Comparison

MokoDo vs Empty Boat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MokoDo

This app helps parents create a calm and motivating system for children's chores, homework, and daily habits. It allows families to plan routines, assign tasks, and earn rewards, turning responsibilities into visible progress and learning opportunities.

Highlights
  • Customizable chore and habit routines
  • Reward system with Moko coins
  • Photo proof for task completion
  • Moko Academy learning packs
  • Moko Games for coin redemption
  • Family sync across devices
  • Progress tracking and charts
Features
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"Did you brush your teeth?" "Time for homework." "Please tidy your room." MokoDo is a family chore chart and reward system that turns everyday reminders into a calm routine. You plan the day and set the rewards; your children see their own list, get things done, earn coins and save toward goals they chose themselves. MEET MOKO Moko is your child's companion in the app. He greets your child by name, hides behind the day's tasks and comes out to play as they get done. Kids dress him up in costumes they buy with the coins they earn. CHORES, HOMEWORK AND HABITS • Morning routines, weekly chores, reading, homework, music practice, pet care or one-off tasks • Daily, weekly, monthly or one-time schedules • Checklists inside a task, so "tidy your room" becomes clear steps • Task checks: none, a quick confirmation or photo proof • A day-by-day agenda with a calendar shows the whole family at a glance REWARDS AND GOALS THAT FEEL FAIR Rewards can be anything that fits your family: extra screen time, a treat, a trip, a toy or a bigger savings goal. You decide what a coin is worth and set a weekly reward limit. Your child pays for a reward with coins, and you hand it out right away or later, when it suits you. MOKO PATH Tell MokoDo about your child and it suggests a plan: which tasks, how many coins, and when the goal can be reached. Moko Path then shows each step along the way, the rhythm of the week and the piggy bank, and celebrates every step reached. MOKO ACADEMY Choose a learning theme and MokoDo spreads short activities across the week: facts, mini lessons, quizzes and playful challenges. Topics include space, nature, animals, the human body, physics, chemistry, English and more. Moko can read tasks and lessons aloud for younger children. MOKO GAMES Coins can also be spent on Moko Games: logic puzzles, chess puzzles and spatial block puzzles. Screen time becomes something earned rather than negotiated. MADE FOR REAL FAMILIES • Children use their own device or a parent's • Several children can share one tablet, each with their own profile and picture password • Parents, grandparents and babysitters stay in sync • Notifications you can tune by type • No ads and no social feed MOKODO PREMIUM MokoDo is free to start. The optional Premium subscription covers the whole family and adds photo proof, weekly and monthly schedules, a second parent, more Academy packs, detailed statistics, Moko's costumes and extra themes. Terms of Use: https://mokodo.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://mokodo.app/privacy

About

Empty Boat

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Something happened. You're about to do something about it. Empty Boat is what you open in that gap. You write what happened. You get one story from Zhuangzi - a Taoist text from the 4th century BC - set against your situation, a question, and one thing to stop doing. Not "do this instead." One subtraction. Want another angle, you ask for it. Most people stop at one. Some nights there is nothing to reframe. You are tired and you are reading it correctly. When that is the case the app says so, and tries to name what you are carrying instead of handing you a parable that would only argue with you. Seven days later it asks one question about what you wrote. That is what makes the log worth keeping - not a diary, a record of which things still mattered a week on. WHAT IT ISN'T A chatbot. There is nothing here to have a conversation with. A meditation app. No timers, no breathing, no sounds. A course in Taoism. It will not explain wu wei. A streak. There is nothing to keep up. WHAT IT WON'T DO It will not tell you what to do. It will not comfort you. It will not say everything happens for a reason. It has nothing to say about your body, your eating, or your drinking, and it will tell you that rather than guess. Your log stays on your phone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MokoDo4 screens
Empty Boat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: MokoDo at 3 against Empty Boat's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MokoDo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Empty Boat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MokoDo ships an update every 8 days, Empty Boat every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
MokoDo versus Empty Boat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMokoDoEmpty Boat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperEditaleNguyen Manh

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MokoDo

Subscriptions2
  • Kids Chores & Rewards – Month3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Kids Chores & Rewards – Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chores & Rewards – Lifetime$89.99
2 purchases

Empty Boat

Subscriptions2
  • EmptyBoat_Monthly$14.991 Month
  • EmptyBoat_yearly$69.991 Year

Questions

Is MokoDo free?
MokoDo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Empty Boat free?
Empty Boat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MokoDo or Empty Boat have ads?
Neither MokoDo nor Empty Boat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MokoDo or Empty Boat?
MokoDo ships an update every 8 days, and Empty Boat every 11 days. Most recently, MokoDo was updated on October 28, 2026 and Empty Boat on October 29, 2026.

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