Read for Rewards

Read for Rewards turns reading a real, paper book into points a child can spend on something they actually want.

They photograph a few pages. The phone reads them, thinks up questions about what happened, and marks the answers. Get it right first time and it is worth three points. Go back to the book, find it, and it is worth one — because looking again is worth more than guessing again.

A grown-up decides what the points buy. An hour on the console. Choosing dinner. Staying up half an hour later. The best rewards cost a household nothing.

IT ALL HAPPENS ON THE PHONE

Reading the pages and thinking up the questions both happen on the phone itself, using Apple Intelligence. There is no account to make, nothing to sign in to, and it works in aeroplane mode.

What your child reads, how they answer, and their points stay on the phone. Photographs of pages are deleted the moment the words have been read from them.

FOR SEVERAL CHILDREN

Set up as many readers as share the phone. Each gets their own points, their own reading, and their own colours — so it is never a mystery whose turn it is. Rewards can belong to the household or to one child.

FOR GROWN-UPS

Behind a PIN: what has been read and when, how many words, how many questions were right, and the sittings themselves with every question and answer. Set up the rewards, and spend the points when they have been earned.

Children cannot reach any of it, and cannot award themselves anything.

WHAT YOU NEED

An iPhone 15 Pro or newer, running iOS 26, with Apple Intelligence switched on. The questions are written by the phone's own model, and that is the hardware it takes.

WHAT IT COSTS

Fifty pages free. Then one payment unlocks the app for every reader in the house — no subscription, nothing recurring, nothing to cancel.