Chores

Chores helps your household keep on top of the regular jobs that keep a home running, like changing the bed sheets, watering the plants or cleaning the washing machine.

You can assign chores to people, choose how often they repeat, tick them off, and get a morning summary of what's due. Adults can also keep private chores that nobody else sees.

Open Chores from the Apps page to get started.

1. In Chores, tap the + button and choose Add chores.
2. Pick from the Starter packs, or use Search ideas to find a chore you like.
3. Work through each one, choosing how often it repeats, who does it and whether it's High priority.

You can also write your own chore from scratch. Give it a title, category and schedule, and add notes or a website if it helps (handy for jobs like changing your address).

Only Owners and Adults can add chores.

When you set a chore to repeat, you choose how it's counted:

• On a schedule: the chore comes round on fixed dates, for example every 3 days from Monday.
• After it is done: the next date is counted from when you actually finish it, so a chore that repeats every 3 days is due 3 days after you last did it.

A chore can also be set to Once, if it only needs doing one time.

If a chore on a schedule is marked done after its due date, Cuppi asks how you'd like to carry on:

• Keep your usual schedule: the next date stays in step with the original rhythm.
• Count from today: the next date is counted from today.

For example, you water the plants every 3 days, starting Monday, and do it on Wednesday. Keep your usual schedule makes the next one Thursday, while Count from today makes it Saturday.

Missed days never pile up. There is only ever one open date for each chore.

When you add or edit a chore, choose who does it under Assigned to:

• Anyone: every adult in the household is reminded.
• One person: the chore is always theirs.
• Take turns: choose the people in order, and the turn moves on to the next person each time a chore is done.

If a chore is skipped, the turn stays with the same person.

Only Owners and Adults can assign chores.

Children can see the chores assigned to them, mark them done, and undo a completion.

They can't create, edit, delete or assign chores, and they don't see private chores. That stays with the Owner and Adults, so you stay in charge of who does what.

Switch on High priority for jobs you really don't want to forget.

Cuppi reminds whoever has the chore at 9am the day before and on the day, then each morning for 3 days while it's still not done. These reminders are set on your phone, so they work even without a connection.

A household can have up to 5 High priority chores (and up to 3 private ones each), because an iPhone only lets an app schedule a limited number of reminders.

A High priority chore can't be deleted. Switch High priority off first, or pause the chore to hide it.

There are two kinds of chore reminder:

• Morning summary: one notification at 7am on the days something is due. You'll never get one per chore, and never on a day when nothing is due. It comes from our servers, so it needs an internet connection.
• High priority reminders: set on your phone, as described in the High priority answer.

If you'd rather keep chore names private on a phone other people can see, switch off Show chore names. Notifications will then just say that something is due.

You can change all of this in the Chores settings (the cog), or under Notifications & Email in Settings.

• Mark done: tap the tick next to a chore. If someone else did it, choose their name under Done by.
• Undo: if you ticked a chore by mistake, tap Undo. You can undo the latest completion within 24 hours.
• Skip this time: moves the chore on to its next date without counting it as done. If it's on a rota, the turn stays with the same person.
• Reschedule: moves just this one occurrence to a date you choose. The chore carries on as usual afterwards.

Swipe a chore, or use its menu, to Pause or Delete it.

• Pause: hides the chore and stops its reminders. Paused chores wait under Inactive Chores in the + menu, and you can activate them whenever you like.
• Delete: moves the chore to Recently Deleted, where it stays for 30 days. Tap Restore to bring it back with its history. After 30 days it's removed for good.

If your active chores are full when you restore one, it comes back inactive.

A High priority chore can't be deleted until you switch High priority off.

Private chores are for jobs that are just for you, like a haircut or Christmas shopping.

Switch on Private when you add or edit a chore. Only you can see it. It never appears in the household's list, on the Home Feed, or in anyone else's notifications.

Private chores are for Owners and Adults, and they can't be assigned, put in rooms or shared in a rota.

On the Free tier you can keep 3 active private chores (10 in total). Cuppi Pro allows 50 active (100 in total).

The Free tier keeps up to 10 chores active at a time for the household, and Cuppi Pro keeps up to 200.

If you add a chore when your active chores are full, it isn't lost. It waits under Inactive Chores until there's room. You can activate it later, or choose Pause it and activate to swap it with a chore you're not using right now.

One-off chores free up their place as soon as they're marked done.

Across active and inactive chores together, a household can keep up to 30 on Free and 300 on Pro.

Rooms are a Cuppi Pro feature that lets you group and sort your chores by where they are.

1. Open Chores settings (the cog).
2. In the Rooms section, tap Add a room.
3. Choose a ready-made room, such as the kitchen, or create a custom one.
4. When you add or edit a chore, choose its Room.

Deleting a room keeps its chores. They just show as having no room.

Yes. When you add or edit a chore, tap the link row and choose a Shopping list. The chore then shows a link to that list, which makes jobs like "Do the Christmas shopping" a tap away. You can remove the link at any time.

A shared chore can only link to a shared list, so the names of private lists stay private.