A Tody alternative, compared honestly on US prices

How did we check this

Our method was deliberately narrow, and narrower here than we would like. Everything below about Tody was read on 21 September 2026 from one public source: its US App Store listing, published by Looploop IVS. Every price on this page is the US App Store price, for Tody and for Bunkly alike, so the two apps are always compared on the same storefront. Your own currency and tax may differ, and a reader in another country is never charged the figures quoted here.

We did not install Tody to write this, and that has a consequence worth holding on to for the rest of the page. What follows compares what the two listings state: prices, ratings, languages, dates. It does not describe how Tody works, what a task looks like inside it or how the app feels after a month in a real household, because none of that was verified. Where a question mattered and the listing did not answer it, the answer below is that it could not be verified. That is less satisfying than a confident claim, and it is the only honest version.

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

What Tody is, in numbers

Tody first reached the App Store on 29 January 2013, and its most recent update shipped on 29 August 2026. That is more than thirteen years of releases behind it. Bunkly is three weeks old. No feature list, ours included, closes a gap of that size.

The rating matches the longevity. On the US App Store, Tody sits at 4.8 across 10,677 ratings. Ten thousand ratings is not a number a young app can argue with, and it carries information no comparison page can give you: thousands of households have already run this app through real weeks, real holidays and real arguments about the bins.

The download is free. The US listing shows four in-app purchases: Premium Solo at $9.99, Premium+ Duo at $24.99, Premium+ Family at $39.99 and Premium+ Team at $79.99. The tier names clearly point at different household sizes, but the listing we read does not state how many people each one covers, and we are not going to guess on your behalf. Check that on the listing itself before you pay for a tier.

Tody declares ten interface languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Neither Italian nor Polish is among them.

That is a long-lived product with a large audience, and nothing further down this page changes those numbers.

The price gap, laid out

The uncomfortable part goes first. Tody’s cheapest paid tier costs $9.99 and Bunkly’s one-off purchase costs $49.99, five times more. Even Tody’s Premium+ Family tier, at $39.99, still lands below it. Only Premium+ Team at $79.99 sits above.

The bars are listed prices, not equivalent products, and the chart would be dishonest if it pretended otherwise. Bunkly also sells Pro as a subscription, $3.99 a month or $22.99 a year, with a seven-day free trial on both. What Tody’s tiers include, how long they last and who they cover are exactly the things we could not verify from the listing, so the comparison stops at the number on the price tag.

Even with that caveat, the direction is not in doubt. The cheapest way to unlock one of these two apps is Tody, by a wide margin. The price question is not which app costs less. It is whether the difference buys you something your household actually wants, and for a lot of readers it will not.

What did we decide not to build, and why

This is where the two apps genuinely diverge, and it comes down to three decisions taken while building Bunkly. These are our own notes about our own product. Nothing here is a claim about Tody.

No points, no badges, no mascot

Plenty of chore apps run on points, streaks, rankings and a friendly character who reacts when you tidy up. We looked hard at that model while designing Bunkly and chose against all of it. The decision is recorded in our design notes, alongside the other things Bunkly will not do.

The reasoning fits in one sentence: 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 simple reset, because the person who stops playing first looks like the person who stopped caring. An app should not manufacture that accusation between two people who live together. The full argument is in why gamification does not work for housework, and it is an argument rather than a proof. Plenty of households will disagree, and if a scoreboard genuinely moves yours, believe your own experience over our design notes.

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 becomes a wall of overdue items that you quietly stop opening.

Bunkly anchors each recurrence on the day the task was actually completed, not on the calendar. Clean the bathroom on Monday instead of Saturday and the next occurrence counts from Monday. One slip stays one slip. It never cascades, and nobody gets punished twice for the same delay.

A list that turns red after one bad week is a list you stop opening.

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 returns to where it was.

One honest limit came out of building that, and we would rather state it than let you find it: if the due date had been moved by hand before the mis-tap, the undo restores the calculated date, not your manual one. The case is rare and we chose to ship rather than hold the release for it.

Two concrete situations

Take two households, because a price table alone rarely decides anything.

You live alone and the flat drifts. Bunkly’s free plan was designed for exactly this: one household, one member, 15 tasks, 3 zones, and the Maintenance and Garden modules capped at 5 items each. No payment, no trial clock, no household to set up. It works offline and it ships with a light and a dark theme. Tody is also free to download, and what its free plan includes is one of the things we did not verify, so compare the two yourself with your own list loaded into each.

Six of you in a flatshare. Bunkly Pro covers up to six members on one plan, with unlimited tasks and zones, full stats and history, and automatic rotation of assignments between members so no one has to play the person who reminds everybody. Tody sells a Family tier at $39.99 and a Team tier at $79.99, and how many people sit behind each of those names is precisely what the listing did not tell us. For a household of that size, that is the first thing to check, and it is cheap to check.

Side by side

Only what both listings state, read on the US App Store on 21 September 2026. Anything the reading could not settle says so.

One row is worth a comment rather than a number. On raw language count Tody wins, ten against six, and it covers Japanese, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch and Portuguese where Bunkly does not. Bunkly covers Italian and Polish where Tody does not. Neither is better than the other, they are different bets about who is going to open the app.

What Bunkly does not have

It is three weeks old. No reviews, no rating, no update history, nothing to read about it except pages we wrote ourselves. That is the honest state of things, and no feature list compensates for it.

There is no web version, so there is nothing to open in a browser on an office computer. A household caps at six members. There is no shopping list, no calendar and no meal planning. No user photos are stored anywhere, by decision rather than by omission. The full detail sits on the features page, and all three prices on the pricing page.

So which one

Stay on Tody if the price gap alone settles it, since $9.99 against $49.99 is a real argument and we are not going to talk you out of it. Stay if your household language is Japanese, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch or Portuguese, none of which Bunkly speaks. Stay if you would rather trust an app that ten thousand people have already rated at 4.8 over thirteen years than one that has been on sale for three weeks. Every one of those is a good reason.

Try Bunkly if you need the interface in Italian or Polish, if you want one plan covering up to six members without working out which tier fits your household, if a scoreboard on the housework sounds like the wrong tool for the people you live with, or if no ads and no analytics at all matters to you. Both apps are free to download, so load your own real list into each, and decide after a week rather than from a table.

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