Written for homeschool families

Your school day is already a checklist

Math, reading, practice, the dishwasher, screens off when they said they would be. FamilyPoints puts the whole day in one list your kids run themselves, and pays them for finishing it.

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Why we built it this way

Because school apps and chore apps each solve half of it

A homeschool day doesn't split into "school" and "home". One child is doing fractions while another empties the dishwasher, and both of those count.

The task list grouped into Around the house, Morning routine and School, with a card at the top showing the points available this week for each child
One list

Lessons and chores, side by side

Group the day the way it actually runs: morning routine, school block, afternoon, evening. Reading, handwriting practice, piano and the trash all sit on the same checklist and all pay out the same way.

  • Any task can be worth more than another: 5 points for a math lesson, 1 for feeding the dog
  • Groups keep the checklist in the order the day happens
  • A weekly projection shows what each child can earn before you promise anything
A child's checklist for the day with around-the-house, morning routine and school tasks, some already ticked off
Your schedule

Co-op Tuesdays, four-day weeks, term dates

Tasks run on the days you choose, not on a school district's calendar. Put co-op day on Tuesday only, run math Monday through Thursday, and give a task a start and end date so it retires with the term.

  • Pick any combination of weekdays for a task
  • Start and end dates for a unit, a term or a summer
  • Pause a task instead of deleting it when the season changes
A child's screen showing the submit button above a Task bank offering Take the trash out for 2 points with a Grab it button
More than two kids

Built for a full table

Everything is priced per family, not per child, because families like ours don't have two of anything. Shared chores go in a task bank the kids claim from, so the eldest can't quietly leave the dishwasher for the youngest.

  • Unlimited children and unlimited adults on one plan
  • Award or deduct across every child at once from the Everyone row
  • Each child keeps their own dashboard, streak, level and balance
The Behaviors panel comparing awards and deductions for Bedtime, Chores, Kindness, Listening and Siblings
Character, not just output

The things you're really teaching

Attitude, kindness to a sibling, doing it when asked the first time. Tag points as you give them and you can see, week by week, whether the thing you've been working on is actually moving.

  • Tag any award or deduction with the behavior it belongs to
  • Open a tag for its week-by-week trend
  • Compare every number with the period before it
A real setup

How one homeschool day is priced

Point values are yours to set. This is the shape ours takes, as a starting point rather than a prescription.

Set a monthly reward budget and FamilyPoints turns all of that into a rate (say 25 points to the dollar) so you know what the week costs before your kids spend it.

Questions

What homeschool parents ask

Is this a curriculum or a grade book?

Neither. FamilyPoints doesn't know what a lesson contains and won't grade it. It tracks whether the day got done and what that was worth. Keep your curriculum wherever you keep it now.

My kids don't have phones. Does this still work?

Yes. Kids log in with a PIN on whatever screen you have: a shared tablet, a laptop, or a display on the kitchen wall. Nothing needs a phone, and nothing needs an app store.

Do you charge per child?

No. It's $3.99 a month for the whole family, however many children and adults are in it. That was the first decision I made about pricing, for obvious reasons.

Can grandparents see it?

Yes. There's a read-only link that shows balances and recent activity without an account, and grandparents who want to award points can join the family properly from an invite link you send them.

What about a child who's too young to read the list?

Award their points yourself from the parent dashboard, or sit with them at the family screen and tap through it together. The checklist is optional; the points system works without it.

Running it on a screen in the kitchen? That's how we use it.

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Put tomorrow's school day on the list

Create your family, add your kids, and hand them their first checklist in about 2 minutes. Free for 30 days, then $3.99 a month for everyone.

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