The Morning Map vs Little Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Morning Map
This app helps children get ready for their day with a fun, visual journey through their routines. It transforms chores into an adventure, allowing kids to track progress without stressful timers. Includes weather guidance and customizable tasks for a smoother morning.
- Visual progress tracking
- Customizable daily routines
- Weather and outfit suggestions
- Celebratory reward videos
- Interactive map themes
- Family-friendly interface
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Getting your children ready in the morning can be a challenge! The Morning Map guides kids through their daily routines in a low-stress, fun way, helping your family leave the house on time. Works great on your personal device, but also consider casting it to your TV. This app transforms a list of chores into a visual journey. Your child follows a character across an exotic landscape as they complete real-world tasks, helping them visualize time and stay on track without the pressure of a ticking clock. Use it on your iPad, or cast it to your TV for a full-family experience. Built for Parents, By Parents: We were tired of the "morning race"—constantly nagging our elementary-aged child to finish their various steps to get ready in the morning, only to end up in a frantic rush to school. We didn't want to enforce stressful countdowns or loud timers, so we turned the morning routine into an adventure. Now we find ourselves using the Morning Map every time we want to leave the house! I'm not going to lie to you: we still have to nag the kid sometimes. However, its a lot less than we had to before! And since we've started using this app ourselves, we haven't been late out the door once. What’s Inside: Full functionality for Free: The app is completely free and functional once you download it, with no trial periods. If you want to tip us, tucked away in the app menu you can find our premium themes for sale, more detail on that below. Visual Time Management: Kids see exactly how much progress they’ve made on their "mission." No stressful countdowns—just a clear visual path to success. Weather Guidance: An info panel on the left provies the time, day's forecast and suggestions on what to wear. Customizable Routines: Easily set up your own tasks—from brushing teeth to packing bags—and adjust the timing to fit your family’s specific schedule. Cinematic Rewards: Every successful routine ends with a celebratory "Mission Complete" video to keep kids motivated for tomorrow! Interactive Themes & Skins: The Morning Map is fully functional for free! Every user gets access to the Classic Jungle Adventure and a special Birthday Map (because we love birthdays!). However, if you want to explore other worlds in the morning, you can unlock premium themes: Dino World: A prehistoric path to school. Lunar Orbit: Even aliens have to get ready. Ocean Deep: Dive into your morning tasks. Fantasy Castle: A royal routine for your little knight or princess. with more to come to celebrate holidays, themes and other occasions of the year (suggestions are welcomed!)
Little Planner
This app simplifies daily routines for children with visual schedules and animated icons. It helps them navigate mornings, bedtimes, and chores with a motivating egg companion that hatches animal friends upon completion. Designed with neurodivergent children in mind.
- Visual schedules for routines
- Animated task icons
- Motivational egg companion
- Hatchable animal friends
- Customizable morning/bedtime routines
- Designed for neurodivergent children
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Visual schedules made simple. Calmer mornings and evenings. Little Planner helps children see what comes next and move through daily routines one clear step at a time. Completing a routine hatches an animal friend, adding a little motivation to everyday tasks. Easily create routines with 2,000+ built-in task icons. Thoughtfully designed with children with ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent needs in mind. From the creators of Little Timer, a visual timer with over 800,000 downloads on the App Store and loved by families and therapists worldwide. Customize visual morning, bedtime, school-day, and chore routines with animated icons. Your kids follow each routine on their own with an egg companion. When a routine is finished, the egg hatches an animal friend to add to their collection — with 24 animals to discover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Little Planner at 14 against The Morning Map's 2. Little Planner also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. The Morning Map sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Little Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Morning Map against 4.9 for Little Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Little Planner has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Morning Map ships an update every 4 weeks, Little Planner every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | The Morning Map | Little Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 300 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobility Tech LLC | Little Labs LLC |
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The Morning Map
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In-app purchases
The Morning Map
- Lunar Adventure$2.99
- Ocean Adventure$2.99
- Fantasy Theme$2.99
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- Dinosaur Adventure$2.99
Little Planner
- Premium — All Animals & Stories$9.99
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