# Our Family Habits

> A family habit tracker for parents who care more about character than checklists — with the shared rewards, routines, and visibility of a family operating system.

## Pages

- [Our Family Habits — A gentle habit tracker for families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/): Track meaningful actions, celebrate growth, and build lifelong rhythms together. Warm, private, and made for parents.
- [Mobile app — Family habits in your pocket](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/app): Native iOS and Android app. Award points fast, get push notifications when a co-parent acts, kiosk mode on a spare tablet. Android beta open on Google Play.
- [Features overview](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features): Five interlocking pieces — Actions, Rewards, Kiosk, Insights, Power-ups — that together make habit-building feel light.
- [The family operating system](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/family-operating-system): How a points-based habit system became the way our family of seven runs. Replaces allowance, travels in our pocket, and lets each kid work the system on their own terms — without playing favorites.
- [Actions — earning points for the things that matter](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features/actions): Define habits, categorize them, set point values. Designed around meaningful daily actions, not generic chores.
- [Rewards — meaningful, not transactional](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features/rewards): A reward catalog that builds with the kid. Spend points on experiences, time, and tangibles — without turning effort into a bribery loop.
- [Family kiosk — a shared screen the whole house can see](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features/kiosk): Park the kiosk view on a tablet or TV. Everyone sees today's habits, points earned, what's next. Great on the kitchen counter.
- [Insights — see how your family is changing](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features/insights): Weekly digest, growth stages (Seedling → Garden), per-kid trends. The long view of habit work, made visible without grading.
- [Power-ups — the paid bundle of small joys](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/features/power-ups): Streaks, kiosk themes, weighted age tiers, bulk apply, weekly digest email, custom avatars, higher limits. One paid bundle, everything included.
- [Pricing](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/pricing): Free forever for the basics. Power-ups one paid bundle with monthly and annual options, 7-day free trial.
- [For your family](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for): Landing pages tailored to specific family contexts: homeschool, Charlotte Mason philosophy, multi-kid households.
- [Homeschool families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for/homeschool): A gentle anchor for the rhythm of a home that schools, learns, and grows together.
- [Blended families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for/blended-families): A shared family across step-parents and co-parents, so every adult sees the same picture and every kid lives by one consistent system.
- [Traditional families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for/traditional-families): A family habit app for the everyday routines, chores, and character work you already do — without the sticker-chart fatigue.
- [Charlotte Mason families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for/charlotte-mason): Built around the slow, steady habit-formation philosophy you already practice.
- [Multi-kid families](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/for/multi-kid): A way to honor each child's pace while keeping the whole household in rhythm.
- [Articles index](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles): Essays on habit formation, gentle parenting, and the philosophy behind the app.
- [Free printable family habit chart](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/free/family-habit-chart): A free, kid-friendly weekly habit chart printable PDF for the fridge. Six kids, seven days, category color rows. Drop your email, grab the file.
- [Changelog](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog): Product updates, new features, and notable improvements.
- [About](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/about): The story behind Our Family Habits — why a tool for family rhythms, what we believe about kids and growth.
- [Contact](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/contact): Get in touch, request features, report issues.
- [FAQ](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/faq): Common questions about how the app works, pricing, privacy, and family setup.
- [Privacy policy](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/privacy): How we handle family data. No ads, no third-party tracking.
- [Terms of service](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/terms): The legal agreement for using Our Family Habits.

## Articles

- [How to be consistent with chores when you're the one holding it all together](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/how-to-be-consistent-with-chores-when-it-all-depends-on-you): Every chore system we tried worked — until the day I couldn't run it. The fix wasn't more discipline. It was building a family operating system that remembers so a tired parent doesn't have to.
- [FamiLAMI vs Family Habits: the game layer, or the calm one?](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/family-habits-vs-familami): FamiLAMI turns chores into a quest with a virtual pet and a game world. Family Habits does the opposite — it stays deliberately quiet. Both build habits; they just bet on different engines. Here's how to tell which one your kid (and your house) actually needs.
- [Summer routines that survive when school structure disappears](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/summer-routines-without-school): School gives the day its skeleton. When it goes, June feels free for about a week — then the bickering starts. Here's how to keep a light rhythm without turning summer into a second classroom.
- [The 8 best family habit tracking apps in 2026 (tested with real kids)](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/best-family-habit-tracking-apps): We tried the leading family habit and chore apps with our own kids. Here's an honest comparison of HabitShare, Joon, Habitica, FamiLAMI, OurHome, Cozi, Samsung Family Hub — and Family Habits, which we built ourselves.
- [How a family habit tracker builds strong families and lasting rhythms](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/family-habit-tracker-build-strong-families): A family habit tracker turns good intentions into daily rhythms kids can see. Here's how shared visibility builds the habits — and the family — you want.
- [Our Family Habits App is here — Tending the small things](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/our-family-habits-tracking-app-is-here): After months of building in the open, Our Family Habits 1.0 is live on iOS, Android, and the web. A quiet habit tracking app that helps families cultivate lifelong rhythms.
- [How to introduce a habit chart your kids actually engage with](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/introducing-a-habit-chart): Most habit charts fail in the first two weeks. Here's the gentle way to start so your family stays with it past the novelty.
- [Charlotte Mason on habit formation: a parent's primer](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/charlotte-mason-on-habit): Mason wrote that habit is ten natures. Here's what she meant — and how it lands in a 21st-century home.
- [Why sticker charts stop working (and what to do instead)](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/why-sticker-charts-stop-working): Sticker charts work brilliantly for two weeks and then stop. Here's why — and how to build something that lasts.
- [From chore wars to teamwork: how shared visibility changes a family](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/from-chore-wars-to-teamwork): When everyone in the house can see the same picture, the conversations change. Here's the small shift that makes a big difference.
- [Setting up a family kiosk in 10 minutes](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/articles/setting-up-a-family-kiosk): A practical, step-by-step guide to turning a spare tablet into the family habit hub.

## Changelog

- [Smoother sign-up, sturdier resets, and a real contact form](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-06-14-smoother-sign-in-and-contact): Finishing sign-up is now a quick 6-digit code instead of an email link. Password reset links stopped getting 'used up' by accident. And the contact page now has a proper form with a subject picker.
- [Undo a tap, or start everyone fresh](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-06-11-undo-and-start-fresh): Awarded the wrong points or redeemed the wrong reward? There's now an Undo button on every entry in History. And when you just want a clean slate, you can reset points for one child or the whole family — without throwing the old history away.
- [Kid-Powered Taps and the Parent Approval Queue](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-06-08-kid-powered-taps): Kids can now tap their own actions and reward requests on the kiosk. Everything lands in a new Approvals inbox where parents review one at a time or in bulk. Available on Power-Ups.
- [Accurate balances and a tidier history](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-06-08-balance-and-history-fixes): Two bug fixes: point balances now stay accurate for busy families, and the History page sorts its day sections in the right order with correct Today and Yesterday labels.
- [1.0 — Our Family Habits on iOS and Android](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-05-29-1-0-launch): Our Family Habits 1.0 is here. The iOS app is live on the App Store and the Android app is live on Google Play, alongside a friendlier onboarding flow, a simpler mobile dashboard, in-app subscriptions, account deletion, and a weekly digest email for Power-ups families.
- [Referral links + weekly digest in-app](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-04-27-referrals): Share Our Family Habits with friends through your own short link, and read the weekly digest right inside the app.
- [Bulk apply on edits](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-04-15-bulk-apply): When you edit an action or reward's point value, choose whether the change ripples back through history or applies only going forward.
- [Five growth stages, recalibrated](https://www.ourfamilyhabits.com/changelog/2026-03-20-growth-stages): Seedling, Sprout, Bloom, Harvest, Garden — recalibrated to the weekly point ranges most families actually hit.