The mat gets one hour; the other 167 undo it.
Safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth — genuinely free for your families, with no ads shown to kids. Earn 20–25% recurring commission for 12 months through Stripe Connect on every family that upgrades to Premium.
- 20–25% recurring commission for 12 months
- Free Premium for your own family, plus Premium passes to raffle at recitals and belt tests
- Genuinely free for your families — a plain one-line partner disclosure keeps it honest (FTC)
Tasks, Coins, Games — That's the Loop
Parents set routines and tasks
Chores, reading goals, wellness habits — configured once.
Kids earn Kudo Coins
Completed tasks earn coins. Educational games earn them back.
Screen time self-regulates
Fun games cost coins. No timers, no fights — kids budget themselves.
Tap any screen to see it full size.
Free plan available for families — tasks, games, wellness tools, and the parent dashboard cost nothing.
You can name each of these kids from your own class — here's the one thing you can hand their families.
The practice fight nobody wins
There's a kid who liked this until it became the thing she gets nagged about. Home practice arrived wrapped in pressure, and now the form or the drill carries her parent's disappointment on it. She isn't tired of the activity — she's tired of the argument that comes with it.
Why this works
When the structure lives somewhere other than the parent's voice, the parent's job shifts from reminding to approving — and a parent who isn't nagging is free to just be proud. Your studio's reputation runs on that parent relationship, and referrals come out of it.
The parent side is free too: parents set the week's routines, choose which tasks need their sign-off, and approve with one tap or in a batch. Parents decide what the coins are worth, including off-app device time they configure. You're handing over a structure, not another assignment for the parent to enforce.
A systematic review of parental involvement in youth athletes' motivation found support, praise, and understanding were associated with favorable motivational outcomes, while directive behavior, pressure, and performance expectations were associated with unfavorable ones — with moderate involvement identified as the optimal level. Gao et al. (2024), Frontiers in Psychology.View source →It was never the schedule
When a family quits, the note says "schedule conflict." It usually wasn't. It was a kid who decided he wasn't good at this, or felt outside the group, or had a feeling about Tuesday he never had words for. The child leaves for reasons no one at the studio ever heard out loud, because a nine-year-old reports feelings as logistics.
Why this works
A kid who has language for how a day went brings some of it into the room. You read kids for a living and mostly get to work with what the kid shows you; a family in the habit of naming how the week felt tends to bring more of that to the people who teach their child.
Free, and the part parents don't expect from an app: a daily check-in that is never scored and never graded, with a comfort flow after, plus affirmations and meditations only in categories the parent approves. It is not a screening, an assessment, or an early warning of anything, and nothing from it is ever sent to you — the family's tuition doesn't move either way.
A systematic review of 43 studies on why children and youth drop out of organized sport found intrapersonal and interpersonal constraints — enjoyment, perceptions of competence, social pressures, competing priorities — were more frequently associated with dropping out than structural constraints like cost or scheduling. Crane & Temple (2015), European Physical Education Review — youth sport research.View source →One hour with a shape, and 167 without one
For a lot of kids, your hour is the only part of the week with a shape to it — a start, an order, a point. The other 167 arrive as an undifferentiated stretch of screens and drift, and the kid who is focused and purposeful on the mat is a different kid at 6pm on a Saturday, through no fault of his own.
Why this works
A week with a rhythm in it gives the parent something to be part of other than transportation and reminders, and gives you a kid whose Tuesday isn't the only structured thing that happened to him.
Routines are the spine of the free plan, and the safety work comes with it at no cost: a browser with no address bar and no search, and social that has to pass a parent first — approval required, no real names, phone and email physically cannot be sent, siblings connect automatically. You can hand that to every family in the lobby.
A review of 50 years of research on naturally occurring family routines and rituals found they were positively associated with parenting competence and child adjustment, while noting inconsistent measurement across studies and unresolved questions about direct versus indirect effects. Fiese et al. (2002), Journal of Family Psychology.View source →
These citations are the research behind how KudoKids is designed. The researchers and institutions named have not endorsed or evaluated KudoKids, and we make no claim about results for children who use it.
Apply as an activity studio owner
One 2-minute application. Connect Stripe Connect, choose your commission tier, and approved studio owners get their partner link and lobby kit — no inventory and no contract lock-in on your side.
Want the detail?
Everything a careful reader wants to check, without cluttering the page for one who doesn't.
Everything that's in the app
You already sell parents the same promise KudoKids does — confidence, focus, and follow-through built through effort. KudoKids keeps that effort-first lesson going in the 167 hours after class: safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth, free for every family in your lobby.
It picks up where your class leaves off
The focus and follow-through you build in one hour a week meet a different set of rules in the unstructured screen hours at home. KudoKids is built to give those hours the same order you teach on the mat — effort first, reward after. Parents set the week's routines and tasks, kids earn Kudo Coins by finishing them, and parents decide what the coins buy, including off-app screen time they configure.
Zero-risk to put your name behind
Your recommendation is your reputation, so it cannot come with a catch. The free Explorer plan is the whole core product — routines and tasks, the full library of games, the parent dashboard, and Cosmo, the first companion. Nothing has to be bought for your recommendation to be true. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) only adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras — a place for kids to spend the coins they earn, so those coins do not all become screen time or rewards parents have to invent — plus, for parents, KudoKids AI, a setup assistant that drafts routines and rewards for their approval; kids can never talk to it.
Nothing to teach, stock, or license
You already wear every hat — this adds no curriculum, no inventory, and no class time. Your families are in your lobby two or three times a week; one poster with the QR code from your partner link is the whole install. Families scan it, sign up in minutes, and start at home. There is no integration, no procurement, and no student data changes hands — and if it ever takes more effort than that, you can simply stop.
What partners receive, and how to start
Extend Your Hour Into the Other 167
Kids earn coins through real routines, and parents can make screen time itself something kids earn. KudoKids is built so home screen time follows the same order you teach — effort first, reward after.
Real Commission, Not Shoe-Link Pennies
20–25% recurring commission for 12 months on every family that chooses Premium, paid automatically through Stripe Connect. No inventory, no class time, no license fee.
Something to Give Your Families
A free Premium account for your own family the day you are approved, plus Premium passes to share — perfect to raffle at a recital or hand out at a belt test.
One Poster in the Lobby
Your families are already there two or three times a week. A QR poster and a done-for-you email are the whole kit — nothing to teach, stock, license, or integrate.
Safe to Attach Your Name To
No ads shown to kids, no contact with strangers, no child data sold, and no AI on kids' screens. Recommended by child-development experts and live in early access now.
Reach the Founding Team
When you need help with the kit, a giveaway, or a question, you reach a real person on the founding team — not a support queue.
Apply
2-minute form.
Share
Get your link, assets, and start promoting.
Make an Impact
Share Premium passes, direct a marketing impact fee to a cause, or opt into commission.
Ways to partner — impact, sponsorship, or commission
Most partners join to make an impact, not income — a free Premium account and Premium passes to share, with no financial relationship and nothing to disclose. You can also direct a KudoKids marketing impact fee to a 501(c)(3) you choose, or opt into commission.
Impact Partner — the default
Share KudoKids because you believe in it. No financial relationship, no disclosures — a free Premium account and Premium passes to give families.
Direct a marketing impact fee to a 501(c)(3)
When families you refer upgrade to Premium, KudoKids pays an impact fee from its marketing budget directly to a 501(c)(3) of your choice. You don't receive income — it's a business fee we direct toward causes our partners care about.
Prefer to earn commission?
Earn 20–25% recurring for every family that upgrades to Premium — via Stripe Connect, NET 30, scaling from 20% to 25% with volume. Taxable income (1099); FTC disclosure required. Select the affiliate option when you apply.
Common Questions
KudoKids works with the screen time kids already have and gives it a shape: Kudo Coins are earned through real-world routines first, and parents can make device time itself something kids earn. It carries the effort-before-reward order you teach in class right past the parking lot — the difference between screens that undo your work and screens that reinforce it.
The core app is genuinely free with no trial cliff, so your recommendation stands on its own — no family has to spend a dime for it to hold up. A commission only exists when a family chooses Premium, and we ask you to disclose the partnership plainly. One straight line protects the trust that makes your recommendation worth anything.
20% recurring to start — scaling to 25% with referral volume — on every referred Premium subscription for 12 months from their first payment, paid automatically through Stripe Connect (NET 30, minimum payout $25). It's standard taxable income — you'll receive a 1099 at year-end if applicable, same as any freelance income.
Yes — it's required by the FTC and by your partner agreement. Any post, email, or lobby sign that promotes KudoKids needs a plain disclosure that you're a paid partner. A single honest line does it, and it's the same disclosure that keeps your families trusting your recommendation.
No procurement, no contracts, and no student data. Families scan the QR code from your partner link, sign up directly in minutes, and use the core app free. There's nothing to integrate on your end.
It's live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android, with a growing library of games, themed worlds, and twenty companions. Commission is paid through Stripe Connect, not promises. KudoKids is founder-funded with no VC, and the model deliberately keeps the core app free for families. The honest boundary: it's early access, and we say so.
Ready to partner with KudoKids?
Apply in 2 minutes. Get free Premium passes to share with families — and direct a marketing impact fee to a cause you care about.