Built by a dad · Free forever for the first 1,000 families

The chore chart, finally worth doing.

I built Coinkids for my own three kids — to teach them money follows value you create. Paid chores. Family chores. Jobs they can pitch. Optional Bitcoin savings.

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No ads. We don't store your data, so we couldn't sell it if we tried.

COPPA & GDPR compliant No tracking No in-app purchases

Coinkids parent home — Needs Your Review queue with chore approvals

Why I built this

I have three kids.
They needed to learn this.

I'm a dad of three. Cash allowance always felt off — the dollars got misplaced, ended up in the laundry, or just disappeared into a drawer. Chores felt like a punishment they'd been sentenced to. Stickers got ignored. Lectures bounced off.

So one weekend I started building. The model is simple, and it's the one we already use at home: some chores are paid work. Some are family chores — this is how we help each other, no money attached. And kids can propose their own jobs with a price tag — that's how they learn to spot work worth doing, and parents approve it.

Then I added the part I really cared about — an optional way for them to watch their savings grow in Bitcoin. Not a wallet. Not a custody product. Just a window onto the future of money, set up by parents.

My three kids use it every day. Other parents kept asking, so it's on the App Store — free forever for the first 1,000 families. No ads. We don't store your data, so we couldn't sell it if we tried.

— The dad who made Coinkids

A side project, kept honest.

Three kinds of work

Paid chores

You assign it. They do it. They get paid for it.

Family chores

No $

Unpaid. This is how we help each other.

Proposed jobs

Kid → $

Kids pitch the work and the price. You approve. That's value creation.

The same model adults live in. Just at kid scale.

How it works

Five minutes. No accounts.

No emails. No friction. Just open the app.

Create your family

Get a 6-character invite code. Kids hop on with their own profile in seconds.

Set the three types

Paid chores you assign. Family chores (no $). And kid-proposed jobs you approve.

Paid Family Proposed

They earn, you approve

Kids complete the work. You tap the green check. Coinkids tracks what's owed — you settle up however you pay them.

$ You approve. You pay out.

What's inside

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Three chore types

Paid work, unpaid family contributions, and kid-proposed jobs with prices you approve.

Real earnings

Full transaction history. Running balances. Parents approve every chore — no surprises, no shortcuts.

Family sync

Real-time sync across iPhone & iPad. Each member gets their own profile — no shared Apple ID. Works offline.

Optional

Bitcoin savings — if you want it

You fund a wallet you own. Coinkids reads the balance. Kids see their stack grow over the years. Toggle it off in Settings if it's not for your family — the rest of the app works fine without it. Not a wallet. Not custody.

Read-only · Parent-funded

A peek inside

Two apps in one.
One for you, one for them.

Parents approve. Kids earn. Both stay focused on the loop.

Kid view — Emma's home, streak and chores

Parent view

An approval queue, family insights, and the optional Learn track. Two-tap green check pays out.

Kid view

A focused chore list, balances, and the Propose-a-Job button so they can pitch their own work.

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Savings, watched

Optional. Read-only Bitcoin balance from a wallet you fund. Kids see it grow.

Optional · You enable it

Real Bitcoin.
Watched by real kids.

If you choose to turn it on, kids see the balance and price chart for a wallet you've funded — so they can watch their savings grow over time. They never need to know how wallets actually work.

You fund a wallet you own. Coinkids doesn't custody anything and never converts allowance into BTC. The app reads your wallet — that's it.
Easy viewing for kids. Balance, price, growth chart. Tappable. Watchable. The "number go up" lesson, in real life.
Off by default. One toggle. Flip Bitcoin/Savings off in Settings — the Savings tab and price disappear for the whole family.

No custody · No conversion · Read-only viewing

Coinkids Savings screen — read-only Bitcoin balance and projections

From parents

They start arguing over who gets the dishes.

My six-year-old built a car-wash business in our driveway. He set the price. He did the work. I just approved the job.

Aaron

Dad of 1 · Newport Beach, CA

Three kids, three very different work ethics. Now they all see that effort turns into something real. That shift alone is worth it.

Lindsey

Mom of 3 · Fort Worth, TX

My middle one finally connected the dots. Doing the work, getting paid for it, watching it stack up. That's a lesson she'll keep for life.

Leah

Mom of 3 · DFW, TX

No ads No tracking No data sold No in-app purchases COPPA & GDPR compliant

FAQ

The honest answers.

Is it free? +

It's free forever for the first 1,000 families on the App Store. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads. After that, we may charge a small one-time fee to cover hosting — but anyone who downloaded under the early-family window stays free, forever.

Do kids need their own device? +

Nope. They can use their own or share yours. Each family member has their own profile, so balances and progress stay personal.

How do kids actually get paid? +

The app doesn't move dollars — it just tracks completed jobs you can mark paid. Coinkids doesn't hold balances or touch your bank.

How we do it at our house: each kid has an Apple Cash account on their device. Chore gets done, we send the dollars there, mark it paid in Coinkids. When grandparents drop a birthday card with $20, the cash gets handed over and goes straight to Apple Cash too — so the money doesn't end up in the laundry, on the counter, or in some random drawer.

Now they can see their money and pay at the store themselves. That last part matters more than I expected. When it's their money disappearing at checkout, they finally feel what things actually cost.

Other families use cash, Venmo Teen, Greenlight, or an envelope on the fridge. Whatever works for you.

Is the Bitcoin stuff mandatory? +

No. It's completely optional — you choose during setup, and you can flip it off in Settings any time. When it's on, kids can see the balance of a wallet you've funded and watch it grow. Coinkids is not a wallet — it can't send, receive, or store Bitcoin. It just reads public chain data so your family can watch savings grow together.

How does the Bitcoin savings part work? +

We teach our kids to save a percentage of their earnings in Bitcoin. The mechanic is simple: they send us the cash from their wallet via Apple Pay, we buy the Bitcoin and send it to their wallet, and they watch it grow in the Coinkids app over time. Parents are the custody layer. Coinkids just shows the window.

What ages is it for? +

Designed for families with kids ages 6–12, but it works for any age. Listed in the App Store Kids Category (ages 6–8).

Is my family's data safe? +

Yes. We collect only first names. No emails, no passwords, no tracking. Data is encrypted and stored in your family's private cloud space. You can delete everything anytime from Settings. Full details in our Privacy Policy.

Free forever for the first 1,000 families

Start their work ethic at 6. Watch it pay off at 26.

Real chores. Real earnings. Optional Bitcoin savings.