LimeTime: Screen Time Bank

Screen time your kids earn — and a bank that actually enforces it.

LimeTime turns screen time into a currency. Kids earn minutes by doing chores, homework and daily routines, then spend those minutes on the apps you choose. When the balance runs out, the apps lock again. No arguing, no nagging — the rules are the same for everyone, and everyone can see them.

It is a parental control app built around earning rather than punishing: a chore chart, a reward system and a screen time limit in one place, so "limit screen time" becomes "learn to budget time".

HOW IT WORKS
1. Set up your family bank and add each child.
2. Create contracts — chores, homework, reading, practice — and what each one pays in minutes.
3. Your child does them, you approve, the minutes land in their balance.
4. They start a timer to spend time, and the blocked apps unlock.
5. Time runs out, the apps lock again.

PUT IT ON THEIR DEVICE WITH A CODE
No typing your own password into your child's phone or tablet. Settings gives you a six-character code that lasts fifteen minutes; they enter it on their own device and it pairs. Every paired device is listed, and unpairing takes effect immediately. Once paired, their device walks itself through the rest: notifications, app blocking, and a first timer actually running.

BLOCKING THAT HOLDS
• Choose exactly which apps and games on your child's device should cost time
• LimeTime covers the chosen apps until a timer is running (needs Usage Access and Display over other apps, granted once)
• Parent mode is never blocked
• A check card asks the phone whether the apps are blocked right now, instead of repeating what you set up — and it catches the battery saver quietly stopping the service, the usual reason blocking stops

THE DAILY PROMISE
The short list of things you simply expect every day: homework, teeth, the school bag. Until your child ticks it off and you approve it, the timer stays shut and even time already earned cannot be spent. Approving pays a bonus. Whether to use it at all, and what it pays, is yours to choose.

A CHORE CHART THAT PAYS IN MINUTES
• Contracts — chores and habits, priced in minutes
• Milestones — longer goals, bigger rewards
• Requests — your child asks for time, you approve or decline from your own phone
• Scheduled deposits — a regular allowance of screen time
• The grove — a tree that grows on each visit and drops golden limes for extra minutes

SAVE IT AND WATCH IT GROW
Switch on interest and whatever is left in the bank earns a little more overnight, so saving beats spending. Kids can lock minutes into a savings certificate for a better rate. You pick the rate and the ceiling; it is off until you turn it on. A gentle first lesson in money, allowance and patience.

WORKS WITH TODOIST
Already keep your family's to-dos in Todoist? Connect it and every chore carries a price in minutes. Each child gets their own Todoist project; tick a task off there and the time lands in their bank, with LimeTime closed. LimeTime is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Todoist.

EVERYONE CAN SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT
• A full statement: where every minute came from and where it went, the same ledger for parent and child
• A Sunday evening recap of the week, sent in your own timezone
• Family chat, so the negotiating happens in one place

BUILT FOR FAMILIES
• Up to five children, each with their own avatar, colours and passcode
• Two children on the free plan
• One family across several devices, with both parents managing from their own phones
• Parent controls behind a PIN
• Keeps counting when the Wi-Fi drops, and syncs when it comes back
• In nine languages: English, Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文

For primary and middle-school children, tweens and teens, and for parents who want screen time rules the whole family can see — a kids chore tracker, reward chart and screen time manager that teaches self-control instead of just switching things off.