Brili Routines – Visual Time‪r Reviews

by KWA_007

We were really excited about the possibilities of BriliRoutines, 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 BriliRoutines 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 BriliRoutines or on the website despite having an account. At least it was a free trial!

by Beast Cardinals Win !!!!!!

BriliRoutines 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 BriliRoutines (which they don't tell you is a trial and has limited capabilities anyway) and then with no warning you can no longer use BriliRoutines at all without paying eight dollars a month. Not worth it.

by Supasista

The commercial for BriliRoutines 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 BriliRoutines 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? BriliRoutines 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.

by Ellerooful

BriliRoutines is great, don’t get me wrong. It is well-designed and can help kids and adults alike stay on track and develop routines. However, $8 per month is an awful lot of money since BriliRoutines essentially only does one thing. I shouldn’t have to pay the price of a monthly streaming or cloud storage service to have an app walk through a routine with my child. I understand that developers need help paying for app maintenance and subscriptions do that. However, BriliRoutines is worth $2 per month at most (which is still $24 per year or $120 over 5 years - that’s WAY more than apps used to cost!). To ask for $8 per month (or $480 dollars over 5 years) is just plain greedy. Please don’t prey on parents who are looking for a solution. Instead, perhaps you could offer more services or features as a premium option and lower the cost to provide this more basic version.

by Reyerdaisy

This was helping my nieces learn routines and time management. Unfortunately it’s a very restricted platform. For example there’s no way to leave an activity unswiped (because there is always some variety to any schedule-at least a good one), or to select it as “not doing today” the rewards page only allows you to allot “free time” but sit specific things like “choice 1/2 hr of tv time” there’s no customization allowed. There’s no overall chart to see how things are progressing you have to sign in and look at each child-very clunky and not especially user friendly. Overall it has a good base concept but I would never consider paying $8.99 a month for it with these restrictions.

by Mike80801311

Everything starts out great. Setting up routines is easy and flexible. There are many good options. It would be great if BriliRoutines had routines and simple chores. Could use a little
More flexibility in assigning points per task. Also, each routine can only be assigned to one child. You need to duplicate for another. Not great if you want to make a change because you have to do it 2 or 3 times.

It isn’t until you get to the Child’s view when thing become difficult. It’s clunky to get the child into a routine. Once in it’s pretty good but everything else isn’t. Managing rewards/stars has very little flexibility. BriliRoutines is half way there but for the price not worth it in the current form.

by Kunaroo

1. A tutorial section with basic instructions and features would help so much, and would increase accessibility. Maybe it’s just me but I find it kind of hard to use sometimes.
2. Can you add a stopwatch feature and a way to save specific tasks with notes? I need to change my morning routine daily depending on what’s going on, so being able to find the average amount of time it takes to complete a task and a way to save those tasks so I can pre-build a routine before bed would be IDEAL. I would be able to sleep so much better knowing that I have a plan.

by Bionic Mutt

My son is six years old and just starting to understand his routine. After constant battles to "get dressed, brush your teeth, and put on your shoes" BriliRoutines had been extremely helpful and engages him. He likes the star and trophy system, although I wish you
could remove stars for not completing the task on time.

Having BriliRoutines on their device as well as yours is great, and I like the push notifications for when to start the routines.

I've just started using it, but already have set routines for morning and night. When he's back in school I also will start an afternoon routine.

He's always struggled with transitions and likely always will but this has helped tremendously! Thank you for BriliRoutines and turning time with my son from constant nagging to more quality time in the mornings and evenings!

by Morganaurora

I get anxious with time limits. The warning bells can either be helpful or increase anxiety. It seems like if we’re running late times are adjusted, and there are some things we can cut corners on (toothbrushing/flossing! They just tke a certain amount of time to do. I know you can set minimums so i will have to go back and adjust. Some suggestions:
Wish there was a way to build in time to switch tasks (transitions are hard!)
Time for emergencies like pooping?
See what’s next without completing a task (helps with transitioning between tasks)
Extra credit chores?

by Mmmmik643

Quite good, although lately one of my routines (I use it for myself) is completely buggy and keeps saying I’m late for my routine. No matter how many times I try to reset it. Makes BriliRoutines completely unusable. I think my other routines are unaffected so maybe I’ll just have to make a new one.

also one of the biggest drawbacks is that the sound and BriliRoutines completely interrupts and takes over my audio, so I have to go back and forth between BriliRoutines and the podcast or audiobook and restart it every time there is a new task. Can you make it so i still hear the bell, but my other audio apps aren’t disrupted? As ADHDers we need something to listen to to make the mundane tasks less boring.

by Akwapa91

BriliRoutines is helpful for me personally, an adult with ADHD. The routines are easy enough to set, and the interface is pretty good. A couple of improvements would definitely bring me up to 5 stars. First, I have to sign in almost every time I open BriliRoutines for some reason. Second, each time I switch a task, it stops playing whatever podcast or radio stream I was playing. Both of these things are very annoying and made me not use BriliRoutines for a long time. I would additionally be very excited if there were an adult version! But that would just be icing on the cake. Very helpful app overall!

by AdventureMom Of 2 Boys

BriliRoutines made a HUGE difference in our mornings! My 9 yo ADD son gets ready in half the time and doesn’t need any reminders from me. My 6 yo ADHD son still needs a few reminders but it’s well within reason. I’m no longer losing my mind trying to get them both out the door for school. I highly recommend it for other parents. I’m giving BriliRoutines 4 out of 5 stars because I think there are a few small tweaks the developers could make that would improve the functionality of the parents’ experience with the program. I’ll happily revised to 5 should if those updates happen.

by Rerun7

I just want to say thank you for BriliRoutines . I purchased the year subscription last week and it has made a really positive change in our home. The kids love getting their routines finished quickly so they can get extra free time before leaving for school. They also like being able to see how much time is remaining. I even created a child profile for myself for my own personal routines and it is really helping to keep me on track. The email tips. Keep up the good work!!

by Gorguin

BriliRoutines is great for motivating my kids (8&9) to get moving! Mornings we're out the door with time to spare, also streamlines the time after school to dinner, homework isn't a chore but a step to attaining their rewards. Custom routine set up takes time but allows you to tailor it to each individual child's needs. Easy enough to use on their own, although I wish that the routine steps were interchangeable for completion. The subscription fee is worth the reduced nagging time!

by Usemyphoneforeverything

From the first night it has saved us at least 30 minutes every night at bedtime. I love that you can add your own pictures for each step of the routine. We added pictures of my son doing each step of the routine which was so much fun and really got him into BriliRoutines . It used to take so much time just to get him moving upstairs to start getting ready for bed. Now I just start BriliRoutines and he takes off with it to see how fast he can get it all done so he has more reading time. This is the absolute best thing we've found to help with the nightly routine. I will be upgrading to the paid subscription when it gets closer to school starting back up so we can have routines set up for morning, afternoon, night, and a weekend routine as well. I've recommended this to so many friends with kids. My son has ADHD but BriliRoutines is extremely beneficial to ALL parents, especially those with kids that don't like to go to bed.

by Lee_p02

Hi! I’m an adhd adult who uses this. I am finally able to be on time to work and feel in control of routines!!! Thank you so so so much 🙏🏼 I am using a trial right now and i’m deciding if i want to get the subscription. I kind of want to get an apple watch to run the routines on so i don’t have to keep looking for where i set my phone down while i’m doing routines and trying to remember what i’m supposed to be doing, but it’s not watch compatible! I forget what i’m supposed to be doing if I get distracted by something during a task, but I feel like having it right on my wrist would be helpful and also expand the number of places/genres of tasks i can use BriliRoutines in. Could you make a watch version of BriliRoutines ?

i’ve also noticed a couple of glitches with the current app. it glitches when you type to label tasks and it glitches when you are trying to set the times for things. i also wish that there was a setting where you could skip particular tasks if you are running low on time (eg make bed) or they don’t need to be done rn (eg scoop litter if it’s already clean).

overall though, BriliRoutines is ingenious and incredibly helpful. thank you so much for designing this.

by 73177

I have 2 kids with ADHD and one of them is dyslexic and can't read at all yet. The voice prompts are fantastic. My oldest is now getting up on her own with her alarm clock, showering in her bathroom and coming downstairs dressed and brushed (which is huge because she has always struggled with executive functioning). It even works miracles with my youngest son. He doesn't have ADHD, he's just a whining, pain in the morning. Now he gets up without complaint because he knows the faster he gets through his routine the more free time he can get before he has to go to school. Highly recommend

by ECoopr

I am 38 years old and was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago. Mornings and evenings have always involved a lot of what I call ‘spinning’. Although I work to accept my neurotype as I am, it’s often frustrated me when I realize how long certain tasks have taken. There are other things I want to do with my life! I get most off track during transitions. Now for my morning routine I use Brili in combo with Focusmate and the routine takes exactly 50 minutes ending with a short drive to the lake where I walk each morning. I have played with and fed my cat (a whole 5 min of play!) done physical therapy exercises, 5 minutes of mindfulness, scooped litter, and the other random little things many people do in the am. BriliRoutines helps me do things in an order that makes sense, in an order that I have fine tuned. All this is a game changer.

by CVG-Mom

With a 1 and 4 years old boys, my morning routine is stressful. And I realized I needed an app to help keep my 4-year old son’s morning routine (and us) on-task. I wasn’t sure if he would take to BriliRoutines at such a young age, but it’s worked well. Because he is still young, we don’t always get the tasks completed within its allotted time, but we do manage to get the entire sequence done on-time. Also if we don’t do the routine in the exact order outlined, he insists that it must be completed (and not delayed). I still have to prompt him, but not to the extent I had previously and less yelling too.
BriliRoutines is also great for my husband and our nanny. Nothing gets missed now! There are other apps for routines, but this is the first that I’ve found that can truly be customized. For example, we customized (really for me) a routine to manage his learning time (we needed to work on some preschool skills), and it’s helped to ensure that it gets done.

by Tess_marie

For my 4-year-old daughter, BriliRoutines has been perfect. It's not that she didn't want to have a less conflict-laden routine or refused to do the tasks or anything, it's that she would get super distracted. So if you wanted her to get ready for bed or get ready for school, you would have to stand over her just chanting the thing she was supposed to be accomplishing ("pajamas, pajamas, pajamas") until she finally focused enough to complete it. Now we lay out her clothes in the morning and she wakes up and starts swiping through her tasks on her own, with no reminding. Nobody has to follow her around getting increasingly frustrated, and mornings are all around so much more peaceful. The best part is that she feels really proud of herself. She's gained a lot of confidence knowing that she's capable of getting these things done on her own. I highly, highly recommend Brili if you want to improve your kids' routine!

by Hcuzzi

I am an adult with ADHD, and this helps TREMENDOUSLY. It has changed my days. I would highly recommend just trying it out for you or your kid. It is customizable and easy to use. It does take a bit of time to customize the routines, but took me about 5-10 minutes to get it set up and then it is a HUGE time saver. It also adjusts time frames for if you are running late. You can have pictures for tasks, set times, earn stars, set up custom rewards, etc. They really thought of everything!

by WyoWendy

I use BriliRoutines for both my children. One has ADD and the other does not. It works equally well for both of them and has stopped the nag cycle! They look at the routines and do what needs to get done without constant reminding by me. It has made for much more peaceful mornings. I also have weekend chore routines, after-school routines, meal routines, and bedtime routines for each child and they were easy to set up. This is in my top five favorite apps on my phone. Well worth the money.