Household routines as reusable checklists

A routine is a checklist you run over and over. Build the template once, school morning, bedtime, leaving for a trip, and start a live run each time, with required and optional steps.

The caregiver packet is the feature parents ask about: a share-safe version of the routine with explicit fields for the babysitter or the pet sitter.

• A template library with ordered checklist steps.
• Live routine runs with required and optional steps.
• Caregiver packets with explicit, share-safe fields.
• Starter templates for common routines.

Families with young kids and a rotating cast of helpers.

Who can use it

Adults and kids

Where it works

Your household hub and shared Spaces

Price

Included with every household plan, with no per-app charge

• Chores & Allowance
• Pet Care
• In Case of Emergency

• How to make a family command center with an iPad or an old tablet — Turn a spare iPad, Android, or Fire tablet into a kitchen wall display in ten minutes: today's schedule, kids' checklists, announcements, grocery quick-add.
• A chore system that does not require constant parent reminders — Kids see their own list, tap chores done, and watch the allowance land on its own. Parents check an overview weekly instead of asking every evening.
• How to share the mental load at home, not just the chores — Chore charts divide the tasks and leave the remembering with one person. Name the invisible jobs, hand over whole domains, and check the balance monthly.
• The first year with a baby, when nobody in the house is sleeping — What is worth tracking in the newborn months, what is not, and how to keep a record of the year without adding a second job to a household running on no sleep.
• Setting the household up for a school year that does not unravel — The week before term is the cheapest week of the year. What to set up then so timetables, homework, lifts, and check-ups stop needing weekly decisions.
• Pets, plants, and everything else that needs doing on a schedule — Shared care fails one way: nobody can tell if it is already done. What to make visible so the dog is not fed twice and the fern not watered by three.
• Leaving the kids with a sitter: what they actually need to know — The sitter's real questions are what is normal tonight, what is dangerous, and who to call. How to answer all three once, and hand them over in a minute.

Routines is one of the apps in the Chickadee Bandit library. Every household starts nearly empty and installs only what it uses; there is no per-app charge. Your data lives in your household's own private, encrypted database, with no ads and no data selling. Browse the Family apps or read the source on GitHub.