Chores & Allowance Bot Reviews

***update. I have changed my review back to 5 stars. The developers responded to feedback and corrected an annoying problem. Happily using ChoresAllowanceBot to manage my children’s chores and allowance one again!!

Previous review:
I have happily used ChoresAllowanceBot for years and they started a new feature that makes me HATE using it. They have created the option to give a percentage of your child’s allowance. Great idea I guess - took out half the trash give them half allowance maybe? This is available only to the premium user BUT you can see it on the lower tier version and it now makes you tap twice to pay your child’s allowance. I tap pay and then tap 100% even though I couldn’t pay less than 100% because I don’t want to pay a monthly premium fee to use an app I already paid for. I guess this is a ploy to get me to pay monthly but instead I will look for another app. I did email and request this feature be removed but got a nonsense answer.

I don’t usually do these, but here it goes, this is my review. My wife and I have 8 kids. With that many naturally chores are a necessity just to make it day by day. Our 4 oldest ones cycle off with the major chores of the house (living, dining, kitchen and dishes). We had been trying to keep up with it on paper of who does what. ChoresAllowanceBot, this wonderful app, has a feature that rotates an assigned chore to each child! No more keeping up on paper!! Plus we were failing miserably with keeping up on who actually did what for allowances and rewards and it was a real pain and sorry to say lowered the kids motivation levels. I have high hopes for ChoresAllowanceBot! The robot talking to the kids and telling them what their chores are will be awesome! I love all the other features too. Would be really cool if you guys developed an Alexa skill that pulled that info!! Even as it is it’s a masterpiece of an app!

For the most part I really like ChoresAllowanceBot. The only thing is it’s a little buggy and I had to delete and redo the same chores several times on some. I’d put in the up for grabs like $0.50 and it would keep changing it to $10, $8, $6 etc… They only other feature I would like to see is maybe being able to have the same chore checked off multiple times a day. For example laundry day my kids get $0.50 for carrying up or taking down each load of clothes and taking out the trash might need done more then once a day. There could be 5+ loads of laundry and 2-3 times trash needs taken out. I did solve this problem with separating in into multiple chores, ie…take trash out 1, take trash out 2, take out trash 3, etc... unfortunately this kind of clutters up the screen and looks overwhelming to the kids. It also took forever due to the before mentioned bug of changing the amount and having to delete and redo it several times.

So, ChoresAllowanceBot keeps saying lost connection to server and dropping me back to the login screen. I was able to get it to work, but that seemed to happen fairly regularly.

Thoughts on functionality to follow here. What is there is very basic. I’m sure the graphics took more time than ChoresAllowanceBot workflow.

1. I’d like to be able to create a pool of chores that can be assigned to or picked up by the child. This seems very basic if you’ve ever worked with any kind of CRM system. It’s a logical way to organize something like this.

2. Chore template that can be utilized over and over rather than starting from scratch every time. The schedule feature wouldn’t work for this in my mind if that’s where you’re gonna go.

3. It’s 2018, fingerprint and facial rec...seems like basics if you’re gonna charge for an app.

4. Ability for child to add chores, with an approval of course

5. Take another look at how you add chores and assign to the child. The UI isn’t easy to follow.

At the end of the day, you’ve got a good looking app that doesn’t seem very well thought out beyond the just what’s on the surface. It doesn’t have to be crazy complex, but currently it doesn’t offer enough to make it really worth using long term I don’t think. It will become to cumbersome and we’ll stop using it.

Footnote...trues to contact developers and their form on their website errors out. Sweet...

I love ChoresAllowanceBot! Prior to ChoresAllowanceBot I considered paying for a kids bank account type app but that seems so overkill. We’ve kept charts on the fridge and tried piggy banks with real money. All of it was confusing and we would forget daily. ChoresAllowanceBot saves so much time and keeps us organized. I’ve even added behavioral goals for them like “having a good attitude” or “helping little brother”. Our boys have even used there allowances to buy us parents gifts! So it’s teaching them a lot about responsibility, money management and gives them a sense of control that they get to choose whether they do the chore or lose the chance for money. Much less conflict in our wild and crazy house!!! I’ve begun referring it to all my client’s parents as I am a behavioral and play therapist for children. Plus the price is negligible, awesome all around.

I am a new user, but so far it seems fantastic. I have sent feedback regarding a few issues- I'm hoping that I am just missing these features somehow:
1) when you set a reward/punishment, it doesn't seem like the child is notified. This makes me wonder why the parent enters text to describe the reward. How is this ever able to be viewed in the future..either by parent or child?
2) I am still trying to figure out how to approve chores. I am being notified when they are completed, but when I go in to approve them, there is nothing for me to approve???
3) I would like to see a log that shows the child each time an allowance is paid, each time a "punishment " deduction is made, each time a reward is made etc. Just like a bank statement, it would provide an explanation for the child to reference. I like the visual provided by the graph, but I do think an accounting of transactions is essential.

I love that my kids have their chores at their fingertips and I get notifications when they do a chore. The notifications for them to do their chores needs major improvements my kids say it alerts them at 3am! So by the time they are supposed to be doing their chores (12 hours later most days) that notification is pointless. I would love to see notifications like they get for their games, multiple a day. I love that I can keep track of their allowance and can add or subtract money easily. The setup is super slow it took me a couple of days to get all their chores entered and you have to do each child separate. I love that you can setup reoccurring chores like everyday or setup rotating chores. I like that I can have a passcode for each kids so they can’t get into each other’s accounts. And I can make only their account show on their devices. Over all I like it. Just waiting for improvements to the notifications

We use ChoresAllowanceBot daily. Having multiple older kids, ChoresAllowanceBot makes it easy to keep track of chore assignments, completion, allowance and kids borrowing or spending money before payday.

It’s easy to break down the chores into steps, assigning each step a value regardless of what you choose to reward your children with for completion.

I also like how I can easily add the toilet gets cleaned on Tuesdays and Friday, the kitchen floor get mopped on Saturdays, and the lawn is mowed every other week, so the person in charge of each chore can have more or less tasks to complete each chore daily and isn’t overlooking things that matter.

I love that I can put the chores in order of importance so each child has the smartest way to work though their list of tasks.

It’s easy to reassign chores and add tasks if a chore it too vague or misunderstood.

ChoresAllowanceBot is being updated and gets better with every update. Support is phenomenal. If I have a question or concern the response time is super fast, usually receiving a reply within minutes. And they reply to feedback, so I know I’ve been heard.

Overall I’m not sure how we got along without ChoresAllowanceBot. Assigning chores, approving they are done right and giving an allowance is smooth and consistent.

So far this has been a great app. My kids range from 1-14. There are 5 of them. This is a great running list to keep track of the “to dos” since 3 of them are autistic and need list. I’m not assigning chores so to say, the Bot is. This takes away the mom is the bad guy attitude when I would assign chores before. I like the rotation of the chores. The kids like they some days they have fewer chores. I like that I can add rewards, so when report cards come out they can get a “bonus”. I also like that I can deduct money when jobs are not preformed correctly. This is helping to instill a good work attitude.

The only improvements I would like to see are I wish that I could set time limits so that I could say “you have 30 mins to get this job done” or where I could say for example all jobs must be done before 4 o’clock.

I’ve been thinking for awhile that needed to look for an app to keep track of my kids allowance without swapping cash back and forth and writing IOU’s. AllowanceBot has been perfect so far. My kids get a visual for what they need to do, and they seem to get things done faster than me nagging at them. It has plenty of options for how often you want chores to repeat and how you want to pay your child. I’m glad that I have less nagging to do now, and the things are actually getting done. It was well worth the couple dollars that I spent on it. I should add, I had a question about approvals and they got back to me within 12 hours. (I wrote them at night.) FYI approvals will come through the next day, even if your child finishes before the end of the day. Great app!

Our family has struggled through checklists, spreadsheets, chore cards, verbal agreements, etc. and nothing has worked or been easy to use. The robot is a fun interface. Chores can be scheduled for one or multiple children, or alternating between multiple. You can schedule as a recurring chore or one-time. The best for me is having them check it off and then a reminder to me to confirm that the chore is completed before I mark as done. When I approve it as completed, the kids see the total that they’ve earned, which is an incentive to them. I’ve assigned some chores are “just need to be done” (like taking a shower) and they don’t get paid for. I input how much I pay them each time and ChoresAllowanceBot keeps a running total. I really think ChoresAllowanceBot has it all.

I have used other chore apps and they were beyond slow. ChoresAllowanceBot is not only easy but super fast. I haven’t even tried everything it has to offer but for our kids it is a breeze. Chores are done, they feel accomplishment and actually pay each other to have them do their chores when they can’t. I use it to teach not only personal time management and accountability but also how to maintain a house and themselves. They also get the benefit of seeing how even $.10 chores add up to a lot of money over time. I no longer have to nag and remind, the chores are done and they are saving their money for their own personal goals.
This has been life changing. Thank you!!

We are a family with 4 kids and started using ChoresAllowanceBot last week. After downloading and trying to set up about 6 different ones we settled on this. It was easy to set up a rotating schedule of chores for the kids. There are a lot of options, which I love, and once I figured out duplicating chores with the options I wanted, the setup went quickly. The kids are loving checking off their chores! They’re excited to see their first allowance payment show up. The only thing that I feel is really missing is a calendar view. I would love to be able to look at what everyone has to do today (and has already done) on one screen, instead of having to click into each child. That being said, the other features make ChoresAllowanceBot a keeper!

I don’t love doing chores but ChoresAllowanceBot makes it a bit more fun to do chores because you get a sense of accomplishment when you check off each chore you do. Plus you get to see your weekly allowance without having to ask your parent. You get to have a profile picture and see how your siblings are doing. ChoresAllowanceBot is very organized and I recommend it. It is a good thing to use if you want your kids to help out around the house. Your kids can also make some money. And they can make the house cleaner in case you just want it to be clean or you’re having guests or something. It gets your kids more involved in helping out and I like that about ChoresAllowanceBot.

First of, there is enough stuff you can get withOUT buying premium, but the stuff that makes it worth it, you DO have to buy. There's no ads. Not glitchy. But how do I get onto what only kids should see? I can't unless I buy premium. There IS a way to do it without it, IF you could have child passcode, but you can't unless you buy premium. So basically you can get on your parent's phone, or even your own device, go into your siblings account, and basically do anything you want on it. (Check/uncheck chores, spend money, etc.)

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But if the developers could please change it so on device setting you can say I just want to see ______'s account, without buying premium, that would be amazing, and ChoresAllowanceBot would be 5 stars. Thanks for reading!

ChoresAllowanceBot allows me to be consistent with my kids. They know exactly what is expected and I can be a competent employer by rewarding them on time and showing them accurate feedback through graphs. I can’t wait until the developer makes it easy to switch chores up on a daily basis without having to toggle back and forth between the chore bank and their chore lists to manually change the schedule from once to daily. With multiple kids, this taxes my working memory and time but the benefits of ChoresAllowanceBot still outweigh the costs. I’m always recommended ChoresAllowanceBot to friends, parents, and teachers because ultimately, it is a great app.

I love the ability to sync between devices that makes it easy for the kids to know what is expected. It would be great to be able to create global chores that anyone could complete to earn extra money, such as emptying the dishwasher. It is only completed once per day but the way ChoresAllowanceBot currently works I'd have to list it per child meaning that multiple children could "complete" it in a day. The approval process does help to reduce that confusion. Also it would be nice to create a common chore list bank that lists the name, description, amount, and schedule in one place. Then be able to pick from that bank when adding the chores to each child in mass adjusting the amt and schedule as needed per child. This eases the duplicate entry.

ChoresAllowanceBot is amazing. There are both parent pins and children pins that can be utilized and it makes things so easy for everyone. The only things I would like to see is in the chore list is an “other option”. I would also like to see an option where multi households can utilize the same app. For instance if you have a blended family and your kids spend time at the other parents house hold. That way you can see which parent made changes to what. Also, birthdays shoutouts around the birthday to make them feel special. Overall I cannot complain about ChoresAllowanceBot. I freaking LOVE it!

We had a system for allowance at our home for my 6 & 8 year old. It needed an update though as it was slot of work for me to keep them motivated with verbal reminders. ChoresAllowanceBot allows them to keep a running record and then at my convenience I approve the chores. Less work for me really reminding them as this keeps them accountable. Then if they forget to check it off. I don’t pay. We go to the bank every Monday and they get their allowance. Then half goes into their bank accounts and they keep half. Some weeks they do not get any due to disrespect but it’s nice for them to see what they should have earned. Working well for our home.

I needed help keeping track of my daughter's weekly allowance. I hardly ever have cash on me, so handing her cash each week was tedious and frustrating. ChoresAllowanceBot has made things better for both of us—she now has a virtual bank account with me where we can both see on our devices how much credit she has to make purchases of her choice. I like how we are able to identify details about what she has spent her money on in notes, but I am not a fan of the graph—instead I'd like to see more of a log or bank account register-type page. It'd be easier to identify expenses and what was purchased, etc. I love the graphics! Great app!