Features
One app for the whole arc of your household.
ConKarma is the operating layer for your household — built around Cells, small private groups for the people you actually share life with. Inside a Cell, the app adapts to who's using it: playful for kids, coordinated for the household, and a separate age-verified corner for adult partners. Every task, journal, memory, milestone, and ritual lives in one place that grows with your family — from the early couple years through kids growing up to the empty-nest phase.
Pick an audience below. No feeds, no strangers, no public profiles.
Healthy retention
No urgency. No anxiety. No manipulation.
+, ConKarma refuses the attention-economy playbook. Max three notifications a day. No streaks-as-pressure. No infinite scroll. No FOMO. The cell decides when ConKarma is useful; ConKarma never pretends to be more urgent than the cell.
For kids
Growing up, gamified — the healthy way.
Quests instead of nagging. Progress instead of pocket-money shouting matches. A private, age-aware space where kids can practise the small habits that become big character, alongside the people who love them most.
Daily quests
Short, age-appropriate tasks that turn "brush your teeth" and "pack your bag" into a streak worth keeping. Parents can seed them; kids can propose their own.
Pick your look (avatar builder)
A 2D layered avatar — hair, skin, eyes, outfit, accessories — that shows up on your profile and next to your name in the cell. Earn outfits and accessories by completing quests and unlocking habit packs. No real photos required.
Missions and duties
Bigger goals (learn a chord, tidy the garage) and recurring chores. Finishing earns XP, karma, and sometimes real-world allowance — configurable by the grown-ups.
Streaks and login bonuses
Small, tasteful momentum. Come back each day, keep a streak alive, collect a modest reward. No dark patterns — miss a day, nothing ugly happens.
Pets that grow with you
A private virtual companion that reflects your habits. Looks after you when you look after yourself. Purely cosmetic — nothing is locked behind its happiness.
Savings goals and allowances
Save toward a real thing — a bike, a concert, a trip. Parents can top up; kids can allocate across Save / Spend / Give buckets, so money habits stick early.
Skills and habit packs
Curated routines for mornings, homework, sleep hygiene, hobby practice. Pick a pack, follow the prompts, adjust as life changes.
Achievements, mystery boxes, marketplace
Unlock cosmetics for the profile and pet, open the occasional surprise, trade in-cell gifts. All kept inside the family — no public storefront, no pay-to-win.
Private leaderboards
Friendly competition between the people in your household, not strangers on the internet. Opt out at any time.
For families
A private square for the people who actually live here.
Cells are the heart of ConKarma — small, invite-only groups for the people you share life with. Inside a Cell you set shared goals, track who needs a hand, and keep the kind of record you will be glad to scroll back through in ten years.
Cells — your private circle
Household, co-parents, grandparents, close friends. Everyone invited is known. No feeds, no followers, no public posts. Leave or change who is in the Cell any time.
Custom avatars per family member
Each cell member has a 2D layered avatar — hair, skin, eyes, outfit, accessories — they pick themselves. Looks show up in the cell view and shared annals. Earned cosmetics expand the catalog over time.
Shared missions and Cell goals
From "finish the garden" to "save for summer" — set a collective target, track contribution, celebrate when it lands.
Rules, penalties and rewards
Household rules that are visible to everyone, with fair, proportionate consequences parents and kids agree on together. Rewards tied to real effort — not screen time bribery.
Mentorships
Older members coach younger ones on specific skills. A structured, optional "I will help you learn this" relationship that works even when you are not physically together.
Family Snapshot and Parent Dashboard
At a glance: who is behind, who is flying, what got done today. For parents only — kids see what they are working on, not the grown-up surveillance panel.
Parental controls and age tiers
Every account has an age tier. Content, features, even the colour palette adapt automatically. Parents configure what younger members can access; the app enforces it.
Memories and moments
Capture the small stuff — a good meal, a birthday, a ridiculous car-ride singalong. Build a private timeline your Cell can revisit, free of algorithmic ranking.
Mood check-ins and appreciations
Quick pulses on how everyone is actually doing. Lightweight "thank you" and "I noticed you" notes. The stuff families forget to say out loud.
Shared cell calendar
Month, week, and day views with quick add, edit, and RSVP — for shared events, missions, and ritual reminders. A daily or weekly digest still summarises what happened and what is coming up.
Apple Health and Google Fit
Optionally connect Apple Health or Google Fit. Walk, sleep, and activity data can auto-tag missions ("walked 5km", "slept 8h") so the right habits self-complete in the background. Off by default, per-data-type opt-in, never shared outside the Cell.
COPPA-compliant child signup
Under-13 signup runs through verified parental consent. We will never create a child account behind a parent’s back.
Good Deeds & humility
Kindness that flows in, never out — quiet good deeds and pay-it-forward chains shown as collective reach, never a child's ranking.
Family Adventures & bucket list
Outings, trips, and a shared family bucket list you plan together — and that flow onto your Memory Wall.
For adult partners
A grown-up corner, for the people you actually live with.
When the household is asleep, ConKarma has a separate, age-gated space for adult partners — designed for deeper intimacy, structured curiosity, and safe play. Everything here lives behind age verification and is hidden from every account that is not an adult in your Cell.
Annals — a shared intimate journal
A private record for the two of you. Moments, reflections, the story only you two get to tell. Stays encrypted, stays yours.
Desires and mutual matching
Each partner answers prompts on their own. The app only surfaces the things you both said yes to. A gentler, more honest alternative to "so… what are you into?".
Love Language check-ins
Structured weekly reflections across the dimensions that make long relationships work — appreciation, quality time, acts of service, physical, quality space.
Fantasies, Intimate Prompts and Dares
Private catalogues for the things you want to explore, rated and ordered by comfort. Invitations are one-sided — only accepted items become shared.
Boundaries and safewords
Clear, always-on consent scaffolding. Set limits in advance, edit them any time, revisit them in a calm moment rather than a heated one.
Spice — the prompt wheel
A gentle nudge when the week feels flat. Spin to surface a conversation starter, a small dare, a shared ritual — from the catalogue you already agreed on.
Tonight check-in
A two-minute evening pulse: how are you, how is the relationship, anything on your mind before we close the day? Shows up at a time you both pick.
Whispers and voice notes
Send the partner-only voice note that is nicer spoken than typed. Expires after they have listened, if you choose.
Party games and date-night prompts
Light, structured activities for anniversaries, travel nights, and "we forgot how to have fun together" moments.
Time capsules
Record something for a future version of your relationship. Year anniversaries, big transitions, moments you want to hand back to yourselves later.
Adult milestones
The firsts worth remembering, on your own terms. Purely private, no public sharing ever.
Screen guard + blurred previews
Cross the threshold into the adult section and the OS hides the app from recents, screenshots blur, the palette shifts. It stays out of sight until you ask for it.
Family Stories
Your week, your month, your hidden moments — captured.
ConKarma keeps the small stuff and turns it into something you'd want to save.
Family Reveal Sunday
A Sunday-evening window to surface the week's hidden moments together — guesses, reveals, soft scoring.
Memories and moments timeline
A private timeline only your Cell can see — a good meal, a birthday, the ridiculous car-ride singalong. Captured per moment, browsable per month, free of algorithmic ranking. No public posts, no followers.
Wishbook — the family wishlist
Each cell member builds a small, hand-curated wishlist that others in the family can browse. Sharable as a token-gated landing page so a grandparent who didn't install the app can still see it from a link in an email. Affiliate links so the family-approved purchases support ConKarma without a subscription fee.
Family-approved social share
Family moments and journal entries can be shared outside the cell, but only after a two-adult gate — the second adult sees the exact preview the world will see before the share goes live. Curatorial choice, not a one-tap escape valve.
Memories & Reminders
Cherish what's past. Never miss what's coming.
Your cell's story, gently resurfaced — and quiet nudges for the moments ahead. Opt-in, private to your cell, and always yours to pause.
On This Day
Resurfaces your cell's own past — journals, photos and moments, milestones, saved voice notes, time capsules — on anniversaries and 'remember this?' days. Chosen gently, capped per week, never a highlight reel you're chasing.
Gentle reminders
Opt-in nudges before a family event on your calendar, with the lead time you choose. They complement your important dates and task deadlines — they never nag or pile on.
Yours to control
Grief-safe by design: hide any single memory, mute a person, blackout a date range, snooze, or turn the whole thing off. Built for the hard anniversary, not around it.
Stays in your cell
Resurfacing never widens who can see a memory — it only re-shows what your cell already shared. Delete a source and it's gone from Memories too (GDPR erasure).
Family Atlas
Your family's map — places, roots, belonging
A private, cell-only map of where your family has been, wants to go, and comes from. Coarse, added by hand, never tracking.
Places you've shared
Drop a pin on the trips, homes, and moments that matter to your cell — a living map of your family's story, not a check-in feed.
Someday places
Mark the trips you're dreaming of and, if you like, link a savings goal. Aspiration together — no countdowns, no pressure.
Roots & heritage
Trace where your family comes from to where you are now — a gentle intergenerational thread from grandparents' hometowns to today.
Coarse, manual, never tracking
Every place is approximate and added on purpose — never precise coordinates, never in the background, never real-time. Private to your cell and yours to erase.
Cell Network
The other people in your life, on their own terms.
ConKarma extends past one Cell when life does. Same privacy posture: closed circles, no public anything.
Trusted-social
Cell-to-cell challenges with families you actually know — verified-relationship, no public feed, no strangers.
Grandparent companion
A read-only digest + 'Question for Grandpa' surface for grandparents who don't want another app to install.
Co-parenting
Multi-cell membership with custody-aware calendar views, separate subs, and per-cell privacy boundaries — built for households across two homes.
Family-approved social share
Family moments and journal entries can be shared outside the cell, but only after a two-adult approval gate — the second adult sees the exact preview the world will see before the share goes live. Curatorial choice, not a one-tap escape valve.
Cross-cell challenges + ladders
Anonymized weekly cohort competition. Your Cell vs. About thirty others on aggregate DNA earned. Nobody sees who anyone else is, nobody can follow you, nobody can browse your habits — same privacy contract, gentle external pressure.
Personal Journal
Your own private notebook surface, never visible to anyone in the cell unless you explicitly cell-share a single entry. The journal is the home for the thoughts you want to keep but don't want to share — and stays out of every analytics / coaching / drift pipeline.
Wishbook — family wishlist
A curated wishlist per cell member that other family members can browse. Shareable as a token-gated landing page so a grandparent who didn't install the app can still see it from a link in an email. Affiliate links so family-approved purchases support ConKarma without a subscription fee.
Vents — shadow journal
A permission-framed sub-surface for the I-need-to-say-this-out-loud moments. Curated Vent Cards, anti-shame voice, never indexed in the family timeline, never surfaced to other cell members.
Hard moments — structured, private, human
When the conversation needs scaffolding, not a script.
Sibling arguments, couple repairs, parent-teen + elder-cell asks. Curated content + structured forms, never AI in the middle — for the reasons explained on the blog. The flow holds the shape; the words stay yours.
Sibling repair flow
Each kid picks from a curated set of 'what happened' cards. The BE matches the pair into a shared prompt; both confirm before the moment closes. Three reading-age tiers so a six-year-old and a fourteen-year-old see the same flow at vocabulary they can parse.
Couple repair flow
Longer cadence. Optional 24-hour cool-down before the second adult sees the framed message. The receiving partner sees the original prompt template alongside the message — they're reading not just 'you said X' but 'you reached for the *I want to acknowledge* template, and inside that, X.' Both sign off before a moment-closed badge ticks.
Parent-teen + elder-cell variants
Same structured-form discipline as the couple flow, with role-aware prompts. A parent reaching to a teen picks from a different template set than a teen reaching to a parent; an adult-child reaching to an aging parent in the elder cell picks from a third. The prompts know who's reaching to whom and adjust accordingly.
Why no AI in the middle
Three reasons: privacy (intimate content never leaves the cell), calibration (LLM outputs overshoot or smooth in ways the user can't debug), agency (the words you find for yourself are the ones that land). Full write-up at /blog/why-conflict-tools-are-not-ai-mediated. Family Shield routes serious cases to local resources via curated keyword match — no AI in that path either.
Smart Tools
Routines that actually flex around real life.
Family work is messy. The economy and the calendar bend around what actually happens.
Two-factor authentication, on by default
A second lock on the door, not a barrier. A 6-digit code at sign-in; trusted devices remember you for 30 days. New-device alerts go to you — and to parents for under-18 cell members.
Calendar bi-sync
Two-way sync via iOS EventKit and Android CalendarContract — events flow both ways, not just out.
Kid-to-parent DNA
Kids can send DNA gifts back to parents. The economy isn't one-directional.
Sibling chore-trade
Trade chores with payment in DNA. Older sib does dishes for the night, gets paid 5 DNA up front.
Voluntary reward-split
Pick how a co-completed mission's reward splits — equal, by effort, all-to-one. Decide post-completion.
Attendance-rewarded events
Calendar events can pay DNA on attendance. Show up to your kid's recital, earn the reward.
Native share-into-app
Share photos, links, notes from any app into a ConKarma entity — your stuff, kept where you'd find it again.
Voice notes on messages + comments
Drop a 30-second voice note instead of typing. Stays inside the cell, zone-isolation enforced — a voice note recorded in Ember can’t leak into a family-zone surface even if you change tabs.
Sign in with Apple + Google
Primary auth path, not a fallback. One tap from the system sheet, no password to type, no email round-trip. Apple’s relay address is supported; you can migrate to a real email later from Settings.
Honest streaks — auto-pause + partial credit
Duties auto-pause after 3 no-shows so a bad week doesn’t guilt-trip a kid. Partial credit on weekly-cadence duties means missing one day in a 4-day streak still gets you 75%. The streak is a signal, not a punishment.
You choose what surfaces
Personal-hide settings let any cell member disable individual features for themselves without affecting anyone else. The BE doesn't delete the data — flip the toggle back and the surface reappears intact. Useful when one teen wants to opt out of, say, the streak counter without taking it away from a sibling who's leaning on it.
Cell-owner controls
The cell owner can disable a feature for the whole cell — turning off Truth-or-Dare Ember in a household that never enters adult zones, toggling Wishbook off in a cell that doesn't want affiliate links. COPPA-compliant: under-13 cells default to the stricter set automatically. Permanent-flag operations require a two-eye gate on the admin side.
Kid Mode — server-side age filter
An age-tier filter applied in the BE, not the client, so a tampered build can't lift it. Under-13 accounts (configurable up by the cell owner) see only the age-appropriate slice of every surface — no Ember entry point, no adult conflict prompts, no Wishbook affiliate CTAs.
Three ways to see your tasks
List, kanban, or calendar — switch from the home-tab toggle. Same data, three shapes, picked per device. List for the default rhythm, kanban for in-flight work that moves between states, calendar for what's coming up on the time axis.
Truth or Dare — both ends of the dial
A family game primitive, all the way up to an adult one.
The same game shape ships in two modes — a family-safe Serene set and an adults-only Ember one. Tunable categories let an adult ratchet the prompt set up or down within the mode they're using. Every prompt is a curated string; nothing is AI-generated.
Serene mode
Family-safe prompt sets — road-trip, dinner-table, cousin-sleepover variants. Parent-side category controls, kid-grade reading-age tier, never visible to Ember accounts only. The road-trip set in particular shines on long drives.
Ember mode
Adults-only prompt set, biometric-gated, never visible to non-Ember accounts in the cell. Activates only when both adults have opted into Ember per the cell's consent state. Inactivity re-prompt drops the latch the moment the session pauses.
Tunable categories
Within either mode, the prompt set is filterable by category. The Serene mode lets a parent toggle off categories that don't fit their household (school references, sibling-vs-sibling); the Ember mode lets a couple narrow toward the categories on their shared limits doc. Stable across sessions until you change it.
Platform-Native
Built for the device in your hand, not just the app icon.
iOS and Android features as they were designed — not as a least-common-denominator wrapper.
App Clip / Instant App
First-time users join a Cell from an invite link without installing the full app.
Lock Screen widgets + Android Glance
iOS Lock Screen widgets for streak status + today’s quest, plus Android Glance equivalents on Wear OS and the phone home screen. Glanceable without unlocking.
Siri Shortcuts + App Intents
“Hey Siri, mark today’s quest done” from your watch or phone, no app open. App Intents expose the same actions to Spotlight, Action Button, and Shortcuts automation. In the adult zone (After Dark), voice-create is biometric-guarded (HESTIA-944): any intent that would create or open After-Dark content requires a device biometric check before it runs, so a voice command alone can never surface adult content.
AirDrop + Nearby Share invites
Invite the cousin sitting next to you with a quick tap. No QR code, no typing an email — proximity gives you the secure handshake and the cell join completes before they hand the phone back.
Live Activities + Dynamic Island
Mason’s chore due in 12 min on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, ticking down. Android gets the same via persistent foreground notifications. Glanceable, dismissable, no swipe-into-the-app friction.
PWA + Web Push
Install ConKarma on your laptop (Chrome → Install) and the web companion behaves like a native app — Lock Screen icon, standalone window, Web Push notifications on the same desktop you actually use during the day.
Gentle deadline reminders
Each card with a due date carries a reminder you can tune per item — quick nudge for habits, earlier nudge for things that need prep. Lands on the channels you've configured for the category (push, banner, email, wrist). Every category is mute-able unless it's locked-on for security.
Voice integration — hands-free family touch-points via Siri and Google Assistant
A small set of voice intents (grocery add, calendar query, Important Dates brief, daily-question audio answer, journal entry) work hands-free through Apple Siri and Google Assistant on the phone, on HomePod / Nest speakers, and in CarPlay / Android Auto. English only at Phase 1. Audio is captured by the platform assistant; ConKarma receives only the transcribed text and follows the same cell-private posture as the typed equivalent. Not marketed as a CarPlay app — the surface is voice intents, not a driving-mode app screen.
Smart-home integration — Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings
A SmartApp / Action / Skill on each of the three major smart-home platforms exposes the same voice intents as the Siri + Google Assistant integration (grocery add, calendar query, daily question, journal entry) — plus SmartThings Routine triggers and actions so home-automation households can compose ConKarma into their existing automation graph. Voice audio is captured + transcribed by Amazon / Google / Samsung; ConKarma only receives the transcribed metadata and follows the same cell-private posture as the typed equivalent.
Family-room presence — the big-screen Wall
A live cell Wall board on the big screen — cell photo strip, upcoming Important Dates, cell-quest progress, Sunday Reveal playback — running on Apple TV, Android TV, Google TV, and Fire TV, plus a full-screen PWA kiosk mode on any spare tablet or monitor and an ambient screensaver when idle. Pair via /pair (8-character code from the screen, confirmed in the mobile app). Kid-safe by default; never any ads. Read-only ambient display; respects per-cell-member preferences and pauses for guest visits with one tap from any household device.
Compound plays — when features combine
The features make more sense in pairs than alone.
Sunday-reveal week-recaps gain depth from the journal that fed them. The chore-trade only works because the reward-split exists. Repair flows make sense because DNA already flows around the cell. The compound moments are where the product feel comes from.
Sunday reveal × Memories
The Sunday-evening reveal window surfaces the hidden moments of the week — guesses, reveals, soft scoring — built from the entries the cell wrote into Memories during the prior seven days. Without the timeline you'd be guessing at random; with it the game has shape.
Chore-trade × Reward-split
Older sibling does the dishes for a younger sibling, 5 DNA up front. The mission that closes the trade pays into the reward-split picker — the splitting decision happens after the work is done, so the household economy can bend around how the day actually went.
Repair × DNA economy
When a sibling repair flow closes successfully, both kids see a small DNA acknowledgement on their cards — a tangible signal that the work-of-repair is work the cell values. Not a reward (you don't get more DNA by fighting more); a recognition.
Mentor handoff × Skills
An older sib who has shipped a Habit Pack can offer mentor-handoff to a younger sib who's starting it — same structure as the cross-generational repair flow, role-aware prompts, both confirm before the handoff lands. The thing that survives is the practice, not the badge.
Accessibility
ConKarma reads differently for every family member.
Not a compliance checkbox — a usability primitive. The same household runs the same app from a pre-reader who can't read yet to a grandparent whose eyes don't track small text any more. Reading-age-aware copy auto-tunes the words; Spoken UI reads them out loud; color-blind-safe palettes and OS-driven text scaling carry the rest.
Spoken UI — read aloud where it matters
Mission cards, daily quest prompts, and completion celebrations can be played as audio with a single tap. Pre-readers hear their quests; low-vision visitors hear the screen without depending on a system screen reader. Voice quality, speed, and language follow the locale you’re reading in. Coexists cleanly with VoiceOver (iOS / macOS) and TalkBack (Android) — Spoken UI doesn’t double-read.
Reading-age-aware copy
The same screen reads at different vocabulary levels for different account ages. A six-year-old sees age-appropriate prompts and short sentences; a fourteen-year-old sees normal copy; an adult sees full text. The mapping is automatic from the age tier on the account — never an extra setting parents have to configure. Works in all 14 locales.
Color-blind-safe palette
Every chart, badge, and status indicator is tested against deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia. Shape and label complement color — nothing is decoded by hue alone. Works at system-level color filter strength too, so a 'reduce colors' setting doesn’t break the UI.
Dynamic Type + system text scaling
iOS Dynamic Type and Android system font scaling both work from 0.85× to 2.0×. No truncation, no hard-coded heights — layouts reflow. Keyboard navigation on web and desktop covers every reachable element; the Android gamepad pattern works on Wear OS where the platform allows it.
Works with your home
Fits the tools your family already uses
ConKarma connects to the smart-home speakers, the car, the health app, and the music your family already lives in — no new ecosystem to adopt.
- Alexa
- Google Home
- Siri
- CarPlay
- Apple Health
- Spotify
More of the everyday connections families actually use than Cozi or FamilyWall.
On your wrist
A glance, an action, and back.
Apple Watch and Wear OS show today's mood, your streak status, and the family's contributions in a single tap. Long-press any ConKarma notification to act — mark a quest done, accept a negotiation, claim a streak save — without opening the phone.
Glance + Tile
A complication on watchOS and a Tile on Wear OS surface streak-at-risk, mood logged today, and your family's daily contribution. Cached locally so you see it before the wrist wakes the phone.
Inline notification actions
Mission and quest mark-done, negotiation accept and reject — direct-service from the wrist. The dashboard reflects the change before you've put your sleeve down.
Always in sync
A small ETag-aware fetch keeps the wrist payload current without waking up the phone on every refresh. Watch + phone + tablet + web see the same state.
Always-glanceable updates
iOS Live Activities and Android persistent notifications keep mission progress, streak status, and the cell's daily contribution on the lock screen — no need to open the app between checks.
See it for yourself
Your first Cell is a two-minute install away.
Available on iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Wear OS, Windows, Linux, and the web. Adult-only features unlock after verified age check; everything else is usable from the first tap.