Comparison

Lickety Split vs Playgroond

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

Head to head
About

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.

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

About

Playgroond

Discover nearby playgrounds with detailed information including age groups, opening hours, and equipment. Contribute to the community by adding new playgrounds to the map.

Highlights
  • Discover nearby playgrounds
  • Detailed playground information
  • Community-created map data
  • Add new playgrounds
  • Guest mode available
Features
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• GIVE IT A TRY • You can enable the guest mode to take a look at the app. • DISCOVERY • Playgroond helps you discover the playgrounds around you. The app locates you on a map and then displays playgrounds surrounding you and the walking time to go to each of them. Detailed information give you the age group, opening hours, equipments, rate, photos, etc. • COMMUNITY • All playgrounds that you see on the map have been created by one of our awesome Playgroond community user. We don't rely on a random database found on Internet to fill the map. In this way, the data quality is at the highest. • PLAY THE GAME • If you know or notice a playground that is not yet on the map, add it so that the other users can discover it too and enjoy with their kids. • 4 000 PLAYGROUNDS • It's not much but it's just the beginning! --- Before giving us a bad rating, test our reactivity and give us a chance to quickly resolve your problem, nobody is perfect :-) • If you found a bug on the app, thanks to contact us here: https://www.playgroond.fr/company/bug • If you want to suggest an enhancement, you can propose it here: https://www.playgroond.fr/company/suggest • For any other inquiry, contact us here: https://www.playgroond.fr/company/contact-us PS- Website is still in French for the moment but it will be translated very soon

Screenshots

Lickety Split4 screens
Playgroond4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Playgroond at none against Lickety Split's 1. Playgroond also leads on review sentiment (98% vs 69%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Lickety Split's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lickety Split sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Playgroond asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Playgroond holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lickety Split has 28 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Lickety Split's written reviews are positive against 98% of Playgroond's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lickety Split ships an update every 11 days, Playgroond every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lickety Split versus Playgroond: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLickety SplitPlaygroond
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (28 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.6% of reviews97.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwirly Studios LLCAntoine Durand

Customer experience

Lickety Split

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive68.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative25.7%

Playgroond

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lickety Split

One-time1
  • Full Upgrade$1.99
None

Playgroond

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lickety Split free?
Lickety Split is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Playgroond free?
Playgroond is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lickety Split or Playgroond?
Playgroond is rated higher. Lickety Split averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Playgroond averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Lickety Split or Playgroond have ads?
Neither Lickety Split nor Playgroond shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lickety Split or Playgroond?
Lickety Split ships an update every 11 days, and Playgroond every 2 weeks. Most recently, Lickety Split was updated on October 26, 2026 and Playgroond on October 24, 2026.

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