OurHome Alternatives: What to Use Now It Is Gone

If you are here because OurHome stopped working, you are not imagining it. The app has been pulled from both app stores, the website is now a parked domain, and there has been no meaningful update in years. It was the free family chore app everyone recommended, so its loss left a real gap. These five apps are the closest replacements, and two of them are free.

Updated 2026-09-22. Prices checked against each vendor's own pages.

What actually happened to OurHome

OurHome was a free household organiser: chores with points, a rewards system, a shared family calendar and a shopping list, with no paywall and no per-child pricing. For years it was the default answer whenever a parent asked for a free chore app.

As of September 2026 it is effectively dead. The original App Store listing no longer resolves, there is no US Google Play listing, and ourhome.io now redirects to a parked domain lander rather than a product site. Development had already stalled years earlier — users reported bugs going unfixed and no word from the developers well before the listings disappeared.

One thing to watch for while you search. There is a newer, unrelated app called "OurHome by Elusios" on the App Store, published by a different developer. It is a household and roommate organiser that happens to share the name — not a continuation of the family chore app, and not built around children, points or rewards. If you install it expecting your old app back, you will be disappointed. You can see the listing here and judge for yourself.

So the question is not how to get OurHome back. It is which app replaces the specific part of it you relied on — and for most families that was either "free for everyone" or "chores and the calendar in one place".

The closest replacements at a glance

1. S’moresUp, the closest thing to old OurHome

If you want one app that does what OurHome did, this is it. S’moresUp is a family organiser with chores at the centre: assign and schedule jobs, rotate them between siblings, send reminders, and pay points into a wallet the child spends on rewards you define — with a family calendar, a shared hub and a playdate planner alongside. The core plan is free for unlimited family members, which was OurHome’s whole appeal.

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Why it is the natural move

• Free for the whole family, with no user cap — the same proposition that made OurHome popular.
• Chores and calendar in one app, so you are not replacing OurHome with two products.
• Around since 2017 and still actively updated, which is the thing OurHome ultimately failed at.
• Age tags on the chore library, so you are not guessing what to assign a 9 year old.
• Sibling rotation built in, settling the fairness argument OurHome also handled.

Where it differs

• Premium is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and approvals, photo proof, rotation rules and analytics live there. OurHome gave more away free.
• A lot of surface area — chores, calendar, campfire hub, goals, playdates. Setup takes longer than OurHome’s did.
• Built for the parent to drive; the child-facing side gives kids little reason to open it unprompted.

2. Kikaroo, if free was the only thing that mattered

Kikaroo is the cheapest way back to a working chore list. The free tier covers unlimited children, unlimited chores, custom rewards and reminders, with separate parent and child logins — and premium is only $2.99 a month if you want checklists and an open-chore pool where the first child to finish a posted job takes the points.

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Good

• The most generous free tier on this page, and the cheapest upgrade by a distance.
• Separate child logins, so each kid sees their own list rather than the household’s.
• Covers ages 4 to 18 on both iPhone and Android.
• Open chores work well with competitive siblings — OurHome had nothing equivalent.

Not so good

• Very new, with about a dozen App Store ratings. After OurHome that is worth pausing on: a small studio can stop shipping, and you would be starting over again.
• No calendar and no shopping list, so it replaces only part of what you had.
• Points only — no allowance, no card, no cash balance.
• Checklists are behind the paid tier.

3. Chorsee, the deepest chore engine

Chorsee is the pick if OurHome’s chore side was what you actually used and you want more of it. Colour-coded chores with custom icons, schedules that run daily, weekly, monthly or alternating, rotation between siblings, up-for-grabs jobs, subtasks, reminders, photo proof, and a balance you can run in allowance, in points, or not at all. It has roughly 4.6 stars from nearly 12,000 ratings.

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Good

• The strongest review record of the small chore apps here, which is the best proxy available for "will this still exist next year".
• You choose the economy: cash, points, or no rewards at all.
• Photo proof and subtasks give you verification and breakdown that OurHome never had.
• Instant sync across devices, with flexible scheduling that goes well beyond a daily list.

Not so good

• Its subscription price is quoted inconsistently by third-party sites, so check the current tier in the App Store before you commit.
• We could not confirm a US Google Play listing — treat it as iPhone and iPad first, which is a problem if your household is on Android.
• No calendar or shopping list, so again it is only part of a replacement.

4. Starday, if the kids’ side is what you miss

Starday takes the part of OurHome your children actually touched — the list they worked through and the points they earned — and builds a day around it. You set the routine once for morning, daytime and evening, and your child gets a day view they run alone: check the quest, the stars land immediately with no approval, the progress ring fills. Stars buy rewards you stock. One family code covers every phone, tablet and browser.

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What it adds

• A routine, not a backlog. Day, week, month and year views, so the day has a shape rather than being a pile of outstanding jobs.
• No approval step — stars land on the tap, so the system keeps running on the days you are too busy to check anyone’s work.
• Streaks, an activity heatmap and age-based routine packs from preschool to 16, plus add-ons for hygiene, movement, music and eating.
• Mood tracking in one tap a day, which over a term is genuinely useful at a school or doctor appointment.
• One price for every child: Pro is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year for the whole family.
• Every routine pack is also a free printable PDF, so you can test it on the fridge first.

What it will not replace

• No shopping list and no shared household calendar for adults — if that was your OurHome, pair it with Cozi.
• The parent side needs Pro after the 7-day trial, where OurHome was free. The child’s side stays free permanently.
• No money or allowance features.
• Age packs stop at 16.

5. Cozi, for the calendar and the shopping list

Plenty of families used OurHome mainly as a shared calendar with a shopping list attached, and barely touched the chores. If that is you, Cozi is the direct replacement: colour-coded events per person, to-do and shopping lists, and meal planning, with everyone from grandparents to a co-parent able to join.

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Good

• The best-known family calendar, and the easiest for other adults to adopt.
• Shopping and to-do lists included, which most chore apps drop entirely.
• The free version covers the essentials.

Not so good

• No points, no rewards, nothing for a child to earn — if chores were the point, this replaces nothing.
• The free tier has ads and a limited calendar window; Cozi Gold is $39 a year.
• You will need a second app for the children’s side.

How to choose

• You want one app that does what OurHome did: S’moresUp on the free core plan.
• Free is non-negotiable and you only need chores: Kikaroo, accepting that it is young.
• The chores were the point and you want them done properly: Chorsee.
• Your children need structure more than a job list: Starday, with Cozi alongside if you also lost your calendar.
• You mostly used the calendar: Cozi, and skip the chore apps entirely.

One lesson worth taking from OurHome: keep the routine somewhere that does not depend on a company staying in business. Our free printable routine checklists by age are PDFs you can print and stick on the fridge, and they are the same packs that ship inside Starday — so whichever app you land on, the list itself survives the next shutdown.

Screenshots are each app’s own App Store listing images and belong to their publishers. Store availability, prices and ratings were checked on 2026-09-22. OurHome’s original App Store listing (id 879717020) no longer returns a result from Apple’s lookup API, no US Google Play listing resolves, and ourhome.io redirects to a parked lander. "OurHome by Elusios" is a separate app by a different developer and is not a continuation of it.

Turn this checklist into quests

Paper charts die in a week. In Starday, every task on this list becomes a quest your child checks off on their own — earning stars they spend in a rewards shop you control. One family code syncs every device.

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