# Lickety Split: Musical Timer — Visual musical timer for kids

> Musical timer app to gamify children's daily tasks and transitions. (iPhone/iPad app by Swirly Studios LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lickety-split-musical-timer/id455790177 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Swirly Studios LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/439564834)
- Category: Education, Games, Family, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.90/5 from 26 App Store ratings · 35 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 155 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, European Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 1 more
- Released: 2011-08-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-18
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lickety-split-musical-timer/id455790177/reviews.md

## What is Lickety Split?

"We need to leave the house in five minutes." "Brush your teeth for two whole minutes." "For the umpteenth time, please pick up your toys."

Sound familiar? Telling a young child they have five minutes rarely works: five minutes feels different every time. So we made it a game.

Lickety Split is the visual musical timer that turns daily tasks into a beat-the-clock adventure, so parents can be their child's champion instead of their task-master. Choose a task and start the timer. Classical music plays for exactly as long as the task should take, gently and then excitedly speeding up, while an animated character acts out the task and a Time Disc drains as time runs out. Kids feel the urgency without the pressure. When they beat the timer, everyone celebrates.

Two kinds of timers:

Beat the Timer: finish before the music runs out.
- Ready to leave the house (5 minutes)
- Getting dressed
- PJs on
- Getting ready for a meal
- Cleaning up the room
- Making the bed

Count Down: turn waiting into a calm, visible experience.
- Brushing teeth (a full two minutes)
- Taking turns
- Study time
- Reading time

Anything Timer: choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 minutes, each with its own perfectly matched song. Great for any new task, or for "Watch the timer and then we'll play together."

Your Song, Your Length: time any task with a song from your own music.

Timey the hourglass is free, with 18 different rewards. Premium adds four more characters, a train, a unicorn, a bee and a caterpillar, each with its own short animated stories for both kinds of timer. Premium is an optional yearly subscription ($1.99 a year in the US), behind a grown-up question.

Made for small hands and busy grown-ups:
- Tap the timer to pause; resume, start over or go home
- Settings to hide the Time Disc or the numbers, skip the story intro or voice prompts, and choose what happens when time runs out
- Anything that changes how a timer works, opens a link or involves a purchase asks a grown-up question first

Why it works:

For young children, time is an abstract idea that only makes sense when it is attached to something they can see and hear. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for focus, self-regulation and executive function, is among the last parts of the brain to mature. Lickety Split meets children where they are: the accelerating music, the animation and the Time Disc act as a gentle scaffold for attention and transitions, helping children build a real sense of time at their own pace. Especially loved by parents of children with ADHD, autism and sensory processing differences, for whom visual timers and clear sound cues can make an enormous difference with time blindness and transitions. It was designed for all children, and works beautifully for every family.

Used and loved by:
- Families building morning routines, bedtime routines and homework habits
- Early childhood educators managing classroom transitions
- Occupational therapists supporting children's daily living skills

Available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Timers and music work fully offline. No ads, no tracking and no personal information collected: the app goes online only to verify purchases and send anonymous crash reports.

Developed by parents and educational technologists, Lickety Split has been helping families raise confident, independent children since 2011. We hope it brings a little more calm, and a lot more cheering, to your family's day.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.swirlystudios.com/privacy

## Key features

- Musical countdown timers
- Animated hourglass visual
- Gamifies daily tasks
- Motivates dawdling children
- Customizable timers with in-app purchase
- Parent and educator developed

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Upgrade | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is Lickety Split safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Lickety Split.

## Is Lickety Split legit?

Lickety Split: Musical Timer appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lickety Split is 90 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (10 of 35)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lickety-split-musical-timer/id455790177/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Love this app

*2026-05-10, version 5.0.2*

We have used this almost every day since our little was two years old. He’s five now and still uses jt to get dressed and brush his teeth. Super fun music, we love the different languages, the best!

### 5/5 — Brilliant

*2024-05-18, version 4.0.5*

Works every time! Tidying up and brushing teeth are the ones we use the most. Highly recommend!

### 5/5 — Love this app!

*2022-12-14*

We have been using this app for the last 5 years and it’s so wonderful! My kids love it, I love it, and it is incredibly motivating for them. ♥️ we use it in conjunction with other motivational tools to help my ADHD kiddos complete their daily tasks. ♥️ highly recommend! We use it every day.

### 5/5 — Amazing App

*2022-10-31*

The kids love it! My littlest one has adhd and this keeps her focused. I don't know what I'd do without it.

### 5/5 — For kids and adults

*2022-06-17*

Bought this when the kids were little to motivate them. Worked great!!!  The kids are now 9 & 14 I’m 56. We all participate and make it fun for the entire family. 

Must have for kids. Highly recommend it.  There is some kind of Nuro Assocation that the kids have with it that even if they don’t feel like putting their PJs on they do it anyway.  Whatever the tasks it’s brilliant!!!

### 5/5 — Lickety slipit

*2021-12-17*

I love this app I am still a kid but it helps me so much!

### 1/5 — I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!

*2021-12-09, version 4.0.5*

I hate this app. I got it about 4 years ago, the first year it was working fine and looked great. BUT after the year I had to update the app to continue using it. I updated it and then IT LOOKED HORRENDOUSLY TRASH! I hate the new version! GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK OR ELSE!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

### 5/5 — Best app ever it has saved my life

*2021-12-03, version 4.0.5*

Thank you for creating this app it has cut down a lot of time and tantrums in my household

### 5/5 — Only thing that motivates my kids

*2021-11-23*

I can’t believe after a couple years there are only 9 reviews! We’ll here is # 10: I LOVE this timer. Yelling at my kids doesn’t work, but for some reason, Lickety Split Timer does. My daughter loves how there is a visual surprise reward if they beat the timer, I love the music. It’s just hands down the best timer for kids.

### 5/5 — Excellent motivator

*2020-05-11*

Fun, easy to use

## Frequently asked questions about Lickety Split

### What does Lickety Split do?

Lickety Split is a musical timer app designed to make daily tasks and transitions fun for children. It uses accelerating classical music and an animated hourglass to encourage kids to complete activities like getting ready, cleaning, or brushing their teeth within a set time.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include built-in musical timers for common tasks, an animated hourglass for visual time tracking, and a gamified approach to encourage children. An in-app purchase allows for additional custom timers and the ability to use personal music selections.

### How much does Lickety Split cost?

The app is free to download and use with its standard timers. There is an optional in-app purchase that unlocks additional features, such as creating custom timers of any length and selecting songs from your own library.

### What age group is Lickety Split for?

This app is ideal for preschoolers and early elementary school-aged children. It's developed by parents and educational technologists to help children aged roughly 3-8 years old manage their time and transitions more effectively.

### How can this app help with daily routines?

The app helps by turning potentially tedious tasks into engaging games. By using music and visual cues, it motivates children to complete routines like getting dressed, cleaning their room, or preparing for meals without constant parental reminders, making transitions smoother.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.1.0 — 2026-10-17

A new version of Lickety Split.

- Four new characters in Premium: a train, a unicorn, a bee and a caterpillar, each with its own animated stories
- A Time Disc that shows how much time is left
- Tap the timer to pause, start over or go home
- New Settings for grown-ups: hide the Time Disc or the numbers, skip the story intro or voice prompts, and choose what happens when time runs out

### 5.0.2 — 2026-05-05

fix mute bug

### 5.0.1 — 2026-05-04

Main Menu Rework

### 5.0.0 — 2026-04-30

Remove Angular

### 4.0.5 — 2020-02-02

improve translations across languages

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