Parents' Guide to Homey - Chores and Allowance

HOMEY - CHORES AND ALLOWANCE is an app for the entire family to use to keep track of things that need to be taken care of around the house as well as things like homework and personal hygiene. Parents set up an account for each family member and assign each person a role: parent, teen, or child. Each role has privileges within the app, which can be customized for a specific user. The parent account has a password to keep kids from meddling in the chores or the money. Once the family is set up, parents can start assigning chores by downloading chore packs to save time or by creating their own. The preset chores include descriptions, an icon, which days the chores are assigned, and whether or not the kid has to include a picture. In addition to "responsibilities," which don't earn money, there are also "jobs" to which parents can assign a dollar amount for completion. Once everything is set up, much of this is automated weekly, and kids can send messages via chat if they have questions or comments. Parent can also complete their own chores to send a message that everyone in the house works as a team. If families are giving out allowance via the app, kids can choose to create "jars" to show what they are saving up for, or to separate their weekly allowance into buckets (such as spend, save, donate). They can choose a percentage to automatically go in each bucket and they may add or remove funds from any bucket. There is an option for parents to connect through a third-party service to family bank accounts so that money transfers happen in the real world, as opposed to a virtual situation.