Comparison

Kicks Count vs Bump

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kicks Count

Monitor your baby's movements during pregnancy to ensure their well-being. This app helps you track kicks, identify changes, and provides direct access to contact your midwife or maternity unit.

Highlights
  • Easy to use kick counter
  • 7 and 14-day movement graphs
  • Direct call to midwife/maternity unit
  • Information on baby movements
Features
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Feeling your baby move is a sign they are well. If your baby’s movements change it may be a sign they are in distress and should be reported to a midwife or maternity unit. This App by UK charity Kicks Count helps you keep track of your baby’s movements so you can identify if there is a change. Features: - Easy to use counter - 7 and 14 day graphs to see your baby’s movements at a glance - Call your midwife or maternity unit from the app - Information on babies movements

About

Bump

Monitor your baby's health by tracking kicks during pregnancy. Record sessions, tag activities, and view graphical representations of kick patterns. Customize themes and use the companion watch app for convenience.

Highlights
  • Track baby kicks during sessions
  • Tag kicks with activities
  • View graphical kick patterns
  • Adjustable time blocks for graphs
  • Companion watch app
  • Customizable themes
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Bump is a utility app designed to do one thing: count kicks! This is a great tool to help monitor and track your baby's health. Record kicks during sessions and view graphical representations of your sessions. Tag kicks with what you're doing throughout your session to gain better kicking pattern insights. Viewing sessions can be customized with adjustable blocks of time. Features: - Track baby kicks during sessions. - Sessions can be paused during times when you want the session to be active but you don't want to actively track kicks. - The app can be put in the background or closed during sessions and the session will still continue. - Kicks can be tagged with common activities (e.g. eating, exercising) to help better track baby kick behaviors. - Sessions can last for as many kicks as you want, but will end after 12 total hours. - Sessions can be viewed with a bar graph. Tags can also be viewed in the bar graph. - The graph displays sessions and its kicks in blocks of time. The duration of these blocks of time can be adjusted. A session's time can be broken into 1 up to 24 blocks of time. - Customizable app theme with choices for neutral, girl, and boy themes. - Companion Watch App!

Screenshots

Kicks Count4 screens
Bump4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bump at every 3 weeks against Kicks Count's every 4 months. Kicks Count's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kicks Count ships an update every 4 months, Bump every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Kicks Count versus Bump: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKicks CountBump
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB12 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEL HuttonKurtis Hill

Customer experience

Kicks Count

Written reviews57 reviews
Positive19.3%
Neutral12.3%
Negative68.4%

Bump

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Kicks Count

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Loses logged data
  • Data resets to zero
  • Does not reset for the next day
  • Cannot get introduction to load
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  • Icons won't load
  • Asks to paste from Mail repeatedly
  • Freezes when asking to rate the app
  • Not recording correctly, adding extra sessions
  • Doesn't save data
  • Doesn't keep data even after registration
  • Keeps crashing and resetting count

Requested features

13 requests
  • Track individual baby movements for multiples
  • Show time of day for kicks
  • Compare by time frame
  • Add/edit/delete sessions with timestamps
  • Break down graph by time of day
Show 8 more
  • See time stamps of each session
  • Allow retrospective data entry
  • Auto-save feature
  • More detailed breakdown of hours
  • Graph of kicks over longer periods
  • Option to record 'kick' vs 'movement'
  • Ability to change the time of logged kicks
  • Add a graph showing average times of day

Bump

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kicks Count

No in-app purchases

None

Bump

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kicks Count free?
Kicks Count is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bump free?
Bump is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kicks Count or Bump have ads?
Neither Kicks Count nor Bump shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kicks Count or Bump?
Kicks Count ships an update every 4 months, and Bump every 3 weeks. Most recently, Kicks Count was updated on November 1, 2026 and Bump on September 18, 2026.

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