Grown-up controls: how parents stay in charge
In Little Streaks, your child can open their routine and tick off tasks on their own, but anything that changes the app sits behind a grown-up check. That covers settings, editing routines, adding children, rewards and purchases. When your child asks for a reward, it's a grown-up who approves it.
What can my child do on their own?
- Open their routines and tick off tasks, by holding each one.
- Watch the celebrations, and see their stars and streaks.
- Switch to their own routines if you have more than one child.
- Ask for a reward once they've saved up enough stars.
That's the point: the routine is theirs to run, without needing you to unlock anything.
What needs a grown-up?
- Settings.
- Changing a routine: editing or deleting tasks, adding a task, and changing a routine's scene, celebration or font.
- Children: adding another child and changing a child's settings.
- Rewards: creating, editing and deleting rewards, giving or taking stars, and approving a reward.
- Purchases: the grown-up check comes before any upgrade screen, so your child never sees one.
- Leaving the app: the help pages, and any link in them that opens outside Little Streaks.
How does the grown-up check work?
Little Streaks shows three numbers written as words, like "Four Seven Two", and asks you to type the digits on a keypad. It's easy for an adult who can read, and hard for a young child to guess. A wrong answer clears the entry and shows a new set of numbers.
It asks every time, rather than staying unlocked, so a phone handed back to your child is always back in child mode.
How do rewards get approved?
- You create rewards and decide how many stars each one costs, like a trip to the park, choosing dinner or extra screen time.
- Your child earns a star each time they finish a routine.
- When they have enough stars, they tap the reward and are asked to find a grown-up.
- You pass the grown-up check, see the stars before and after, and give the reward.
If it isn't the right time, cancel and the stars stay where they are. You can also give or take stars yourself, with a note to say why, and undo a reward if you need to.
Is there anything else parents should know?
- Each child has their own routines, stars and rewards. More than one child needs Little Streaks Family.
- Nothing bad happens when a task isn't done. No stars are taken away. A missed day ends that routine's streak, and that's all.
- Sick days and holidays can be marked as rest days in the history (with Little Streaks Family), so streaks keep going.
- No sign-up, no ads and no analytics. Little Streaks syncs between your iPhone and iPad with your own iCloud account. The privacy policy has the details.
Little Streaks is a routines and rewards app for kids, for iPhone and iPad. Free to start, with up to two routines.
