Screen time that earns its place in your homeschool day.
Your families already hold the line — schoolwork and responsibilities first. KudoKids is the system that runs it: kids finish real tasks first, and you decide what their coins buy, including off-app screen time. Safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth — live in early access now, and free for every family.
- Earned screen time, tasks first
- Free for every family — nothing to buy
- No ads to kids · no child data sold
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.
Three things a homeschool family is already working toward — none of it curriculum, all of it the shape of the day around it.
The kid starts running the morning
A kid finishes their own list before anyone asks — not because a parent is standing there with a timer, but because the routine is finally theirs. That's the thing homeschooling was meant to produce, and it's the part no curriculum ships.
Why this works
The family stops coming to you as the referee in their screen fight and starts coming to you as the person who helped their kid get self-directed — the only reputation worth having in a co-op.
Every family can have it today for nothing: the routines and tasks, the coins, the parent-set rewards, the growing library of games, the daily check-in, the safe browser, and the whole parent side. Premium only adds other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras, plus KudoKids AI, a parent-side setup assistant kids can never talk to.
Joussemet, Landry & Koestner, 2008 — review linking autonomy-supportive parenting (real choice, reasons for rules, less controlling pressure) to children's motivation and school adjustment, Canadian Psychology 49(3)View source →Nobody has to be the timer
The child stops hearing “no” forty times a day. The limit still stands — it just lives in the system instead of in a parent's mouth, so the kid gets to be a kid around their parent again instead of a negotiator.
Why this works
A household where the parent isn't the enforcement mechanism all day stops white-knuckling — and the leader who handed them that stops being the person they argue with about screens.
Free to every family: the parent sets the limits, decides what coins buy — including off-app device time on a countdown — and sees and approves the whole week from the parent side (Family / Inbox / Insights / Settings), in one tap or in a batch.
Gentile, Reimer, Nathanson, Walsh & Eisenmann, 2014 — prospective study of 1,323 grade-school children: parents' monitoring of media, and setting limits on how much and what, predicted better sleep, school performance, and more prosocial behavior seven months later, JAMA Pediatrics 168(5)View source →The kid who actually contributes
A child doing real work in the household — not a worksheet about responsibility, the actual thing — and starting to carry themselves like someone the family depends on.
Why this works
You become the leader who named the gap every family in your co-op already feels: their curriculum stack is excellent, and none of it teaches this.
Free to every family: a parent puts real household responsibilities and routines into a list the child tracks and completes, and finishing them earns coins the parent has already set the value of. Nothing to schedule, nothing to grade.
White, DeBoer & Scharf, 2019 — longitudinal cohort of 9,971 U.S. children: how often a child did household chores in kindergarten was associated with stronger self-competence by third grade, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 40(3)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 a homeschool leader
Apply in two minutes to review the real thing with your own kids and get your safety facts sheet and a printable handout — you'll sign a short Letter of Understanding, with no financial relationship and nothing to disclose.
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Everything a careful reader wants to check, without cluttering the page for one who doesn't.
Everything that's in the app
You already tell families screens should be earned — schoolwork first, then screen time. KudoKids is the app version of that agreement, and the free plan is the whole product, so a recommendation never turns into an upsell on your name.
It's the app version of what you already practice
Kids earn Kudo Coins by finishing the tasks and routines you set, and you decide what coins buy — including off-app device time. Earned screen time stops being a paper chart and a nightly negotiation. It isn't curriculum and won't pretend to be: it's the responsibility-and-routines layer around the school day, the part no worksheet teaches. Nothing to schedule, nothing to grade.
The free plan is the whole product — so it protects your name
Free Explorer includes the routines and tasks, the full library of games, the wellness tools, the parent dashboard, and a first companion — Cosmo, the astronaut kid. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) only unlocks the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras, plus KudoKids AI, the parent-side setup assistant; Premium never walls off the learning and never pressures a child to buy. You can recommend it to every family with zero purchase pressure and zero cancel-trap attached to your name — and you can review the real thing first, free, with your own kids, on your own timeline. It's the full product, forever, not a trial.
The safety bar matches your families' — with receipts
KudoKids clears the standard screen-skeptical homeschool families already hold: no ads shown to kids, no contact with strangers, no child data sold, and no AI on kids' screens — just carefully designed play. The parent dashboard shows what kids are earning, playing, and learning, so you can see how the week went without hovering over a shoulder.
What partners receive, and how to start
A One-Page Safety Facts Sheet
Plain-language answers to every screen-skeptical question a homeschool parent will ask — ready to forward, post, or hand across the table.
A Ready-Made Homeschool Handout
A printable, brand-clean handout and a resource-list line you can drop into a co-op email or an honest review as-is.
A Partner Listing
Be listed as a KudoKids homeschool partner the families and readers who follow you can find.
Nothing to Disclose
Education partners have no financial relationship with KudoKids — no affiliate link, no commission. It stays an honest recommendation, not marketing.
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Common Questions
It isn't curriculum, and it won't pretend to be. KudoKids is the responsibility-and-routines layer around the school day — the part no worksheet teaches. Nothing to schedule, nothing to grade: you set the tasks, kids earn Kudo Coins for finishing them, and you decide what the coins buy.
KudoKids makes the screen time kids already get something they earn. The loop runs on real-world tasks and routines, and it's parent-directed by design — parents set the tasks, the rewards, and the screen-time rules. That's the position your families already hold, now with a companion that keeps it running.
Two reasons. There's no financial relationship here — no affiliate link, no commission, nothing to disclose — so it stays an honest recommendation, not marketing. And you can review the real thing first, free, with your own kids: Free Explorer is the full product minus the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras (and, for parents, KudoKids AI, the parent-side setup assistant), forever, not a trial. Say exactly that in your review — we'd rather have an honest one than a glowing one.
Free Explorer is the whole product minus the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras — and, for parents, KudoKids AI, the parent-side setup assistant. A family that never pays a cent keeps the routines and tasks, the full library of games, the wellness tools, and the parent dashboard. KudoKids is founder-funded, with a stated commitment to keep the core app free for every family.
KudoKids is values-respecting and parent-directed by design: parents set the tasks, the rewards, and the screen-time rules. We deliberately work with many voices across the homeschool world — faith-based voices among them, never as the face — so no single community defines the product or is excluded from it.
No procurement, no contracts, no student data. Families sign up directly at kudokids.org and the core app is free to use. The entire ask is one line to your co-op or one honest mention in a review.
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