Bottle Bank: Savings for Kids

Bottle Bank turns a bag of empty bottles into something a child can see growing. Scan a bottle's barcode and the deposit lands in the savings jar straight away. No typing, no guessing — the number on screen is a real count of real bottles, which is exactly what makes it worth watching. HOW IT WORKS Tap Scan bottles and hold a barcode up to the camera. Each bottle adds its 25 cent deposit. The scanner stays open, so you can work through a whole bag one bottle after another, and the total climbs as you go. Bottles are grouped by the day you collected them, so a big haul is one tidy line instead of forty. Tap any day to see the individual scans. SET A GOAL WORTH SAVING FOR Pick a target — 40 euros, 60, whatever the thing costs — and a progress bar fills as the deposits add up. When the goal is reached, there's confetti. A WISH LIST FOR BIGGER DREAMS Add the skateboard, the Lego set, the telescope, each with its price and how much it matters. Bottle Bank shows how much is still to go for each one, so a child can see which dream is nearly within reach. MADE FOR CHILDREN No email address. No password to forget. A child picks a name and a four-digit PIN, and that's the whole sign-up. Two children can share one phone, each with their own bottles and their own goals. There is no advertising, nothing to buy inside the app, no chat, no social feed and no links out to the web. Just bottles and savings. WORKS WHEREVER THE BOTTLES ARE Supermarket car parks are not known for good signal. Bottle Bank keeps counting offline and catches up once there's a connection. Sign in on another phone and your bottles come with you. PRIVACY The camera is used only to read the digits of a barcode, in the moment. No photo or video is ever stored or sent anywhere. PINs are stored so that nobody, including us, can read them. Full details: https://bottle-bank-one.vercel.app/privacy Bottle Bank is built for the German deposit system, where most bottles and cans carry a 25 cent Pfand.