# MoveToPlay: Earn Screen Time — Kids Fitness & Chore Rewards

> Kids Fitness & Chore Rewards (iPhone/iPad app by Duke & Duke.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/movetoplay-earn-screen-time/id6800042475 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Duke & Duke](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800042477)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 21 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-16
- Data updated: 2026-10-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/movetoplay-earn-screen-time/id6800042475/reviews.md

## What is MoveToPlay?

Kids do kid-scaled workouts and chores.
Minutes go in the bank — they never expire.
Spend them on timed play you choose.

HOW IT WORKS
Kids complete real movements — strength, balance, cardio, and recovery — plus chores you approve. Completed activities and chores both bank minutes, and both count toward the weekly maximum you set. Once banked, those minutes never expire: no midnight wipe, no weekly reset, no use-it-or-lose-it. When they've saved enough, they spend them on a timed play session you've set up — a game, an app, whatever you picked as the reward. Offer two or three session lengths. If they stop early, unused minutes return to the bank.

ON APPLE WATCH
Exercises, instructions, and rep tracking run natively on Apple Watch. A kid can finish a full quest without picking up iPhone or iPad.

AT A GLANCE
A home screen widget on iPhone or iPad shows the current bank without opening the app. Start a play session and a Live Activity puts a running countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.

SIBLINGS WELCOME
MoveToPlay supports more than one child in a family, each with their own bank, quests, progression, and reward history, kept fully separate from each other. A child's own device always shows their own data — nothing about one kid's progress is visible to another. Alongside Family Sharing, a parent can also connect a second phone or iPad with a short pairing code from the dashboard, no child Apple ID required.

PARENT CONTROLS
A PIN-protected parent dashboard stays separate from what the child sees. You decide exactly how much each chore is worth, an overall dial for how much activities pay out, a weekly maximum on what a child earns through their own effort — activities, walking and chores together (a daily baseline and any bonus you give sit outside it), whether a guaranteed daily baseline is credited even on quiet days, and exactly which play sessions exist. These rules apply across your whole family — one set of dials, not one per child. Chore templates fill in a title and a suggested reward so you're not starting from a blank box.

Minutes are the only thing a child earns, and minutes buy everything. Parents and grandparents can log real-world rewards — a movie night, a trip to the mall, extra allowance — and you set what each costs in minutes. One currency, one bank.

BUILT FOR KID BODIES
Movements include honest regressions, like a chair-supported squat, instead of pretending every kid should hit a full squat on day one. If something hurt, the child can report it. The parent dashboard groups those pain reports from the last two weeks by activity, body region, and category. Calm Mode is a parent toggle that turns off full-screen celebrations, haptics, and bounce animations for kids who find them overstimulating. Exercise demos still show the movement.

PROGRESS THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE
A Move Buddy grows with real effort. A Journey Map spans 104 weeks. A Badge Shelf tracks mastery tiers earned through repetition. Rank and XP mark how far they've come. If it didn't happen, it isn't shown.

WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM
Premium is required to use MoveToPlay past the 14-day trial — a subscription (or lifetime purchase) unlocks the full app for your family. Family Sharing means one purchase covers the kids in your family group; a pairing code works too, without Family Sharing. Family progress, minutes, and reward rules sync over iCloud.


HOW WE DON'T BUILD
No ads. No fabricated streaks. No guilt messages. No dark patterns that shove a kid back into the app. We'd rather a quiet Tuesday than a fake chain they were afraid to break.

MoveToPlay is kids fitness and chore rewards for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — not a GPS family locator, and not a camera motion-game. Built by Duke & Duke, a small independent studio making the app we'd want our own kids using.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://dukeandduke.uk/privacy/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annual | $9.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $0.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $19.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.1 — 2026-09-23

Forgot the parent code?

You no longer need to delete the app to reset it. Deleting it never actually
worked — the code is kept in your phone's secure storage and survives a
reinstall — and the app should not have told you otherwise. Sorry for the
wasted time.

On a parent's own device, tap "Forgot the code?" on the parent screen. Confirm
with that device's passcode or Face ID, and the old code is cleared so you can
set a new one straight away.

On the phone that is actually enforcing your family's screen-time limits —
usually your child's — the same button explains that the code cannot be reset
there and points you to Report a problem so we can help. That stops a child
clearing the parent code with a passcode they already know.

### 1.9 — 2026-09-10

Family sharing now works.

Tapping a family share link used to open MoveToPlay as if it were a brand new
family — no child, no banked minutes, and no way to approve anything from the
other parent's phone. The invite now connects properly, whether you tap it with
the app already open or installed fresh from the link. If an invite is
interrupted part way through, the app picks it back up next time you open it
instead of leaving you stuck, and it always asks before replacing anything.

Chores are easier to set up.

You can now edit a chore you have already added — change its name, its minutes,
whether it needs a photo, or how often it repeats — instead of deleting it and
starting again. You can type the minutes directly rather than tapping a stepper
up one at a time, and a chore can now be worth up to 8 hours, so a long
practice or a Saturday activity fits.

Editing a chore also keeps it linked to any completion your child has already
sent you for approval. Deleting and re-adding used to break that link.

### 1.8.1 — 2026-09-08

This release fixes a crash.

On some devices, entering your parent passcode closed the app immediately instead of opening the parent screen. If that happened to you, it happened every time, and there was no way around it. That is fixed.

Two other crashes are fixed as well: one when reviewing changes after your devices had been out of sync, and one when confirming reward prices.

New: Report a problem. If the app ever misbehaves, open the parent screen and tap "Report a problem". You will see exactly what would be sent — no child names, no passcode, no photos — and nothing is sent unless you send it yourself. It means we can fix the next problem in minutes instead of guessing.

Nothing about how minutes are earned, spent, or synced has changed.

### 1.8 — 2026-09-06

Two fixes to what the app tells you, both found by reviewing v1.7 after it shipped.

Your child is no longer promised more screen time than a chore can actually pay. The proof screen used to show the chore's full reward even when the weekly earning limit would reduce it — sometimes to nothing — and only your own screen said so. Now your child sees the same number you do, and is told plainly when the week's limit is what's holding it back.

The screen that explains the change to minutes no longer contradicts itself about what points used to buy.

Nothing about how minutes are earned, spent, or synced has changed.

### 1.7 — 2026-09-04

One currency. Points are gone. Your child earns minutes, and minutes buy everything - screen time, and any treat or trip you want to offer. You set the price of each reward in minutes. Nothing changes for your family until you review and confirm every price, and you can edit any of them first.

The weekly maximum is now really the maximum. It used to be quietly capped by your child's rank, so a family set to 90 minutes a week was actually limited to 45. The number you type is now the number that applies.

Chores can repeat. Set a chore to repeat daily, every other day, or as often as your child can do it, instead of once a week for everything. Approved chores now count toward the weekly maximum, which the app previously said they did not.

Quiet hours can differ by day.

Family sharing setup could fail with a technical error code and no way to recover. If the app lost track of which family it belongs to, "Prepare family share" refused every attempt and explained nothing. MoveToPlay now shows both versions of your family side by side and lets you choose which to keep, spelling out exactly what each choice replaces before anything happens.

Two devices that drifted apart can be put back together. If you made changes on your phone while the iPad was offline, the two could disagree permanently, with nothing in the app able to fix it. You can now see what each side holds and choose which version the family keeps.

Rewards you owe your child can't get lost. An approved reward could scroll out of the parent's history and take its "Mark fulfilled" button with it. Reward follow-ups now appear per child, and a reward you approved but decided not to give can be cancelled, with the minutes returned.

Sync problems now say what actually went wrong - the real cause and what will fix it, instead of an internal error code or a "try again" that cannot work.

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