DinkyTask started with something that kept happening at home: the list for the day was clear, everyone knew it, and still nothing moved until I asked a third time. So I built it. Parents put the day together — homework, chores, routines — the child works through it on their own, and the points they earn buy rewards the parents set themselves. One approval screen covers all of it. The part I didn't plan on building: you can photograph a page of your child's textbook and DinkyTask turns it into a quiz. It reads the material aloud too, highlighting the text sentence by sentence as the voice moves through it, so a child who struggles with reading can follow along. There's an AI study helper as well, but it only answers from the material you gave it — and you can read every conversation it has with your child. It also talks to the rest of your house. Every plan and approval fires a webhook — plan started, plan completed, submission waiting for review — so you can wire it into Home Assistant, Node-RED, IFTTT or your own backend. The lamp in the hallway turning green when the day's tasks are done is a better reminder than any notification I could write. Throughout, I kept trying to stop it from turning into another complicated productivity app. It's a family tool, not a project management suite. Free to start with a 7-day trial. After that, the AI and smart-home features are part of the premium plan.

DinkyTask

Homework, chores and rewards in one daily plan

Homework, chores and rewards in one daily plan