Chores & Allowance Bot 4+
Family Task Tracker
WingBoat.com
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Chores & Allowance Bot is an easy, fun, and super versatile way to keep track of your family allowance, chores, and savings goals.
Children get excited about doing chores when they’re in a fun app. It’s a great way for children to learn initiative, responsibility, and the value of work.
Features:
• Manage all chores for your children from a single view.
• Add as many children, allowance, and chores as you want.
• Automatically sync chores, allowance, multiple accounts, and history for your family across all your devices.
• Set up daily, weekly, or monthly allowance.
• Assign chores to multiple children.
• Ledger shows history for allowance payments, reward chores payments, and other transactions.
• Chores can be one time chores and reassigned any time, or chores can be repeated on a daily, weekly, or monthly chores schedule.
• Choose whether allowance accrues automatically or only after parental approval.
• Deduct money from children accounts when they spend money.
• Easily withhold any number of future allowance payments as punishment.
• Supports several pretend currencies like Points, Smiley Faces, Federation Credits & more.
• Children can choose one of 16 avatars, or a photo to personalize the app.
• Chores can have photos to help children understand what needs to be done.
• Receive reminders when you forget to approve allowance or chores payment.
• Pre-readers can have chores names, chores descriptions, allowance and savings amounts read aloud to them by the app.
• Approve or unapprove allowance and chores payments.
• Optional parental passcode stops children from making changes without permission.
Chores & Allowance Bot’s optional subscription gives you the following additional features:
• Ledger view shows unlimited account history.
• Chores Chart shows all assigned chores for all children for multiple weeks.
• Create Up-For-Grabs chores that can be assigned to multiple children, but can only be done by one child.
• Rotate chores between children on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.
• Keep chores in child's chores list for extra days if not done on the first assigned day.
• Unlimited history in the Graph view -- the history of savings, spending, and chores activity.
• Unlimited additional accounts and goals for each child.
• Automatically transfer a percentage of allowance and chores payments into separate accounts and goals.
• Advanced reminders with settable time of day, and notifications for many events.
• Automatically approve allowance payments based on required chores.
• Optionally approve partial allowance payments based on difficulty of chores completed.
• Parents can set chores reminders at specific times of the day and press a button to send chores reminders at any time.
• Change the order children are displayed in the main screen.
• Change the order chores are displayed in each child’s todo list.
• Configure the visibility of each child on your devices.
• Create child passcodes to allow children to protect their account information and chores list from siblings, change their own photo or avatar, spend money, and manage their allowance accounts and savings goals.
What’s New
Version 4.7.0
° Added the ability to reorder chore assignees. This is especially useful for chores that rotate between multiple children.
° The Chore Chart now displays children in the order that they are assigned to each chore.
° Fixed the app's Lock Screen widget on iOS 17.
° Fixed access to the device camera and photo gallery on some devices.
Ratings and Reviews
Great design-very simple
I originally thought that an allowance app needed to be complex and something I had to set up with a keyboard and mouse (either via browser or integrated app in mac/windows). I now know that those things aren’t required. Simple to setup. Assigning tasks is easy. Recurrence is automatic and allows for multiple days to complete tasks. We have chores that we only want done on weekends and others that are only done during the week. Easy with this app. Can also designate tasks as being up for grabs meaning that the first period to do it gets the loot. Yes, this is a paid feature, but seriously? Look at the annual cost. We have noticed a drastic increase in chore compliance and corresponding drop in parental stress level in terms of tasks getting done. Rather than have to transfer $$ to a spending card or into a checking account, this app simply keeps track of how much each person has earned. Then, when they want to buy something, you simply reduce the amount in their account. Also, if a kid does something over the top and you want to pay them more, you can simply deposit more in without having to create a chore. Worth every penny.
Finally! A great fit for our family.
Yay!!! Not TOO gamified for my kids- but enough splash and graphics to keep them engaged. I didn’t need another gimmicky gamified app. Appeals to my ADHD preteen and 6 year old. The app gives you the ability to customize money/assignment of chores/as needed chores/proration of weekly allowance based on %of chores done vs no allowance of chores not done. I LOVE that you can automatically set it for percentages to allocated to whatever (or however many) accounts you make. Saving account is default until you add more categories. We have ours set up “savings: 30% spend: 60% Do Good & Be Kind: 10%”
Keep the actual money in a bank account for them so they do have actual money and it’s not just in theory. In the bank account they can invest/learn financial crap etc.
Hoping they grow up with better financial sense than me. I had to learn about all this stuff the HARD way. I don’t want my kids to learn the same way I did bc it sucked. Ha.
Update fixed problems
***update. I have changed my review back to 5 stars. The developers responded to feedback and corrected an annoying problem. Happily using this app to manage my children’s chores and allowance one again!!
Previous review:
I have happily used this app for years and they started a new feature that makes me HATE using it. They have created the option to give a percentage of your child’s allowance. Great idea I guess - took out half the trash give them half allowance maybe? This is available only to the premium user BUT you can see it on the lower tier version and it now makes you tap twice to pay your child’s allowance. I tap pay and then tap 100% even though I couldn’t pay less than 100% because I don’t want to pay a monthly premium fee to use an app I already paid for. I guess this is a ploy to get me to pay monthly but instead I will look for another app. I did email and request this feature be removed but got a nonsense answer.
Developer Response ,
Hello, we have released a new version of the app that allows you to turn off the partial allowance approval. If this resolves your issue, please consider updating your review. Thank you!
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Information
- Seller
- WingBoat.com LLC
- Size
- 147 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.7 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.7 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.7 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013 WingBoat.com LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium Monthly Plan $9.99
- Premium Annual Plan $24.99
- Premium Semiannual Plan $17.99