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Shared suits families with one tablet or laptop that gets passed around. Everyone taps their avatar on the “Who's using Yippie?” screen, and Parent mode needs your PIN.

Multiple devices suits families where kids have their own tablet or phone. Each kid's device is paired to their profile, and parents use their own phones. You can also mix both. Change it any time in Settings → Devices.

In Parent mode go to Settings → Devices → Pair a device and choose the child. A QR code and a 6-character code appear.

On the kid's tablet, open yippie.me/join, then scan the QR code with the camera or type the code. Codes expire after 24 hours and work once. The child doesn't need an email address.

Apple only allows web notifications for sites added to the home screen (iOS and iPadOS 16.4 or later):

1. Open Yippie in Safari. 2. Tap the Share button. 3. Choose Add to Home Screen. 4. Open Yippie from your home screen and turn on notifications in Settings → Notifications.

Helping at home is part of being a family, so everyday chores, routines, reading and kindness earn silver coins. Silver buys experiences and privileges, like choosing the movie or being DJ in the car, plus avatar items and other fun extras. It never turns into money.

Gold coins are for real-world value. They come only from extra jobs you mark as paid (washing the car, mowing the lawn) and an optional fixed weekly allowance, which suits teens learning to budget. Gold buys pocket money and physical things like books or LEGO. You set the rate (10 gold = $1 to start).

The two wallets never swap. When your child wants to cash out gold, they ask you in person, you hand over the money and record it in their gold wallet. Gold is hidden for ages 4–7 unless you turn it on, so little ones keep things simple.

For everyday jobs, start with the Simple preset: easy jobs 5 silver, medium 10, hard 20 and epic 50. A good rule of thumb is that a favourite small reward should take two or three days of effort, and a big one a few weeks.

For paid extra jobs, Yippie suggests 5, 10, 20 or 50 gold by difficulty. At the starting rate of 10 gold = $1, washing the car for 20 gold earns $2. You can change the rate in Settings → Family, and every paid job can have its own amount.

An allowance is a fixed amount of gold paid once a week on the day you choose, with no conditions attached, so it's a budgeting lesson rather than a wage. It suits teens, and you can turn it on for any child who has gold switched on.

There's no “request money” button. When your child wants to cash out, they ask you in person. Hand over the money, then open their gold wallet in Parent mode and record the amount with a note like “Paid $5 cash”. It shows in their wallet history and can never take their balance below zero.

A parent gifts each pet, choosing the animal (there are 12, from a puppy to a baby dragon) and its name. It lives in your child's room and can walk beside their avatar. One pet per kid is free, and Family+ allows up to 4.

Kids feed and play with their pet each day. A meal uses one portion of food, and more food costs a little silver. You can also send food as a gift from their profile in Parent mode. With care, pets grow from baby to young to grown-up over a few weeks and learn tricks along the way.

Pets never get sick or sad, and they never run away. If nobody looks after them for a day, they just get sleepy until the next snack and game.

Beds, rugs, wall colours, posters, desks, lamps, bookshelves, window views and decor, all paid for with silver (never gold or real money). Every room starts with a free starter set, and kids aged 8 and up get a few free decor spots to arrange as they like. Little ones decorate the fixed spots only, which keeps it simple.

Some upgrades can't be bought: the room grows as your child levels up, with a window, a second shelf, a loft bed, fairy lights and a reading nook. Family+ adds themed room packs (space station, jungle hideout and under the sea). You can also give your child an item from their profile in Parent mode.

A switch for family trips, sick weeks or school holidays. It pauses quests, streaks and pet needs for everyone at once: no new quests are scheduled, streaks don't break, and pets relax instead of getting sleepy. Allowance and savings interest keep going.

Turn it on in Parent mode under Settings → Family & parents. While it's on, the dashboard shows a banner with an End holiday button, and everything picks up again from that day.

Friends is free and off until you switch it on. In Parent mode, open your child's profile, choose the Friends tab, read what's shared, tick that you agree and choose Switch on friends. You do this once for each child.

Only owners and admins can do this. Then kids add each other in person. One kid opens Friends in Kid mode and shows a 6-character code or QR code, and the other types or scans it. A code lasts 10 minutes and works once. Both families' parents get a notification about the new friend.

Friends can visit each other's rooms and send one of 4 preset reactions: high five, wow, love it or cheer. There's no messaging of any kind.

No, strangers can't find your child. There's no search, no list of kids, no suggestions and no friends-of-friends. The only way to become friends is to swap a short-lived code in person, wrong guesses are limited, and siblings can't add each other.

Friends can't message each other, only send preset reactions. You're told about every new friend, you can remove any of them, and switching friends off hides your child's profile straight away. Your child's display name is the nickname you set, so use a nickname or first name only. Read more in our privacy policy.

Your child's nickname, avatar and pet, their room (to look at only), their badges and level, and the titles and stars of books they've finished.

Never coins, money, tasks, approvals, goals, growth or health records, location, school or book reviews. A friend's profile only shows while both kids have friends switched on.

In Parent mode, open your child's profile and choose the Growth & health tab. You can record height, weight, shoe and clothing sizes, milestones and memories (with age-based ideas and a sticker, no photos), health records (vaccinations, allergies, medicines and doctor or dentist visits, with optional reminders) and your own trackers, like sleep hours, a 1 to 5 mood scale or a yes/no habit.

Charts only ever show your child's own trend over time. There are no percentiles and no comparisons with other children. It's all free. The first time you use it, a parent reads how we look after this information and agrees before anything is saved.

Owners and admins see and edit everything. Helpers, such as a babysitter or grandparent, only see current allergies and medicines, so they know what to do, and they can't change anything. Friends and other families never see any growth or health information.

Everything is encrypted field by field before it's stored, kept separate from the rest of your data and never saved on your device for offline use, so adding records needs a connection. Health reminder notifications only say a reminder is due, never the details. Read more in our privacy policy.