Frequently asked questions

A task can repeat every day, on chosen weekdays, every other week, monthly or even yearly — or be a one-time task with an optional date. It appears under Today on the days it is due. Tasks landing within the coming week also line up under Upcoming, marked with the day they arrive. An Anytime task has no schedule at all: it is always available — perfect for bonus chores — and its row quietly shows how many days ago it was last done. A repeating task can opt into Anytime in its editor — on days its schedule does not call for it, it lines up there too.

Tasks landing within the coming week — in each member’s card and among the family’s shared tasks alike — lined up with the day they arrive: Tomorrow, or the weekday and date. The rows are a preview: there is nothing to check off yet, and the task joins the day’s list when its day comes.

The task is due on its chosen weekdays every second week. The rhythm anchors at the first selected weekday, and the editor’s “Next time” row shows exactly when it lands next.

Yes — the task editor has a pause switch (say, lawn mowing over winter). A paused task keeps its schedule, points and history but is not due anywhere until you resume it.

It stays listed in the Family tab with a pause badge.

It stays under Today — flagged as overdue once its date passes — until someone does it. Then it is crossed out for that day and archives itself afterwards.

A one-time task with a date stays listed past its day, marked with the date it was due. A missed repeating task keeps showing on the following days as “Overdue” with how many days late it is — doing it late counts on the day it was actually done.

Not happening this time? Swipe left and choose Postpone — the task rests until its next scheduled day.

Yes — swipe left on an unfinished repeating task under Today and choose Postpone. The pending occurrence is dismissed — any overdue backlog behind it too — and the task rests until its next scheduled day; a newly missed day nags again. The task’s editor lists the postponed days since it was last completed — swipe a row there to remove one.

Everyone postpones their own occurrence of a personal task, while a shared or rotating task’s postpone covers the whole family. One-time and Anytime tasks have no occurrence to skip, so they offer no postpone.

Yes — on the Day tab, step between days with the arrows or tap the date pill to jump anywhere in a calendar; check-offs land on the day you are viewing. The weekday buttons below switch days within the shown week with one tap. The Week tab does the same per week, and every day cell in its grid can be logged directly.

Reminders ring only on the devices whose “This is me” is one of the people picked for the task — a rotating task reminds just the person whose turn it is that day. Once your own part is done, your phone goes quiet. On a repeating task a reminder is a clock time for its due days; an Anytime task or a one-time task without a date picks a full date instead.

A device where no profile is picked gets every reminder.

Events are things that happen — a dentist appointment, a match — not chores to check off. Create one from the Family tab’s plus menu and pick who sees it: it shows at the top of those members’ Today lists — today’s under Events, tomorrow’s under their own Tomorrow heading.

An event can never become overdue, be postponed or be checked off. Tap it to edit, pause or archive it — and restore archived ones under Archived events.

An event is all-day by default. Give it a start time — and optionally an end time — and the time shows on the row, with new reminders suggested an hour before the start.

“Everyone” gives each picked member their own copy — everyone brushes their own teeth.

“Anyone” is one shared task for the whole family: checking it off logs it for the profile picked under “This is me” — if no profile is picked, the app asks who you are first. Did someone else do it, or several together? Swipe left and pick “Who did it?” — everyone you pick gets the full points.

A rotating task takes turns among the picked members — one person is on duty each due day, following the family’s member order. Tap the rotation badge on the row to swap whose turn it is today.

Swipe left on the task under Today and pick “Who did it?”. Choose one or more members — the task settles for its owner, and the doers get the points.

For a checklist, the swipe completes the remaining steps. A single step can be swiped the same way.

A task can carry steps; it is complete when every step of the round is checked. Steps pay no points on their own — completing the round pays the task’s full points.

You can save a task’s steps as a reusable checklist and import them into other tasks.

Members are the people IN the app — profiles you create and hand tasks to; a whole family can live on one phone. Family sharing connects other PHONES: after an invitation, the same family — tasks, check-offs, points — appears in the app on that person’s device too, and everything stays in sync.

Open “Manage family…” on the Family tab and pick “Invite family members…” — send the link, for example with Messages. On the other phone: install Family Tasks, open the link and accept, then pick who you are under “This is me”.

Both phones need to be signed in to iCloud.

Everything about the family itself: add, edit and reorder members (the order drives the lists and rotation turns), “This is me”, the family name, family sharing — and, for the owner, deleting the family.

No. Members without a device are simply profiles someone else checks off for.

Only a person who should see the family on their own phone needs an invitation — and their own iCloud account.

The person who created the family — it lives in their iCloud. Only the owner can rename or delete the family and send invitations; everyone else joins through the share.

It tells the app which member profile is you on this device — your check-offs are signed with it and your tasks sort first. Pick “Not picked” to clear it — for example on a shared family tablet. Several devices can pick the same profile.

Premium unlocks rewards, trends and the full history for the whole family. One subscription, paid by the family owner — everyone else gets it automatically.

Have a promo or offer code? Redeem it at the bottom of the Premium page.

Each completed task pays its points to whoever did it — every time it is done that day. Points become coins that can be spent on the family’s rewards.

The flame counts days in a row with at least one completed task. A day that is still in progress never breaks it — only a fully missed day does.

If you have not checked anything off by 18:00, the app nudges you with Don't lose your streak! — do at least one task a day and your streak lives on. Turn it off under Settings with the Streak reminder switch.

With Premium, you create rewards — movie night, ice cream — that members redeem with their coins. Long-press a reward card to edit or remove it.

Redemptions are logged so you can honor them later. A badge on the Rewards tab counts the ones still waiting to be handed out.

Members earn awards for milestones like streaks and totals. Tap a member’s award strip in the Family tab to browse the whole gallery.

Today lists each member with how many tasks they have done today and their streak — tap a row to see exactly which tasks. Week counts the same per week, and its arrows browse other weeks. With Premium, the Trend chart and the family's whole History follow below.

The bar chart under Statistics stacks each period's completed tasks or points, one color per member. Swipe the chart sideways to travel further back in time, and tap a bar to see the exact numbers behind it.

Yes — show Tasks or Points, group the bars by day, week, month, quarter or year, and filter by member, category or a single task. Coarser groups reach further back in time.

Every check-off the family has logged, newest first — who did what and when, checklist steps included. The search box filters it by task name, and Show more keeps walking further back; nothing is ever pruned away.

Open the Week tab and tap any day cell — every cell can be logged, including past days. The Day tab works too: browse to the day with the arrows or the date pill’s calendar, and check off in that day’s list.

“We did take out the trash two days in a row” is exactly what it is for.

Tap a completed task’s checkbox to open the day log — the week grid’s day cells open it too. Tap a logged row to un-check that person, or “Log one more” to add a time.