Bite of Reality 2

RMJ Foundation

About this app

Credit unions offer reality fairs to teenagers across the country, helping them to understand the need to understand money and budgeting. A reality fair is a fun, hands-on simulation that appeal to teens while giving them a taste of real-world financial realities - giving them a better understanding of the challenges of living on a budget.

This app was developed by the Richard Myles Johnson Foundation.
Funding for this app generously provided by the National Credit Union Foundation.

Ratings and reviews

Completely unbearable. You are forced to make 10 purchases, many of which are unreasonable and can be completely avoided in real life. Every career is pre generated, meaning that if you you choose the same career as someone else, you will have the same wife and child, as well as similar credit score. The app incredibly buggy and poorly designed. The keyboard will just keep popping up when you want to go back. I hope the schools got some kind of grant money for subjecting us to this garbage.

The app and simulation have been extremely well received by students, educators and volunteers. There are some specific ways to move around the app, but when those are known the issues are very few and far between. There needs to be good Wi-Fi, or it slows down during the app exit process. Also of importance is being sure the app will work on specific versions of certain devices: some tablets are older and it doesn't work right. Phones seem fine. I have done 30+ simulations.

I agree with the primitive review. Catered to norms and not reality. Gave me a job I hate, forced me to buy items I didn't need. Literally just picked the cheapest option and moved on. Went to the house station and the lady said "here's the code for a medium house" and I said "I don't want a medium" and she went "so a large" and I said no and looked at the paper, she hid it from me saying I can't see the other options so I walked away but that's the program error not the app

What's new

- updated Illinois CU logo and color
- updated Hiway CU logo and color
- minor bug fixes