New in ChoreUnlock 2.0: a library of 118 real books your kids read to earn their screen time.

THEIR SCREEN TIME NOW COSTSA CHAPTER.

Assign a real book as tonight's mission. Your child reads the chapter inside the app, proves it by reading a passage out loud, and the screen time is earned — by a book, not a feed.

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✓ 118 complete classics, free forever
✓ Real books, not excerpts
✓ Works with the app lock you already use

118
complete books
3,267
chapters to earn with
$0
the library is free, forever

How it works

Reading becomes a mission.

Pick a book, pick a child, pick a schedule. The mission walks the whole book by itself — you never manage chapters, you just watch the bookmark move.

1

Pick a book

Browse shelves by age, search by title, and check the one-line note and "minutes a night" estimate on every book.

2

Set the schedule

Every day, school nights, weekends, or one chapter a week on the day you choose. Read in order, start at any chapter, or repeat a favorite.

3

They read, then prove it

The app serves the next chapter each time. At the end it highlights a short passage and your child reads it out loud. Mak listens and checks it against the page.

4

Screen time unlocks

Pass, and the XP lands and the screen time is earned — same lock, same rules, same approval flow you already use for chores.

The Family Library

Real books. The whole book.

118 complete classics live inside the app — not excerpts, not summaries. Here is a small taste of the shelves.

For the little ones
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit
Aesop's Fables
Winnie-the-Pooh
Just So Stories
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Peter Pan
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
For growing readers
The Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock
The Box-Car Children
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Jungle Book
Heidi
The Wind in the Willows
The Secret Garden
The Railway Children
Ozma of Oz
Black Beauty
For the big kids
Treasure Island
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
The Call of the Wild
Around the World in Eighty Days
Kidnapped
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
…and dozens more
📚 Shelves by age 🔎 Search the whole library 📝 A one-line note on every book ⏱ "Minutes a night" estimate 🆓 Free forever — no in-app book purchases
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The honest version of reading time

No skimming. No "yes, I read it."

At the end of a chapter the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it aloud. Mak listens and checks the reading against the page. Only then does the XP land.

  • ✓The check matches the page. Mak compares what he hears to the actual passage — a made-up sentence doesn't pass.
  • ✓The bookmark is kept for them. Each time your child opens the mission, the next chapter is already waiting.
  • ✓You stay the parent, not the librarian. You assigned the book once. The app handles every night after that.
  • ✓It plugs into everything else. Reading earns XP like any mission, and XP buys screen time on the same lock and the same meter.

The Faith shelf

A shelf for your family's tradition.

Choose your tradition in the Library and the right texts appear. One Psalm every Sunday is a mission your child can carry for life.

Orthodox & Catholic

The Psalms and Genesis from the Septuagint, with the Gospels in the original Greek alongside.

Protestant

The King James Bible, complete.

Jewish

The Torah, with the Hebrew alongside the English.

Muslim

The Qur'an, with the Arabic alongside.

Hindu

The Bhagavad Gita.

Families who want no faith shelf can simply turn it off.

Why parents assign books

The feed loses. The book wins.

⚖️

Make reading the cheap option

With Expensive Apps, you can price social media triple while reading earns. The math quietly pushes toward the book.

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A chapter before bed, enforced

Schedule the reading mission for school nights. The apps stay locked until tonight's chapter is read and proven.

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A finished book, not a streak of minutes

The mission walks chapter by chapter to the last page. Your child doesn't "do reading time" — they finish Treasure Island.

FAQ

Questions parents ask

Are the books really free?
Yes. All 118 books are complete, classic works included with the app — there are no in-app book purchases and never will be for the library. The books are free forever on every plan.
How does the app know my child actually read the chapter?
At the end of the chapter the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it out loud. Mak listens and checks the reading against the page. If it doesn't match, it doesn't pass — and the chapter is still there waiting.
What ages is the library for?
The shelves run from read-together picture-book age up through teens: Aesop and the Grimm tales for the little ones, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Box-Car Children in the middle, Sherlock Holmes and Little Women for the big kids. Every book has a one-line note and a "minutes a night" estimate so you can pick the right one in seconds.
Can my child start in the middle of a book, or re-read a chapter?
Yes. When you assign a book you choose: read in order from chapter one, start at any chapter, or repeat the same chapter every time (nice for a favorite Psalm or poem). The app keeps the bookmark either way.
How does reading turn into screen time?
A reading mission earns XP exactly like a chore. On the metered plan, XP buys screen-time minutes on a countdown; on the simple plan, finishing the day's missions unlocks the apps. Either way, the lock is Apple's own Family Controls, at the system level — see how the lock works.
Do I need Premium for the Reading Library?
The library and its 118 books come with the app. ChoreUnlock is free for one child with the full daily experience; Premium ($8.99/month or $89.99/year, after a 7-day free trial) adds the whole family, the automatic lock, and the XP screen-time meter. See pricing.

Tonight, the price of the iPad is one chapter.

Assign the first book in about a minute. The first read-aloud usually earns a grin.

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