PiggyBot

We love this app. It’s perfect for my five and eight-year-old to keep track of the chores that they’ve done and the goals that they’re working toward. It’s by far the best app for a straightforward and simple way to track allowance and chores, savings and giving. But, I keep finding glitches that I wish would be fixed so that we can keep enjoying this app. Most recently it deleted a whole days worth of recording: recording new chores, and credit for money being earned. Please fix. This is the best chore tracking we’ve found.

I’m a mom of three active kids. Started using this when my oldest entered 9th grade, middle in 6th grade and little one in third. The app is graphically fun for them, and teaches them how to think of their money. Swiping their money (allowance or otherwise earned) was always fun for them. They would upload pictures of things they were saving for and the app shows them how much progress they’ve made towards their goal. I like being able to see each of the transactions that has gone into the account - when my kids say they haven’t been paid I can show them they had been paid! It’s like a low key Venmo between you and your kids. If they want a souvenir on a trip that we think is ‘extra’ they will just say ‘Take it out of my piggy bot’. My oldest is now going to be a sophomore in college and she still has her buckets - spend, share, save. Love this app. It’s really helped me manage allowances and other stuff and taught my kids about saving (40%) and spending (50%) and sharing (10%) - (these are the %’s I set up for my kids allowance but you can do whatever you want in the app)

Very helpful to keep track of my 4 kids allowances and spending, my kids like putting the pictures in there and setting goals for them. I would like it even better if had a 4th option to track money going into other categories (i.e.: vacation or Investments, etc). Also had the same problem as rose thorn bud with the keyboard disappearing and not paying the weekly allowances requiring a hard reset of phone... that's a bummer, would be a great fix. I like the editing options available.

Initially this was a great app. Very user friendly esp for my 6 yo to track her spend and save amounts. However I've had problems recently adding info for non-allowance money. The keyboard won't show up so you cannot add the $ amount or description. Ex if you want to input gift money into your child's account. The only way I can get it to work is to totally power off the iphone and restart - a total waste of time. I'm going to switch to another app because of this problem. Pls fix this problem, then I might consider returning to this app.

Perfect for paperless allowance, encouraging savings, and learning about money. It is far more learning friendly than I expected. It's simple and colorful and my 8 yr old is learning. :) The only tiny thing I might suggest is a way to see when amounts other than allowance are paid (birthday money for example)...you can do them and write a description but if you can see the breakdown afterwards, I've not found how.