# Barriers: Family Task Planner — ADHD chores, lists & routines

> Task management, family sharing, finance tracking, and receipt scanning. (iPhone/iPad app by IV Technologies Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/barriers-family-task-planner/id6777238717 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [IV Technologies Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/6772319022)
- Category: Productivity, Finance
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 42 MB
- Languages: American English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hungarian, Italian and 9 more
- Released: 2026-06-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/barriers-family-task-planner/id6777238717/reviews.md

## What is Barriers?

Made for ADHD minds and busy families — one calm desk for everything your household has to remember.

Barriers keeps the tasks, the chores, the reminders and the receipts in one quiet place, so the mental load lives on the page instead of in your head.

BUILT FOR ADHD
• Reminders that keep nudging until it's actually done
• A five-minute timer for the thing you keep putting off — just start
• Routines that repeat themselves, so you don't rebuild them every week
• A Backburner for what matters but isn't urgent
• One clear morning page: what's overdue, what's due today
• Tick a task off from the Lock Screen or your wrist — no app to open

SHARE THE LOAD WITH FAMILY
Stop being the only one who remembers. Add up to six people.
• Assign a job to one person — they accept, or decline with a reason
• Send a chore to the whole house and choose how it clears
• Chores that rotate turns automatically, week to week
• Nudge whoever's dawdling; everyone sees when it's done
• The Family Ledger shows who's carrying what this week

ON YOUR WRIST
Speak a task straight into your Apple Watch and it lands on your phone. Clear today's jobs without reaching for anything.

MONEY, WITHOUT THE SPREADSHEET
• Photograph a receipt — it reads the shop, the total and the date
• Bills that repeat monthly, quarterly or yearly, copied years ahead
• A yearly page that totals what actually left the account

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Your tasks and receipts stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud. No account required. No ads, ever. Nothing sold on.

ONE APP, EVERY DEVICE
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — in 18 languages.

## Key features

- Calm, newspaper-style task interface
- Family task sharing and assignment
- Finance tracking and savings overview
- Receipt scanning and filing
- Recurring task scheduling
- Live Activities and Lock Screen integration
- Alexa voice integration

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barriers Premium | $1.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/barriers-family-task-planner/id6777238717/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Beautiful and thoughtfully designed

*2026-07-24*

I love how calm and intentional this app feels. The design is refreshing, and organizing tasks is simple without feeling overwhelming. The recurring tasks and family features are especially useful. Highly recommended!

**Developer response:** Appreciate your review. Thanks.

## Frequently asked questions about Barriers

### What is Barriers?

Barriers is a productivity app designed to help you manage tasks, share responsibilities with family, track your finances, and organize receipts with a calm, newspaper-like interface. It prioritizes user privacy by storing data locally or via iCloud.

### Does Barriers have ads?

No, Barriers does not have ads. The app is made to be trusted, with no ads or trackers. Your tasks and data are kept private on your device or your iCloud.

### How much does Barriers cost?

Barriers is free to use for core task management. The Finance and Receipts features can be unlocked with a single one-time purchase. Family sharing is an optional subscription where one person subscribes, and everyone they invite joins for free.

### Can I use Barriers with my family?

Yes, Barriers offers an optional family feature for up to six people. You can assign tasks, track household responsibilities, and monitor shared finances, with recurring chores rotating turns among family members.

### Is my data safe with Barriers?

Yes, Barriers is made to be trusted. No account is required to use the app, and your tasks live on your device and your own iCloud, not on their servers. There are no ads and no trackers.

### What devices does Barriers support?

Barriers is available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It also supports iPod and offers a Night Edition for use after dark.

### How often is Barriers updated?

The latest version of Barriers is 1.4.0, which was last updated on July 22, 2026. This indicates a relatively active development cycle for the application.

### Can I use Barriers without an internet connection?

Barriers stores your tasks on your device and your own iCloud, meaning core functionality should be available offline. However, features like family sharing or syncing across devices would require an internet connection.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.8.0 — 2026-08-20

New in this version:

• Your calendar, read and written. Today's events can now appear in your task list, and the deadlines you set go out to a Barriers calendar of their own — one way, never mixed in with your other calendars. Premium.

• Every desk introduces itself. Finance, Receipts and Settings each get a short first-run tour, and the Tasks tour now reads properly in every language.

• Quick tasks first, if you ask. A new setting pins your five-minute jobs to the top of the list. Your very first task arrives marked as a quick one, too.

• An empty list gets one gentle reminder — once, not a stream.

• The free month is now offered only where the App Store will actually grant one.

• Family invites: a request reaches the person who can approve it, a code that does not work says so, and pasting the whole invite link works.

### 1.7.1 — 2026-08-18

New in this version:

• The evening wrap-up now shows once a day — not again every time you reopen the app.

• On iPad, sharing a family invite works again, and the screen makes proper use of the space.

• Tasks with no date read as “at some point” instead of counting down.

### 1.7.0 — 2026-08-12

New in this version:

• Say several tasks in one breath — the app splits them, with their dates and amounts.

• Everything works with no signal: fonts, your household, and your premium tools stay put.

• Your profile photo and receipts come back on a new phone.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-11

Now in Simplified Chinese — Barriers' 19th language.
Monthly tasks keep the day you chose: the 31st stays the 31st, even after February.
The front page follows the clock — at midnight, Due Today and Overdue update themselves.
Amounts like 1.234,56 are read exactly as written, in every currency convention.
Restoring a backup can no longer blank your data — and a damaged file now says so.
Bigger touch targets, better VoiceOver, and large text that no longer clips.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-07

• Barriers on Apple Watch: see today's tasks, tick them off, or dictate a new one straight from your wrist — with a watch-face complication.
• Money desk, rebuilt: quarterly and yearly costs now sit only in the months they're actually paid — and can copy themselves up to four years ahead. Hold and drag to reorder any statement.
• The Annual gathers the year's spending into totals per expense.
• Receipts are sturdier: your list can no longer be wiped by an out-of-date device, and photos appear instantly even when iCloud is slow.
• Prices follow your app language until you pick a currency yourself.
• Plus fit and finish in all 18 languages.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*
