Bank-See

Overview

Bank-See teaches teens (13 to 18) money, banking, credit, taxes and investing through short missions. Each one opens on a real-number reveal. Your $1,000 in savings earns about $4 a year; lent out for a year at an average car-loan rate, the same $1,000 brings the bank about $75. Then comes a quick lesson and a five-question quiz.

Lessons are written for your topic, level and age, and a retake gets different questions. A dashboard shows what you've cleared, your streak and what to try next. The site never asks for an email, a real name or payment details. Your account is a random ID in a browser cookie - clear it and the link to you is gone.

It is free, with no ads and no paid tier planned.

Why I built it

Most teens get no real money education. School skips it, parents wing it, and the institutions that profit from the gap count on that. I built Bank-See with Xavier Caceres to show the move instead of lecturing about it: one mechanism, real numbers, something you can check in your own bank's app. The tradeoff is the voice. It is blunt about banks on purpose, because a lecture loses a 15-year-old in seconds.

How it works

1. Pick a topic - eight categories, each with five levels from starter up. 2. See the trick - the mission opens on one mechanism in real numbers, with a diagram, and promises about 90 seconds. 3. Read the short lesson - written for your level and age, in plain words. 4. Take the five-question quiz - the close names the belief a wrong answer revealed, and blames the institution, not you. 5. Send it to a friend - a share link opens the reveal with no sign-up.

Feature highlights

• Real-number reveals - every category opens on a sourced figure and a diagram of who keeps the money.
• Lessons pitched to you - written for your topic, level and age, with new questions on a retake.
• Wrong answers get read - the mission close names the false belief a miss revealed instead of just scoring it.
• A dashboard that tells the truth - what you've cleared, your streak and what to do next, with no guilt trip when you come back.
• Almost nothing to know about you - no email, no real name, no payment info; your account is a random ID in a cookie.
• Share a reveal - a friend opens the trick you just learned without making an account.

Pricing

Free. No paid tiers, subscriptions, in-app purchases, ads or affiliate links.

Notes

• For whom: Teens 13 to 18 in the United States. Pick "12 or younger" and it tells you to come back at 13.
• Privacy: No email, real name or payment info is collected. Analytics get usage events plus your age, grade and chosen topics, with no session replay. The service that writes lessons gets the topic, level, your age and which topics you've mastered - never your display name or your answers.
• Not advice: Bank-See is general money education. It does not know your finances and does not give personal financial, investment or tax advice.