Chores & Allowance Bot app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 320 ratings )
Finance Education Lifestyle Productivity
Developer: WingBoat.com
Free
Current version: 4.7.0, last update: 4 months ago
First release : 05 Apr 2013
App size: 140.19 Mb

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 childs 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.

Pros and cons of Chores & Allowance Bot app for iPhone and iPad

Chores & Allowance Bot app good for

Great app! Thank you! Very user friendly Much thought went into putting this together...it has lots of useful options Very organized and practical Moveable chore list is great for changing their order Chores can be read out ... great for those who cant read very well Lots of space to put details about the chore Automatically calculates allowance Has deduction options Chore time schedule setup is great...twice a week, every 2nd day, only once, every month, only certain days of the week Can synchronize with childs device...only pay once for app using Family Sharing After trying many chore apps for kids, this takes first place!
I bought a few other allowance type apps and by far this one is the easiest to use. The syncing works really well which is what I was looking for to share with my kids. Other apps make you use Dropbox and theyre quite buggy. Theyre also too complicated for what I needed. Well worth the money.
I tried a few allowance/chore apps, and this one is the best so far. Simple & easy to use and the options work well for what I need. My only suggestion would be to have the option of adding a list of additional chores that can be claimed by any child, and not necessarily assigned to them.
I too went through several free apps looking for all the features I wanted. In particular ability to sync with childs mobile device. This app is the winner. Happy to find it. Thanks to other reviewers who compelled me to take a chance and pay for this one. Glad I did!
Hands down, this app has been a blessing for our family. Our two girls love being able to positively save and earn money and my husband and I love the approach of assigning chores with very little resistance from our kids. Its simple and user friendly. We have been using it for a year and I have friends and family that are loving it too!
I was aging exponentially every time my kids said, "mom you remember you said youd pay me $10 for helping you clean out the garage Two weeks ago?" I have no recollection of having a garage, much less cleaning it out, much less agreeing to pay. Im sure I did. But I felt like I was constantly getting fleeced and failing to pay my kids on time because I didnt have the cash handy, etc. So now on Sundays we pay out whatever the bot says we owe. If baby does an extra chore, it goes in the bot when we agree on it. If its not in the bot, it doesnt get paid out. It also helps with online purchases. If I order something on behalf of a kid, I mark it in the bot. I wish it included a way to review past payments, but I live in the moment, so its workable. This is one of those small apps that has made my life much better.

Some bad moments

The concept is really good, but it doesnt really work well. All of the chores that we assign our kids, do not always appear. The application gets confused and it changes the days. It doesnt show all of the chores assigned per day. Im not happy with this app. Too late now.
This app worked great until 9/16. Now it is useless. Such a shame.
I purchased the upgraded app and am extremely disappointed because I like the idea of the app, it just wont work right. My kids are ready to use it but I have to change the order of the kids every time one wants to do his chores. It also notifies you that it cant save changes at this time with an error code. It also doesnt update the kids completed chores sometimes. They are also unresponsive to questions and problems which angers me because I paid for it thinking it would work.
I feel the app is a bit cumbersome to use. It would be nice to go through my list of chores and assign a child to it versus going into the child and choosing chores for each child. Also, it would be nice if the date you were entering the chores was the date that would come up versus having to scroll through all the numbers.
And only one savings "account" ie cannot separate allotted money for children.
I love this app. It has helped my kids do their chores and me with being able to track their allowance. If you pay your kids an allowance you should get this app.

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