Reward Study
Chores get done without you asking 3 times
Reward Study turns the jobs around your house into credits your kids earn and spend on rewards you choose. You approve the work, the app keeps the score, and the chasing stops being your job.
- No ads. Not even in the free version.
- 1 payment, or none at all. Nothing renews.
iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Requires iOS 17 or later.
How it works
Most households already run something like this informally, with a chart on the fridge or a running tally nobody quite agrees on. Reward Study gives that arrangement a memory, so the score is settled before anyone starts arguing about it.
Set it up on Sunday and stop thinking about it
Pick from 100 ready-made tasks or write your own. They cover the usual chores and homework, along with the small daily habits that are hardest to keep going. Set how often each one repeats and what it pays in credits.
After that first evening you are not deciding anything. The app already knows what today looks like, and the list your child opens is the list you built.
Nothing pays out until you say so
When your child marks a task done, it lands in your approval queue with the time it was completed. You approve or reject, and only then do the credits move.
A child who ticks everything off at 9pm still gets nothing until you agree it happened. That one step is what stops the whole system quietly turning into fiction.
They save up for something they actually want
You decide what the shop sells and what each item costs, whether that is extra screen time or a trip to the cinema. Your child can see exactly how far away the next reward is, and that distance does more for motivation than any reminder from you.
Requests come back to you for approval, so nothing gets spent behind your back.
The “that is not fair” argument ends here
Bonuses and deductions both require a reason, and your child sees it written down beside the number. The disagreement about where credits went stops being a disagreement, because the answer is already on the screen.
The full history stays in the app, and Pro adds a CSV export if you want it outside.
They learn what an hour of effort is worth
Set a conversion rate and your child sees their balance in your own currency alongside the credit total. A balance of 37 credits reads as 37 and roughly Ft 740, which turns an abstract score into something they can measure against the things they want.
The feature stays off until you switch it on, you choose the rate and the currency, and you can turn it off again at any point. No money moves through the app.
Math practice they will actually finish
The generator builds sets from addition up to percentages, tuned to the age band you set for each child. You pick the topics, the difficulty and how many problems, so a set can be short enough to get finished before anyone loses interest.
On devices with Apple Intelligence it can wrap each problem in a short themed story, generated on the device itself. You review every set before your child sees it.
Progress they can see
Streaks and levels give the routine something to build toward, and there are 12 badges to collect along the way. Kids check their own standing whenever they like, which saves you from being asked for a running total.
Hand over your phone without worrying
Pass your own phone across and it switches to kid mode, showing only what your child needs to see. Parent Lock uses Face ID or Touch ID to get back out, with a PIN as the fallback.
If your child has their own iPhone or iPad, send them an invite link and they join the household directly. No account, no password to remember.
2 homes, 1 system
Separated co-parents can run 2 independent households, each with its own tasks, rewards and balances. Your child does not need to be part of anyone's Apple family for this, because a household is shared by invite rather than through Apple Family Sharing.
It keeps working even when the 2 houses run differently, since neither side can see or change the other's setup. The child simply has a place in both.
Second Household is a $4.99 one-time add-on to Pro. How it works for separated co-parents.
“I don’t want to pay my kids to do chores.”
Fair, and plenty of parents feel exactly the same. Credits are only pocket money if you decide they are. The shop holds whatever you put in it, so extra screen time, choosing Friday’s film or a trip to the pool all work the same way.
The money conversion is switched off by default, and it stays off if that is not how your house runs.
Pricing
The free version is the whole app with 1 child in it. No adverts, no tracking and no popups asking you to upgrade. Pro adds more children along with a few extras, and that is the entire difference.
Reward Study
Free
1 child, no time limit
- Tasks and reward shop included
- Approval queue and credit ledger
- Math practice generator
- Streaks, levels and badges
- Credit value shown in your currency
- Apple TV app for the household dashboard
- Parent Lock
Reward Study Pro
$9.99
Paid once, shared through Family Sharing
- Unlimited children
- Unlimited tasks and rewards
- AI word problems on supported devices
- CSV export of the full ledger
- Everything in the free version
Second Household
$4.99
Paid once, on top of Pro
- 2 independent households
- Separate tasks, rewards and balances
- Built for separated co-parents
Prices shown in US dollars. The App Store converts to your local currency and applies local tax at checkout. Purchases are handled by Apple, and Pro is restored on any device signed in to the same Apple Account.
Your family's data stays with your family
Reward Study runs entirely on your own devices and in your family's private iCloud. There is no Reward Study server, and no copy of your household data reaches the developer.
- Your child will never see an advert in this app, because there are none to see
- Everything lives in your own private iCloud, under your Apple Account
- Nothing is tracked, measured or reported back to anyone
- No account to create and no email address to hand over
- AI word problems are generated on your device and sent nowhere
- Purchases are handled by Apple, so payment details never reach the developer
Set it up tonight
Add a household, pick 3 tasks from the catalog and put 1 reward in the shop. That is the whole setup. Free for 1 child with no time limit and nothing to cancel.