Trellis is one app, two parts. HQ — free, forever — turns your family's daily rhythm into a game your kids actually want to play. Academy, our learning coach, adds reading, writing and math with Plus. Either way, you get to go back to being their parent — not their project manager.
“We’re two parents of five kids who watched a summer slip into screens — so we built the thing we actually needed.” Our story → · Built gentle, on purpose: made for every kind of brain →
A shared schedule and a token economy. Kids earn tokens by doing their day — then cash them in for rewards your family does together.
A short diagnostic finds where each child actually is — then Academy grows with them through milestones, at a fraction of what a tutor costs.
Finish your day, find a secret seed, and hatch it to grow a little garden that's all your own. It's the part our own kids can't get enough of — so it comes free, for every family.
Trellis exists so you don't have to nag. So grown-ups get their own gentle rhythm, a wall of thank-yous from the kids, and a weekly recap of everything you showed up for.
These are real recordings of the app — the same screens your family will see, on the devices you already own.
Trellis on desktop, tablet, and phone — HQ, the daily check-off, and the Academy coach.
Trellis installs straight from your browser — no app store, nothing to update. Here's how.
Add your kids, sketch the day, and pick the rewards that fit your family. Each child takes a short, friendly diagnostic — no grades, no pressure.
Kids check off their day, earn tokens, and learn with their coach. You approve rewards and watch the streaks build.
Systems and consistency can be genuinely hard — for the parent trying to hold the day together, and for the child living inside it. Trellis was shaped by families who know that firsthand. It bends to your family's rhythm instead of demanding a perfect one, so structure feels like support, never pressure. Every kind of brain, from the parents to the kids.
Trellis started with a handful of founding families — ours included. These are the moments the tokens are for.
Not "limited ads." Not "ad-supported tier." Zero. Your membership is our only business model, so we work for you — not advertisers.
Parents control every account. We collect the minimum needed to run the app, and we never sell family data. Full stop.
Academy's coach stays inside learning — it doesn't chat about anything else, and parents can see what their child is working on anytime.
Trellis started at our kitchen table — two parents, five kids, and a summer that was slipping into screens. We built the thing we couldn't find. Our kids were the first testers, and they're still the toughest ones.
— Travis & Krystina, co-founders
Trellis HQ is free from day one. Want the Academy coach too? Try everything in Plus free for fourteen days — set it up tonight and see what your kids do with it. Not for your family? Cancel in two taps.
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