A rewards app for a child who finds some things genuinely hard. It can only ever add — nothing is taken away, and nothing tells them no.
So it stops being something to try at and becomes something to protect. And when one bad afternoon wipes out two weeks, “it’s stupid, I don’t care” isn’t a tantrum. It’s an accurate assessment.
This is the arithmetic a child does before they say “it’s stupid, I don’t care.” They are not wrong.
Here there is no taking away. Not on a hard day, not when you cancel, not ever. Every other rule in the product follows from that one.
This is the real thing. Tap anything.
Now try to take one off Ivy. There is no button for it — and there isn’t one in the app either.
14 worlds. Not every child wants the same one.
A child with a screen is used to a very high bar. Everything on it is instant, the pace is relentless, and the numbers are enormous. Nobody is moved by three points.
So it is built the way their games are built and not the way a chore chart is: somewhere to be, someone who notices you, and a distance behind you that nobody can shorten. And a point is not a point — it is a billion. Past a thousand of them the app starts counting in trillions.
Underneath, the numbers stay small and sane, so a prize still costs what it should and you never type a figure. What changes is what your child hears.
You are not asking them to care about a chart instead of a screen. You are playing their game with them.
A child cannot practice a negative. “Don’t” describes an absence, and an absence is not a thing anybody can be proud of.
When a child has done something steadily for weeks, the app offers to retire that button. Not delete — retire. And it never decides on its own; it asks the grown-up, who can always say not yet.
It moves to “things you just do now”. Every point it ever earned stays earned.
There are 14 rules like this one. Read the thinking
One price, no tiers. Deciding whether your child will use something is enough of a decision on its own.
Paying by the year is over 6 months free.
Twelve months, paid monthly. The gold ones are what paying by the year gives back.
A card is not allowed to take anything from a child. You keep:
Not because there is anything wrong with her. Because this generation is growing up on screens that pay out instantly and count in the billions — and then we hand them a paper chart with twelve stickers on it and wonder why it is dead inside two weeks.
We tried those charts. They worked for about nine days each, and every one of them could take a point back.
So I built one that can’t. Other families saw it and asked to use it.
There is no company. It is one person in Florida, and you would be early.
It is not treatment and it is not therapy, and no app can promise your child will change. What this one does is make the good things visible and let them add up somewhere a child can see them.
Matt GorenFlorida
No card to start. Then $14.99 a month or $79.99 a year.
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1,486 blocks on this page. One for every point. None of them come off.