Chore apps fail because a parent has to be the referee

Every chore chart works for about two weeks. The failure is always the same: someone has to check the work, and that someone gets tired of checking.

ChoreSplit moves the checking off the adult. A kid marks the chore done by photographing it, AI looks at the photo against what the chore was supposed to be, and the points land automatically. Points convert to real money on the kid's own debit card, so the reward is not a sticker that stops being motivating in March.

Two design decisions that were less obvious than they sound.

Flat pricing rather than per seat. Five dollars a month for unlimited family members. Per-seat pricing on a family app punishes exactly the households that use it most, and a family of six is a better customer than a family of two, not a more expensive one.

Multi-household from the start rather than bolted on later. Plenty of kids split time across two homes, and a chore system that assumes one address quietly excludes them. Retrofitting that assumption would have been painful.

If you have built anything that verifies user-submitted photos automatically, I would be curious how you handled the ambiguous cases. That is where most of our tuning has gone.