Questions
Anything not answered here — email us.
What age is Questlings for?
Roughly 6 to 12. Younger children need a grown-up to read a quest title with them; by about eight most run it themselves. There is no reading-heavy screen anywhere in the child’s side of the app, and every quest carries an icon as well as a name.
Does Questlings work for children with ADHD?
It was designed with those families in mind, and several decisions only make sense in that light. Nothing in the app punishes a missed day — there are no streaks to break and no "you missed 3 days" screen, because a system that shames you for stopping is a system you stop using. Approving a whole day takes one tap, because the parent is often just as short on attention as the child. And a quest can be filled in a day late and still count for full value.
It is a routine and reward app, not a treatment. It makes no clinical claims and is not a substitute for advice from a professional who knows your child.
Is Questlings suitable for autistic children?
Many of the same decisions apply. Calm Mode is the clearest one: a single switch that reduces movement to simple fades, softens the colour, and silences every sound. It turns on by itself if the device already has Reduce Motion enabled, so a child who needs it usually gets it without anyone configuring anything.
The day is also shown as a predictable shape rather than a list that reorders itself, and the app never introduces a surprise — no pop-ups, no timers counting down, no sudden noise.
As above: a support tool for daily routines, not a treatment, and no clinical claims.
How is this different from a sticker chart or a chore app?
Two currencies instead of one. Sparks are spent in the game on a creature your child hatches and feeds. Tokens are spent on real rewards that you define — choosing dinner, screen time, staying up late.
That split is the whole design. In-game rewards reliably stop working after a few weeks once the novelty goes; real rewards do not. One slider sets how every quest divides between the two, so if the creature stops holding their attention you can shift towards Tokens and still have a working app.
Does my child need their own account?
No, and they cannot have one. You create one account; each child is a profile inside your family. Children never sign in, never enter an email address, and never type anything that reaches us beyond what you set up for them.
Is there any advertising or tracking?
None. There is no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking code in the app at all — not in your child’s side, not in yours, not for crash reporting. There is no chat and no way for anyone outside your family to see anything.
The app also has no camera, so there are no photographs of children in our systems.
What does it cost?
Seven days free, then $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year — one subscription for the whole family. Those are US reference prices; your App Store shows and charges your own currency.
Quests and Sparks keep working without a subscription. Tokens and the real-reward side are the paid half.
What happens if we stop using it for a few weeks?
Nothing. You come back to a working app with everything where you left it. No streak has broken, nothing has expired, and the app will not greet you with a tally of what you missed. This is deliberate.
Can I use it with more than one child?
Yes. One subscription covers every child in the family, each with their own quests, their own rewards, and their own creature.
Can I delete everything?
Yes, from Settings, and the deletion is real — your account, your family, every child record and the whole history, removed rather than hidden. You can also export the lot as a readable file first. See the Privacy Policy.