It's 7:40. One sock on, breakfast going cold, and you've said "shoes" three times.
The first time was cheerful. The second had their name in it. The third sounded like someone you never planned to be.
Your child is not being difficult. They know every step of this morning and could recite it back to you. Knowing it has never been the problem.
The problem is that the order lives in your head. You hold the sequence, you call the next step, you supply the urgency. You are not reminding your child. You are being the routine.
Star Reward Charts is a reward chart with the order built in. Something you point at together, instead of something you recite.
Your child's morning becomes a short path on the screen. Make bed, breakfast, teeth, shoes, in your family's order. The step they are on is lit up, the rest wait behind it, and they press and hold to collect their own star as each one is done.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Start with the part you dread
Pick a routine, use the guided suggestions or add your own steps, then put them in your family's order.
2. Choose how each child sees it
A rainbow path suits a six-year-old and insults a twelve-year-old, who still needs the routine. So there are five views of the same routine, from the winding path to a plain list, saved per child. The look ages out years before the need does.
3. They collect their own stars
Your child presses and holds to collect a star for a finished step. The path brightens and the next step becomes current. No approval queue, no waiting on you. And if real life happens out of order, they can still collect a later star.
4. Finish and celebrate
Completing the routine opens the treasure chest and earns gems for monster items. Stars build towards a real reward your family chose together: ice cream, the park, a toy, picking the film on Friday. That part is entirely yours.
YOU STAY IN CHARGE
- Give each routine its own steps, days, and optional reminder
- Anytime tasks keep extra jobs separate from the routine itself
- Adjust a balance, or undo a star or a reward claim, from history
- Share one iPhone, or use the same account on separate parent iPhones
- Child Mode hides parent screens and sets what each child can do
- No ads
THE ROUTINE COMES FIRST
The monster, the chest, and the gems celebrate progress. They are not the point. There is no pet to feed, no world to maintain, nothing that keeps your child in the app once the real routine is done. The chest opens because the bed got made. Then the app gets out of the way.
WHEN GETTING STARTED IS THE HARD PART
Some children stall at the start of a step, lose the thread halfway, or finish one thing with no idea what follows. Visible, ordered sequences are a familiar tool in those households, including families supporting autistic children.
If ADHD is part of your picture, the useful thing is not another reminder. It is the routine living on the screen instead of in your voice.
That is the whole design.
WHY I BUILT IT
I'm Paul, and I have ADHD. The part of me that was supposed to keep my daughter's chore chart going is the same part that loses the car keys.
I made her a paper chart. It lasted one school week. In week two I forgot to print a fresh one, and it sat on the fridge out of date while I gave the same instructions I'd always given.
What I wanted was the real routine on a screen, in order, with stars my daughters could collect themselves, because I am not reliable enough to be a dependency in my own family's morning.
And I'm still here. If something breaks, or you can't work out how to do something, you get me, not a ticketing system.
Terms of Use: https://starrewardsapp.com/terms-ios
Privacy Policy: https://starrewardsapp.com/privacy
Great app so far! I’m using as a token system for my 3-year-old. Only feedback I have so far is I wish I was able to add pictures of the rewards instead of having to choose an emoji 🥲 For example, one of the rewards for my kid is a squishy ball and there’s no emoji for that 😭
Developer Response
Hey there! Thanks for the awesome review and feedback. It's great to hear you're enjoying the app with your 3-year-old! Love your idea about adding pictures for rewards - that's brilliant! We're just wrapping up a new feature and will work on this one next.I really appreciate suggestion :-)
12 year old
TransplantBahamaGirl
We have searched and searched for at least 2 years for the perfect chore app. We wanted one that enticed our daughter to use it and it had to be super easy to use. We didn’t need bells and whistles; just simplicity. Our search *finally* ended today. You hold down the star for completing the chore. The stars add up to the amount that you have set, then you reward them with whatever you chose for that certain amount of stars. They are able to see how many stars are collected in the top right corner and they can see what they are working towards. Our daughter chose ice cream for 35 stars - that’s a win for me, being able to take her to have some mama/daughter time over ice cream cones! I thought our daughter, who is 12, would enjoy the stars option for which rewards to complete, but she switched it to the list; which was a nice option for her. As of right now, I had to login to the parent account on her phone so she could collect her stars on her own without grabbing my phone. The child account does not yet work on a child’s phone to collect stars. That did not deter us. We love this app!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your glowing review! I'm thrilled to hear that Star Rewards has become the app of choice for your daughter to manage her chores and rewards. It’s fantastic to know that the simplicity of the app resonates with your family and that the ice cream reward is a hit!We understand the importance of independence for kids in tracking their tasks and collecting stars. With that in mind, I'm excited to announce that in the upcoming update this April, we will be introducing improved permission controls. This will allow your daughter to use her own device to collect stars, providing her with a sense of autonomy and making the process even smoother for you. I hope this new feature will enhance your Star Rewards experience further, and we can't wait for you both to try it out.Thank you again for your support, and please feel free to reach out if you have more feedback or feature requests.
Broken - now fixed!!
me equal pyro
This looks like it is working again! I’m so happy. I didn’t want to loose access to this app because it is great. I hope this is permanent fix and not temporary! Original post: I’m so disappointed! We love this app and we used it all last summer. I just automatically renewed my subscription and went on to login to set up my kids schedule and chores for the summer and it seems to be completely broken! I can’t login and it made us restart everything. Please fix!
Great idea, glitchy app
4thachildren
I love the simplicity of the app and the idea of it but it’s just so glitchy. I often have to restart the app to award stars or when switching between child profiles. Today I went in the issue a setback and it sent me to the set up page like it had erased all my data. I tried to go through the setup again but it said it couldn’t create the child profile and to try again later. If those issues were cleared up I’d consider paying for it but as it is it’s not worth it.Added a star for the developer’s response.
Developer Response
4thachildren, I'm sorry. The "erased all my data" moment in January was an early sign of a server issue that we didn't catch and fix until now. It's fixed now and profiles saved before then were preserved on our side. You said you'd consider paying if the issues were cleared. They are. Email paul@starrewardsapp.com and I'll extend your subscription to cover the outage and add twelve months, so the "consider paying" part is on me to earn, not you to risk.Paul
Version 2.4 makes routines easier to manage and gives families more ways to use Star Reward Charts together.
• Connect a child’s device with a simple code, without sharing parent login details.
• Create and edit routines more easily, copy tasks between children, and browse a new library of task ideas.
• See clearer History insights and progress trends.
• Quickly undo accidental star changes and completed tasks.
• Set separate Child Mode permissions for regular and Anytime tasks.
• Enjoy smoother navigation, clearer layouts, and reliability improvements throughout the app.
Version 2.4.0
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Seller
Paul Bright
Size
138.6 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
4+
This app is rated 4+ with content restrictions.
Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls.
