The chore app for kids that pays real pocket money
Set the chores and what each one pays in rand, and your kids tick them off from their own profile. You approve with a tap, their balance updates on the spot, and payday settles the total. Built for South African families, free during the beta.
How it works
- Create a chore with a rand reward and a due date, once-off, daily or weekly.
- Your child marks it done in their own profile, and it lands with you for approval.
- Approve it and the reward is added to their pocket money on the spot, or send it back if the bed was “made” with everything shoved underneath.
Two lists, because the research says so
Savella keeps family duties and paid jobs on separate lists. Everyday duties like making the bed stay unpaid, because everyone pitches in where they live, while the extra jobs carry honest prices agreed upfront. That hybrid is the setup the research on paying kids for chores actually supports, and if you are wondering which jobs fit which age, our age-by-age chore list for kids runs the full ladder from four to eighteen.
No card, no bank, nothing to fund
A kids’ card means FICA, ID documents and an account tied to your bank. Savella needs none of that, because it never touches the money. The balance your child watches is a running tally of what you owe them, shown in rand, and you settle it on payday however your family already pays. Nothing to load, nothing to lose, and a child can never spend money they do not have. If you want them to have a card as well, our comparison of kids’ bank accounts in South Africa shows which banks offer one, from what age and at what cost.
Works across two homes
Co-parenting, including split households, is the point of the product rather than an afterthought. Invite your co-parent and they see the kids’ chores, goals and progress from their own phone, so the same chore never gets paid twice, while a privacy wall enforced in the database itself keeps each parent’s personal details invisible to the other.
Want paper first?
If your family is new to chores, start on the fridge: our free printable chore chart for kids builds an A4 chart with age-appropriate jobs and editable rand values in about a minute, no sign-up. When the paper chart starts working, the app is how you stop being its administrator.
Questions parents ask
What ages is the chore app for?
Ages 8 to 18. Younger kids run their chores from a parent’s phone, where every family member gets their own profile behind a PIN, and a child with their own device can pair it to their profile with a quick QR scan, revocable in one tap.
Do my kids need their own phone?
No. Kids can use Savella on your phone: a profile switcher and a PIN keep each child’s space separate, and a grown-up gate keeps approvals, allowance and settings out of reach. If your child has their own device they can sign in there too, always inside your family account.
How does the money actually get paid out?
Savella never touches real money, because there is no card, bank account or ID document involved. The app keeps a running tally of what approved chores and allowance add up to, and you settle it on payday the way your family already pays: cash, EFT or a bank app.
Can chores repeat automatically?
Yes. Chores can be once-off, daily or weekly, and when you approve a repeating chore a fresh copy appears with the next due date, so the Monday bins come back every week without you re-creating anything.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, every feature included. When paid plans arrive, Savella will be priced per family rather than per child, with multiple kids and both co-parents included, and beta families will hear first with founding-member pricing.
Put the chore chart on autopilot
Chores that pay out the moment you approve them, savings goals with progress bars, and money lessons matched to your child’s age. Join the beta waitlist and set up your chores the evening your invite lands.