly, from the kitchen.
Bothy fixes all of that by automating the hard parts of managing a household.
Everyone sees their own chores
Open the app and you get your list. Not the household grid. Just what you owe today.
Overdue sits at the top, labeled by how long it has been waiting, so you see “Since Tuesday” rather than a box that has quietly been empty for a while. Under that come the chores with a set time, sorted into the part of the day they belong to. The flexible ones land at the bottom: anytime today, anytime this week, anytime this month.
A nine year old does not have to find their column and read across five days.
Finish the chore once it is done, and everyone is happy.
Nobody argues about whose turn it is
Each chore carries a rotation. Finish a turn and it advances to the next person by itself, so “whose turn is it” is answered on screen before anybody asks it out loud.
Someone out of the household gets skipped rather than stalling the queue. And if a kid taps the wrong row, undo puts the turn back where it was.
Every chore also has its own history, so you can see who took the trash out last week and who’s up next.
The app does the reminding, not you
Reminders are set per person. Yours can fire at the scheduled time. Your kid, who needs a running start, can get an hour of lead time or a nudge at eight in the morning.
Quiet hours keep a reminder from landing at eleven at night, and an overnight window works the way you would expect it to. Reminders also recalculate whenever a chore or an assignment or a completion changes, so nobody gets buzzed about something they already did.
A record of what actually got done
History is a log by day. Who did it, when, and any note they left, like what they ran out of or what they skipped. Filter it down to one person when you need to.
Owners also get a monthly view: what share of the household’s chores each person completed, and the three chores your family skips most. Percentages that add to a hundred are hard to argue with, including when the person pulling less weight is you.
Everyone also gets a weekly balance view. It shows how many tasks each person has completed, so there can be agreement that everyone is contributing fairly.