Comparison

Potty Time with Elmo vs Potty Toilet Training

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

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About

Potty Time with Elmo

This app uses an animated storybook, songs, and games featuring Elmo to help young children transition from diapers to underwear. It includes a progress chart to track potty training milestones and offers helpful tips for parents.

Highlights
  • Animated storybook narrated by Elmo
  • Five fun potty-time songs
  • Potty progress chart with stickers
  • Three engaging preschool games
  • Two reading modes
  • Parental training tips
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Elmo reads this animated storybook in an app filled with games, songs, stickers and a potty progress chart that all help ease your child through toilet training. When it’s time to potty train your little one, Elmo leads the way! The Potty Time with Elmo app is a fun way to transition from diapers to big-kid underpants. Developed for children ready to potty train, this charming app features everyone’s favorite furry red monster, Elmo, helping his toy Baby David learn to use the potty. Also included are three playful games: • A preschooler-friendly running game • Jigsaw puzzles • a bubble-popping counting game With familiar tunes and instructive, easy-to-sing lyrics, five songs provide a super fun way to learn good bathroom habits. • When It’s Potty Time, You Feel It • I Am Waiting on the Potty • Flush Goes the Potty • I Wash, Wash, Wash My Hands • Boom, Boom, Ain’t It Great to Be a Big Kid Tap around to see two hidden animations on each story page – finding them earns a sticker for the potty chart! You can track potty progress with the chart: Go, Wipe, Flush, and Wash. The Potty Time with Elmo app will engage, encourage, and delight even the youngest kids. Learn the basics of potty use by listening to the story and interacting with it and wait for the giggles to start! FEATURES • Narrated by Elmo! • 5 fun-to-sing potty-time songs • 15 animated stickers for use in the Potty Chart • Potty Chart to track your child’s progress • 5 potty-themed jigsaw puzzles • Helpful training tips for parents of would-be potty-goers • 2 reading modes to choose from: • “Listen & Play” mode, which lets you hear the story read aloud; find stickers, sounds, and songs; and turn the pages • “Read & Play” mode, which lets you read the story yourself OR tap text to hear it read by Elmo ABOUT US Sesame Workshop’s mission is to use the educational power of media to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Delivered through a variety of platforms, including television programs, digital experiences, books and community engagement, its research-based programs are tailored to the needs of the communities and countries they serve. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org. PRIVACY POLICY The Privacy Policy can be found here: https://sesameworkshop.org/about-us/legal/privacy-policy/ CONTACT US Your input is very important to us. If you have any questions, comments, or need help, please contact us at: sesameworkshopapps@sesame.org.

About

Potty Toilet Training

This app motivates children to use the potty with fun stickers and engaging games. It offers customizable reminders, allows tracking of various potty activities, and supports multiple children with iCloud backup and sharing features for parents.

Highlights
  • Colorful stickers for potty success
  • Customizable potty visit reminders
  • Interactive memory game
  • Support for multiple children
  • iCloud backup and synchronization
  • Tracking of potty activities (wee, poo, accident)
  • Parental sharing of child data
Features
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Help your child to use the potty with this fun app! ** This app successfully helped to potty train hundreds of kids in the past 12 months ** HIGHLIGHTS: • Get a colorful sticker after each visit to the potty • Set reminders for the next potty visits • Play a little memory game while on the potty • Add multiple children • Backup the data in iCloud (potty events are synchronized across all your devices) • Add potty activities (wee, poo, nothing, accident) • Share children with other iCloud users: both parents can contribute! PARENTS REVIEWS: • "Love this app got my son (3) and daughter (2) potty trained within days!" • "This has really motivated my son to use the potty. There aren't many apps that provide stickers and allow you to change the timer frequency. This has helped me to remind him to use the potty." • "This app did wonders to my sons Tim (2) and Rob (3). Collecting stickers has turned using a potty activity to joy instead of the usual tears and screams." WHY DO TODDLERS AND PARENTS LOVE THIS APP? • Fun stickers • No Ads • Reminders • Easy and convenient • Automatic backup • Sharing with the other parent ABOUT POTTY TRAINING TIME: Sometimes toddlers need a little motivation for taking the leap from diapers to the big-kid potty chair. Potty Training Time contains some creative ideas for fun and effective potty training. After each successful trip to the bathroom, toddlers can log their potty activity and discover a new colorful sticker on their own chart. Please send an email to ios.appfrancois@gmail.com for any bug report or feature request.

Screenshots

Potty Time with Elmo4 screens
Potty Toilet Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Potty Toilet Training at 4.4 against Potty Time with Elmo's 3.4. Potty Toilet Training also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 64). Potty Time with Elmo's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Potty Time with Elmo costs $2.99 and Potty Toilet Training $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Potty Toilet Training holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potty Toilet Training has 1.3K ratings behind it against 64, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Potty Time with Elmo's written reviews are positive against 44% of Potty Toilet Training's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Potty Time with Elmo ships an update every 19 months, Potty Toilet Training every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Potty Time with Elmo versus Potty Toilet Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotty Time with ElmoPotty Toilet Training
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.4 (64 ratings)4.4 (1.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.0% of reviews44.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings641.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSesame Workshop (Apps)Francois Duchemin

Customer experience

Potty Time with Elmo

All ratings64 ratings
Positive53.1%
Neutral14.1%
Negative32.8%
Written reviews136 reviews
Positive36.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative59.6%

Potty Toilet Training

All ratings1,281 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral6.9%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive44.0%
Neutral14.3%
Negative41.7%

User reviews

Potty Time with Elmo

From 64 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging and fun for potty training
  • 💡 Helpful reward chart to reinforce progress
  • 👍 Good for both toddlers and older kids

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sound issues (no sound, muted, or poor quality)
  • 👎 Lack of Elmo's voice/singing
  • 👎 Boring/repetitive content
  • 👎 Not worth the cost

Potty Toilet Training

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💕 Love this app
  • 👍 Great for parents
  • 🎨 Stickers are fun
  • 🔔 Helpful reminders
  • 📈 Tracks progress well

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Sharing with spouse is impossible
  • 🔔 Reminders don't work consistently
  • 🎨 Stickers are boring for kids
  • 🕰️ No custom reminder schedules
  • 🧭 No data visualization/charts

Bugs and requests

Potty Time with Elmo

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sound not working
  • App crashing or not loading properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • More interactive features and animations
  • Option for boy and girl characters
  • Ability to reset/customize reward chart
  • More songs and games

Potty Toilet Training

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Reminder sounds don't work
  • App crashes after updates
  • Event logs don't update properly
  • Reminders keep going off even when disabled

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow sharing with multiple caregivers
  • Add more vibrant and engaging stickers
  • Provide options to customize reminder schedules
  • Implement data visualization and charting features
  • Add more game/activity options for kids

In-app purchases

None

Potty Time with Elmo

No in-app purchases

None

Potty Toilet Training

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Potty Time with Elmo free?
Potty Time with Elmo costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potty Toilet Training free?
Potty Toilet Training costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Potty Time with Elmo or Potty Toilet Training?
Potty Toilet Training is rated higher. Potty Time with Elmo averages 3.4 out of 5 from 64 ratings, while Potty Toilet Training averages 4.4 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Potty Time with Elmo or Potty Toilet Training have ads?
Neither Potty Time with Elmo nor Potty Toilet Training shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Potty Time with Elmo or Potty Toilet Training?
Potty Time with Elmo ships an update every 19 months, and Potty Toilet Training every 3 months. Most recently, Potty Time with Elmo was updated on September 23, 2026 and Potty Toilet Training on September 22, 2026.

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