S'moresUp simplifies household management by helping families stay organized, connected, and engaged via one easy-to-use mobile app.
You are downloading the free version of the app, which gives you 45-day access to the premium features.
About the creators:
S'moresUp was developed by longtime friends and techies Priya Rajendran and Reeves Xavier, who are passionate about using technology to solve parenting challenges.
Here is a quick message from Priya.
Hey folks, first of all, I appreciate you for taking the first step in looking to get help from technology in managing your families.
My name is Priya, and like most moms, I go by the title "Laya's Mom". I am a single mom with 3 jobs; a 24/7 parenting job, my mortgage-paying job as a technologist, and a passion job as a creator of S'moresUp.
S'moresUp was created as a simple home management system to bring consistency to my family. It brought significant changes to our home, and my friends started noticing the difference. I shared my solution with my friends and family looking for ways to manage their families better. Three years after, we have more than 130K families using the app.
Sometimes parenting is hard, but you don't have to tackle it alone. Give S'moresUp a try, and you would never want to go back to the old ways.
Happy Parenting!
Priya
S'moresUp's offers:
--> Chore Management: A highly customizable chore management system lets parents enter all of their household chores, and S'moresUp takes care of the rest. Using its sophisticated ChoreAI machine learning system, S'moresUp assigns, reminds, and rewards family members for chore completion saving parents an average of 8 hours per week. Integrations with Google and Amazon, GE Smart Appliances, and Bosch make family management uber smart.
--> Allowance Management: S'moresUp provides a comprehensive chore-reward management system (kids earn S'mores/points for every chore/action completed) that allows children to learn important life lessons regarding money management and smart spending/saving. The allowance tool provides an easy way to incentivize kids to do the right things, applying a penalty when they do not.
--> Schedule Management: S'moresUp provides a collaborative family planner for scheduling appointments and events, keeping everyone informed and on task.
--> Family Networking: With S'moresUp, families have access to a safe and secure way to stay in touch with extended family members through Family Campfires, as well as engage with a community of parents to share and discuss tips and tricks, find recommendations and get advice on parenting when they need it. For kids, this also creates a safe environment for learning and practicing proper social media etiquette.
The app provides a profile for everyone in the family so that if they are old enough, they can all manage their own responsibilities.
S'moresUp Premium:
- Monthly and annual plans available that unlock Premium features like Advanced Chore Scheduling, MoneyWise for Kids, Penalty Management, Auto Allocation of Chores, Reward Approval, Daily/Weekly/Monthly Reports
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account after your free trial expires (45 days or 450 chores completed whichever comes first)
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period and identify the cost of the renewal.
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
– S'moresUp Terms of Service: https://www.smoresup.com/terms-of-use
– S'moresUp Privacy Policy: https://www.smoresup.com/privacy-policy/
Overall, very good. And I think I may become a paying user, but there are some serious load-time issues and a couple bugs/oversights that seem like they should have been addressed out by now.Bug: When l try to use the Advanced scheduling to set up a chore that has more than one week between completions, the interface will not allow me to enter a number of completions different from the number of days in the frequency block I'm trying to use.For instance, if I am trying to enter a chore that needs to be completed X time(s) every X months, it will default to 31 times every X months. If I am trying to enter a chore that needs to be completed X time(s) every X weeks, it will default to 7 times every X weeks.If I try to change it to 1 time every X weeks/months, it will not assign the chore until it reverts back to the auto-populated incorrect value.Oversight: Though it's obvious that SmoresUp is trying to get users to use the app to manage their schedules, the fact is most of us who already use a cloud calendar use Google Calendar. It is so feature rich with countless integrations and a robust development cycle, that very few SmoresUp users would every consider leaving Google in favor of SmoresUp.With that, it would be far more beneficial for SmoresUp to allow users to push the chore schedule to a Google Calendar than to pull the Google Calendar into SmoresUp.Fix those two things and I will gladly pay for the service without hesitation.
Torn between the pros and cons
Diredumalde
I really do like this app, I like the functionality and what it’s built to do makes managing chores within the family SO much easier. Where it fails? 1. The load/refresh rate is terribly slow. I nearly always have to kill the app on my phone before I open it again, or it will not refresh to show changes made by family. 2. My kid doesn’t have a phone so the app is on the tablet.. it is not very tablet friendly. Sits in an odd rectangular shape in the very center of the screen. 3. If I made a change to an existing chore, it doesn’t save in the chore listing but the change is there if I edit again. Example: I create a chore but realize I want a different color/icon or I don’t want a due time.. I edit it but everytime I see it in the chore listing it’s always the original color and set-up. The only thing that has changed is the name. 4. The customer service is non-existent. I have submitted two “tickets” with follow-up and I don’t even get an acknowledgment from their end. I’ve also tried to post under suggestions or in the community section and my posts never show up. 5. If my kid puts their s’mores into a reward to save, it doesn’t allow me to move them back to the bank. I have to use their account/tablet. I should be able to do this from my own. 6. There are some features/ideas that I had on things to help or things I wish the app did but there’s no one to listen.Oh yes and there are no icons for couch, living room, sweeping, etc. Things I feel are common and you can’t add your own.
Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to leave a detailed review. I have no excuse on why we did not get to you before this and I am sincerely sorry about that. I hope we got to your support post and got some resolutions done through that.We have made a lot of changes to the app that improves the performance of the app and added fixes to reflect changes made to the chores. Moving S'mores back to the bank was also addressed as part of an earlier release. I hope you were able to use that feature.If you are still using the app and interested in talking to us, please send an email to admin@smoresup.com or reach out to us through support post. Again, sorry for the delayed response.-Reeves, Team S'moresUp
Awesome!
Awesome Momma💪🏾
This app is perfect for giving your children responsibilities and teaching them about taking care of their business which leads to rewards! They can earn money and it encourages them to create goals! It also helps them to learn time and money management. Oh and yes...points can be taken away too! So, if the job isn’t done correctly then you don’t get paid in real life and this also helps them learn this concept as well. This type of responsibility also helps children self manage and cultivate a sense of independence! And my two sons ages 9 & 11 absolutely love this app! We all have iPhones and it works great!! Side note: The app can be a little glitchy like my one of my sons couldn’t log in after successfully using the app on the first day it was installed. So, I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it and it has been working fine ever since! Also when you are trying to add a reward like “dining out” if you create the reward and then decide to edit it the app will keep closing, but if you just delete the reward and recreate it it will work. The boys have the iPhone 8’s and us parents have the 11 pro max if that helps any.
Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to write to us and thank for the awesome review.Regarding the issues reported, we have seen it happen to couple of our users. We have not been able to identify what is causing this issue. Now that the advances chore scheduling has been released, we will get some time to look into this issues. Thank you for your patience.Have a great week.Reeves - Team S'moresUp
Love this!
A. Crew
I have never written a review before, but I am so impressed with this app that I felt compelled to let others know! We’ve been using this for about two weeks and am thoroughly overwhelmed by the amount information this will track while also giving so much flexibility to customize it for my family. The community page for all app users is a beautiful concept! We are able to share ideas and get feedback from the developers well within 24 hours! The developers post frequently regarding the updates on which they are working and respond to users questions and ideas well within 24 hours!Other chore apps we have used will not sync between our devices; this app syncs seamlessly. Each of my boys has it on their phones & my husband and I have the app on our phones as well. The only time a device was missing info was due to an iOS update delay. Easily fixed and back up and running! I HIGHLY recommend this app!
Developer Response
Dear A. Crew, we are happy to know that you found our app useful. Please help us by spreading the word amongst your friends. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us at admin@smoresup.com. We would love to hear from you!Thanks, Reeves - Team S'moresUp
Bug fixes
Version 09.10.20 (821)
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Information
Seller
Rotation 5, LLC
Size
111 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
