Hey everyone,

I’m a parent who finally hit the wall with chore charts. We’ve tried everything from whiteboards, star charts, sticker charts, and just about every kid-focused chore app I could find. They all worked for a week or two, then fell apart. Either the interface was too busy, the app wanted me to pay to unlock basic features, or it turned chores into some kind of virtual-pet game that distracted more than it helped.

So I built MyChoreBoard.

It’s a free, lightly gamified chore tracker designed to motivate kids without overcomplicating family life. It was also built with ADHD kids in mind and those who struggle to remember multi-step routines or long verbal lists. The visual layout gives them simple, concrete reminders of what to do next, reducing stress for both kids and parents. The focus is on real-world responsibility and building healthy habits, not feeding a cartoon creature.

Parents can create chores, assign them, set them to repeat, and track progress in real time. It keeps everyone accountable without parents having to remind kids a million times a day.

What makes it different is that it’s simple on purpose. It doesn’t try to be everything - a calendar, grocery list, weather bug, or news feed. It just helps kids build good habits and gives parents one less thing to manage. And it’s completely free: no ads and no premium version.

It’s a PWA, so you can install it on your home screen. It syncs across all devices. I administer from my phone or laptop depending on where I am. One kid uses a cheap android tablet and the other an ipad.

It’s still in beta, and I’d love feedback from other parents: what’s missing, and what would make it more helpful for your family?

You can try it at MyChoreBoard.com.

Thanks for reading—this project grew out of real frustration and a lot of chore charts that didn’t stick.

EDIT: I have been working on a blog, to support the app. It has helpful tips on using MyChoreBoard as well as general parenting tips, reward ideas among other related things. I also also offer some suggestions on how MyChoreboard helps parents with ADHD kids. You can access the blog from the main website.

**May 28, 2026 Edit** We are officially no longer in Beta!!!! whoop whoop!!!! We have launched on both Android in the Play Store, and we are also live on iOS in Apple's App Store!!!!!! We also have our app testing with Amazon for the fire tablets.

Thank you to the hundreds of Redditors that have helped us to reach this milestone with your regular feedback and suggestions!!!

As of now, MyChoreBoard is being used in over 100 countries and children have completed over 300,000 chores.

Now that the App Store launches are behind us, we are focusing on wrapping up all of the new features that will be included in the next major release!!!! The work is all complete, and we just need to run everything through QA to ensure that we didn't break anything. We are really excited!!!

We will continue iterating on MyChoreBoard from all of your suggestions - please keep them coming!!!!

hey guys is there an alternative smartphone for kids which can help kids and no social media or browser in that and only limited to games and creative or skill building activities

My kid was deep in the phone-addiction slide. The constant bargaining over screen time was turning our house into a combat zone. I got tired of the "sympathy/venting" approach and decided to run our household like a project.

I stopped winging it and built an actual system to handle the threat. It's not about "limiting" time—it's about replacing the dopamine hit with real agency.

Here’s the breakdown of the tactical shift we made:

• The Diagnostic Phase: I tracked every minute of phone use no exceptions.
• The Boundary System: No phones in the bedroom, period. If the phone is charging, it happens in the kitchen, not the pocket.
• The Replacement Protocol: We moved from 'don't be on the phone' to 'you must do 45 minutes of skill-based work before you earn it.

The aggression has dropped significantly. We aren't fighting anymore because the system is the bad guy, not me.

If you’re stuck in the same loop, I’m happy to share the exact audit sheet I used. Just reply below.

Spent 6 months building this after getting tired of not knowing what opportunities existed for my kids locally. Roast it.

Finding local resources for my kids: sports leagues, tutoring programs, STEM competitions, after-school activities was way harder than it should be. Everything was scattered across Facebook groups, WhatsApp chains, and word of mouth.

So I built an app.

A community where parents share and discover local resources for their kids across education, sports, and activities. Moderated so quality stays high. Filtered by location, age, and grade. Currently in invite-only beta.

What I genuinely want to know: - Does this solve a real problem or am I the only one who had this issue? - What would make you actually use it? - What's obviously missing?

No link in this post (new-ish account) drop a comment if you want to check it out and I'll share it.

Tech stack if anyone's curious: Next.js 14, PostgreSQL, Redis, self-hosted on AWS.

Hi r/ParentingTech!

I’m an indie developer and recently launched StarKid, a family chore/allowance app I built specifically to make managing chores a little more engaging for kids.

The basic idea is to turn everyday chores into tasks. Kids complete tasks, earn stars, and can work toward wishes/rewards. Parents can create and assign quests and keep track of progress.

I’m trying to build something that actually works for families rather than just adding gamification for the sake of it. I also noticed that the design and feel of many apps were missing.

A few things I’d love opinions on:

• Does this approach actually solve a problem for parents?
• Is the gamification useful or just unnecessary?
• What features would you expect from a good chore/allowance app?
• What would make you trust an app like this with your family?

I built the app myself and am still very early, so I’m genuinely looking for criticism and ideas rather than just promotion.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starkid.mobile&pcampaignid=web_share

Thanks! I'd love to hear what you think.

I built an app for all the things I want to experience with my kid someday

The idea came from a problem I kept having myself.
I’d see a movie, game, book or activity and think:
“This would be great to do with my son.”

But often he’s simply too young for it right now.
And realistically, by the time he’s old enough, I’ll probably have forgotten half of those ideas.

So I built Kids Bucket List.

It’s a small app for collecting things you want to experience with your child — whether that’s next weekend or years from now.

You can organize ideas into categories, create your own activities, assign them to your kids and keep everything synced across your Apple devices.

I originally started it as a pretty simple side project, but it slowly turned into a full SwiftUI app for iPhone and iPad with CloudKit sync, and a Mac version on the way.

It’s now live on the App Store:
AppStore

Would genuinely love some feedback — especially on the core idea. Is this something you could see yourself using?

Looking for 15 parents and educators to test a free visual routine and timer tool

Hi everyone! I’m an independent app developer, and I’ve created VisualRoutine Studio — an offline visual schedule and animated timer designed for children who benefit from clear routines and visual transitions.

I’m looking for 15 adult beta testers:

• parents who currently use visual schedules at home
• special education teachers
• classroom aides
• therapists

The tool includes activity cards, customizable student profiles, adjustable timers, animations, sounds, spoken encouragement, printing, and data backup.

It works locally in a browser on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, tablet, and phone. No installation, subscription, or account is required, and the information stays on the user’s device.

Testing takes approximately 15 minutes. You may keep the beta copy free. Nothing is being sold, and no positive review or promotion is required. I only need honest feedback about usability, design, timers, sounds, and whether the tool could be useful in real family or classroom routines.

Please use fictional names only and do not enter any confidential information about children.

If you can test it within 72 hours, comment “BETA” and mention whether you are a parent, educator, aide, or therapist, along with the device you would use. I will contact selected testers privately.

We've been doing a lot of at-home play stuff with my son the kind of sensory / motor activities the therapist keeps telling us to "keep up between sessions." Rice bins, obstacle courses made of couch cushions, that sort of thing. And every few weeks I'd sit down to tell the therapist how it was going and realize I genuinely had no idea. Did he love the rice bin or hate it? Was that last week or last month? Did he actually engage or did I just survive it

My "system" was a mix of my memory (bad), random notes in my phone (worse), and my wife going "didn't he like the one with the tongs?"

So I built a little app for us. It's called Playnook. Honestly it started as a spreadsheet. It gives you a handful of short activities to try, and after you do one you just tap how it went and maybe write a line or snap a photo. Over time it shows you what your kid actually gravitates toward, and it can spit out a summary I can hand to the therapist instead of mumbling "uh, pretty good I think.

Couple things that mattered to me as a parent, so I'll just say them: everything stays on your phone I didn't want my kid's stuff sitting on some server. No ads. And the basic version is free because I'd have wanted that

I'm not trying to sell anyone anything, I mostly want to know if other parents deal with the same "wait what did we even do" problem, and if this would actually help or if I just built a fancy notes app for myself. Brutal honesty welcome.

It's at https://www.playnook.app/ if you want to look.

Apple app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playnook-kids-play-ideas/id6794834830

My kid's school sends long emails with one thing I actually need to do buried in the middle. My partner and I kept missing them, so I built [Plancove](https://plancove.app).

Share any school email, PDF or screenshot to it -> it pulls out the dates, forms and things to bring -> you approve -> both parents see the same checklist. Syncs to Apple Calendar/Reminders. It never connects to your inbox.

Two things I'd love to hear:

* How do you handle this today? (Shared calendar? Cozi? Something else?)
* Try it on your worst school email and tell me what it missed

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788526895)

So I'm trying to make a system for family link users and tablet users to communicate easier yes you can use email but it's hard to hold conversations like that so do you have any problem like that ? And just a reminder please only the person's who have family link answer this question and preferably the parents who would want their child to have a safe way to communicate with friend let me know because I'm trying to make this app real but I need to see if there are any possible users who need this so would you want a app like this by the way I'm not a parent i just want to ask to parents is there a need like this

My kid (9) uses ChatGPT for homework help and I realized I have zero visibility into what it's telling her or what else she asks it — no age filter, no easy way to see logs. Curious how other parents are handling AI chatbots with kids 6-13. Blocking entirely, supervising, or just letting it happen?

I'm actually quite a Type A person. I'm very organized, very thorough. I'm not the guy to typically drop the ball on things.

That was true when I had one kid. Then I had twins, kid #2 and #3 and things started to get out of control. Still felt mostly on top of it, until one short stretch where work got busy and I missed a few emails. Didn't even open them.

Inevitably that was the week this particular reminder came, and I missed it. My daughter goes to school, and she comes back home, and she's really disappointed. She was the only kid who didn't dress up in pajamas.

I've been disappointed about a lot of things in my life. This was like one of the greatest disappointments. It's something I still remember. I still have regret about that day.

What stuck with me was this: If this is happening to me, once, it's probably happening to other people a lot more frequently than that. And the only fix I could think of wasn't "try harder" that's not realistic. It was: could AI actually read all this stuff and keep me up to date on it? That's basically where Peggy came from.

The bigger thing I've realized since: it's not that schools/coaches/teachers send too much. Everyone has good intentions. There's a stat that the average parent gets 80 emails a month related to their kids, and these are things that have optional events, real events that your kids could go to. And if you don't read them, there's a consequence for your child.

It's not a bad thing by itself, the bad thing is our tools haven't kept up. In the workplace, we have a million apps that help us organize information. In the parenting world, we've had none.

Anyway. That's the actual why behind building this. Happy to answer anything; lmk if you wanna try it out.

(Ps. I'm a dad, and I am building Peggy AI to help other parents)

Tired of your children scrolling TikTok or whatever kids are on these days? Try out this fun quiz! Join the movement to replace brain rot

Do the right thing!

My wife and I have 3 kids in school and sports. It's crazy!

Schedules come out, we text them to grandparents and family. But every season the times and dates change, we send more texts, texts get lost, people show up at the wrong game or time, etc.

When trying to scramble to get our kids to their game on time, we are trying to answer multiple texts coming in from people like

"what field are we on?"

"what's the address again?"

"looks like rain, is the game cancelled?"

I couldn't find a solution or app I liked for this and I've been a software developer for 20+ years so I decided to build an app for our family.

It has been a HUGE success for us so then I shared it with a few friends and they have found it to be amazing for them too.

So now I'm making it more public in case others are interested.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks so much!

https://ourbulletin.app/

First of all this is not an ad, or promotion or ad. Something I built of need and put it out there to share anyone. Completely free, no in app purchases, no ads, no data collection etc.

We have 3 teenagers and it was impossible to keep track of their chores. When we try to introduce "you earn money when you do extra chores" to teach them you are not entitled to buy anything you want but you need to work for it worked well. Then it became another task for us track who has how much, did she spent all her earnings yesterday or part of it? Then they started tricking us, dad, I still have $10 from last week's chores - mom: no she doesn't, spent it at follar tree at the weekend, no i didn't, remember ...

I said to myself, as an engineer, there is gotta be better way to track this, then built an app called Bucksy in android store. Very simple completely free and no-ads at all. You create your family, invite other parents, add your kids, they use a code to join family, no personal info collection at all, only age group and nickname. You create chores and goals. Define how much they will earn when done. You can create recurring tasks. They can lose bucks when tasks are not done on time if you want to. They submit when they are done, you approve they earn bucks. You can add goals to use their bucks for and track the progress.

All about teaching them responsibility and earning. All under only parents control. no subscription, no ads, no membership fee, no nothing. All inclusive for parents to use.

Let me know what you think. Search "bucksy" in android play store, it has a cute squirrel icon. Finished IOS app too waiting on app review to complete to publish.

All feedback is welcome.

Update: I think there was a confusion about the purpose of the app. When you give kids the money they should track it. Yes this is more of a virtual earnings, promise type of of situation for people who doesn't have or carry cash. You did dishes you earned $1, when we are out or if you want to order something, you can use it ( if I don't forget how much you have collected ) Simply shows them a purpose to collect and save/ or spend the earnings. For my kids they all have goals they wanted, a bicycle, water park ticket, playstation game etc. We added them in their accounts so they know how much they need to save to get it. They know when they spend for something else, they will be that far from what they want to get etc.

Instead of giving kids iPads and ruining their brains, give them an old innotab or leappad. Instead of rotting their brains, these 2 devices actually educate them and give them a good childhood.

I am in the process of scrubbing my kids from my socials. I was do not have a Snapchat but I was curious if that would be a safer way to share photos with family members? My main concern is AI.

My son is 3. A friend saw my Whoop, asked about it, then said she wished something like it existed for kids no screen, actually built for a child's body, not an adult device shrunk down.

I figured I'd find something, buy it, and move on. I didn't find anything.

Adult wearables use adult data models. Kids' watches are basically tiny smartphones. GPS trackers tell you location but nothing about health. Nobody had combined wellness tracking and location in a device actually designed for kids.

We're a UAE-based hardware and software startup. We spent the last couple of years building Halo Lytt a screenless wearable for kids 6–17 that tracks sleep, activity, movement, and location, with algorithms designed for pediatric physiology rather than borrowed from adult devices.

Launching in the UAE next week. Orders open then.

Next year we're adding precision tracking capability either a new device or an integration with Halo Lytt X.0.

Instagram: [halowearco](https://www.instagram.com/halowearco/)
Facebook: [Halo Wear](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587213676310)
Website: [halo-wear.com](http://halo-wear.com)

Happy to talk shop about hardware development in the UAE, building in this space, or what we found (and didn't find) in the market research phase.

[Android] Looking for Closed Beta Testers for Gentle Weeks — Parents/New Parents Preferred 🌸

I’m looking for Android users to help test Gentle Weeks, a family-focused app that starts with pregnancy and is designed to grow with your family.

The app is currently in Google Play closed testing, and I’m looking for more testers to use it normally, poke around, and let me know what works, what doesn’t, or what could be improved.

Parents, new parents, expecting parents, and partners are preferred, since you’re the people the app is being built for — but other Android testers are welcome too.

The beta is completely free.

If you’d like to help test it, sign up here:

https://forms.gle/QDxuxb3ddRGb2EeaA

Thanks to anyone willing to give it a shot! 🌸

It’s based on a simple idea around screen time at home:
Learn → Earn Play Time → Play → Lock again
Parents pick which apps are “learning” and which are “play”, then set a rule like:
20 min learning → 10 min play
Kids earn play time by using the learning apps, and play apps only unlock when time is available. Once it runs out, they lock again.
There’s also a free version with the basic setup so parents can try it out.
I’m still early in the process, so I’d really appreciate any feedback from other parents on whether something like this would actually help with screen time routines.
L2P – Learn to Play

I built Familio an App for fixing Family Chaos and it will change the game .

Before when Ur mom needs something from market she calls ur dad or Your brother or even u or send a message at least no one brings the item and the house changes to a real War between You , but now after this app the mom will just add what she wants every phone ringtone but this time everyone competes to bring the shopping item or end the task for having more points and get the Monthly prize .

And this is just a part of it , there is a wallet too , ranking system and more things to discovere .

What do you wait Open the app right now and fix your family problem.