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Fammager holds the games shut on a kid's iPad until the morning list is ticked off — then lifts the lock itself, without anybody having to be asked. The rest of it runs the house: chores worth money or minutes, what's for dinner, what's still to buy, and what everyone's owed on Saturday.
Your morning routine isn't finished. Tick off what's left and this opens straight away.
2 of 5 leftThe shield's off. Everything opens until the afternoon block starts at 3:30.
45 min unlockedHow the lock works
It's built on Apple's own Screen Time framework, so the shield is the system's, not a nag screen a kid can swipe away.
The shield
A kid who taps a game and gets a blank refusal learns nothing except that the iPad is broken and a grown-up is to blame. So Fammager replaces the message with the only two facts that help.
Setup happens on the kid's iPad, with a grown-up standing there. An app selection made on one device means nothing on another — that's Apple's design, not ours — so there's no way to pick apps on your phone and apply them to theirs. We'd rather say that here than after you've downloaded it.
And once parental controls are authorised, iOS stops a child deleting Fammager or signing out of iCloud to escape it. What iOS doesn't stop is them opening the app's own settings and switching the lock off — so a four-digit grown-up code guards that screen. Without it the whole thing would be a polite suggestion.
Restricted
You cannot use “Roblox” right now.
Not yet, Matthew.
Two things left on your morning routine. Finish them and this opens straight away.
Chores, money and minutes
Six days in a row. Best run: 11 days — which stays on the card even after a streak breaks.
Paying cash for every job tends to crowd out a child's own reason for helping. So the two answer different questions: chores are what you do because you live here, and an allowance is money to learn to handle. Nothing in the allowance consults the chore list.
The rest of the house
A chore app that only did chores would be open twice a day. These are what keep it open the rest of the time — and they feed each other, so planning the week does the shopping list on the way past.
One line per day for the week. Cooking, or a night out with somewhere to put the restaurant. Decide Sunday and nobody has to decide again at six.
List what a planned dinner needs and it lands on the family's shopping list. Drop the dinner and the ingredients go with it — but the kitchen roll you typed in yourself stays, because nobody asked for it on the dinner's account.
Share a page from Safari and it's filed the next time you open the app — instantly, network or not. The ingredients are copied alongside so a recipe for two can be doubled for four, and the screen tells you when that copy was taken.
Point the camera at a handwritten recipe and it's read on the device — nothing is uploaded. You check every line before it saves, because a wrong ingredient nobody can fix is worse than no ingredient at all.
Pick which calendars show and today's events sit on the home screen — the kid's too, since it's the same question. Read-only, and no event ever leaves the device.
Each parent keeps their own jobs, with steps for the ones that take more than one tick. You can read the other's list — that's how you find out the plumber is already booked — but only they can tick it off. Jobs neither of you owns go in Up for Grabs: whoever gets to one first does it, and gets the credit. Kids see none of it.
Without opening the app
How each kid's day is going, and two complications for a watch face: one for what's waiting on you, one for your own list. Approving a chore works from the wrist — it's the thing you're asked for most, and rarely at your desk.
Two Siri phrases, chosen because they're what gets said with your hands full — a grown-up at the fridge, and a kid who's just finished brushing their teeth.
“What's for dinner in Fammager” “I finished my routine in Fammager”Send a recipe to Fammager from anywhere in iOS. It's written down straight away and filed properly next time the app opens, so a bad signal in a supermarket car park never loses it.
Invite a co-parent by email and everything syncs — approvals, the dinner plan, the shopping list, and each other's to-do lists. Kids join on their own device with a short code and see only their own half of it.
What leaves the device, and what doesn't
They can mark it done. They cannot approve it, cannot change what it pays, and cannot touch their own balances. That rule isn't kept in the app on their iPad — it's kept on our servers, and checked every single time. Which is the difference between a rule and a locked door with the key under the mat: a determined teenager who takes the app apart still can't approve their own pocket money.
Bank linking is read-only, through Plaid — the same service your other finance apps use. The keys that can reach your bank are never put on a phone or tablet at all. They stay on our servers, somewhere the app itself isn't allowed to look, so no device in your house is ever holding anything that could touch the account. Balances are fetched fresh each time rather than saved, so you're never shown yesterday's number as if it were today's.
Reading a photographed recipe happens on the device through Vision. Dictating a chore happens on the device too. A photograph of somebody's grandmother's handwriting is about as private as family data gets, and it never leaves the phone.
Fammager shows the day; it doesn't own it. Nothing is written back, no event is uploaded, and the choice of which calendars to show is per device and per profile — hand a kid your phone and your work calendar doesn't go with it.
When you pick which apps to hold shut, iOS hands Fammager a set of anonymous markers rather than the app names — it is never told what you chose, only how many. That choice, and the grown-up code guarding it, stay on the iPad they were made on and are never sent anywhere.
Set the routine once. After that the iPad does the asking, and you find out it's done from a widget on your way past.
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