A parents-only app that pairs with a printed chart to build routines, teach money, and fade itself out as habits stick.
Pair the app with a printed fridge chart. Kids put stickers on — they never touch the app. Routines are never paid.
Separate from routines, bonus jobs earn real money. A fixed weekly allowance teaches saving. No mixing, no "what'll you pay me?"
Once a habit sticks, it graduates off the chart. The app's explicit goal is to make itself unnecessary.
Every design decision traces back to developmental psychology — not engagement metrics.
Overjustification effect
Paying kids for things they'd do anyway kills intrinsic motivation. So routines are never paid — only bonus jobs earn money.
Specific praise beats "good job!"
The app surfaces rotating praise prompts so you can say something real: "You got your shoes on without me asking — that helped us a lot."
Planned fading is critical
Reward systems that run indefinitely undermine the habits they build. HousePoints has a graduation engine that retires routines as they become automatic.
Warning-sign monitoring
A weekly reflection prompt checks for entitlement, anxiety, and conflict. If it's causing harm, the app offers a chart holiday — a one-week pause.
Opinionated by design. We said no to a lot of things.
Set up takes about five minutes. Print your first chart on Sunday.
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