Nipto alternative: an app with no points, at a higher price

How did we check this

Our method was deliberately narrow. Everything on this page about Nipto was read on 21 September 2026 from one public source, its US App Store listing. Every price quoted below comes from the United States storefront, for Nipto and for Bunkly alike, so the two apps are always compared on the same market. Buy from another country and your currency and tax will change the figures.

That single-storefront rule is the reason this article was rewritten. An earlier version quoted euro prices taken from the French App Store, which no reader in the United States or the United Kingdom is ever charged. Those numbers were accurate and useless at the same time.

We did not install Nipto to write this, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What follows compares what a public listing states with what we know we built, not how one app feels after a month of daily use against another. Anything we could not read from a source is marked as unverified rather than guessed.

We also make Bunkly. Read the Nipto figures as facts you can check yourself in one click, and read our opinions as opinions.

What Nipto is, in numbers

Nipto is published by Nipto. It first reached the App Store on 25 May 2020 and was last updated on 31 May 2026, so it has six years of work behind it and it is still being maintained. Both of those matter more than any feature list.

On the US storefront it holds an average of 4.7 across 876 ratings. The average is high. The sample is small, and that cuts both ways: fewer than a thousand ratings is a thin base to judge an app on, and a score built on that volume moves faster than one built on tens of thousands.

The download is free. The US listing shows exactly three in-app purchases: Premium - Monthly at $1.99, Premium - Annual at $12.99, and a third entry named simply Premium at $17.99, sold outside the two subscriptions. What that third product grants, and for how long, is not something we could verify from the listing, so we are not going to describe it.

Nipto declares ten interface languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Polish is not among them.

And Nipto is built around points and a weekly winner. Completed tasks earn points, points accumulate across the week, someone comes out on top. That is the engine of the product, not a side feature bolted on.

Nipto is cheaper, and it is not close

The uncomfortable part goes first. Nipto costs less than Bunkly on every single line of the price list.

It is $1.99 against $3.99 a month. It is $12.99 against $22.99 a year. And it is $17.99 against $49.99 for the purchase that sits outside a subscription. On the yearly plan, which is how most people end up paying for an app they keep, Nipto is $10 a year cheaper.

Two things are worth pulling out of that chart, and neither flatters us.

Three years of Nipto’s yearly plan costs $38.97, which is less than a single outright purchase of Bunkly at $49.99. If price is the deciding factor, the comparison ends right there and the answer is Nipto.

The only place the shape changes is duration. Bunkly’s $49.99 is paid once and then the line stops, so somewhere past the fourth year it lands under the cost of renewing Nipto every January. A break-even four years out is a weak argument and we will treat it as one. It counts if you have decided you are done with subscriptions. Otherwise it does not.

We left Nipto’s $17.99 product out of the chart on purpose. Plotting it across three years would mean assuming what it covers and how long it lasts, and we could verify neither.

The dividing line is points, not price

This is where the two apps genuinely part ways, and it is a decision rather than an accident.

Nipto’s model is a scoreboard. Bunkly has no points, no badges, no leaderboard and no mascot, and that choice is recorded in our design notes, alongside the other things Bunkly will not do.

The reasoning fits in two sentences. A reward that is not renewed stops working, and the housework it was propping up comes straight back. In a shared home the failure mode is worse than a reset, because the person who stops playing first looks like the one who stopped caring.

We did not want the app to be able to make that accusation on anyone's behalf.

The long version is in why gamification does not work for housework. It is an argument, not a proof. Plenty of households run on a scoreboard and enjoy it, and for them a points engine refined over six years is the better product. That is not a polite concession at the end of a sales pitch, it is the actual recommendation.

What we built instead

Recurrence anchored on the last completion

Most chore apps pin a task to a weekday. Clean the bathroom on Saturday. Miss one Saturday and you are instantly late, miss two and the app turns into a wall of overdue items that you stop opening.

Bunkly anchors each recurrence on the day the task was actually completed. Clean the bathroom on Monday instead of Saturday and the next occurrence counts from Monday. One slip stays one slip, and it never cascades into a backlog you did not create.

Undoing a tick does not wreck the schedule

Small thing, same idea underneath. Tick a task by mistake, undo it, and Bunkly recomputes the next due date from the previous real completion rather than from the mistake. The schedule goes back to where it was.

Building that surfaced one honest limit. If you had moved a due date by hand before the mis-tap, the undo restores the calculated date rather than your manual one. The case is rare, and we shipped rather than hold the release for it.

One subscription for the whole household

Bunkly’s free plan covers one household with a single member, 15 tasks, 3 zones, and the Maintenance and Garden modules capped at 5 items each. It works offline, and it ships in light and dark. Pro raises that to six members, unlimited tasks and zones, full statistics and history, and automatic rotation of assignments between members. The detail sits on the features page, and the three plans on the pricing page.

We could not verify what Nipto’s free tier includes, or whether it offers a trial, so there is no comparison to make on that row.

Two households, two answers

You live alone and the flat drifts. A weekly winner has nobody to beat, so the mechanic has little to work with. Bunkly’s free plan is built for this case: one person, 15 tasks, 3 zones, no payment and no household to set up. Nipto’s free tier may well cover a solo home too, but we could not read what it includes, so treat that as an open question rather than a point against it.

Four flatmates and a rota nobody respects. Here a scoreboard is a real tool, and it will probably work for a few months. Bunkly rotates assignments automatically on Pro instead, so nobody has to be the person who chases everyone. Which one fits depends on whether your household reads a ranking as motivating or as passive-aggressive. We have a strong opinion, and you know your flatmates better than we do.

Side by side

Every cell the check could not fill says so rather than guessing.

What Bunkly does not have

It is under three weeks old. No ratings on either store, no reviews, no update history, nothing for you to read about it except pages we wrote ourselves. Against six years and 876 ratings, that is a real disadvantage, and no feature list makes up for it.

There is no web version. A household caps at six members. There is no shopping list, no calendar and no meal planning. Bunkly speaks six languages against Nipto’s ten, and the only one it adds to that list is Polish. On raw language count, Nipto wins.

So which one

Stay on Nipto if points move the people you live with. That is the whole product, it has had six years of work, and nothing on this page is an argument against it working in your home.

Stay on Nipto too if price decides it. Cheaper monthly, cheaper yearly, cheaper on the purchase sold outside a subscription, and 876 people have already rated it before you spend anything.

Try Bunkly if a scoreboard on the housework sounds like the wrong tool for your household, if you need the interface in Polish, if you would rather pay once than keep renewing, or if you live alone and a free single-person plan is all you need.

Both apps are free to download. The honest move is to install both for a week, then keep the one your household still opens a fortnight later.

Every Nipto figure on this page was read on 21 September 2026 from the US App Store listing linked at the top. Prices and ratings move. Open it yourself before deciding anything.