Sidekick vs Sundae
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Sundae
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Sidekick | Sundae |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kewei Cao | 飞 徐 |
In-app purchases
Sidekick
- Sidekick Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Sidekick Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Sidekick Premium Lifetime$59.99
Sundae
- Sundae Full$9.99









