Visual musical timer that turns kids' tasks into a fun beat-the-clock game!
About Lickety Split: Musical Timer
Lickety Split: Musical Timer is a parenting app developed by Swirly Studios.
How many times has Lickety Split: Musical Timer been downloaded?
Lickety Split: Musical Timer has been downloaded 130 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 660 times.
What is the rating of Lickety Split: Musical Timer?
Lickety Split: Musical Timer is rated 3.93 out of 5 stars, based on 240 ratings.
Is Lickety Split: Musical Timer free?
Lickety Split: Musical Timer is free to download. The APK download size is 62.98 MB. The latest version available is 5.0.1. The last update was on August 25, 2023.
What are the requirements for Lickety Split: Musical Timer?
Lickety Split: Musical Timer requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2011.
Description
"We need to leave the house in five minutes." "Brush your teeth for two whole minutes." "For the umpteenth time, please pick up your toys."
Sound familiar? Telling a young child they have five minutes rarely works — five minutes feels different every time. So we decided it would be more fun to make it a game.
Lickety Split is the visual musical timer that turns daily tasks into a beat-the-clock adventure, allowing parents to shift from being a child's task-master to instead being their champion.
Choose a task, start the timer, and watch as an animated hourglass counts down while classical music gently — then excitedly — accelerates. Kids feel the urgency without the pressure. When they beat the timer, everyone gets to celebrate. 🎉
Two kinds of timers:
⏱️ Beat the Timer — finish the task before the music and hourglass run out: ⏰ Ready to leave the house (5 minutes) 👕 Getting dressed 🌙 PJs on 🍽️ Getting ready for a meal 🧹 Cleaning up the room 🛏️ Making the bed
⏳ Countdown — turn waiting into a calm, visible experience: 🪥 Brushing teeth (a full two minutes!) 🔄 Taking turns 📚 Study time 📖 Reading time
➕ Custom Time — choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 minutes with a perfectly matched song ready to go. Great for any new task — or for those moments when a parent needs a few minutes before they're free: "Watch the timer and then we'll play together." 🎵 Custom Song — attach any song from your own music library to any task. Because you're choosing a song with its own length, it works as a custom length timer too.
Why it works:
For young children, time is an abstract concept that only makes sense when attached to something tangible. Research shows the prefrontal cortex — responsible for focus, self-regulation, and executive function — is among the last parts of the brain to mature. Lickety Split meets children where they are: the accelerating music and animated hourglass act as a gentle scaffold for attention and transitions, helping children develop a genuine sense of time at their own pace. Especially loved by parents of children with ADHD, autism, and sensory processing differences, where visual timers and clear auditory cues can make an enormous difference for children who experience time blindness or find transitions challenging — though it was designed for all children, and works beautifully for every family.
Used and loved by: 👨👩👧 Families building morning routines, bedtime routines and homework habits 👩🏫 Early childhood educators managing classroom transitions 🧩 Children who benefit from visual and auditory structure 💼 Occupational therapists supporting children's daily living skills 🌍 Available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Chinese
Works fully offline. No ads, no trackers, no personal data collected — everything stays on your device.
Developed by parents and educational technologists, Lickety Split has been helping families build confident, independent children since 2011 — rooted in constructivist education and a genuine belief that children thrive when they feel capable, not pressured. We hope it brings a little more calm, and a lot more cheering, to your family's day.
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Comments on Lickety Split: Musical Timer for Android
★★★★★A Google User· Jun 2, 2012
Fab idea! This game is a wonderful clever and fun way to encourage cleanliness in children. It's also super cute!!
★★★★★Hannah· Jun 27, 2012
Excellent This application is a fun and easy way to get my kids to do their chores. They are always ready to do it. I am very proud of them. When I tell them to do their chores they don't put up a fight. When they are brushing their teeth they love the musical song they play while using the count-down button. When it's time to clean their room they always go straight to it and sometimes finish before time is up. They are always ready to do their chores with the licked split application. I'm proud of them
★★★★☆Ms Kat· Jul 29, 2024
The children absolutely LOVED it, I only used the 1 minute 'challenge' timer and was afraid at first that they won't like the classical music, but I was pleasantly surprised how much it inspired them! Oh, and almost forgot to mention they loved the animated character. P. S. The only problem is that at the end of the timer without the music there's no promised laughing sound on at the end.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Aug 8, 2011
Weak. Options cannot be changed. Times cannot be changed. The annoying music cannot be changed.
★☆☆☆☆Mary Sperry· Nov 16, 2024
It adds extra time to the custom timers, for 1 minute it does 1 minute and 8 seconds, for 2 minutes it does 2 minutes and 48 seconds.
★☆☆☆☆A Google User· Mar 26, 2014
Used to work before Kit Kat update Application won't open / start anymore. Please fix to work with Kit Kat.
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