Three quests. Pick one. Phone away.
Rompus is a parent-held iPhone app of outdoor quests for kids aged 3 to 12. Open it, see three quests you can do today, pick one, and put the phone away. The kid does the quest and earns a badge in their own badge book.
Designed to be closed.
Rompus is not a game your child plays on the phone. It is the thing you check for thirty seconds before you go out.
Open it
Three quests for today, picked for your kids' ages, the weather, what's in season where you live, and what's in the sky tonight.
Pick one
The card says what to bring, how it goes in three steps, what to say to your kid, and the rule. Fire, water and anything picked or touched carry a plain "with a grown-up" label.
Phone away
Go do it. When you're back, one tap logs it, with a photo if you took one. The kid gets a badge, with a sound and a moment on screen.
Doable right now, not someday.
Weather
A snowman on a snow day. A puddle walk in the rain. Nothing that needs a dry afternoon when there isn't one.
Season
Bug hunts in spring. Leaf colour in fall. Quests that need a frozen pond wait for one.
Tonight's sky
Sunset, moonrise, which planets are up and when the space station passes over, computed on the phone.
Where you are
Your location is read once, when you ask, to pick quests that fit. It never leaves the phone.
Real skills, four badges at a time.
Six ladders build towards something: tie a knot that holds, find Jupiter, read a trail, catch and release. Seven packs fit the day you're having.
What it is not
Not a game your child plays on the phone. Not a species-identification app: the photo chip says "an insect" or "Not sure. Count it anyway?", never a name, and it never says anything is safe to eat or touch. Not a screen-time tracker. No streaks, no missed-day messages, no leaderboards, no comparing siblings. Milestones count totals, and nothing nags.
One yearly price for the whole household.
Start free. The Family plan is one subscription, shared with Family Sharing, and the paywall only appears when you reach for something it covers.
Free
- Three quests a day from a rotating set
- One child
- The badge book
- Tonight's sky
Family
- Every quest and every pack
- New packs and updated quests with every release
- Every child in the household
- Camp packs that work offline
- Sky nudges and share cards
- No ads. No accounts. Cancel any time.
Stays on this phone.
No sign-in. No analytics. No server. Your children's names, ages, notes and photos never leave the phone. Your location is read once, when you ask, and the only thing that goes anywhere is a coordinate to Apple Weather for the forecast. Read the whole policy. It is short.
Phone away. See you outside.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Free to start.