Kids bank minutes through weekday routines.
The weekend pays out. Everyone knows the deal.
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accounts required
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works offline
1 tap
parent approvals
The problem
Rationing screens day by day makes you the villain seven nights a week. BrainBank replaces the nightly haggle with one clear family deal: school nights are screen-free, and weekends are earned.
Kids stop begging, because begging doesn't earn minutes — routines do. And when Saturday's screen time is running, it's guilt-free. For them and for you.
"Five more minutes? Pleeease?"
"Everyone else is allowed!"
"I'll do my homework after this video…"
With BrainBank: "Check the bank — it's your call."
How it works
Reading, homework, music practice, chores — each routine is worth minutes you choose. Done one? Your kid taps it. Streaks celebrate showing up day after day.
Starter routines included. Set up takes minutes, not an evening.
Nothing lands in the bank without you. Approve earns in one tap, gift a surprise bonus for a great attitude, undo mistakes honestly — every minute lives in a family ledger both sides can read.
Weekly trends show you the system working — or where it needs a nudge.
All week, a ring fills toward the weekend goal. When Saturday arrives, banked minutes become screen time — spent in 5, 15, or 30-minute blocks, no negotiation required.
And while they spend their minutes, you get yours back.
The evidence
+1 hr
Each extra hour of daily screen time in early childhood — smartphones and tablets included — was linked to lower odds of strong reading and maths results, in a study of 3,322 children.
JAMA Network Open · 2025
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A screen at bedtime roughly doubles the odds of a short night's sleep — across 125,198 children studied.
JAMA Pediatrics · 2016
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Kids who kept recreational screens under two hours a day and slept well scored higher on thinking and memory tests.
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2018
Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no server anywhere.
A ledger both sides can read. Every earn, spend, and bonus is visible — that's what keeps the deal fair.
Five-minute setup. No MDM profiles, no child Apple ID, no Family Sharing config.
No surveillance. We never read messages, track locations, or watch what your kids do.
No remote lockouts or device blocking. BrainBank is a family agreement, not a police state.
No ads, no analytics, no data ever sold — there's nothing to sell, because we hold nothing.
BrainBank is in testing now, coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Be first to know when it ships.
