ChoreJoy

Household chores for iPhone · Support & Privacy Policy · Last updated: October 26, 2026

About the App

ChoreJoy helps a household share its chores. One person creates the household and becomes its Admin, adds the people who live there (family members, children and house help) and assigns chores to them. Each person uses the app on their own iPhone to see their chores, tick them off and get reminders. There is no sign-up: no email, phone number or password is needed.

Support

For questions, bug reports, feature requests or feedback, please email:

Common Questions

• Starting a household. Open ChoreJoy, tap Let's Start, choose the type of household, and enter its name and your name. You become the household's Admin.
• Adding people. Only an Admin can do this. Go to Members → Add Member, enter the person's name and choose their type (Family Member, Child, Maid / House Help or Other). The app then shows a 6-character invite code. Tap Share Invitation to send it.
• Joining a household. Install ChoreJoy, tap Join with an invite code, enter the code and your name, and tap Join Household. Your role is set by the Admin. If the code doesn't work, ask your Admin for a new one.
• Adding chores. On the Home screen the Admin can tap Add Regular Chore (with repeats such as every day or every Monday), Add One Time Chore, or Roulette Chore to let the app pick someone at random.
• Completing a chore. Tap the circle next to the chore. If you tapped it by mistake, tap Undo in the message that appears.
• Reminders. ChoreJoy reminds you in the morning and at 6 pm about your own chores, every day until they're done. Turn this on or off in Settings → Chore reminders. If you get no reminders, check that notifications are allowed for ChoreJoy in iOS Settings.
• House help. A person added as Maid / House Help sees only the chores assigned to them, and nothing else about the household.
• Sharing the Admin role. In Manage → People, an Admin can make one more person a co-admin (at most two per household) or hand the Admin role over completely. The person must have joined on their own phone first.
• Reinstalling the app. If you delete and reinstall ChoreJoy on the same iPhone, you are taken straight back into your household.
• Leaving a household. Open Settings → Leave household & delete my data. If you are the only Admin, make someone else the Admin first.

Privacy Policy

ChoreJoy is developed by Balasundaram Iyyadurai. This policy explains what information the app handles, why, and how you can delete it.

• No account details. ChoreJoy signs each phone in with an anonymous ID. It never asks for your email address, phone number, Apple ID or password.
• What the app stores. Only what is entered in the app: the household's name and type; each member's name, emoji avatar, colour and role (for example Admin, family member or house help); chores (titles, descriptions, instructions, categories, dates, times, repeats, who they are assigned to and when they were completed); and the invite codes an Admin creates.
• On your phone only. Display preferences (large text, reduced animations, light or dark theme) stay on your phone. Chore reminders are scheduled on your phone as local notifications. Their content is not sent to any server.
• Where it is stored. Household data is stored with Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore and Firebase Authentication) so that every member's phone stays in sync. It is sent over encrypted connections and protected by access rules.
• Who can see it. Only members of your household, inside the app. House help can see only their own profile and the chores assigned to them. Invite codes can only be looked up by someone who has the exact code.
• How it is used. Only to run the app: to show each household its chores and keep members' phones in sync.
• No ads, analytics or tracking. The app contains no advertising or analytics SDKs, does not track you across other apps or websites, and does not sell or share your data with anyone.
• Deleting your data. In the app, open Settings → Leave household & delete my data. This permanently deletes your profile, your chores and your chore history. If you are the last member, the whole household is deleted. An Admin can also remove any member, which deletes that person's profile and chores. You can also email us to ask for your data to be deleted.
• Children. A parent or guardian may add their children to a household and assign them chores. The only information about a child is what the Admin enters (a name, emoji avatar and colour). The app does not knowingly collect any other information from children. The Admin can delete a child's profile at any time from Manage → People.

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date.

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