Somehow

Age rating

Somehow is rated 4+. It is a household chore app written for adults, and there is nothing in it a child could come to harm on.

Last updated 26 August 2026


What is not in it

The categories an age rating asks about, and where Somehow sits on each. None of these is a setting that can be turned on later — they are absent from the app.

Violence, sexual content, profanity, horrorNone. The app's vocabulary is chores.
Gambling, contests, loot boxesNone. Nothing is random and nothing is won.
Alcohol, tobacco, drugsNot referenced. Household cleaning products are, and they are named generically — "all-purpose cleaner", "glass cleaner". The app also carries a plain safety line telling you never to mix bleach with another cleaner.
Web browsingNone. There is no browser, no web view, and no link that opens one.
Messaging, chat, or other usersNone. There are no accounts and no other users, so there is nobody for a child to be contacted by.
User-generated content shared anywhereNone. What you write stays on the phone. There is nowhere to post it.
AdvertisingNone, of any kind, including our own.
LocationNever requested. Photos have their location data stripped as they are taken.
Medical or treatment claimsNone. Somehow helps you start a chore. It does not diagnose, treat, or advise on anything.

The three things worth knowing

There is a tip jar, and it takes real money

It lives in Settings, it is the only purchase in the app, and it buys nothing — no feature unlocks, and the app behaves identically whether or not anyone ever taps it. Payment is handled entirely by Apple. If a child uses this phone, Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → iTunes & App Store Purchases turns in-app purchases off at the system level, which turns this off too.

The camera can be used, and the photos stay put

Somehow can take a photo of a room so you can see how it looks now. Those photos are written to the app's own storage: not the camera roll, not a server, not anywhere they can be shared from inside the app. Somehow never asks to read your photo library and cannot see what is already in it. Taking a photo is always optional, and the offer can be turned off permanently in Settings.

Crash reports leave the phone

If the app fails, a technical report goes to a service that collects crash data for us. It carries the error and where in the code it happened — no name, no email, no account, and nothing anyone typed or photographed. It is the one thing that leaves the device, and the privacy policy describes it in full.

Is it a children's app?

No, and it is not submitted to the Kids Category. It is written for adults who find starting a chore hard — the reading level is deliberately plain, but the subject is running a household.

A child using it would find a list of rooms and a suggestion to wipe a counter. Nothing in it collects anything about them, because it collects nothing about anybody. If a family wants to use it together, that works — there is simply no feature designed for it.

If this page is out of date

The date at the top moves when the page does. If a future version of Somehow adds anything that changes the answers above, the rating is re-submitted and this page is rewritten before that version ships — not after.

Questions, or something here that does not match what you found in the app: somehow@olddognewflex.com.