A chore tracker app that decides whose turn it is
The job of a chore tracker app is to answer one question before anybody has to ask it out loud.
Whose turn is it? Roost holds the rotation itself, works out who owes what today, and shows each person only their own part of it.
Simply set up your chores, choose who’s in the rotation, and never think about it again.
Everyone opens the app to their own list
The Today view shows the signed-in person’s chores and nothing else. Overdue work sits at the top, including things missed earlier the same day. Everything else follows in due order.
There is no household dashboard for someone to read and then police. A shared list usually dies in its second week because one person quietly becomes the administrator of it.
And being the administrator is worse than just doing the dishes yourself.
Nobody has to remember whose turn it is
Every chore carries an ordered rotation of members. Finish your turn and it advances to the next person on its own. Somebody who has been deactivated gets skipped instead of stalling the queue behind them.
Undo is a real reversal, not a status flip. It puts the rotation back where it was and removes the follow-up occurrence the completion created. A mis-tap in your pocket never quietly costs someone their turn.
Not every chore needs to land on a specific day
Roost has eight cadences. Daily, weekly, every few days, monthly by date, monthly by weekday, one-off, and the two most apps skip: anytime this week and anytime this month.
Those last two are a huge difference. The bathroom needs cleaning this week. It does not need cleaning Tuesday. A chore on an anytime cadence stays open until the period actually ends and never looks overdue before then.
Overdue comes from the clock, not from a stored flag. A chore with a set time goes late once that time passes. A chore with no set time has until the end of the day. The schedule reads back in plain English, like “Every 2 weeks on Monday and Thursday” or “Monthly on the last Friday.”
Reminders that stay quiet
Quiet hours drop anything that would land inside them. Not defer, drop. You never wake up to a stack of notifications that were held overnight and released at seven.
When a chore slips you get one plain follow-up fifteen minutes later. Finishing something cancels its pending reminders. Vacation mode pauses the household entirely, so no new chores are generated and no overdue pressure builds while nobody is home.
A record of what actually got done
History is a plain ledger. One line per completion, grouped by day, with the person and the time. Filter it to everyone or to one person.
The household view shows the last seven days as a single bar with the exact count next to each name. Nobody is ranked against anybody. A chore can also require a photo, and a child’s completion can wait for an adult to sign off before it counts.