Kids'Skills App vs Mouse Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kids'Skills App
This app offers parents and professionals practical guidance for addressing common childhood challenges. It provides reliable information and solution-focused strategies to help children overcome difficulties, based on a method developed in Finland.
- Information on common childhood problems
- Practical suggestions for overcoming issues
- Solution-focused method guidance
- Aimed at parents and professionals
- Developed in Finland
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Kids'Skills app is a solution-focused pocket manual aimed at parents as well professionals. It contains reliable information about all common children's problems and diagnoses and practical suggestions of how to help children overcome those problems. Kids'Skills is a solution-focused method for helping children overcome problems that was developed in Finland in the 90s and has since become popular in many countries around the world. More information about Kids'skills can be found at www.kidsskills.org.
Mouse Timer
This app visualizes time with a cute mouse eating apples, making it easier for children to grasp time duration. It functions as both an educational tool and a regular timer for daily use, offering a distraction-free experience.
- Visualized time with a mouse character
- Educational tool for children
- Normal timer for daily life
- Pause and resume functionality
- Notifications when time is up
- Customizable time choices
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Mouse Timer is a cute VISUALIZED TIMER for everyone who wants to measure and/or visualize the time, especially for kids who have hard time understanding the length of time. The app expresses the length of time with a cute little, greedy mouse gnawing on apples! Mouse Timer was developed from the request from teachers and parents of kids who attend LITALICO classrooms. *LITALICO classrooms are run by teachers and professors who specialize in kids development and education. Characteristics of this app: • This timer can be used not only as an educational tool but also as a normal timer for daily life. • You can use it for FREE. • NO Advertisements are displayed so there is no visual destruction and kids can use it safely. Main function: • Alarm can be set only by choosing the displayed time. • Choices of time can be reduced. • You can pause and resume the timer. • This app notifies you when the time comes even when you're not using the app. • White mouse will appear by in-app purchases. Please feel free to notify us! app-support@litalico.co.jp Hope you enjoy our app. Thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mouse Timer at 79% against Kids'Skills App's 0%. Mouse Timer also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (79 vs 1). Kids'Skills App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mouse Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kids'Skills App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mouse Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mouse Timer has 79 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Kids'Skills App's written reviews are positive against 79% of Mouse Timer's.
Kids'Skills App ships an update every 4 months, Mouse Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kids'Skills App | Mouse Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lyhytterapiainstituutti Oy | LITALICO Inc. |
Customer experience
Kids'Skills App
Mouse Timer
Bugs and requests
Kids'Skills App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mouse Timer
Reported bugs
5 issues- No sound on iPhone
- Call sound plays twice
- Notification bug where it won't close
- Timer doesn't start if the app is closed immediately after pressing the button
- App crashes after iOS update
Requested features
14 requests- Customizable time settings
- More preset time options (e.g., 45, 50 minutes)
- Ability to set time in 5-minute increments
- Horizontal screen support
- Option to change mouse color/character
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- Child lock feature
- Web version of the app
- Option to customize apple color or fruit choice
- Skip forward/backward functionality
- Timer continues past 0 to negative numbers
- Add sound for timer completion
- Vibration option for timer completion
- More sound options
- Add a feature for the mouse's belly to grow as it eats
In-app purchases
Kids'Skills App
No in-app purchases
Mouse Timer
- White Mouse$0.99
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