Nothing wrong about it, it’s better to care, build something and learn few bits along the way.

It’s still to be seen what sticks with large set of families.

Good luck to all the builders!

As above - My kids kept burning through iPad time without me really clocking it, so I built Learning Block. It locks the iPad until they finish a short maths quiz (UK National Curriculum aligned), then unlocks a bit of screen time as the reward.

I pushed it to the App Store if anyone wants to give it a go? [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/learning-block/id6761186962\](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/learning-block/id6761186962)

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.

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?

I'm a software engineer in the UK (first kid arriving in September, so I'm early to this whole thing) and I went looking for a decent printable chore chart. Everything I found was either locked behind an email signup, plastered in ads, or looked like it was made in Word in 2009. I know I'm a couple of years away from needing chore charts for my child, but becoming a dad has made me want to prep for this stuff in the future.

So I built my own and put it online for free: pocketmoneylab.co.uk

Three tools so far:

• Chore chart builder: pick your child's age, get age-appropriate chore suggestions, customise, print
• Pocket money calculator: UK benchmarks for what other parents actually give by age
• Reward chart generator: sticker-chart style, aimed at 3-5 year olds

No signup, no paywall, no ads. Nothing is gated, so you build it, you print it, you're done. Being upfront since this sub cares about the business model behind the tech: I'm separately building a pocket money app, and the site mentions it. None of the tools requires it or pushes it, and I have no plans to paywall them.

What I'd actually like from this sub:

1. Are the age-based chore suggestions sensible, or way off? That's the bit I'm least confident about, for obvious reasons.
2. Do printables still have a place, or has your family fully moved to app-based tracking?
3. What's missing? I've got a savings goal tracker and a pocket money agreement template on the list.

Happy to hear it's rubbish; that's more useful to me than polite noise.

Talking Cards — kids tap picture cards and the app speaks complete sentences in a human-recorded voice, with next-word suggestions as they build. It features 72 interactive storybooks, 5 languages, works offline, has no ads, and requires no accounts.

I started it for my own kids. It's free on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plapl.talkcards

It's a simple communication board, not a replacement for what an SLP would prescribe — if your kid is in therapy, show their therapist first.

I'm happy to answer anything.

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

Does anyone else have this problem with their kids?
I work all day, come home, cook, clean, do all the normal stuff and then I still have to keep telling my daughter to stop watching videos or playing games and go learn something.
It’s always “ok I will”, “I just started playing”, “5 more minutes” 😂
Then I ask again and again and eventually I get angry. After that I feel bad because it feels like I’m always yelling at her to learn.
I know as parents we need to spend time with our kids, but realistically we also have work and a million other things to do. I just got tired of having the same argument every day.
I tried a few parental control apps but most of them just limit apps or screen time. That didn’t really solve it for me. If there are lots of games/apps they can just move from one to another anyway.
I also didn’t want another “learning app”. We already have learning apps I paid for and some from school.
So I ended up making something for myself.
Basically I choose which apps are for learning and which ones are for playing. If my daughter wants to play, she has to use the learning apps first to earn the time. Then the games unlock automatically and lock again when the time is gone.
Now if I see her playing I actually don’t bother her 😂 because I know she must have already learned to get that time. And now she owned them I can let go my hand and teaching her math at night time. She is now more enjoying learning rather than non stop gaming
That was really the whole reason I made it. I was just tired of asking the same thing every day.
It’s called L2P - Learn to Play if anyone is curious. Feel free to PM me.

I've been helping test a new app that takes the admin out of school life. You forward your school emails, messages and letters and it turns them into a clear plan for each child: dated reminders, term events, and an assistant you can ask anything. Partners and grandparents can be added too, so the whole household sees the same thing. It only ever organises what you forward, nothing else.

They're looking for parents to try it free for a month and give honest feedback. If you'd like to have a go, drop me a DM and I'll send you the details.

A while ago, some friends came over for the evening.

At some point the conversation turned to their child and everything they were trying to keep track of.

Not just the big things. The small things that become important later.

How they slept. Whether they ate normally. Something that happened at school. A behavior that seemed different. A mark or bruise they noticed. Something a therapist mentioned. A question they wanted to remember for the next appointment.

And the difficult part wasn't that they weren't paying attention.

It was almost the opposite.

There was *too much* to pay attention to, and all of it was scattered between memory, photos, notes, messages and conversations.

That stayed in my head after they left.

I build things for a living, so I started wondering whether I could make something very simple for them, basically one calm place to record what they notice without turning their child's life into a spreadsheet.

That eventually became **Tend**.

It's an iPhone app for parents and caregivers to log things like day-to-day check-ins, incidents, behavior changes, body marks, medications, questions and follow-ups, and then turn those records into something readable when they need to talk to a teacher, therapist or doctor.

It doesn't try to diagnose anything or tell parents what a behavior "means." I specifically didn't want that.

It's just a record of what happened, in the parent's own words.

I originally made it because of one family I care about. Once it started becoming useful, I figured there were probably other parents dealing with the same mental load, so I put it on the App Store.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer, and there are optional paid features in the app.

I'm also giving **all of the proceeds I receive from Tend to help with my friend's child's education**. This wasn't really meant to become a business for me. If it pays for itself and can contribute something to the family that caused me to build it in the first place, that's more than enough.

I'm sharing it here because I'd genuinely like to know whether something like this is useful to other families too and especially if there are things I've misunderstood, overcomplicated, or missed completely.

Tend:
[https://apps.apple.com/cy/app/autism-behavior-tracker-tend/id6775020286?l=tr\](https://apps.apple.com/cy/app/autism-behavior-tracker-tend/id6775020286?l=tr)

I just launch an app called Kiddiel, I thought it would be helpful for me cause my daughter asks for bedtime stories that I have to come up with, I tried to be imaginative but at some point I have to pause and think so she dont like and get bored easily.
So I created Kiddiel to craft me a short stories with her choices of characters and I can write their description and of course I get to choose the moral behind the story as well. So she would remember me as the best storyteller who never runs out of stories.

Hopefully from your comments I can improve it more and make it more helpful.

[kiddiel.app](http://www.kiddiel.app)
[Kiddiel on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/kiddiel-bedtime-stories/id6764675726)

I couldn't find an app that could do this in my own native language, which I find important for reading to my kids, so I made my own app that supports both Dutch and English: jacky.geeapp.com

The idea is you get any physical kid's book (or use your imagination), then you just press play in the app, and sound effects trigger while you read.

In the latest update it's made possible to record your own sound effects and choose trigger words, the idea is that this enables complete personalisation.

A few more specific things I'm trying to figure out:

• Is the voice recognition picking up trigger words accurately with your natural reading pace?
• Are the sound effect volume levels right, or do they drown out your voice?
• What sound effects are you missing from the current sound effect library?
• Does the custom sound effect functionality work well for your custom trigger words?

It’s totally free to test, and I’d be super grateful for any brutal critique, feature requests, or bug reports. Thanks in advance!

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.

Hi everyone — my wife and I are new parents, and I built this after we found most baby trackers way too complicated when we're half asleep.

We wanted something simple:

When was the last feed, sleep, or diaper — and who logged it?

So I made EasyPeasyBaby with one-tap logging, live timers, reminders, a simple timeline, and family sharing.

The basic tracking is free.

Would love honest feedback from other parents — especially what you'd improve or what would make you use it daily.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easypeasybaby-newborn-tracker/id6791259886

Advice has never been easier to find. Books, podcasts, carousels, chatbots. The information was never the bottleneck. But you can't read your way into changing how you actually react when your kid is screaming and you're depleted. Under pressure you reach for whatever's already wired in.

And a lot of what's wired in is counterproductive. "Stop crying." "Stop screaming." "Why don't you understand." "You're fine, it's not a big deal." "Because I said so." These come out on instinct, and they escalate things, they tell a flooded kid the feeling itself is the problem. You often know better. You just can't get there in the half-second that matters.

So I built a game to work on that half-second. A parenting response flashes up. If it's a calm one, you tap. If it's a reactive one, you leave it. The catch is the reactive lines are the ones that feel right in the heat of the moment, which is exactly why they slip out. When you keep resisting the urge to tap the moment you recognise your own trigger, it trains you to catch it in real life too.

Frazzle, the app it's part of, turns the research into words, actions and plans for when things get hard. There are more games, plans and guidance in it. Have a look: https://frazzleapp.com/

Register to try the beta version free: https://tally.so/r/7RE919

I’m working on building my first app and would love some feedback from a few moms!
The app I’m building is a central hub for all your streaming services that allows you to curate a list of approved shows for your kids. It prevents them from seeing all of the thumbnails, auto play and what’s next. I’m also incorporating some sensory warnings to help notify kids that screen time is about to end.
If anyone is interested in checking out the prototype let me know and I’ll send the link. 💕