Joon: Behavior Improvement App

Our 5 year old went from struggling to be motivated to complete his daily tasks/contributions to the family, to doing them with ease and honestly… joy! We have seen a HUGE improvement in his behaviour and focus this past 3 weeks, cannot rate this app more highly! Thank you

Our 7 year old daughter is Autistic and ADHD and I’ve been working with an OT and psychologist on strategies to help her with self care and independence with daily chores without me asking/reminding/nagging or yelling. I am absolutely amazed after using the app for two weeks… She’s almost magically self-reliant, eager to help out and is enjoying progressing in the app. It has added significant value to our whole family and I am so grateful to Joon!

We are really enjoying seeing some new options for my son who finds any requirements a trigger for him. It’s super having a fun app, with his own ‘pet’, requiring him to do such things as get dressed, brush his teeth, wait in his bed in the morning. It means I can be having fun with him with the app, rather than nagging him.

As I’m putting in the jobs for my child to do, it would be nice if we could edit the location of them in the line of jobs. So he knows what to do first.

This app has transformed our children. We are a house full of neurodivergent’s and it has taken away all the defiance, refusal, and arguing and given us children who are excited to tick off their ‘quests’ every day to collect their coins and raise their ‘pets’. It’s truly worth the money for the ease and stress free time it’s given us!

Helps my daughter get excited about doing more of her chores and has recently traded her coins in for robux gift card which she loves to play. Thank you

I wanted say big thank to the creator team and share our Joon experience. It's been more than two weeks since we hopped on board, and let me tell you, it's been a game-changer. My son is absolutely loving it. He cares about his pets so wants to earn the bonus and points to look after them. His habits are really starting to take shape. Gone are the days of constant reminders and confrontations. Now, he's tidying up his bed and pajamas, tackling the piano, and even writing in his journal every night – reminders are sometime still needed, but definitely no confrontations!

I have two kids that have ADHD. I tentatively tried this app out, thinking it wouldn’t make much of a difference. Boy was I wrong. On the first day, my kids asked me for MORE jobs to do. They even practiced their instruments (which one of them had been refusing to do all year). On top of usual chores, I give them tasks like “find something that needs cleaning and clean it” because I think that’s a really good skill for people to learn. I’ve had this app for a few weeks now. Their motivation isn’t as high as it was in the first few days (they don’t ask me for extra jobs usually now), but they still play and use this app for their regular tasks - and they do it without complaining

It is disappointing to have to go through a full survey and set up process only to find out this is a subscription service not just in app purchases as advertised. Just be up front so people can make a decision before handing over personal information.

I’ve waited a few months to review because I suspected the novelty would wear off and they would not care to work for coins any more. However, they still do care and are both now saving up their coins to purchase a beach permit worth 1000 coins! For those who are wondering if it would work on their kids, here are my thoughts: - Foremost, my kids don’t usually otherwise get screen time (neither TV nor any screen-based games) so they are excited to get to play iPad for Joon. I think if they were used to fancy video games then Joon would be too sedate for them, or if they were used to the dopamine hit of constant YouTube access, they would lose interest in Joon’s world quickly. Besides, I only let them play on Joon every few days anyway. That not only allows them to build up coins but also keeps the interest up. As it is, my kids have never played anything where there’s a world to freely explore, with characters to earn and buy accessories for, so they love that aspect. They also enjoy “seeing” each others’ doters wandering around their screen :-) - I made all the quest completions under my control so they can’t just tap ‘done’ and get coins without my approval. You can make as many or as few quests as you wish, but I’ve made quests for every little thing I wish they would be more responsible for so it can be a lot for the parent to keep track of with reviewing them every day (tho you can scroll back to prior days). I don’t mind because I have been using a gamified task app for adults for myself for years, but my husband dislikes it, so it falls on me to keep track of all quests for both kids. It can be a lot. - The Joon creators are very responsive and constantly seek to improve, so I feel free to write to them with ideas. I had suggested a feature to turn on/off whether doters could be harmed or removed from the child’s custody if they don’t get fed or cared for after a while, because when my son realised they don’t die if he doesn’t feed them, he decided to never spend coins on food even though they are starving! He also doesn’t feel any urgency to do quests each day because of this.