The Basics
Getting Started
Pumpkin is a Family Operating System that helps you raise capable, responsible kids. Through everyday chores, habits, goals, and routines, children build real-world life skills and financial literacy - one small task at a time. The idea behind the name is simple: small tasks grow into big life skills.
Pumpkin is designed for kids roughly 4 through 13 and up. It grows with your child through five age-adaptive personas, so a four-year-old and a teenager each get an experience that fits where they are.
Pumpkin adapts its language, visuals, and complexity to five stages: Seedling (ages 4-6), Explorer (7-9), Achiever (10-12), and Independent (13+). Younger kids see simple, picture-friendly tasks and gentle rewards; older kids get more responsibility, goals, and independence. You never have to manually dial anything in - the experience meets each child at their level.
Download Pumpkin on iOS, create your parent account, and add each child with their name and age. Pumpkin picks the right persona automatically, and from there you can add chores, habits, goals, and routines, then choose how each one is rewarded. You can add up to six kids, and every feature is included from day one.
No. This is one of the biggest differences between Pumpkin and apps like Greenlight or GoHenry. Pumpkin does not require a bank account or a debit card. Rewards can be screen time, points and stars, treats, or money - money is just one option, not a requirement. Pumpkin is not a bank, so you stay in control of any real money.
Earning
Rewards & Screen Time
Pumpkin uses multi-currency rewards, so you choose what motivates your child. That can be screen time, points or stars, treats and privileges, or money. You can mix and match across chores and goals, and change what works as your child grows.
Kids can earn screen-time minutes by completing chores, habits, and routines - and those minutes can expire or be banked, just like any other reward. Today this is a soft, family source-of-truth balance you and your child track together. OS-level integration with iOS Screen Time is on our roadmap so those minutes can connect directly to device limits.
Yes. Kids can bank the minutes they earn instead of spending them right away, which is a gentle first lesson in saving and delayed gratification. You can also set minutes to expire if you want to encourage using them within a certain window - you decide what fits your family.
Money Missions are short, playful quizzes that teach kids about money and life skills as they use Pumpkin. They are grounded in real education standards, so children build genuine financial literacy while they earn - not just tap through tasks.
Trust
Money & Safety
No. Pumpkin is not a bank and does not hold or move your money. When you choose money as a reward, you as the parent stay fully in control of any real funds. Pumpkin is the system that helps you teach the lessons around money - not a place your money lives.
Yes. Pumpkin is built privacy-first. We have no ads, we do not sell your data, and we do not use dark patterns. Your family's information is protected with row-level security so each family's data stays walled off from every other family's.
Yes. Pumpkin follows COPPA with a 7-step verification process designed to protect children's privacy. Kids never see ads, and their information is never sold or shared for marketing.
Never. There are no ads in Pumpkin, we do not sell your data, and there are no dark patterns nudging you toward things you didn't ask for. Every plan includes every feature, so there's nothing to upsell you on either.
Plans
Pricing & Platforms
Pumpkin is $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year, which saves you about 17% versus paying monthly. Every plan includes every feature - no locked tiers, no add-ons, no upsells.
Yes. Every new family gets a 7-day free trial so you can set up your kids and see how Pumpkin fits your routine before you pay anything.
The Summer Special gives you 30% off your first year on iOS. Start your 7-day free trial, then apply code SUMMER30 at checkout to save on your first year. The offer ends July 31, 2026.
You can add up to six kids on a single Pumpkin plan, each with their own age-adaptive persona, chores, goals, and rewards.
Pumpkin is live now on iOS - you can download it from the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Android is on the way.
Android is currently on the waitlist. Join at our download page and we'll let you know the moment Pumpkin lands on Google Play.
Every Family
Family Situations
Yes. Pumpkin includes custody-week scheduling built for two-home and co-parenting families, so chores, routines, and rewards can follow your child between homes. Pumpkin is designed to never assume one particular family structure.
Absolutely. Pumpkin was built by a single mom, and it's designed to lighten the daily load - turning nagging into a system your kids can run with, whether you're parenting solo, sharing custody, or somewhere in between.
Yes. You can add up to six kids, and each one gets an age-adaptive experience - from Seedling for your youngest to Independent for your teen. Everyone works from the same family system, but each child sees tasks and rewards that fit their stage.
