Build a routine per kid
Set what days of the week it runs. Brush teeth, shoes on, feed the cat… totally up to you. This is the only part that’s required, and you do it once.
helping kids get their @#$%! done and keeping yours together.
A free app to help kids (and their grown-ups) manage routines, tasks, and chores.
Free. No card, no trial, no tiers. There’s a tip jar and it’s genuinely optional.
How it works
Set a routine for each kid. Optionally add chores worth points, and prizes to spend them on. The rest runs itself.
Optional: points and prizes
Add chores to the list and give each one a point value, then stock prizes to spend the points on. Skip it and the routine still works as a plain checklist.
Routines visible on your devices
It’s a web page, so it opens on whatever’s nearby — a tablet, your phone, a laptop. Every device signed in to your family shows the same list for today.
They check it off
Kids tap their own name and their own tasks. No account, no password, no email address for a seven-year-old.
They spend the points
Kids can choose to spend points on prizes you set. Legos, snacks, books, “mystery surprise” — creativity is the limit.
And every kid gets a beaver.
It builds a pond, and every finished task — worth points or not — adds one more notch to it. The pond only ever grows: it can’t be reset and it can’t be spent, so a bad week costs nothing that was already earned. That’s the part they come back for, and it’s why this doesn’t die in week three like a sticker chart.
Features
All of it. There’s no other tier.
Routines and chores
Repeating daily lists plus one-off jobs, per kid. Each routine runs only on the days of the week you pick.
See how it works ↓Points ledger
Every points activity gets a ledger entry so kids can see how points were earned, spent and their total balance.
See how it works ↓A prize store you stock
Prizes kids choose with point values you set. Complete with photos. Redeeming logs and deducts the points.
See how it works ↓The habitat
A nature habitat that grows and expands as chores and tasks are completed. A fun, visual progress indicator for kids.
See how it works ↓Runs on any device
It’s a web page, not an app you install — an old tablet propped up somewhere, your phone, the laptop nobody uses. A parent signs in once per device, and everything stays up to date across all of them.
No logins for kids
A child taps their name and gets their list. No password, no email address, no account to recover.
A parent PIN
Four to six digits over the parent side, re-asked after thirty minutes. Forget it and your account password clears it.
Food logging
A food list you build for your family, each item worth points, so the vegetables count for something.
Hide what you don’t use
Points, prizes and foods each switch off on their own, so the screen shows only what your family actually uses.
Routines
Write it once. It runs on the days you choose.
A routine is a short list belonging to one kid — each task with a time, an icon and a place in the order. Pick which days of the week it runs and it simply isn’t there on the others. Chores go in the same list; they’re the ones that carry points.
Yes, they can tap it without doing it
It’s a checklist, not a lie detector — but every tap is on the record with a time on it.
Being late costs nothing
A task past its time turns red, and that’s the entire penalty. Nothing is deducted, nothing is lost, and the points are the same at 8:40 as they were at 7:40.
The points ledger
See where every point went.
Every points activity gets a ledger entry so kids can see how points were earned, spent and their total balance.
The prize store
Kids pick the prizes, you set the price.
Build the store together — the incentives and rewards that actually keep them motivated — and decide how many points each item costs. Spending deducts from the ledger.
The habitat
A sticker is the same sticker every time.
The habitat starts as a simple beaver, named by your child, and from then on every finished task changes something in it: the water rises, sticks pile up, a dam takes shape, a lodge gets a lit den, fireflies come out over the water, a new animal appears. There is always a next thing to see, so the pull is curiosity rather than just the prize. And because it’s theirs and it visibly answers to what they do, the chore stops being only a transaction and becomes something they are tending.
Why it works
They’re not being difficult. They’re being six.
A four-step instruction that falls apart after step one isn’t always defiance or a listening problem — kids lose track of the list halfway through. Somewhere between six and ten they’re still building the part of the brain that holds a sequence while they’re in the middle of doing it, and that part of the brain improves on its own schedule. Until it does, somebody has to hold the list — and right now that somebody is you, eleven times, out loud.
A six-year-old can hold about two or three things in mind at once. An eight-year-old, maybe four.
Shows one thing at a time — a single “do this now” card, with the rest of the day listed underneath it.
“Get ready for school” isn’t one instruction. It’s about seven.
Makes a task one action. Brush teeth. Shoes on. Feed the cat. You break the list down once, when you build the routine.
A picture registers faster than a word at this age, even once they can read.
Gives every task an icon. Reading is still work at seven; recognizing the toothbrush isn’t.
Which tasks count as “routines” and which count as “chores” is your filing system, not theirs.
Never shows a kid that split. They get one list, in time order, answering one question: what do I do today.
“Later” barely registers. A reward a month away is worth almost nothing today.
Puts the points balance on every screen, and shows what they can afford right now next to what they can’t yet.
Most reward charts work for about two weeks. Then they stop, and it isn’t because the kid stopped caring.
Makes the beaver’s pond impossible to reset or spend. A bad week takes nothing away, so there’s never a wiped board to start over from.
None of this makes anyone’s brain develop faster, and it isn’t treatment for anything. It does a job from the outside that they can’t do from the inside yet.
Data and privacy
Your family’s data and privacy intact.
What you type in is the only thing the app tracks: your kids’ first names, their lists, their points, what they’ve redeemed. That has to be stored or there’s nothing to display. Past that, the only things kept are what’s needed to sign you in and the ordinary server logs any website produces.
No analytics, no tracking pixel, no ad network, and no third party being handed any of it. Nothing about your family is sold or shared.
routines, done. @#$%!, intact.
Set it up tonight. One list, one iPad, free — and tomorrow morning it’s already up before anyone speaks.
No card, no trial, no tiers. Chores aren’t built yet — that one really is coming any day now.
There is a tip jar, and that’s all it is.
The app is free. No tiers, no locked features, no upgrading to see your own data. If it’s ever helpful, there are two places to put a few dollars to say thanks and support the hosting bill.