Small days
add up.
It Adds Up is the school-day app we built for our own two homeschooled boys. It keeps the browser honest during school, tells us the moment something's off, and turns chores, money and character into everyday habits.
Private and invite-only. No ads, no tracking.
Needs you
Going well
Built for our own kitchen table.
Our boys do school online at home. The lessons are good. The internet around them is not. YouTube is one click away, games are one tab away, and a live lesson can be muted while a phone comes out.
We didn't want to hover. We wanted a school day that keeps itself honest, tells us the truth when it doesn't, and leaves room to praise the good days.
So we built It Adds Up: a lock on the school PC, an app for each boy, and an app for us. Small days of doing the right thing add up to a kid who does it without being watched.
A school day, start to finish
Everything runs on its own. Parents only hear about what matters.
Check in
He checks in on the school PC. It confirms he's signed in to his own school account, takes a screenshot, and opens his Today page: assignments, live lessons, and today's challenge.
An honest browser
School sites open. YouTube, games, AI chat and search stay closed. If a teacher assigns a video, he says which class and who asked, the link and time are saved, and you get a notification.
Sound stays on
Muting the PC or the lesson tab turns it straight back on and tells you. A lesson that goes silent for five minutes gets flagged too.
"I'm stuck" instead of drifting
One button tells you he needs help, so a hard problem doesn't turn into an hour of something else.
Chores, money and a life skill
Chores get checked off and checked by you. Allowance follows the chores and lands in spend, save and give jars. Each week brings one real-life lesson, like budgeting or cooking.
A family huddle
A short end-of-day reflection, kudos between brothers, and progress toward a family goal.
What's inside
One system across the school PC, each boy's phone, and the parents' phones.
Tamper alerts that don't give up
Removing the lock, adding an admin, changing the clock or trying another browser sends an urgent alert to your phone, again and again, until you acknowledge it.
School-only browsing
An allow list during school hours and a block list all day, set by you. Kids can ask for a site; you approve it in one tap.
Every school video, logged
Link, time, class and who asked for it. You can flag one that wasn't really for school.
A daily character challenge
Small, specific things to do for someone else. Parents see them happen and say so.
Chores, allowance and jars
Allowance follows the chores actually done, split into spend, save and give. Savings need a parent to come out.
Life skills, one a week
Budgeting, cooking, fixing things, talking to adults. Short, practical, and worth points.
Points and real rewards
Points for showing up and following through, turned into rewards you choose.
Family huddle
Kudos between brothers and a shared goal the whole family works toward.
Sound stays on
During school hours the PC can't be muted or turned down, and a silent lesson gets noticed.
Two apps, one family
Both open in the phone's browser and sit on the home screen like any other app.
For the kids
Their day, their jobs, their progress.
- Today's school work and live lessons
- Chores, jars and savings goals
- The day's challenge and this week's life skill
- Signed in with a PIN a parent sets
For parents
What needs you, and what's going well.
- Alerts on your phone, with a note required to clear them
- School work, check-ins and site requests
- Chores to check, rewards to approve
- A full audit trail you can verify
Your family's data stays your family's
Built to the same security standard as TRS Command, the platform we build for first-responder agencies. Read the privacy notice.
- Invite-only, two-step sign-inParents sign in with an emailed code plus an authenticator app. Nobody can create an account on their own.
- Locked to your familyThe database checks every request. Another family, or someone signed out, sees nothing.
- An audit trail that can't be rewrittenEvery change is recorded and hash-chained. One tap checks that nothing was altered.
- Nothing from third partiesThe code and fonts are served from itaddsup.app itself. No ads, no trackers, no analytics.
- Encrypted everywhereHTTPS only, enforced by the browser, with a strict policy on what the page may load.
- PC keys that can't be reusedEach PC has its own keys, stored only as hashes. A copied key from one PC is useless elsewhere.
Do the right thing.
It adds up.
We're using It Adds Up with our own family first.