Comparison

KidsToDo Task&Learn vs Heaton Life

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

KidsToDo Task&Learn

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"Put your phone down!" "Just 5 more minutes!" That fight, every day. KidsToDo turns the daily push-and-pull into a points-based reward system that both parents and kids actually enjoy. Set tasks. Kid earns points. Trade points for screen time, treats, or whatever you negotiate together. ▼ How it works 1. Parents set tasks — homework, chores, reading, anything. 2. Kids complete them and earn points. 3. Together, you decide what those points are worth — 10 minutes of TV = 10 points, 30 minutes of gaming = 30 points, a late bedtime = 50 points. "Put your phone away" becomes "You've got 40 points — that's 20 minutes of screen time." Clear rules. Less arguing. Kids learn that effort buys freedom. ▼ Features • Task & point system — photo-proof submissions, parent approval flow • Reward exchange — game time, phone time, TV, treats, anything you decide • Learning made fun — math, reading, science, social studies, all ages • Kid-friendly diary — gentle pet guides them through prompts • Virtual pet that evolves with effort (9 evolution paths) • Streak tracking for habit-building • Family roles — 2 parents free, up to 4 with Pro • AI weekly progress reports (Pro) • PDF data export for school records (Pro) • Higher daily learning limits (Pro) ▼ Pricing Free plan 1 child + 2 parents · all learning content · tasks, points, diary, pet · 2 pet evolution paths · 40 questions per subject per day Pro plan — $6.99/month or $54.99/year (save 27%) First month free 4 children + 4 parents · all 9 pet evolution paths · AI weekly report · PDF data export · 100 questions per subject per day · Japanese middle-school exam prep mode ▼ Built for families who… • Argue about screen time every day • Want to teach kids self-management instead of just enforcing rules • Need a positive way to make chores happen • Care about learning but hate forcing it • Have multiple kids and want one app for everyone ▼ Parent feedback (from beta) "My 8-year-old used to scream when I said no more iPad. Now he checks his points and budgets his own time. Total game changer." "We use it for chores, music practice, homework. Less nagging, more independence." "The pet is what hooked my kids. They WANT to log in to feed it." ▼ Subscription terms KidsToDo Pro is an auto-renewing subscription at $6.99/month or $54.99/year. New subscribers start with a 1-month free trial. Cancel anytime before the trial ends and you won't be charged. After the trial, your Apple ID will be charged at the listed price and auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before each period ends. Manage at Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://kidstodo.vip/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://kidstodo.vip/privacy.html

About

Heaton Life

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Heaton Life is an app for exploring emergence: simple rules that grow complex, organic, surprisingly lifelike behavior. It brings the classic systems of artificial life together in one place, lets you paint and edit them, breeds brand-new rules, and keeps everything you make in a library of worlds. TEN KINDS OF LIFE • MergeLife — colorful cellular automata where every rule is a hex code. Start from the gallery of featured rules, then breed your own. • Life-like — Conway's Game of Life and its relatives: HighLife, Seeds, Day & Night, or any B/S rulestring you type. • Elementary — Wolfram's one-dimensional rules 0–255, drawn one row per generation. • Cyclic — states that consume one another into spirals and demons. • Wireworld — electrons on wires. Build circuits from the included clock and diode. • Lenia — three flavors (Classic, Asymptotic, Flow) of continuous Life, where smooth, gliding creatures emerge. • Gray-Scott — reaction-diffusion chemistry: spots, stripes, and dividing blobs. • Reynolds boids — flocking with no grid at all. Tap to scatter the flock. FOUR FRACTALS Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, and Newton. Tap to recenter, pinch or scroll to zoom — up to a trillion times (10¹²), with the center tracked precisely enough that the image never smears at depth. Or tap Auto and let the app dive toward the boundary by itself. PAINT, SELECT, PASTE Every world is editable without resetting it. Paint with each family's own ink — states, colors, intensities, chemistry — select and copy regions, paste with rotate and flip, and undo up to 24 steps. Paste accepts standard RLE text straight from LifeWiki, and the pattern zoo ships with gliders, spaceships, oscillators, methuselahs, the Gosper glider gun, HighLife's replicator, and Wireworld's clock and diode, alongside anything you capture yourself. BREED NEW RULES The built-in evolver is a genetic algorithm that breeds MergeLife rules and scores each one by how interesting its world stays over time, the way the original research trainer did. Watch the current best run live, keep the champions in a Finds catalog, open any find as a world, and decode any rule in the Rule Lab. A LIBRARY OF WORLDS Worlds are born saved: every world and fractal expedition lands in your library with a live thumbnail, saves itself when you leave, and reopens exactly where it was: same state, same generation. Name them, favorite them, snapshot any view to PNG, and import RLE patterns or MergeLife PNG exports.

Screenshots

KidsToDo Task&Learn4 screens
Heaton Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heaton Life at none against KidsToDo Task&Learn's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. KidsToDo Task&Learn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Heaton Life asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
KidsToDo Task&Learn versus Heaton Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKidsToDo Task&LearnHeaton Life
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJie HuoJeffrey Heaton

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KidsToDo Task&Learn

Subscriptions2
  • KidsToDo Pro1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • KidsToDo Pro1 Month trial$49.991 Year
None

Heaton Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KidsToDo Task&Learn free?
KidsToDo Task&Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heaton Life free?
Heaton Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do KidsToDo Task&Learn or Heaton Life have ads?
Neither KidsToDo Task&Learn nor Heaton Life shows ads.

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