Comparison

Sidekick vs Sundae

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

Head to head
About

Sidekick

This app helps families reduce daily friction by providing visual routines and clear privileges for children. It aims to make routines feel clearer and lighter, assisting kids who struggle with starting, transitions, and follow-through without excessive parental intervention.

Highlights
  • Visual step-by-step routines
  • Clear privilege and limit system
  • Reduces friction for starting tasks
  • Supports multiple child profiles
  • Weekly progress summaries
  • Widgets and Apple Watch support
Features
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Reward cards for kids. Sidekick helps families turn screen time, privileges, treats, and everyday choices into saveable non-cash rewards kids can understand. Kids can save reward cards for later, use minutes or uses responsibly, and build habits around planning instead of asking again and again. Parents keep clear limits without cash payouts, debit cards, points, or bribes. Why families use Sidekick • Reward cards: Save screen time, privileges, and non-cash rewards for later. • Visible limits: Kids can see what they have left before they ask. • Habit-building routines: Connect morning, bedtime, homework, or chores to card rewards when helpful. • Visual schedule support: Clear routine steps help kids know what comes next. • Calmer parenting: Less negotiation, fewer repeated reminders, and more child ownership. Built for real family routines Sidekick works for morning routine, bedtime routine, after-school reset, screen time limits, and task initiation support. Routines can add minutes or uses into a card, so follow-through builds a reward asset kids can manage over time. Families can use Sidekick as a kids reward app, a screen time reward app, or a chores and rewards app when they want clear non-cash reward cards instead of cash, points, debit cards, or banking. This is not a kids banking app, debit card, or cash tracker. Sidekick is a parenting tool for saveable non-cash rewards, visual routines, and clearer family limits. Helpful for kids who get stuck Some kids are not refusing. They are getting stuck. Sidekick supports ADHD and executive function challenges with simple visual steps, flexible recovery, and a quieter way to restart momentum. Built for parents • Individual child profiles • Reward card templates • Routine rewards and progress • Timer support for screen time cards • Widgets and Apple Watch support • Optional cloud sync • PIN and Face ID protections Privacy & Premium Your children's profiles, routines, and history stay on your devices and in your private iCloud. No ads. No tracking. No accounts to create. No data selling. No location or contacts access. Cloud AI suggestions stay off unless you turn them on. Premium expands support with more children, more routines and cards, cloud sync, and extra protections. Questions or feedback: support@sidekickfamily.app https://sidekickfamily.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sundae

Features
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Time you can't see is time you can't feel. Sundae turns it into something you can watch — an ice cream that melts, a candle that burns down, a train that rides home. Start a session, set your phone down, and just glance. MADE FOR TIME BLINDNESS • Every second is visible: the scene is consumed smoothly in real time, on screen and on your Lock Screen • Live Activity + Dynamic Island: the melting sundae stays with you even when the phone is face up on your desk • Start in three seconds: two taps, no setup, no account NO GUILT. EVER. • Step away anytime — your session just naps. Nothing withers, nothing breaks, nothing is lost • Streaks only celebrate. Miss a day and the app simply says nothing • Rest counts: Lounge Mode is an official do-nothing timer. A sun sets over the sea while you lie flat. Finishing a rest keeps your streak alive A FRIEND, NOT A COACH • Pebble the sea otter waits with you, naps with you, and floats in the dessert lake when you finish • Write one thing ("Reply to Sam's email") and the whole app becomes about just that — even on your Lock Screen • Finished time becomes a collection of little dioramas ONE THING A DAY • Tell Sundae what you're working toward, and roughly how you'd get there • Each day it puts a single step on your Lock Screen — tap it and you're focusing • Skip one and it rotates to the next. Nothing is ever overdue, nothing accumulates • Never a list, never a checkbox, never a nag TWELVE SCENES, THREE UNIVERSES • Dessert: Sundae, Popsicle, Hot Cocoa, Cotton Candy • Flame: Candle, Campfire, Sparkler, Firefly Jar • Journey: Night Train, Sailboat, Balloon, Snail SOUND THAT ACTUALLY HELPS • Real rain and ocean recordings, crackling fireplace, summer crickets, brown noise • Gentle music-box chime when you finish — never an alarm PAY ONCE. YOURS FOREVER. • Free: full timer, Pebble, and three scenes • Sundae Full ($9.99, one-time): every scene, Lounge Mode, the full collection • Never a subscription PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works completely offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collected — the app has no networking capability at all

Screenshots

Sidekick4 screens
Sundae4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sundae at every 4 days against Sidekick's every 10 days. Sidekick's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Sidekick sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Sundae sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sidekick ships an update every 10 days, Sundae every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sidekick versus Sundae: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSidekickSundae
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKewei Cao飞 徐

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sidekick

Subscriptions2
  • Sidekick Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Sidekick Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sidekick Premium Lifetime$59.99
1 purchases

Sundae

One-time1
  • Sundae Full$9.99

Questions

Is Sidekick free?
Sidekick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sundae free?
Sundae is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sidekick or Sundae have ads?
Neither Sidekick nor Sundae shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sidekick or Sundae?
Sidekick ships an update every 10 days, and Sundae every 4 days. Most recently, Sidekick was updated on October 14, 2026 and Sundae on October 25, 2026.

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