Allowance

A kids allowance app built on a quota, not a handout.

Most allowance ends up as a handout — money that shows up every week whether or not anything got done. Chortal flips that. It's a kids allowance app built around a quota: you set a daily routine and decide how many days a week your child needs to hit it. Meet the quota, and the allowance is earned. Miss it, and the week resets honestly — no payout, no guilt, no clawback drama.

The quota, not the handout.

A handout teaches that money arrives on a schedule. A quota teaches that money is tied to showing up. Chortal's weekly allowance is deliberately the second kind. You're not paying for a single chore here — you're paying for consistency across the week. That's the habit most parents actually want allowance to build, and it's the part a fixed weekly transfer quietly undermines.

How the week works.

You pick a small daily routine — the everyday stuff that's easy to name and easy to check. Brush teeth, make the bed, pack the bag. Then you set the quota: how many days that routine needs to happen for the week to count. A common shape is “five days of teeth brushed and bed made.” Your child sees the routine each day and how many days they've banked so far, so the target is never a mystery and the week never sneaks up on them.

Hit it → one payout. Miss it → honest reset.

Reach the quota and a single allowance payout lands in your approval queue — one earn for the whole week, not a confusing trickle of micro-payments. You approve it the same way you approve a chore, and your kid claims it with a little payday moment that makes hitting the goal feel earned. Fall short, and there's simply no payout that week. Nothing is taken away and nothing carries a penalty — the counter just resets and next week is a clean shot. An honest miss is part of the lesson.

Set it once; it runs every week.

You configure the routine and the quota one time. After that, the week runs on its own. The routine shows up for your child each day, the days-banked counter climbs as they follow through, and at the end of the week Chortal either drops a payout into your approval queue or quietly resets for a fresh start. There's no weekly setup to remember, nothing to re-enter, and no reminder you have to send yourself on Sunday night. As your kid grows or the routine needs to change, you adjust the quota once and the new shape takes over from the following week. The point is to make the consistent thing the easy thing — for them and for you.

One approval queue for everything.

Weekly allowance and one-off chores both flow through the same approval queue, so there's a single place to confirm earnings no matter their shape. Allowance is the recurring, quota-based half of Chortal; chores are the individual, job-by-job half. See how the two fit together on the How It Works page, or read more about the chore side on the Chores page.