Contact Brili Routines Support

This app worked well! Basically, it's a set of timers which have pretty icons, and you create a "routine" (custom set of timers for activities like brushing teeth, brushing hair, etc). When an activity is done, you swipe to automatically end the timer and start the next one. Once you have a routine you can set it to begin at a certain time (for example, when a child comes home from school) or to end a certain time (leaving for school), which saves a lot of math. You can also factor in rewards for completing tasks early. The user receives "stars" for completing tasks (you can set up how many stars per task) which you can choose rewards for. It's a great tool!! Some apps support themselves through ads at the bottom on the screen. Not this one! There's no free version. There is a "free trial" when you first download the app (which they don't tell you is a trial and has limited capabilities anyway) and then with no warning you can no longer use the app at all without paying eight dollars a month. Not worth it.

We were really excited about the possibilities of this app, but upon installation and going in to set up routines, I can’t even see the graphic images to have my child check them off. I tried accessing support, but you have to login or sign up with them to even submit a ticket. Okay, did that, where it asked for my name and email (note: no spot to create a password on this screen). I tried going back into the app and to my settings, clicking on the “change password” there. Entered my old password and created a new one... nothing on the screen changes. Try clicking on ANYTHING else on the screen and nothing happens. I can’t even TALK TO THE SUPPORT TEAM to tell them anything is wrong because there’s no way for me to reach them either via the app or on the website despite having an account. At least it was a free trial!

The commercial for this app is amazing! I was excited to try it with my kids (9 and 15). I set up elaborate custom routines replete with photos and everything. The kids were highly motivated by the rewards. It was all going to be great ... until I realized the app requires integrity, which my nine-year-old is still working on. She’s highly gifted and always looking for a shortcut. There is nothing built in to keep a kid from just swiping swiftly through tasks they haven’t even completed in real life! That’s the first lie from the commercial. The little boy in the ad is brushing his teeth, and Brili tells him he didn’t brush long enough. That is not a thing. You know why? The app also doesn’t talk! I haven’t heard this thing make a peep, and I don’t see a setting that makes it do so. Those three things are dealbreakers for us. I can’t be dishing out Roblox bucks and trips to the movies for a kid who isn’t completing the tasks. She says she did them, but ashy legs and funky breath tell a different story. $50 a year? Nope. Back to nagging I go.