What’s New

New Onboarding and Better Approvals

We've completely redesigned our onboarding experience, brought reward requests into your main approvals queue, and made watch notifications more exciting for kids.

• New: Introduced a redesigned, step-by-step onboarding flow that lets you save your progress, answer a quick family questionnaire, and automatically generate your first-week plan and reminder times.
• New: Approving a check-in now automatically awards streaks, completions, and badges to your child immediately.
• New: Kids will now receive a notification directly on their Apple Watch whenever you decide on a reward request or if a check-in is rejected.
• New: You can now set a points threshold for challenges, letting you decide exactly when a task requires your manual approval versus passing through automatically.
• Improved: Rebuilt the Reward Room and moved pending reward requests into your main Approvals queue so you can manage check-ins and rewards in one convenient place.
• Improved: Added fun, themed emojis to Apple Watch notifications when you approve a kid's check-in.
• Improved: Moved the option to abandon a challenge to the details screen and made it look more distinct to prevent accidental taps.
• Improved: Updated our Privacy Policy page to match our latest guidelines.
• Fixed: Fixed an issue where kids occasionally missed out on earning points for automatically approved check-ins.
• Fixed: Fixed the "send-back" flow in your Approvals queue so you can reliably send a challenge back to your child to try again.
• Fixed: Fixed a login issue that caused the page to hang or fail to load when certain ad blockers were active.
• Fixed: Fixed a confusing hint on the sign-up screen that mistakenly showed a password length of 6 characters instead of the required 8.

Terms, privacy & analytics

• New: A published Terms of Service at /terms, linked from signup.
• New: Privacy-friendly page analytics so we can see which parts of Rally families use.
• Improved: The privacy policy was rewritten to match the July 14, 2026 revision and the controls that actually ship in Settings.
• Fixed: Onboarding drafts no longer carry over between accounts on a shared computer.
• Fixed: Your display name now pre-fills on onboarding after signup.

Settings and privacy controls

• New: A Settings area with Data Rights and Privacy Choices.
• New: A published privacy policy at /privacy, with a consent checkbox on signup.
• Improved: A mobile settings header, and the settings icon now lines up with the sidebar collapse toggle.
• Improved: Rally's pennant mark replaced the default favicon.
• Fixed: Login and password reset, which had broken when bot protection was turned on.

Watch notifications and signup protection

• New: Assigning a challenge now sends a push notification to your child's Apple Watch.
• New: Bot protection on signup.
• Fixed: The welcome banner no longer flashes away instantly on Challenges.
• Fixed: A duplicated word in the welcome greeting.

Account settings

• New: Edit your display name, family name, and email address from Account settings.
• New: A public support page at /support.

Personalized picks

• New: Five suggested challenges after onboarding, picked from each kid's interests.
• New: Interests are set per child, and show as chips on the family page.
• New: Assign one challenge to several kids at once.
• New: Blue, indigo, violet, and pink avatar colors.
• Improved: Clearer page subtitles across the app, and a separate 'All challenges' heading under Picks.

A bigger challenge library

• New: Independence-focused challenges from the Let Grow Independence Kit.
• New: A coach tip on the dashboard, in the same card style used elsewhere.
• Improved: Challenge detail was restructured into a clearer top and bottom row.
• Improved: The feedback button is available app-wide and stays clear of the mobile nav.

Feedback, account deletion, and a design pass

• New: A Feedback page for sending us ideas and bug reports.
• New: Delete your account and family data from the Family page.
• Improved: Every core page was brought in line with the design system and scales properly on phones and tablets.
• Improved: Onboarding accessibility and polish.
• Fixed: Security fixes to sign-in redirects and account lookup.

The approvals queue

• New: A dedicated Approvals page with a count badge in the sidebar.
• New: Approve or turn down a check-in with a note; a reason is required when turning one down.
• New: Approvals and rejections now appear in the activity feed.
• Improved: The dashboard's Kids section became a Today's check-ins feed.
• Improved: Check-ins a parent records themselves are approved automatically.

Kid-centric challenges and rewards

• New: Challenges and rewards are now organized around each kid rather than the family as a whole.
• New: Create, edit, and delete your own custom challenges, including steps and a coach tip.
• New: A recent activity feed on the dashboard, and per-kid progress on the Activity page.
• New: Counts on the challenge filter pills.
• Fixed: Point attribution for Watch check-ins on family-wide challenges.

Progress and Family screens

• New: Progress and Family screens, plus a responsive app shell.
• New: A child picker on challenge detail, and per-child segmentation on the dashboard.
• Improved: The challenge library moved to a grid of compact cards.
• Fixed: Password reset now works end to end.

App shell and challenge library

• New: The signed-in app shell, challenge library, and challenge detail page.
• New: A collapsible sidebar with an icon-only rail mode.

Onboarding

• New: The onboarding flow: create your family and add your kids.
• New: An empty dashboard state for brand-new families.
• Improved: Auth pages were restyled to the Rally design system.

First deployment

• New: Landing page, sign up, log in, and sign out.