Why paper rotas fail
A chore chart on the fridge has three problems: you only see it when you are standing in the kitchen, nobody updates it, and there is no record of last week. Within a month it is decoration.
A group chat is worse. Chores get lost between memes, "can someone do the bins" is addressed to nobody in particular, and the person who chases everyone becomes the villain.
Set up the house group in about five minutes
1. One person creates the group
Whoever cares most starts it and shares a link or a QR code in the house chat. A free group holds up to 10 people, which covers almost every share house. Premium removes the cap.
2. Add the recurring chores once
Bins, kitchen, bathroom, hallway, recycling — set each on a repeat and it lands on the group calendar every week without anyone re-adding it. Everyone sees the same calendar, so the rota is never out of date and nobody has to maintain it.
3. Let people claim rather than get assigned
Shared group tasks can be picked up by whoever gets there first. In a house where everyone's week looks different, claiming beats assigning: the person with a free evening takes the task, and the completion record still shows who did it. If you would rather assign, you can break a task into sub-tasks and hand those to specific people.
The receipts feature. Anyone can attach a photo when they tick a chore off, and it lands on the group wall where the rest of the house can react to it. Half the arguments in a share house are about whether something happened, and this ends them.
Turn the rota into a leaderboard
Every finished task earns XP and grows your tree, and the house can see the streaks stacking up. Premium adds competitions and challenges — fastest time, highest score, a daily check-in streak, or a peer vote on who did the best job. Scoring can combine time and votes, and the breakdown shows how each side contributed.
It is a lighter way to deal with an uneven house than a meeting about it.
The house shop
Anything the house needs collectively can go on the group calendar as a shared task, so "we're out of washing-up liquid" is written down somewhere other than the chat.
For your own run to the shop, the shopping cart (Premium+) is a personal list on your phone that knows where things are sold: search for a product, find nearby stores filtered by closest, cheapest or open now, and switch on a reminder so Todofun nudges you when you actually arrive there.
What it costs
Free to download and free to use. The free plan gives you unlimited personal tasks and lists, unlimited shared group tasks, one group of your own with up to 10 members, one habit, and three location reminders.
Only the person who owns the group ever needs to subscribe — the member cap follows the owner's tier, so one housemate on Premium means the whole house runs uncapped on free accounts.
Common questions
How many roommates can join?
A free group holds up to 10 people including the organiser. Premium removes that cap entirely. The limit follows the group owner, so if one housemate subscribes, everyone else can join on a free account.
Does everyone need to create an account?
To join a group, yes — an account is what a shared task gets attached to. You can use Todofun on your own without one, and sign in only when you want to join the house group.
Can we prove someone actually did the chore?
You can attach a photo when marking a task complete, and the group wall shows what got done and by whom, with reactions and comments. It settles most arguments before they start.
What if someone stops pulling their weight?
The group calendar and the completion history make it visible without anyone having to bring it up. Premium competitions and leaderboards turn the same data into a scoreboard, which some houses find works better than a conversation.
Can other people find our house group?
No. Groups are private and invite-only, joined by share link, email invite or QR code. There is no public feed, no discovery, and no strangers.