Iallowance (chores Allowances) App Reviews

I initially added the chores when I first set up. None of them took. Now I’m trying to add them all again and it’s a b***** royal pain. NOT HAPPY. Got through adding the chores without a problem, when I finally realized you need to be in landscape mode on iPad (really?!?!?!) in order to do this. Working through the app and still NOT HAPPY! Extremely disappointed.

This is the absolute worst app I have ever used. I never write reviews but felt compelled to do so. After creating chores for my 4 kids I found that as I went back into the app it would lose its memory. Pre-canned chores like empty the trash would become “new chore” on my sons ipad. When I would select “fold laundry” I would come back in after closing the app and it changed to selection to “make bed”. There is no way to accurately track what is happening unless you remember every detail and constantly update. I’ve already spent too many hours re-fixing thinking perhaps it was a user error only to find out this app doesn’t work.

I initially added the chores when I first set up. None of them took. Now I’m trying to add them all again and it’s a b***** royal pain. NOT HAPPY. Got through adding the chores without a problem, when I finally realized you need to be in landscape mode on iPad (really?!?!?!) in order to do this. Working through the app and still NOT HAPPY! Extremely disappointed, waste of money.

Nice UI and easy to set up My 10 yr old daughter loves it But syncing between just two iOS devices just is not working at all Shouldn’t be that difficult I’m a tech savvy user too

Initially, I really like his app. It takes a bit to get set up. Granted, I have five kids which makes it more complicated than if I just had one kid to get set up. I find that some chores end up with a yellow check mark, which I think means it needs a parent to check it off as opposed to some chores that get a green check mark. I don’t see anywhere in the chore setup to change this and I can’t find an email to the developer to ask a question.

I have family sharing set up between my account and my kids. I'm logged into my phone using my iCloud account. My son is logged in through his iCloud account. This app doesn't sync between the devices like that. Unless you have same iCloud account in all devices, it won't sync. I feel ripped off.

I set this up meticulously for all 6 of my children. Spent hours (days). Then I synced it to their iPads and poof half the stuff was gone, some stuff deleted and everything mixed into different categories. So I tried to fix it. Then I opened it again and the same thing happened! Then every single time it syncs something goes missing or changes. I bought this on two devices. What a waste of $6. Let me know if you find an app that does all this stuff but actually works 😭😭😭😡

Could be a bit more user friendly, specially on the child-management part (for example if they had their own login, could request for parent validation of chores claimed to be done, etc.) Also, need an android version of the app please! So far, so good.....

I never write reviews but felt compelled for people like myself who are searching for a chore monster replacement. There are so many options/everything I could think of (& laid out clearly) for how you want to set up an allowance, chore chart, etc. Eg you can have a point/star based system, cash, screen time or any combination of these. For rewards, you can set up a simple “buying” rewards list or you can set up transferring points/etc to various banks (in a way that reminds me of writing a check/will teach concept of banking). My kids are 9/10 so I set up both ways. Set up takes forever but it’s easy to edit once you have put in the initial info. You can copy/paste entire kid profile which is nice. MY WISH LIST FOR DEVELOPER: 1. Glitch fix? —Make star to screen time conversion able to do seconds/ .50. (I carefully set up all my star/reward system. As you know, that took forever. But I need 1 star = 30 sec/.50 or I have to change the whole point system to use the screen time bank 🙁. 2. Glitch fix - Be able to erase non used bank icons from shelf. 3. Surely there is an easier way to sync on mult devices & only give parent’s device editing writes in set up. 4. Ability to get notification when chores are checked off & notification to approve redeemed reward on parents phone. 5. Ability to use on computer (particularly when setting up). 6. Ability to download a kids profile (so another parent can use as starting point for their purchased app) 7. Glitch fix - Under “Reward”, kids are given the option to withdrawal OR deposit (even though in set up, parent picked only withdrawal). Kids could just hit this button to get as many stars, etc they want 🙁

I have set up this app to be used with my two children. They each have their own device, an iPad and an iPhone and every time I sync it between devices it jacks up the currency’s and the stars and even deletes chores and rewards. I have added the chores and the responsibilities back in there several times and they keep getting deleted. The order and the sections keeps hitting deleted and chores are put into certain areas and mixed up. Also the Curren$y keeps getting altered. I have all the parental controls on no one else has access to this account. I am using my Dropbox to sync all devices due to the fact that everyone has their own iCloud account. We are all using my dropbox account. Please get back to me - I want this to work.

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Not user friendly. Pretty confusing trying to do ANYTHING on this app.

This is a very good way to manage allowance. However, it needs two improvements to get to 5 stars for also managing chores. 1) Chores should be managed in their own separate list instead of for each child. Chores could then be assigned for each child or left as a grab bag for whoever completes the chore. 2) Chore payment or rewards and notes should be included on the printable chore chart. I don’t want my child using my phone to check off their chores. Hint hint, that doesn’t work!

I have three kids and with this app, rules and carrots as well as penalties are clearly set. No more having to repeat reminders, they are all their choice now.... hopefully anyway because it’s only been three days. While my hopes are high, ways to configure can and should be improved - am sure so many dads and moms have tons of potential feedbacks. And one of many other things in my mind (for multiple kid management) is to have “common chore” setting. Right now, the app allows choice from a list of chores to be allocated to individual kids-three kids in my case. After allocation, when I need to change the compensation (e.g. to increase stars for a chore), I need to visit the same chore three times when if there was a “common chore”control would simplify tremendously. But I am sure this is a greap leap forward and will stick to this app for a while. Great job!

We love iAllowance and have been using it for 7 years. Has become an integral part of how we do “business” as a family.

I have been using this app for years and love it. I have tried several other apps but this is by far the most versatile there is. It takes a little while to figure out but can customize own chores for each kid and can make them appear only on days you select. You can also pay an allowance either in reward money dollar amount or set up to reward in stars then kids select from things they can use stars(rewards). I use the money system feature and set up banks for each of my kids. It works just like a regular bank. It will automatically add whatever dollar amount you set up per chore or per day if they do their chores. When you check their chore as complete, it will automatically add money to their account. I can also add deposits such as money they get for their birthday etc. An optional feature is that you can set up and use is you can have each kid have a savings account and set it up so it will take a percent weekly or daily such as 25% of their earnings from allowance will go into savings account. This is the best app for kids. The developers have put a great deal of effort into this program. I don’t understand the negative views. My guess is they didn’t take the time to work through the program to figure out how to customize. It does take a little while to customize it to your own needs and set up. Another great thing is that there is no annual fees. The only thing I would change now is to somehow make it interface with Alexa. I set up iAllowance with its own password protection as I didn’t want my kids giving themselves raises or extra stars. IAllowance does let them view it without having to put in password but only a few of my kids have their own device to be able to do this. I think if they could add Alexa somehow my kids could ask Alexa what their chores were for today. Just a thought. Thank you, for such a great app!! Kevin

Chores and responsibilities are hard enough to make a habit for younger ones. iAllowance is a great tool to help both parents and make it fun for kids.

The app will make kids spoiled and bratty and you will try to torture them with a chore app? I mean really kids will hate parents once you install the app. Just saying

This app is not user friendly at all.

No explanation for how to set it up. Just tells you what you can do afterwards.

So far this app was easy to set up, and has very fun details to use in teaching kids money management.

Very frustrating and not user friendly.

After syncing to one other device, I was not able to sync to any others. Very frustrating when both parents cannot have access to the same iAllowance account.

That’s 4bucks wasted. You can’t try the function with the free version. Very dishonest way to make money

I love the app even though some things are not very intuitive and user friendly and I know as I design apps myself! I am unable to see if there is a glitch though or is it something to do with settings that I’m not able to see all the stars earned by my child on the chalkboard or under the Stars...it is showing a partial amount though!? Please help. This has been the most efficient app so far with my three kids being motivated to do chores but it would help to make it more user friendly and not complicated to figure out certain problems like one I have. Thanks!

Hello Goodbye!!!

The concept was good but I think the app still needs work. For example I could not delete an entry and when I intuitively clicked on an already checked box he app entered two checks or doubled the amount owed for work instead of unchecking.

Keeps losing information when synced between two phones. Tried multiple times to resolve. Even worked with developer. He asked me to give it one more try and it worked for a bit and then stopped

I do not like the fact i have to enter my children’s birthdays with no option to opt out. So imade up birthdays

Not enough faq. Good idea but expensive for what you get because: Configuration is too hard and long. You can’t group chores for core chores, from what I can see. There is no webpage so my kids cannot have a “common operating picture” up on our main monitor, and it doesn’t work on their android devices which is crazy...I’m not giving my little ones anything too valuable because they will break it so android it is for them. I never review but I’ve spent 20 minutes in lacking faq webpages trying to figure out why my kids’ chores are showing up even though I added them.

Perfect for allowance tracking!

I've been using this app with my kids for years. The main reason I got this app was to have their automatic allowance payments go into the bank of mom. My husband can also see how much money they had and the kids can track how they were spending their money. Now, they are teenagers and I use it to keep track of their cash flow. When they do extra chores and earn money, I deposit it in there and then pay them out cash, recording that entry as well. This eliminates any confusion about whether or not they got the money they were entitled to. And, I torture them by having set the task completion sound to the dramatic, "ta-da!" music. It makes me giggle every time.

I don't synch between devices, so can't comment on that. I use it for my two kids allowances and chores. And then I started using it for my sister and Dad whom we are always paying for things for each other (vacations, combo gifts for other people, etc.). Was handy for that.

The way this is set up is great! Allowing my kids to check off their cores as they go and having a visual reminder of rewards and allowance helps keep them involved! Highly recommended this to anyone that is struggling to get their kids to take responsibility and accountability.

I have been trying this app for about a week and even though I wasn't sure how to modify it to our families needs even using the tutorial, I watched the videos on YouTube and it helped a lot. We paid the full price for this app and I would recommend this to everyone. Our kids really enjoy it because I can put it on the other tablet and they can check what they have done and I can approve it before they receive the checks.

We use this to track allowance and savings for three kids, plus discretionary funds for the parents. Two iphones have edit control, while the kids' ipads only show their individual accounts. It syncs via dropbox and uses very little space. The sync function had gotten slow for us after 8 months. Their support group told us exactly how to correct this, and syncing is back to a couple seconds. Very happy!

Made chores and screen management simpler for the whole family

Got this app in the hopes of being able to remember how much allowance my kids were owed - seems to be working! Took a little time to best figure out organizing chore lists my kids could easily review and do, but once done - a breeze to update. Sync'ing can be a little time-consuming sometimes with 2 adults and 3 kids.

I have been working with this app a few days now and am having horrible issues with it syncing on our IPad. We record stars and then they don't show immediately on the reward page. My kids are very frustrated. Seems to be ok on IPhone though

I don't carry cash so this really helps kids earn money that they can spend without me having to handover cash all of the time. I also like that we can incentivize things without having to pay money for everything.

lots of steps to set up, especially when you have multiple kids with essentially the same chores. Doesn't sync back to parent account properly.

I had trouble with the initial syncing of multiple devices and the developer promptly emailed a fix which worked great. I love that the kids can see their accounts but that they can't easily add extra funds for themselves.

As a psychologist, I often work my clients who are parents on managing their children's behavior. This is my #1 app to recommend because it is so flexible and easy to use once it is set-up.

Before discovering this app, we attempted to give the kids cash every week which we often forgot. I have one that saves his money and would therefore have a lot of money in his room which became a problem. With this it automatically adds the allotted amount every week and we maintain it like a check book which I think is important for them to learn. We automatically have 10% go to savings and another 10% to charity which is important too. They can check on it anytime and it has been working great for us for over a year now.

I love how this app educates about deposits and withdrawals. My son likes to see his progress, and it is easy to do so.

Works but kind of complicated. it could be better

Tried this app and quickly realized that others are better. Between the sync issues and the complexity...I want an app that just works...especially for this price. Too expensive and needs work. Moved on to another to better meet my needs.

At first it is a bit intimating. Once you get the hang of it , it's easy to use. Great app and very useful.

It was a nightmare to sync on my children's' phones. Only 1 out of 3 worked correctly.

Not perfect, but really a great tool to help kids earn and manage money- allowing them to be able to spend "their" money while we are out without having to carry around actual dollar bills and change

I’m enjoying it a lot already got $30

fine so far. hard to figure out how to make the app calculate interest

It's a lot of work to set up, but once that is done this is great. I have it synced with my kids phone and that works well usually. I am currently being prompted to change for the legacy sync so we will see how that goes. I have emailed for assistance in the past and they were extremely helpful.

Great for keeping kids on task and helping them focus on earning rewards. Very motivating for kids. They have really thought of everything with this app!

This makes it so much easier to track kids allowance and easily set it up for spending savings and giving. With actual money, my kids were always getting into each other's piggy banks and playing with their money and never really had any clue how much they had. Plus it was a pain to remember to get actual cash to give them for their allowance. This is way easier. They are four, six, and nine years old.

Great app so far! It would be nice to be able to divide stars up between two or more different rewards for different chores so that some chores will pay out for one reward and other chores will pay out for a different reward.

I wanted a way to track allowance, not launder money for the mob. You can’t even track a simple withdrawal without giving it a label. If I needed to label it, I would have labeled it. It’s like it was designed by Microsoft.

Was PERFECT for what I wanted to track. I love that you can track time and assign minute amounts as rewards for chores. We use chores as a way to earn "screen time" (tablet, video games, tv) and this has been an amazing way to track it. The kids love seeing that check mark that adds time into their "bank" and I added a monthly allowance that is automatically added to their bank on the first of every month. I can't recommend this app enough. Once you take the time to set it all up, it is a complete breeze to use. And changing or adding things is easy once you know your way around the app. Love it! Thank you for making something so useful!

I have tried multiple apps on kids' chores and allowances. This is by far the best. I would have given a five-star, had it got a family tab to show consolidated status and transactions of all kids. It would also be great if there is a centralized page to set up, edit and configure chores for all kids.

IAllowance is the best way to keep track of what your child is doing and earning with a wonderful system to pay him/her!

User interface is not intuitive. It is not clear how to add interest to the savings account. This makes it difficult to justify savings over spending.

Works well to keep track of allowance for two kids. I like that it includes categories for savings and charity.

I bought this app in hopes that my kids could have on their phone and sync to mine. It does not work. Complicated and never got it to sync. Waste of money!

I have been using this app to give my kids credits after they help with house chores. For our busy life this app is very convenient.

This has to be the best app anyone could use for these tasks. I've tried several, but iAllowance is the best I've used. It is highly customizable, which is perfect since every family chooses different ways to keep track of chores/allowance/behavior. iAllowance does it all. Over the past couple of years using this app I've had to contact customer service 3 times. Every time I sent an email to their published support address and received a response from a human being within 24 hours. Not just any person either - the guy who knows how to solve problems. He's kind and doesn't make me feel s***** for asking. The instructions are easy to follow. The one time it was an issue with the app, he apologized and promised it would be fixed in the next update, and it was! Recently, a toddler deleted the app from my phone. The iAllowance sync options allowed me to recover all the data. I had trouble with this, but again I contacted customer service and was walked through via email how to fix my problem.

My son is happily working hard to get rewards. He loves to hear ding ding sound when he gets a star.

It is super helpful and awesome 😂

to use it, but I like it so far.

I read all the excellent reviews, but we are stuck on initial setup. This app needs a step by step tutorial. The in app setup is very difficult to understand. Spent the money then deleted it and now using a much better free app

We really love this app for our large family. It can still grow and improve (mostly with speed and accuracy of syncing between multiple devices), but it is still fantastic as is. On a related note, the developer is super quick to respond to questions and emails. I'm very impressed.

It's difficult to set up... had to watch utube videos to try to get through the set up - and I'm still having trouble.

I really do like the app. I just want to like it a little more. Therefore, I give it 4 out of 5 stars. First off, the UI is definitely not the easiest to follow. I spent an hour or so each day over the span of a few days just to finally get my head wrapped around the navigation. I think part of the reason is that this app has a lot of stuff packed into it and maybe more than meets the eye. However, it could've been laid out a little more intuitively. One thing I would like to see different is a "Would you like to save your changes?" prompt. For example: If I go into a chore that I've created for my child and click on anything at all, it changes the chore. It saves those changes. I was just trying to show my wife all of the options within a chore, not actually wanting to change it and little did I know that everything I showed her get changed. I spent another while getting everything back in order. With her having the app also and being an admin, she can inadvertently change something also. If the app would have that prompt, it would help anyone from inadvertently changing a setting. Saving to DropBox is ok but a little limited for some users. Sometimes, the upload/download updates with DropBox seem a little slow to me even though my internet speed is fine. Maybe a cloud-based option would be a nice 2nd option. I really like that I can give money and/or stars. This fit my needs perfectly. My children have chores that they get paid for and they have other items, such as brushing teeth and feeding their animal, that isn't a paid chore. They should do those things without being told. As such, if they complete certain items like that, I give stars. 10 stars in one week = $5 that I pay out. It's incentive for them to do the things they are supposed to without being told to do so. It would be nice if I could make the app know that 10 stars = $5 or whatever dollar amount I assign. As it stands, I'd have to put a monetary figure for each star but I don't want to reward each one. I only want to reward if all 10 are achieved. Doing this "manually" isn't a huge deal but would be better if automatic. You can also log bad behavior. With bad behavior, the app will allow you to deduct stars or money... whichever you choose. Of course, the best feature is the fact that the kids use it and the adults use it. Just making the kids log into their device and show that they have done something is learning in itself. I spent a couple weeks reminding my kids each day to log in and show what they've done. I've quit reminding as much and have explained that the burden of showing what they've done falls on them now. I still give reminders, of course, but not as often. If they want paid, they'll handle their part. All in all, if anyone is looking to keep track of their children's chores, good behavior, even bad behavior, this is a great tool to use. In my opinion, any child 10 and up should be able to understand their portion easily enough. Once the parent gets through the setup process, which may be a little work, it'll smooth out and be a great tool to use.

Great tool to track these pesky funds. Also is effective for behavior modification. Excellent.

I love how easy it is to keep track of how much my kids have earned. It's great for on the go when we're at the store and they see something they really want, I can quickly check if they have enough money. Love that I can predetermine their savings and charity money and it works automatically. Some reviewers said navigation was hard, but I found it fairly intuitive. Yes, it takes a little bit of time to figure the app out, but it's not terrible. I do have two complaints though... I have always based my kids allowance on the amount of chores they've completed (getting the stars), but there is no option for this. They get their allowance whether they've done their stuff or not. I have to manually do a transaction to take money away that they didn't earn. I really wish there was an option to base allowance on stars. (Or keep it the same way since some people do pay the same every week no matter what.) Not sure why I put in there that each star was worth 10¢ because it doesn't really matter. Also, I've been able to sync to my iPad and my son's iPod, but not my other son's iPod. I've tried both the opulence syncing (all of their iPods are I my account) and through Dropbox, but for some reason it always syncs with the one iPod but not the other. It makes it hard when I have 4 kids trying to record their jobs everyday...they always want to record all at the same time, of course. If those two things worked, this app would be perfect in my opinion!

I have been using this app for several years it is very easy to use and I can set up multiple accounts for the kids depending on what we are tracking.

I've used this app for years. Works great.

Let this app keep track and do all the work for you. it's awesomely EZ you just gotta get it syncs great restores great! Great customer service

But buggy and not very intuitive to set up children and sync to their respective iPods. Crashed when trying to take a photo of my child. Keeps locking me out when parental control is off!

This has been awesome for setting up automatic allowance deposits for my kids and even splitting it up into part going towards savings vs a spending account. Less cash to deal with is great and being able to buy stuff for my kids with a credit card and debit their account right at the checkout line is great. I set up their phones with the app and read only access to just their accounts so they can monitor their own money too.

Great app. Set up automatic allowances and Gift money received from family. Now kids can ask to make purchases based on allowance bank balances or save for next big item. Once had problem with app, wrote to developer who replied quickly and resolved issue with new build So many other features not even writing about. Very happy with app.

This is the bank for my kids spending money and a great checklist for chores. We’ve definitely had syncing issues, but the app itself is so good that we use it regardless. I have a small allowance set up weekly, and chores set to run on a star system. When they have 25 Stars, they can trade that in for a dollar (I do this through two rewards transactions). Works great!

I can't find any way to track a loan that my son must repay me. There's no "official" way, plus, it prevents a negative opening balance on accounts I create, so I can't even hack my own way. Shortsighted IMO.

I love the app- but wish I could save it on a shared drive and open on android

Awful!

Fairly well designed, but the parent/child setup is wildly poor. Having to enter a password EVERY time I want to use it? No thanks. There needs to be parent accounts and child accounts, and the simple ability to restrict what a child account can do without tying it to a password. My kids have phones, they should be able to access and record their chores. I should be able to use the app as an admin without having to enter passwords all the time.

We’ve been using it for 4 years and it’s just become part of our daily lives. Very flexible and easy to use.

It keeps your allowance safe and sound! (that is sort of all I have...) but, get it. All you have to do, is sign up, and then your all set! Sign by: Christy.