taskr vs. Piggy

The short version

Piggy, from AIRA Products, is a clear and well-rated earn-your-time app, with 4.57 stars from 47 ratings as of November 2026. Kids complete chores, send a photo, and you approve. Each approval adds credits to a bank they redeem to unlock the apps you choose, one minute per credit. taskr shares the photo and the approval, but not the bank. Your kid isn't earning anything. They're just keeping what they have by doing the job on time.

• Pick Piggy if you want your kid to earn every minute, and you like them having a bank to manage.
• Pick taskr if you want chores done by a set time, and the phone to work normally the rest of the time.

Where Piggy is the better pick

Teaching kids to budget. A screen-time bank gives your kid a number to watch and a decision to make about when to spend it, which taskr doesn't do. For a kid who likes saving up, that's motivating in its own right.

Its privacy practice around photos is also stronger than most: they're deleted as soon as you approve or deny them. And it has more App Store ratings than any of the other newer apps in this category.

Everything is earned vs. nothing changes unless it's late

Piggy's deal is simple: effort in, screen time out. Every minute comes from a chore, so a kid who does nothing gets nothing. That's a strong stance, and it means every chore you add has to be worth something in credits. It also means you're reviewing photos often enough to keep your kid's bank topped up.

taskr's deal is narrower. Your kid's phone is theirs until they miss a deadline. On a good day there's nothing to approve beyond the chores you assigned and nothing to spend, and you only ever deal with the lock when something's actually late. If most days are fine and one job keeps slipping, that's a much lighter system.

Comparing others too?

See taskr vs. ChoreKey, ChoreLocks, Carrots&Cake, Chore Champ, ScreenTreat, ScreenCoach, Earn Screen Time, Screeni, ScreenChore. Or read the full roundup of parental control apps that lock a phone until chores are done, or how taskr works.