Everything a family day needs.

Here is what Rondino can do today, for families with school children and for families who learn at home. At the top, the areas at a glance; below, each area with pictures and details to expand.

Day app for parents

Today, Tasks and Notes: every child’s day and what is waiting for you.

  • Today: each child’s day, to confirm, reward requests, open homework
  • Each child’s day with all tasks
  • Confirm with feedback, one at a time or all at once
Confirm with feedback

You confirm reported tasks with duration, title, subject and stars. There are also two short fields: “That was good” and “Next time”. The child sees the feedback with the task.

Take another look

Instead of confirming, you can hand a task back. The child reworks it and, if you like, gets a bonus for it. Reworking is rewarded, not punished.

Surprise stars

Self-chosen reading or creative work has no fixed stars. You can give surprise stars when confirming.

Suggestions to release

For homeschooling: a notice shows how many suggestions are ready for this week and next. One click takes you there.

Open homework

For school children, “Today” lists the homework and tests for the next 14 days.

Parents’ day app with chores and homework

Family console

Plan, review, reward and manage the family, protected by the parent PIN.

  • Four groups: Plan, Review, Reward, Family and account
  • Status per child against the annual plan
  • Top right, you switch between the day app and the family console
Parent PIN

The family console opens with a parent PIN (4 to 6 digits) that the children don’t know. It then stays open for 15 minutes. Going back to the day app needs no PIN.

Status per child

The console’s start page shows for each child how much learning time has added up this week, this month and in the learning year, measured against the target from the annual plan. Anyone falling behind is marked.

On the computer

The annual plan, reports and usage need room for tables and charts, so they open on the computer. Everything else stays available on the phone.

Family console in the dark “Evening” theme with the status per child

Chores, tasks and templates

Chores and routines that distribute themselves every week, and all other tasks.

  • Chores as recurring tasks by weekday, for one or more children
  • Day, week and month views with filters by child and status
  • Weekly plan per child as an A4 sheet to print
Distributing chores

Each chore is entered once as a recurring task: for which children, on which weekdays, for how many stars. From then on it appears on every matching day for the right children, without you having to think about it.

Routines

Categories such as Chores and Personal care are routines: they stay on the planned day and children cannot move them.

All kinds of tasks

Learning, Reading, Creative, Sport, Chores and Personal care are ready to use. Your own categories are possible (up to 12 active), each with an icon, default stars and whether the time counts.

For one or more children

A task can be created for several children at once. Each child does and reports it on their own.

Subject, curriculum, pages

Learning tasks get a Lehrplan 21 subject and, if you like, a textbook and the pages from–to. From this Rondino calculates progress in the book.

Proof

Adjustable per task: log the duration, ask for a photo, short description. A photo that doesn’t fit can be deleted again.

Timer with focus view

While working, tasks with a timer show the child only the current task, with “Done” and “Pause”. The measured time is suggested when reporting. The timer does not give stars.

Place in the day

If you like, recurring tasks stay fixed at the start of the day (e.g. “Make the bed”) or at the end (e.g. “Brush teeth”). The other tasks can be arranged freely.

Bundles

Groups of tasks that appear automatically over a period of time, such as a training plan or a project week.

Choice tasks

You offer two or three options and the child picks one. The chosen one becomes a normal task.

Editing series

When you delete a recurring task, Rondino asks whether you mean just this day or the whole series.

Printing the weekly plan

Exactly one landscape A4 sheet per child, Monday to Friday or including the weekend, with boxes to tick by hand and space for notes.

Recurring chores and routines

Kids’ app

Calm, clear and without distractions. For children from about eight.

  • Today: the day’s sun, “Up next”, task cards
  • Week: week stamps and progress in every book
  • Four tabs at the bottom: Today, Week, Stars and Me
Today

The day’s sun shows how much is done. Only one task at a time is “Up next”. Completed tasks stay visible and can be undone.

Reporting

Tick off with duration, photo and short description, depending on what the task asks for. Afterwards, if you like, the question “How was it?”: easy, just right or hard.

Week

A week stamp for every day completed, the rest of the week, and “How far you are”: progress in each book as a growing path instead of a percentage.

Add

Enter voluntary work yourself, with a photo. For school kids also homework and tests with a due date; Rondino suggests study sessions before the test.

For you

At the top of “Today” the child sees notes from the parents and small hints that matter right now. If there is nothing, the space stays empty.

Me

Weekly review, showcase, own notepad and the app’s look are gathered under “Me”.

Review

Every Friday from 4 pm, the weekly review. It becomes the learning portfolio in the report.

Showcase

Their own work with photos that Mum or Dad have looked at, plus surprise milestones.

Made for children

Large tap targets (56 px), nothing below 14 px, sentences that are easy to read aloud. Persistence is praised, never speed. No grades, no leaderboard, no comparisons between siblings, no penalties for missed days.

Kids’ app: the day’s tasks with sport, creative work and homework

Homework and tests

For school kids: enter, plan, tick off, without constant reminders.

  • Children enter homework themselves, with a due date
  • Tests with study sessions in the days before
  • Parents see open homework for the next 14 days
Entering

Under “Add”, the child picks “Homework” or “Test”, writes briefly what to do and taps the due date.

Planning

The due date is separate from the day the task is done. That way homework can be moved to a quieter afternoon.

Tests

For a test, Rondino suggests up to three study sessions in the days before. The test itself appears in the plan on the day of the test.

Tick off without confirming

The child ticks off homework themselves, without you having to confirm. If it is done before the due date, there is a star (adjustable).

School kids only

The Homework category is active in “School kids” mode. Families who learn at home plan learning through the year plan and learning tasks.

Kids’ app: entering homework or a test

Stars and rewards

Stars for pocket money, screen time or extras, with limits you set.

  • Freely adjustable exchange rate for francs and screen time
  • Screen time with daily and weekly limits that reset themselves
  • Shared star jar for a family goal
Shop for children

Pocket money in fixed amounts, screen time in blocks, and your own extras such as “Stay up an hour later”. Requests show up for the parents.

Balance and history

Per child, all stars earned and redeemed, with reason and date.

Daily cap

If you like, an upper limit on stars per day, so that it is about quality, not quantity. Off by default.

Family goal

A shared jar: children put in 1, 5 or 10 stars, and only the total is visible. Once the goal is reached, you do something together. If it is cancelled, the stars go back.

What is left out on purpose

No stars for speed, no streaks that are lost when a day is missed, no leaderboards.

Stars and shop in the family console

Notepad and notifications

Personal notes and reminders, clearly separate from learning.

  • Notes, to-dos, checklists and lists
  • Private or shared with the other parent
  • Push notifications on phone and computer
Entries

A note or a to-do, with an optional date, reminder, repetition (daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly), list and checklist. Important things can be pinned.

Who sees what

Entries are private. If you want, you share an entry with both parents. Children have their own notepad; parents only see what a child shares.

Notifications

Reminders, a morning brief and hints about learning as push notifications. With quiet hours (by default 8:30 pm to 7:00 am) and the choice of whether the content appears on the lock screen. On iPhone from iOS 16.4, once Rondino has been added to the home screen.

Parents’ notepad

Family, devices and languages

Two parents, as many devices as you like, all languages, three colour themes.

  • Children log in with a PIN, on their own phone or a family device
  • German, French, Italian and English, per device
  • Colour themes “Morgen”, “Abend” and “Wald”
Roles

Parents manage everything. Children only see their own day, their photos and entries.

Devices

Rondino runs in the browser on phone, tablet and computer and can be added to the home screen like an app. On a shared device you switch profile and enter the PIN.

Usage mode

Homeschooling or school kids. Nothing is lost when switching; the year plan and report are just hidden.

Colour themes

“Morgen” (light), “Abend” (dark) and “Wald” (calm, low-stimulus, e.g. for long study sessions). Without a choice, Rondino follows the device setting.

Tour and help

A tour explains every page, and small ⓘ symbols explain individual fields. “First steps” guides new families through the setup.

Accessibility

Contrast to WCAG 2.2 AA in all three colour themes, colour never carries meaning on its own, every chart also as a table.

Settings with usage mode and children

For homeschooling: year plan and Lehrplan 21

Learning year, holidays, time budget by canton, curricula and weekly suggestions.

  • Target and actual per subject across the whole learning year
  • Time budget by canton: Aargau, Zurich, Bern and a basic model
  • Curricula with page count and target date; Rondino spreads out the pages
Learning weeks and holidays

Learning year with start and end, holidays (suggested for the canton, adjustable) and spontaneous days off. The target only counts real learning weeks.

Time budget

Your canton’s minimum time, distributed according to the weighting of the timetable. In Aargau under § 119 V VSG. Your own targets per child and subject are possible.

Cantonal models

Obligations, notes and sources are stored for Aargau, Zurich and Bern, with a basic model for the other cantons. The information carries a review date, and Rondino flags outdated rules.

Curricula and page plan

Books with page count and target date. Rondino spreads the remaining pages over the remaining learning days and shows each child’s progress.

Weekly suggestions

Subjects with books by remaining pages, the others by time budget. Children only see what you release: one by one or the whole week.

Focus subject

Put one subject at the centre for a while, for example maths with “Fractions”. It then comes up every day and appears in the learning report.

Carry-over

If you start with Rondino in the middle of the learning year, you add the learning time so far as a lump sum. The target stays correct.

Moving learning tasks

Children may move learning tasks to another day themselves. Routines such as chores stay fixed.

Year plan with target/actual per subject

For homeschooling: timetable

Set times for subjects, for children who need more structure.

  • Subjects follow one another from a start time, with breaks and a fixed lunch
  • Turn on per child and week, switch off single days
  • In the children’s app, a timeline with a clearly visible clock
How Rondino works it out

Each subject gets its planned time, with a short break in between (10 minutes by default). If a child is quicker, everything moves forward; if they need longer, everything moves back. With the timer, the measured time counts.

Lunch stays fixed

Lunch is always at the same time. Whatever isn’t finished before carries on afterwards.

Three views

The child chooses how their day looks: a line with a digital clock, a clock face with a coloured ring of subjects, or a day arc. One tap at the top switches the view.

Without pressure

The timetable only shows where the day stands. There’s no countdown, no red times, no stars for keeping to it and no deduction for running over.

Turning it on and off

You turn it on per child for this week or next, also right while planning. For a single day you can switch it off again on “Today”.

Children’s app with timetable: clock with a coloured ring of subjects and a timeline

For homeschooling: learning report and portfolio

The proof for the canton, straight from the logged tasks.

  • Per child and semester, ready to print as PDF
  • Overview by subject with curricula, topics and learning time
  • Learning portfolio from the children’s weekly reviews
Overview by subject

Per subject: target, actual, number of tasks, curricula used and topics. The overview is always included.

Documented work

Selected work with photos, by subject or category on separate pages. Photos are scaled down for the PDF so that the file stays manageable.

Customise report

You choose what goes in: photos, text only, books, other activities, portfolio, individual subjects or categories.

Learning portfolio

Every Friday from 4 pm, the children fill in a short review: how was the week, what did I learn, what will I do next. The questions follow the fact sheet “Private Schulung – Lernportfolio” of the canton of Aargau. Parents can comment.

Milestones

Milestones reached, such as “Book finished” or “Reworked 10 times”, appear in the report. They do not give stars.

Learning report by subject

Analytics and usage

Learning time, tasks and stars over time, and how the children use Rondino.

  • Per child, per semester or learning year
  • Every chart also as a table
  • Usage: time in the app, devices, PIN logins
Analytics

Learning time per week, time per subject, tasks completed, average per learning week, stars earned and redeemed, categories.

Reviews

All of a child’s weekly reviews with the parents’ comments and the milestones reached.

Usage

When, for how long and on which device a child had Rondino open, and when they logged in with their PIN. Only Rondino itself, no other apps, no location. Deleted after 90 days, can be switched off.

Analytics with learning time per week and subject

Security

Data in Zurich, encrypted, two-factor login for parents, every family on its own.

  • Database and photos in Zurich, encrypted on disk
  • Two-factor login for all parents, lockout after failed attempts
  • Family can be fully deleted at any time
More on this

All answers about storage location, encryption, access, backups and development are in the frequently asked questions under “Security and privacy”.

To the security questions