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Do I need an account?

No. There's no Chore Dash sign-up and no login. Sync runs through the iCloud account your iPhone is already signed in to. Open the app and add your kids.

Where does our data live?

On your iPhone, and in your own iCloud. Your children, their chores, balances, ledger and goals are stored on the device, and a copy syncs through your iCloud account. Chore Dash has no server of its own, so nobody else can see it, including the developer.

If you're not signed in to iCloud, or you've turned iCloud off for Chore Dash in Settings › your name › iCloud, the household stays on that one device and nothing is uploaded.

Using more than one device

Install Chore Dash on another device signed in to the same Apple ID and the same household shows up there. Tick a chore on one and the tick appears on the other. It isn't instant, so give it up to a minute and bring the app to the front. Chore Dash is an iPhone app, though an iPad on the same Apple ID can run it too.

No signal? Keep going. Changes catch up once the device is back online. If two devices both ran the Sunday reset while offline, each child still ends up with one payout for that week.

Lost or replaced phone

Sign in to the new phone with the same Apple ID and install Chore Dash. The household comes down from iCloud: children, chores, balances, ledger and goals, as they were the last time the old phone synced. Your subscription belongs to your Apple ID too, so it comes with you. Anything the old phone recorded offline and never got to sync won't be there.

If iCloud was off for Chore Dash, the phone's own backup holds the only other copy. Chore Dash data is included in iCloud Backup, and in backups to a Mac or PC, along with your other apps. Restore that backup onto the new phone and Chore Dash comes back as it was when the backup was made.

Can two parents share a household?

Not across two Apple IDs yet. Sync follows the Apple ID, so every device signed in to yours shares one household. A second parent on their own Apple ID gets a separate household and won't see your changes. For now, run chores and the Sunday reset from one parent's devices.

Setting up chores

Open Settings, tap a child, and add their jobs, choosing daily or weekly for each. A chore earns one of two ways: allowance chores share the child's weekly allowance pot, and fixed-rate chores pay their own set rate per completion. A child can have a mix of both.

When does money move?

Chore earnings move once a week, at the Sunday reset. Ticking a chore never pays on the spot — even a fixed-rate chore accrues toward Sunday. The Money tab always shows what's coming so there are no surprises.

The exception is money a parent types in directly: a deposit (pocket money from before the app, gift money, a one-off job) or a withdrawal (cash actually handed over). Those post immediately, because the money already moved in real life.

Running the Sunday reset

Open the Money tab and run the reset. It pays each child's week out as a single "weekly allowance" ledger entry, clears the completions, and starts the new week. It's manual on purpose — run it on the Sunday you get to it, and nothing is lost if it slips to Monday.

Goals

Each child can have one active goal — a savings target their whole balance climbs toward, with a "≈ N weeks to go" estimate based on what they usually earn. When the target's reached, use "withdraw and close" to record the hand-over: the goal's amount is withdrawn, anything saved past it stays with the child.

Fixing a mistyped entry

Delete the entry and re-enter it. Deleting cleanly undoes the amount, because a balance is always just the sum of the ledger. Only entries a parent typed (deposits and withdrawals) can be deleted — Sunday payouts stay put.

Why is the balance negative?

Because nothing stops you handing over more cash than the child has saved. The ledger records what actually happened, and the balance climbs back as they earn.

Deleting your data

Chore Dash keeps a copy on each device and one in your iCloud, so it takes two steps. First delete the app from every device that has it. Then open Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage, pick Chore Dash, and choose Delete Data from iCloud. Do it in that order so no device is left with a copy.

A device backup made before you deleted the app still holds one until that backup is replaced or deleted. Deleting the app doesn't cancel your subscription. Do that in Settings › your name › Subscriptions.

Contact

Still stuck, or have a request? Email burdens.corm.2f@icloud.com and you'll get a reply.