Who are we?

Ben is a software engineer of 20+ years so is always looking for ways to solve things with software, and Erica is a community leader and teacher with experience teaching financial literacy, so building a pocket money app seemed like a natural fit.

Additionally, with four kids on various areas of the neurodiversity spectrum, handling pocket money and chores has always been a struggle. Quiddo has helped to make that easier!

There are a lot of reasons we’ve found the existing tools lacking, but the big one is that we don’t feel like our kids need their own physical debit card, and almost every other actively developed app (Spriggy, Kit, etc) out there requires this.

Why no debit card? Well for one, our kids are almost certainly going to lose them immediately. If we’re having to keep track of their cards as well as ours, we’ve actually just added stress to the family, not relieved it, and with lost cards as an option the meltdowns when we’re out and they still can’t access their money will be on the rise.

That’s why we’ve built an app that still lets them see their savings and their spending money while letting us easily track their pocket money payments, chore completions, and what they’re spending on.

We also weren’t especially keen on handing over details to the big corporate banks attached to the apps that are out there now. Banks don’t exactly have a good track record of looking after their customer’s interests, and attaching our kids to particular banks early just rubs us the wrong way.

Quiddo has been built with privacy in mind from the very beginning, we only ask for as much data as is needed to provide you the service, and everything is encrypted end to end.