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Both turn chores into a game, and that's where the similarity ends. Nipto is a straightforward weekly points competition with a declared winner. Tody is more adaptive: it tracks how overdue a task actually is rather than resetting on a fixed schedule, and weighs effort with a built-in Effort Manager, with a leaderboard layered on top of that. Here's what each one actually does, and where the gamification itself becomes the thing you're managing.
Verified live 14 August 2026, checked against both apps' own App Store and Google Play listings.
Nipto is a gamified chore app for couples, families and housemates. Every completed chore earns points, players compete through the week either head to head or against a personal goal, and a winner is chosen every Sunday evening who can claim a reward. It's free to download with five free groups of recurring tasks before Premium is required.
Tody is an adaptive cleaning app that tracks how overdue each task is rather than assigning it a fixed day, rotates tasks between household members, and weighs each one with a built-in Effort Manager so a bathroom deep-clean counts for more than wiping a counter. It layers a leaderboard and monthly challenges on top of that adaptive core.
Nipto's mechanic is easy to explain in one sentence, which is exactly its strength: do the chore, get the points, see who wins Sunday. That simplicity is what makes it work for households where a straightforward game gets buy-in a "fairness conversation" never would, including kids and housemates who'll play a game they'd never sit through a discussion about.
Tody's mechanic takes longer to explain because it's actually solving a harder problem: not just who did what, but how overdue each task really is and how much it actually costs to do. The Effort Manager is a genuine attempt at real effort weighting, closer to it than a flat task count, and the adaptive-dueness model means the app itself decides what needs attention rather than running on a fixed weekly reset. The cost is that Tody stacks two mechanisms rather than one: rotation plus a leaderboard, so there's still a contest to win on top of the adaptive scheduling underneath it.
Both, in the end, still need someone to run the game: deciding what counts, settling disputes about points or overdue calculations, and remembering to check the board. That meta-work doesn't appear as a task on either leaderboard.
| Nipto | Tody | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Weekly points competition with a declared winner | Adaptive cleaning schedule, weighted by real effort |
| Fairness mechanism | Points per chore, head to head or personal goal mode | Task rotation + Effort Manager + leaderboard |
| Platform | iOS + Android, 10 languages | iOS + Android |
| Price | Free tier; Premium US$1.99/mo, US$12.99/yr or US$17.99 lifetime | Free on one device, no cloud backup; Premium US$9.99/yr solo, US$24.99/yr for two |
| Rating | 4.7 stars, 848 ratings (App Store) | 4.8 stars, 11,000+ ratings |
A gamified chore app. Every completed chore earns points, players compete through the week either head to head or against a personal goal, and a winner is chosen every Sunday evening who can claim a reward.
An adaptive cleaning app that tracks how overdue each task is, rotates tasks between household members, weighs effort with a built-in Effort Manager, and layers in a leaderboard and monthly challenges.
Both apps assume the household wants gamification, and for plenty of households that's exactly right, for a while. The catch shows up later: points get contested, someone still has to run the game, and a competition between two people on the same team tends to lose its shine well before the chores do. If you want the split to hold without a scoreboard enforcing it, that's a different mechanism entirely: one job, one owner, weighted by real effort, permanently. That's what Lyven is built for. Free while in beta.
See your own split, free →It depends what kind of gamification actually motivates your household. Nipto is a straightforward weekly points competition with a declared winner, easy to understand and genuinely fun for households that like a clear game, including kids and housemates. Tody is more sophisticated: it tracks how overdue each task actually is rather than resetting on a fixed schedule, and weighs effort with a built-in Effort Manager, so cleaning the oven counts for more than wiping a counter. If you want simple competition, Nipto. If you want the gamification to reflect real effort, Tody.
Not by design. Both are built around a scoreboard, which means the split is whoever has more points or a better completion streak, not who's carrying the noticing and planning behind the tasks. Someone still has to run the game itself, deciding what counts, resolving disputes about points, remembering to check the leaderboard, and that meta-work doesn't show up as a task either app can score. If the actual goal is stopping the scorekeeping rather than gamifying it, that's a different mechanism, and it's what Lyven is built for.
Nipto is free to download with five free groups of recurring tasks, then Premium at US$1.99/mo, US$12.99/yr or a US$17.99 one-time lifetime purchase. Tody is free on a single device with no cloud backup; Premium starts at US$9.99/yr for one person and US$24.99/yr for two, which is what a couple actually needs to share data.
Yes. Lyven's free Split Check takes about two minutes, needs no account and no download, and shows how your household's jobs are actually dividing right now, weighted by real effort, against what each of you thinks is fair. No points, no leaderboard.
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