Chores your kids will actually chase you about.
Jobs come due, doing them pays, and the balance buys something they genuinely want. It’s the allowance you keep meaning to sort out — except it keeps its own books, settles every argument about who did what, and teaches the lesson underneath all of it: money comes from work, and the good stuff is worth saving for.
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No card, no setup call. $4 a month once the trial’s up, and you can walk away any time.
The whole thing, in three moves
Jobs land on the list
Every day, certain weekdays, or every few days — whatever your week actually looks like. Each job has one name on it and a price on it, so nobody gets to argue about whose turn it was.
Doing them pays
Tap Done and the money lands in that kid’s balance — real dollars, or plain points if that suits your house better. Nobody tapped it on Tuesday? Go back and fix Tuesday; the scores redo themselves from the record, so you’re never fudging numbers to make it come out right.
The balance gets spent
Set up whatever your family actually bargains over: screen time, Friday’s movie pick, a trip out, cold hard cash. Saving up is allowed. Cashing out is the whole point — so nobody wins the leaderboard just by hoarding.
Arguments we already had, so you don’t have to
Every one of these started out the obvious way — and the obvious way turned out to quietly wind somebody up. Here’s what we landed on instead.
They’re learning, not just earning
A number that only moves when somebody does the work makes the point better than any lecture: this is what an hour is worth, this is what waiting buys you, and this is what happens when you blow the lot on Tuesday. You don’t have to give the speech — the balance gives it for you.
Yesterday stays yesterday
Raise the going rate for bin duty today and last week still pays last week’s rate. Fiddle with the rules as much as you like — you can’t accidentally rewrite money somebody already earned.
One login, one PIN
The whole house shares a sign-in, and the tablet just stays logged in on the kitchen counter. A short PIN is the only thing standing between a nine-year-old and quietly tripling what dish duty pays.
Streaks that literally catch fire
String enough good days together and you climb from Spark all the way to Wildfire. The badge sets its own words alight and gets twitchier the longer the run goes. Switch bonuses on and hitting a rung pays out, too.
A leaderboard the little one can win
Rank on what got earned, or on the share of your own jobs you actually did — so a seven-year-old racing a teenager wins on effort, not on who happened to be handed the pricier chores.
Optional · off by default
About penalties — you have to ask for them
Docking a kid’s pocket money is a call a family should make on purpose, not one they discover has been made for them. So the whole losing half of this app sits behind a single checkbox, and that checkbox starts unticked. Skip this section entirely if it isn’t for you — the app works beautifully as pure earning.
It arrives switched off
Sign up today and there is no losing side at all — a missed job simply earns nothing. Nobody’s balance can go down until somebody ticks a box on the settings page, and plenty of families never do.
You decide what a miss is worth
If you do turn it on, you pick how it bites: each chore carries its own cost, or one flat charge lands only on a day where nothing at all got done. Do a single job and the day is square — there’s always a way to stop the slide.
A bad week has a bottom
Set the lowest a balance is allowed to sink to and that’s where it stops. One rough patch shouldn’t leave a kid so deep in the hole they figure there’s no point trying, and doing a chore always moves them up.
Off is off, and changing your mind is free
While it’s off you don’t even see the losing half — no charges, no red numbers, nothing to explain. Switch it off later and tomorrow is forgiven while the days already scored keep what they cost. Switch it back on and the settings you chose are exactly where you left them.
What it costs
$4 a month
for the whole house — everybody’s in, nobody’s a “seat”
- 14 days free, and we don’t ask for a card to start
- As many people, chores and rewards as your family can dream up
- Every rule up there is optional — run it as gently as you like
- Cancel from inside the app, and keep it until the month you paid for runs out