Lickety Split vs Animal Card Matching
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lickety Split
This app transforms daily chores into engaging games for children using music and visual timers. It helps motivate kids to complete tasks like getting ready or cleaning up by making time tangible and fun, reducing the need for parental nagging.
- Musical countdown timers
- Animated hourglass visual
- Gamifies daily tasks
- Motivates dawdling children
- Customizable timers with in-app purchase
- Parent and educator developed
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Lickety Split is a visual and musical timer for kids that turns everyday routines into a game. Each task has its own classical music, which plays for as long as the task should take and speeds up as time runs out, while an animated character acts out the task and a Time Disc drains. WHY IT WORKS "We need to leave in five minutes." That rarely works with a young child: research shows the prefrontal cortex, which handles focus, self-regulation and executive function, is among the last parts of the brain to mature. Music is a way in. A child follows a song long before they can read a clock, so Lickety Split puts the time left into the music. Five minutes becomes something a child can see and hear, and grown-ups get to cheer instead of nag. TWO KINDS OF TIMER 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: keep going until the music ends. - Brushing teeth (a full two minutes) - Taking turns - Reading time - Study time Anything Timer: a song of about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 minutes for anything else. Your Song, Your Length: time any task with a song from your own music. Its length becomes the timer. MAKE IT YOUR FAMILY'S - Your own tasks: "Shoes on" or "Feed the cat", in your words, with a picture, of the length you choose - Your own prompts: record what the timer says before the song, in your voice - Your own songs: give any task a song of yours, or one of the app's 15 recordings - Routines: put tasks in order for the morning or bedtime. A Now and Next card shows what is happening now and what comes next, in the tasks' pictures, like a picture schedule - Children & profiles: up to six children on one device, each with their own character, routines and progress. No accounts MY DAY The win is the child’s own: they beat the music and tap “I Did It!” themselves. Today, a calendar and a Storybook bring routines and plans together. Plan school mornings, change a single day, and look back together in the evening. A family can choose something to try, like patience, and keep a few words, a drawing or a short voice story. Trying counts, on hard days too, with no points or streaks to keep up. CHARACTERS Timey the hourglass is free, with 25 rewards. Premium adds a train, a unicorn, a bee, a caterpillar and the dinosaurs, each with short animated stories for both timers, and Music Practice with Beaty: play, sing or clap, and Beaty listens and dances along (needs a microphone; nothing is recorded). Premium is an optional subscription, $2.99 a year in the US, behind a grown-up question. MADE FOR SMALL HANDS - A narrator says each task out loud, so a child who can't read yet can use it - Tap the timer to pause, resume, start over or go home - Settings hide the Time Disc or the numbers, skip the story intro or voice prompts, and choose what happens when the duck wins - Changing a timer, opening a link or buying anything asks a grown-up question first - Works with VoiceOver, Voice Control and Reduce Motion WHO USES IT Parents, for morning, bedtime and homework routines. Preschool teachers, for transitions and tidy-up time. Occupational therapists, for everyday skills. Visual timers are a familiar tool for children with autism or ADHD, and in small studies a visible timer lowered children's anxiety and inattention during timed tasks. Lickety Split is for all children. Spoken prompts in 21 languages, from English and Spanish to Japanese, Hindi and Arabic. No ads, no tracking and no accounts. Nothing your family makes is sent to us. Timers, music and characters work offline; the app goes online only for purchases, crash reports and optional iCloud. Made by parents and educational technologists, helping families since 2011. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.swirlystudios.com/privacy
Animal Card Matching
A matching game designed to help users learn new vocabulary by connecting meaning, sound, and appearance. Developed with input from educators, it offers engaging levels for all ages and supports multiple languages. Enjoy a distraction-free learning experience with no advertisements.
- Vocabulary learning through matching
- Connects meaning, sound, and appearance
- Designed with educators' input
- 30 engaging levels for all ages
- Supports multiple languages
- No advertisements
- Unlockable special background images
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A matching game for learning vocabulary. All generations can enjoy this game! Learning vocabulary requires an understanding of relationship between the 3 aspects of meaning, sound (pronunciation), and appearance (character) that form the basis of vocabulary. You will have fun learning the relationship between these 3 aspects by “matching” which you bump the same object. This game was developed from the request from teachers and parents of kids who attend LITALICO classrooms. Children in our classrooms actually have been playing the game, which helped us make numerous improvements. Now everybody can use this matching game to enjoy learning vocabularies anywhere, at anytime! • NO Advertisements are displayed, so there is no visual destruction and kids can use it safely. • 30 ingeniously designed levels even grownups can enjoy! • The app supports multiple languages. • As a prize for getting the crown on every level, a special background image will appear! 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 rating: Lickety Split at 4.9 against Animal Card Matching's 4.0. Lickety Split also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (28 vs 1). Animal Card Matching's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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
Both are free to download. Lickety Split sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year and Animal Card Matching sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lickety Split holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lickety Split has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Lickety Split's written reviews are positive against 97% of Animal Card Matching's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lickety Split ships an update every 11 days, Animal Card Matching every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lickety Split | Animal Card Matching |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swirly Studios LLC | LITALICO Inc. |
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Lickety Split
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In-app purchases
Lickety Split
- Plus$2.991 Year
Animal Card Matching
- All Levels$0.99
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