FOR CHILDREN ABOUT 5 TO 12
Bumblebeak is a family clubhouse for jobs, routines and rewards, on iPhone and iPad. Each child has their own face, their own jobs and their own points. You choose which jobs need your yes before the points count.
01 · WHO’S HERE?
Bumblebeak opens on Who’s here?, the Family tab. Each child finds their portrait and taps it. Until they do, Jobs, Routine and Rewards wait in the bar below. On iPad the faces sit in three columns.
Their name, points, colour and chosen friend stay with them. Leaving for Photos or Files keeps the same child. Choosing a face never opens the parent side.
Marco, Ali and Jo are the sample kids. Tapping a face here only changes this page’s colour.
02 · JOBS
Jobs opens on that child’s name and one job, drawn big. Bumblebeak shows how to do it. Tap Listen and their own friend reads it out loud. The child taps “I did it!”
Most jobs add their points straight away. A job you set to need a photo, or a look from you, waits instead and says so in words. Only your approval adds those points.
The result stays on screen until they pick another job. On iPad the rest of their jobs sit beside the big one.
03 · ROUTINE
A routine is that child’s jobs in the order you set, one step at a time, with progress they can see.
A five-minute timer can help them start, and it can show on the Lock Screen. The timer never awards points. Each step follows the same rules as any other job.
04 · REWARDS
You add real treats and what they cost in credits. The child picks the one they are working toward and sees how close it is. Exact balances and costs sit under How it works.
Asking for a reward sets those credits aside. Cancelling gives them back. You approve the request, cancel it, or mark the treat as given. Lifetime points and spendable credits stay separate, so a treat never wipes what they have earned.
05 · HATCH A FRIEND
A new child starts with one welcome egg. Three taps crack it open, and a surprise animal and colour comes out. With Reduce Motion, one Open egg button does it without the animation.
Each day with at least one job that counts is a job-day. Every 20 job-days brings another egg. Waiting and try-again work does not count, and a missed day never resets the count.
Friends live in My look, where the child picks who to show. There is nothing to buy, and no duplicates.
Fifteen friends to find: five animals, each in three colours.
Leaf dinosaur
Coral dinosaur
Sky dinosaur
Sunshine tiger
Sky tiger
Lavender tiger
Cosy koala
Lavender koala
Mint koala
Blue bird
Mint bird
Lavender bird
Coral fish
Sky fish
Sunshine fishA FRIEND, FOR SHOW
In the app, the egg is saved to that child before it opens. Here it only shows the idea. Tap it three times.
Tap the egg three times.Open egg.
FOR GROWN-UPS
Parents opens with a six-digit PIN, kept in the iPhone keychain. Choosing a grown-up’s name does not unlock it. It locks again when the app goes to the background or another face is chosen.
Setting up asks for your household, your name, a first child and a new PIN. You can start with three everyday chores and a movie reward, then change them.
ON IPHONE AND IPAD
The same board, the same rules, wherever the child finds it.
Their friend reads the job out loud in a bright, friendly voice, for children still learning to read.
A picture from the camera, Photos or Files. The app keeps its own copy, and you see it before you approve.
Done and waiting are written out, with a tick or an hourglass, so nobody has to guess.
Ask for a child’s next job by name, or say it is done. Photo jobs stay in the app, and work that needs your look still waits.
Shows one child’s job and progress, with the same rules as the app.
A running routine timer shows on the Lock Screen. It never awards points.
Pictures or a simpler board, chosen for each child in My look. Sounds can be turned down in Settings. Larger text and Reduce Motion are respected throughout.
The family lives on the device, and children do not need Apple IDs. An encrypted backup opens with your recovery key. It is a backup, not live sync between phones.
YOUR IDEAS
