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Lickety Split: Visual Timer
Musical countdown for kids
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: routines with Now and Next picture cards, My day plans, your own tasks, songs and recorded prompts, and a profile for each child. Premium adds dinosaurs and Beaty.
Lickety Split is a visual and musical timer for kids that turns everyday routines into a game. Each task has its own classical music, which plays for as long as the task should take and speeds up as time runs out, while an animated character acts out the task and a Time Disc drains.
WHY IT WORKS
"We need to leave in five minutes." That rarely works with a young child: research shows the prefrontal cortex, which handles focus, self-regulation and executive function, is among the last parts of the brain to mature. Music is a way in. A child follows a song long before they can read a clock, so Lickety Split puts the time left into the music. Five minutes becomes something a child can see and hear, and grown-ups get to cheer instead of nag.
TWO KINDS OF TIMER
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: keep going until the music ends.
- Brushing teeth (a full two minutes)
- Taking turns
- Reading time
- Study time
Anything Timer: a song of about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 minutes for anything else.
Your Song, Your Length: time any task with a song from your own music. Its length becomes the timer.
MAKE IT YOUR FAMILY'S
- Your own tasks: "Shoes on" or "Feed the cat", in your words, with a picture, of the length you choose
- Your own prompts: record what the timer says before the song, in your voice
- Your own songs: give any task a song of yours, or one of the app's 15 recordings
- Routines: put tasks in order for the morning or bedtime. A Now and Next card shows what is happening now and what comes next, in the tasks' pictures, like a picture schedule
- Children & profiles: up to six children on one device, each with their own character, routines and progress. No accounts
MY DAY
The win is the child’s own: they beat the music and tap “I Did It!” themselves. Today, a calendar and a Storybook bring routines and plans together. Plan school mornings, change a single day, and look back together in the evening. A family can choose something to try, like patience, and keep a few words, a drawing or a short voice story. Trying counts, on hard days too, with no points or streaks to keep up.
CHARACTERS
Timey the hourglass is free, with 25 rewards. Premium adds a train, a unicorn, a bee, a caterpillar and the dinosaurs, each with short animated stories for both timers, and Music Practice with Beaty: play, sing or clap, and Beaty listens and dances along (needs a microphone; nothing is recorded). Premium is an optional subscription, $2.99 a year in the US, behind a grown-up question.
MADE FOR SMALL HANDS
- A narrator says each task out loud, so a child who can't read yet can use it
- Tap the timer to pause, resume, start over or go home
- Settings hide the Time Disc or the numbers, skip the story intro or voice prompts, and choose what happens when the duck wins
- Changing a timer, opening a link or buying anything asks a grown-up question first
- Works with VoiceOver, Voice Control and Reduce Motion
WHO USES IT
Parents, for morning, bedtime and homework routines. Preschool teachers, for transitions and tidy-up time. Occupational therapists, for everyday skills. Visual timers are a familiar tool for children with autism or ADHD, and in small studies a visible timer lowered children's anxiety and inattention during timed tasks. Lickety Split is for all children.
Spoken prompts in 21 languages, from English and Spanish to Japanese, Hindi and Arabic.
No ads, no tracking and no accounts. Nothing your family makes is sent to us. Timers, music and characters work offline; the app goes online only for purchases, crash reports and optional iCloud.
Made by parents and educational technologists, helping families since 2011.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.swirlystudios.com/privacy
Make everyday routines your family's own.
- Routines: put tasks in order for the morning or bedtime, with a Now and Next picture card between them
- Your own tasks, in your words, with a picture; your own songs for any task; your own voice for the prompt
- My day: plans on a calendar, and a place to look back on the day together
- Children & profiles: up to six children on one device, each with their own picture, character and progress; a Lickety Split file keeps everything safe or moves it to another device, and iCloud sync is optional
- Premium: the dinosaurs play basketball and hatch an egg, and Music Practice with Beaty listens as your child plays, sings or claps
- New celebrations for Timey, a pause that holds everything, and more in Settings
The developer, Swirly Studios LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
- Seller
- Swirly Studios LLC
- Size
- 213 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 20 more
- English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Made for Ages 0–5
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Plus $2.99
- Copyright
- © Swirly Studios LLC