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Choose & complete a chore
Children see their assigned and optional chores, follow clear instructions and mark completed work as done — with an optional note or photo.
🧺Sort the laundryDone
🪥Brush teethTo do
A private family chore & reward app
Helping at home feels good together.
HomeCrew turns everyday household responsibilities into a simple, positive family routine. Children complete chores, parents approve their effort and points can be exchanged for meaningful family rewards.
Private by default
No advertising
No sibling leaderboards
Why chores matter
Children who help at home do better later in life.
A long-running University of Minnesota study followed young people into their mid-twenties and found that taking part in household tasks from an early age was the single best childhood predictor of later success — in education, careers, relationships and self-reliance.
HomeCrew is built to make that participation easy and positive: clear tasks, real recognition and rewards a family chooses together — never pressure or competition.
Source: Rossmann, M. (2002), University of Minnesota — longitudinal study of 84 young adults. The finding is often popularised as the “Harvard study on chores”; the enduring evidence traces to this research and to the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
Ages 3–4
The age at which starting to help at home most strongly predicted later success.
Mid-20s
Participants were tracked into adulthood — measuring education, career, relationships and independence.
#1 predictor
Early involvement in household tasks outranked other childhood factors studied.
How it works
Three simple steps
HomeCrew keeps the everyday loop calm and clear — for children and for the adults who approve their work.
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A parent approves the work
The completed chore appears in the parent approval inbox. A parent can approve it, return it for a small correction, or decline it with a short explanation.
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Empty the dishwasher
Oskar · +30
Oskar · +30
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Points become rewards
Approved chores earn points. Children exchange them for family-defined rewards — pocket money recorded in the app, extra device time, or a custom treat.
💰Pocket money120 pts
📱30 min device time30 pts
A calm home screen
Everything a child needs, nothing they don't.
Big, friendly controls, today's chores at a glance and points that only go up when a parent approves. No feeds, no ads, no pressure — just the next helpful thing to do.
- Today's chores, front and centre
- Points update only after a parent approves
- Rewards the family chooses together
Chore approvedOskar earned 30 points
HomeCrewO
Good afternoon
Hi, Oskar
Your points
240 points
18 to your next reward
Today's chores2 to do
🍽️
Empty the dishwasherKitchen · checklist
+30
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Make your bedBedroom
+10
📚
Tidy the bookshelfOptional
+15
Reward ready30 min device time
For families
Good for children. Reassuring for parents.
HomeCrew is designed to encourage cooperation rather than competition — with parents firmly in control.
👧 For children
A space that feels like theirs
- Clear, manageable responsibilities
- Large, simple controls that are easy to use
- Personal progress and reward goals
- Positive recognition for contributing
- Individual profiles, avatars and accent colours
- No public rankings or sibling competition
👨👩👧 For parents
Control that stays quietly in the background
- Quick one-tap approvals
- Recurring chore schedules
- Parent-controlled points and rewards
- Daily and weekly earning limits
- Separate accounts for multiple adults
- Complete, traceable activity history
- Support for different currencies
- Access from iPhone, iPad and browser
Schedule once, run all week
Set recurring routines so the right chores appear on the right days — no daily re-entry.
Every action recorded
Points earned and spent, approvals, rejections, redemptions and manual corrections — all traceable.
Gentle, not gamified
Personal progress, family goals and soft streaks — without manipulative engagement or endless badges.
📱 Coming soon
HomeCrew for iPhone and iPad
The native app is on its way to the App Store. One family account works across every supported device — iPhone, iPad and the web — so chores, approvals, points and rewards stay in sync.
Coming soon to theApp Store
More about the app →
A QR code to the App Store listing will appear here once the app is live.
Prefer the browser? Open the HomeCrew WebApp →
Already have a family?
Pick up right where you left off.
Enter your eight-character family code to open the HomeCrew WebApp. You'll choose a child or adult profile and enter its PIN on the next screen. The browser version uses the same family data as the app, so everything stays in sync.
New here? Start a new family →
Pricing
Free during early access
Use every current HomeCrew feature for your household while the service is in early access.
Early access
Free for your whole family
No advertising, no card details and no charge per child. When paid plans arrive, HomeCrew will be priced per family — and you'll get clear notice first.
€0
per family
- Unlimited children and chores
- Approvals, rewards and history
- iPhone, iPad and browser access
- No advertising, ever
- No card required
- Private by default
Existing families will receive clear notice before any pricing changes take effect.
Privacy & trust
Built for families, private by design.
Because HomeCrew is made for children, we keep the rules simple and the data close to home.
No public child profiles
There are no public profiles, no messaging with strangers and no leaderboards. Each child has a protected personal space.
Parents stay in control
Children can't award themselves points, and parent approval is required before rewards are granted.
No ads, no data selling
HomeCrew contains no advertising and never sells family information. Photos are used only for the family's own chore workflow.
Family data stays private
Information lives on your device unless a parent turns on browser access. Codes, PINs, photos and history are never shown on public pages.
Honest about the MVP
HomeCrew doesn't transfer money or control Apple Screen Time. It records the rewards your family agrees on — you apply them.
Read the details
Our Privacy Policy is written in plain language. Questions? Support is here.
One routine the whole family feels good about.
Children contribute, parents notice their effort, and progress leads to meaningful rewards.