2.1.3
2023-03-14
With Smiles & Frowns Version 2.0, we’re excited to announce an incredibly fast new system for syncing that will greatly improve your Smiles & Frowns experience. Now everyone connected to your board will enjoy lightning-fast syncing, no matter how many children you manage, how many smiles and frowns you give, or how much you use the app. The app could slow down before, and that will happen no more!
We’ve added a new way for board creators and parents to manage whether kids using our Kids View app on their own devices can see everyone on their board, or just their own progress. Thanks to our users who suggested that feature… it’s a good one!
We've also added a time-stamp to all the smiles, frowns and spends on your child's review screen. It's a great way to get a sense of "when" that goes along with the "what" of behavior. Another great suggestion from another great parent out there!
In this latest update, we have fixed a bug with Requests where kids requests were not updating totals properly after being approved.
Thanks so much to all our users out there! We’re parents, too, and we hope these improvements really help make good behavior the story of the day, everywhere, for everyone!
Kindly,
The Dads at Smiles & Frowns
2.1.2
2022-10-21
With this key update, we’re excited to announce an incredibly fast new system for syncing that will greatly improve your Smiles & Frowns experience. Now everyone connected to your board will enjoy lightning-fast syncing, no matter how many children you manage, how many smiles and frowns you give, or how much you use the app. The app could slow down before, and that will happen no more!
We’ve added a new way for board creators and parents to manage whether kids using our Kids View app on their own devices can see everyone on their board, or just their own progress. Thanks to our users who suggested that feature… it’s a good one!
We've also added a time-stamp to all the smiles, frowns and spends on your child's review screen. It's a great way to get a sense of "when" that goes along with the "what" of behavior. Another great suggestion from another great parent out there!
Finally, we fixed a bug that could make custom Smiles show up as Frowns, rearranged the menus just a bit to be more intuitive, and fixed other little bugs to improve performance.
Thanks so much to all our users out there! We’re parents, too, and we hope these improvements really help make good behavior the story of the day, everywhere, for everyone!
Kindly,
The Dads at Smiles & Frowns
2.1.1
2022-10-06
With this key update, we’re excited to announce an incredibly fast new system for synching that will greatly improve your Smiles & Frowns experience. Now everyone connected to your board will enjoy lightning-fast syncing, no matter how many children you manage, how many smiles and frowns you give, or how much you use the app. The app could slow down before, and that will happen no more!
We’ve added a new way for board creators and parents to manage whether kids using our Kids View app on their own devices can see everyone on their board, or just their own progress. Thanks to our users who suggested that feature… it’s a good one!
Finally, we fixed a bug that could make custom Smiles show up as Frowns, rearranged the menus just a bit to be more intuitive, and fixed other little bugs to improve performance.
Thanks so much to all our users out there! We’re parents, too, and we hope these improvements really help make good behavior the story of the day, everywhere, for everyone!
Kindly,
The Dads at Smiles & Frowns
2.1.0
2022-10-06
With this key update, we’re excited to announce an incredibly fast new system for synching that will greatly improve your Smiles & Frowns experience. Now everyone connected to your board will enjoy lightning-fast syncing, no matter how many children you manage, how many smiles and frowns you give, or how much you use the app. The app could slow down before, and that will happen no more!
We’ve added a new way for board creators and parents to manage whether kids using our Kids View app on their own devices can see everyone on their board, or just their own progress. Thanks to our users who suggested that feature… it’s a good one!
Finally, we fixed a bug that could make custom Smiles show up as Frowns, rearranged the menus just a bit to be more intuitive, and fixed other little bugs to improve performance.
Thanks so much to all our users out there! We’re parents, too, and we hope these improvements really help make good behavior the story of the day, everywhere, for everyone!
Kindly,
The Dads at Smiles & Frowns
2.0.8
2022-04-05
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.8 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.7
2022-03-23
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.7 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.6
2021-11-25
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.6 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.5
2021-04-30
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.5 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.4
2021-04-23
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.4 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.3
2021-04-18
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.3 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.2
2021-04-17
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the four main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your family's exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows at a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regularly reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets your kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage your kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.2 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.1
2021-04-14
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the fours main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can now be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your families exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows in a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping one each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regular reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets you kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is now easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage you kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
Release 2.0.1 contains minor bug fixes
2.0.0
2021-04-11
We are thrilled to introduce our most important update to Smiles & Frowns ever, with major upgrades to each of the fours main sections of the app – people, behaviors, rewards and reviews. This is a true “2.0” release, and our small team (of two dads) couldn’t be happier to bring this to families everywhere!
OVERALL DESIGN:
We’ve taken three big steps here to improve the user experience for you:
– We’ve introduced a new “info module” design that groups key information clearly throughout the app, making everything easier to read at a glance.
– We’ve added quick-slide toolbars that bring the tools you need right to you, right when you need them. This makes everything – from giving out rewards to editing your boards – faster and easier than ever before.
– We’ve introduced an all new onboarding wizard that makes creating your first board – and every board after – much easier. We've also added a way for you to preview our pre-built behavior lists, so you can see what Around the House, Chores & More and Teacher's Helper have to offer.
Let's break it down!
PEOPLE:
Adding people to your behavior boards – your kids, as well as parents and guardians – is a key to making good behavior a team effort. With our new slider tools, you’ll see how easy adding new and existing users can be.
BEHAVIORS:
Awarding Smiles and Frowns for behavior has always been easy, but now editing and adding new custom behaviors to your list can now be done in seconds with one of our handy new slide-down editors. Tuning your behavior list to your families exact needs now is a much more natural part of the flow.
REWARDS:
Our totally redesigned rewards interface makes it super easy for kids to see the value of their hard-earned Smiles. Our new Rewards Ring shows in a glance how far your child’s spending smiles go towards each reward. By tapping one each reward, kids can see how close they are to earning each, and how many they can get if they have enough Smiles. It’s fast, fun and really helps kids understand the relative value of their Smiles. And spending smiles is easier, too!
PROGRESS REVIEWS:
We’ve also redesigned our review screen to really unlock the power of regular reviewing progress with your kids. Now this tool is much more powerful, with a new summary section that shows your child’s progress since the last review, a more complete history of behaviors and rewards, and a simple way to reset the scoreboard count to give your child a fresh shot at success! And we’ve even added Review Reminders, to help you get into a groove here.
KIDS VIEW AND KIDS REQUESTS:
We’re continuing to evolve the functionality of Smiles & Frowns: Kids View, the companion app that lets you kids connect with their boards from their own screens. Now, managing Kids View and Kids Requests for your whole family is now easy to do on one screen, which you’ll find in your Settings menu. It’s a great way to engage you kids like never before.
BOARD SET-UP AND EDITING:
We’ve introduced a new board setup wizard that makes creating a new board a snap. It walks you through adding your people, behaviors and rewards to a new board in minutes. It also gives you the option to set review reminders to help keep your kids excited and engaged.
USER SETTINGS:
Even our user settings have gotten a complete overhaul, with better organization and slide-down tools that make managing your profile, notifications and kids view a breeze.
As always, thanks for trying Smiles & Frowns®. We hope this update will help families and teachers everywhere!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
1.6.4
2020-11-23
Fixed issue with password reset
Updated Requests tab with information about the new Kids Requests feature
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Just weeks after releasing our SPREE™ Distance Learning board, we’ve added Kids Requests, a game-changing way for kids to give THEMSELVES Smiles and Frowns! (With your approval, of course.) Soon, your kids will tell themselves to behave.
INTRODUCING KIDS REQUESTS
To engage kids in good behavior like never before, we’re introducing a new feature called Kids Requests. Kids Requests lets your kids give themselves Smiles (and Frowns) on their own devices, which will show up for approval on yours. We think this will save busy parents even more time, while getting kids even more involved in managing their own behavior.
To get started, just install Smiles & Frowns on your device and Smiles & Frowns Kids View on your kids’ devices. (Kids View is a separate, secure kids version of Smiles & Frowns with no ads or tracking.)
Once you’ve set up a Smiles & Frowns behavior board on your parent device, just SWIPE LEFT on your child’s row and follow the directions to start syncing with your child’s device. It’s fast and easy, and you’ll be totally in sync in seconds!
With Kid View, you kids will be able to view their progress and review their lists of Smiles and Frowns anytime. (That gives them great ideas for how to earn more Smiles!) And when you enable our new Kids Requests feature, they can actually give themselves Smiles and Frowns, which will show up in the Requests tab on your device for approval.
VIEW FOR FREE OR SUBSCRIBE FOR KIDS REQUESTS
While letting your kids review their progress using Smiles & Frowns Kids View is always free, enabling Kids Requests requires a small monthly subscription, which covers your whole family. Getting the kids to engage and start telling themselves to behave?! We hope you’ll find that it’s an extremely good value!
1.6.3
2020-11-03
Just weeks after releasing our SPREE™ Distance Learning board, we’ve added Kids Requests, a game-changing way for kids to give THEMSELVES Smiles and Frowns! (With your approval, of course.) Soon, your kids will tell themselves to behave.
INTRODUCING KIDS REQUESTS
To engage kids in good behavior like never before, we’re introducing a new feature called Kids Requests. Kids Requests lets your kids give themselves Smiles (and Frowns) on their own devices, which will show up for approval on yours. We think this will save busy parents even more time, while getting kids even more involved in managing their own behavior.
To get started, just install Smiles & Frowns on your device and Smiles & Frowns Kids View on your kids’ devices. (Kids View is a separate, secure kids version of Smiles & Frowns with no ads or tracking.)
Once you’ve set up a Smiles & Frowns behavior board on your parent device, just SWIPE LEFT on your child’s row and follow the directions to start syncing with your child’s device. It’s fast and easy, and you’ll be totally in sync in seconds!
With Kid View, you kids will be able to view their progress and review their lists of Smiles and Frowns anytime. (That gives them great ideas for how to earn more Smiles!) And when you enable our new Kids Requests feature, they can actually give themselves Smiles and Frowns, which will show up in the Requests tab on your device for approval.
VIEW FOR FREE OR SUBSCRIBE FOR KIDS REQUESTS
While letting your kids review their progress using Smiles & Frowns Kids View is always free, enabling Kids Requests requires a small monthly subscription, which covers your whole family. Getting the kids to engage and start telling themselves to behave?! We hope you’ll find that it’s an extremely good value!
1.6.2
2020-08-20
Thanks for checking out Smiles & Frowns™, the good behavior app made by parents, for parents! ! With this release, we keep working towards our goal of making this the fastest and easiest way for parents and teachers to make positive behavior plans that positively work. With this release, you’ll find that:
Users can now create accounts with their Apple ID for the quickest login ever.
We’ve updated the design elements throughout the app for an even lighter, fresher feel.
Redesigned screens include bigger rows that take advantage of larger devices.
Larger, easier-to-read type creates a simpler, cleaner feel everywhere.
Bigger buttons and more colors allow for easier taps and an even friendlier tone.
We’ve greatly simplified our system for editing and managing boards.
You can now access options to Edit, Reset or Archive any board, directly from the board list view. Just make your changes here, and they’ll be ready and waiting the next time you use the board.
Editing boards is now easier than ever! You can now select between Behaviors, Rewards and People tabs that keep things organized. Quickly customizing any aspect of a board is now MUCH easier than ever before.
Adding behaviors to a board from our master list – or creating custom behaviors to your boards – is now faster and more intuitive. And we’ve added a filter to make sure you don’t accidentally duplicate behaviors on a board.
Rewards are now presented in a clear list view for editing. And we’ve included a new feature that lets you preview how new rewards look before you add them to your board.
We’ve made plenty of little bug fixes that improve the stability and reliability of board syncing, purchases and overall usage.
Thanks again for trying Smiles & Frowns. If you like what we’re doing, please tell your friends and consider leaving a nice review. Parents, unite!
Kindly,
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
1.6.0
2019-09-20
Big news! With this update, we’re introducing support for Smiles & Frowns Kids View, a companion app that lets your kids view their Smiles & Frowns progress on their own devices, safely and securely, any time they like. Just set up Smiles & Frowns on your device, then install Kids View on your child’s device. Syncing them safely to your account is fast and easy!
1.5.16
2019-05-16
With this release, it’s all about streamlining the process of adding new behaviors to your boards. We’ve made a few changes to make the process faster and easier, especially when creating custom boards.
CREATING A CUSTOM BOARD:
– Now when creating a custom board, you’ll be taken to the behavior selector first, so all of the Smiles and Frowns you want are in place when you get to your main board view
– You can also now add all of the Smiles AND Frowns in a single pass when you first set up your board.
ADDING CUSTOM BEHAVIORS TO ANY BOARD:
– We’ve also simplified how you define custom behaviors for all boards, and now featured them at the top of the behavior list for quick access and editing.
We hope you’ll find that this update makes customizing the behaviors on your boards easier and more intuitive than ever before.
Thanks again to all our great users out there. Good luck out there!
The Smiles & Frowns Dads
1.5.15
2019-04-28
With this release, we continue to respond to the feedback of our wonderful users:
– Fixed an issue related to requesting the iTunes login on every app launch
– Minor bug fixes
As always, keep the great feedback coming and we will keep acting on it.
1.5.14
2019-04-11
We’ve been back at it, and have added a few key feature upgrades to the review, as well as including bug fixes and other updates to keep improving the experience for you! In this update, you’ll find:
– We’ve improved the Review view (when you tap on your a child’s icon) to list all actions in reverse chronological order, meaning every Smile, Frown and Reward given will appear in the Review, now with the most recent listed first. This can be a huge help in reviewing. For instance, if your child cashes out all of his/her Smiles for allowance and then you reset your board to start over, your next review can just go all the way back to your last Spend.
– Guardians can now access the Review view. This allows babysiters, nannies or anyone you’ve invited as a Guardian participate in reviews and praise kids for their progress.
– We’ve streamlined the sync for faster, even more reliable synching..
– We’ve fixed a bug that could cause extra ads to appear (which was certainly not our intent!)
– We’ve fixed a bug related to long comments
– We’ve update various service SDKs, which improves overall performance.
Thanks again to all of our awesome users out there!
T & B
1.5.13
2019-02-23
Back by Popular Demand! This release follows fast on the heals of our previous update, and restores the “rollover spending smiles” feature. This feature allows you to swipe left on any child’s row and reset the Smile and Frown counts to zero without changing the number of Spending Smiles they’ve earned so far. It’s a great way to give your kids a fresh start and a new challenge every week, every month, or whenever you like... while still letting them save Smiles to spend later. Thanks to our super awesome user KC out there for reaching out to us about it!
1.5.12
2019-02-10
With this release, we’ve done a quite a bit to refine the look and feel of the app, while also working hard to respond to feedback and suggestions from our awesome users. Parents, unite! With this version, you’ll find:
– Revised page and type design throughout to make screens easier to read.
– A redesigned Bottom Menu to make settings and help easier and more accessible.
– A new feature that lets users remove an accidentally awarded Smile, Frown, or Reward
– Faster and much Improved sync for multiple users of shared boards.
– A fix for an issue that could crash the app for users not using iOS Mail
– A fix for a bug that may have prevented users from logging in/signing up with Facebook
– Other minor bug fixes and updates.
1.5.11
2018-10-16
Minor bug fixes
Layout support for XS, XS Max, XR
1.5.10
2018-09-14
This release fixes a few more bugs, including one that one of our awesome users helped us find. Deleting all of your rewards before adding new ones could cause the app to crash before, but no more. Thanks out there, J!
In this update, we’ve...
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash after cancelling a Facebook login
Fixed a bug that could take users to the wrong board after accepting an invitation
Fixed bug that caused the app to crash if all rewards were deleted before new ones were added
Fixed an iPad bug that could let an ad block part of the interface when adding new rewards
Improved reliability of the app automatically returning to the previously active board
Thanks again to all of our users for helping us make Smiles & Frowns better for everyone with every new release!
1.5.9
2018-08-08
In this update, we address a bug in the iPad version of the app, and continue our efforts to make creating new boards as fast and easy as possible. This update:
– Simplifies the user flow for creating new boards, so you can be up and running with a great behavior plan faster than ever before.
– Adds new Tool Tips to help guide you along the way.
– Adds search to our list of behaviors, so you can find what you’re looking for quickly.
– Fixes an iPad issue that could cause action buttons to be hidden by banner ads.
Thanks again for using Smiles & Frowns. We hope these updates keep making the app better and better for busy parents and teachers everywhere!