# Chronicling: Life Tracker — Habit, Chore & Symptom Log

> Flexible habit, health, and daily life tracker with customizable logging and insights. (iPhone/iPad app by Rebecca Owen.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronicling-life-tracker/id6445992145 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rebecca Owen](https://appshunter.io/developer/1675314775)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 184 App Store ratings · 58 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.4 · 95 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2023-07-07
- Data updated: 2026-10-04
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronicling-life-tracker/id6445992145/reviews.md

## What is Chronicling?

Log habits, chores and symptoms the moment they happen. Chronicling shows you how often, what time of day and how long it's been, with no streaks to protect and no guilt when life gets in the way.

Some things happen every day, like coffee, a walk or your medication. Others come and go: changing the bed sheets, a headache, calling home. Chronicling handles both, so everything you want to keep an eye on lives in one place.

LOG IT IN A TAP
- Add events from widgets, Control Center, the Lock Screen, Siri and Shortcuts
- Record a number or a note too, such as cups, kilometers, pages or how you felt
- Automate logging with Shortcuts, from workouts to arriving home

SEE HOW OFTEN, AND WHEN
- Time since last, average gap and longest gap for every category
- Heatmaps, charts and trends over weeks, months and years
- Spot patterns by weekday and time of day
- An annual Wrapped to look back on your year

GENTLE REMINDERS
- Get a nudge when it's been too long, or if you haven't logged something by a set time

YOUR CATEGORIES, YOUR WAY
- Create your own categories with emoji or symbols and your own colors
- Organize them into groups and filter by Focus
- Choose the period each category's stats cover

ON ALL YOUR DEVICES
- iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro
- Private iCloud sync between your devices
- Export to CSV or a single-file backup at any time. Your data is yours

"If you're looking for a flexible approach to tracking events in your life and want to try an app with an excellent, modern design that supports the latest iOS and iPadOS technologies, be sure to give Chronicling a try." - MacStories

If you have questions, suggestions or any other feedback, please contact me at support@chroniclingapp.com.

Subscriptions to Chronicling Premium will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see https://chroniclingapp.com/terms-of-use/ and https://chroniclingapp.com/privacy-policy/.

## Key features

- All-in-one habit and health tracking
- Fully customizable categories
- Fast and effortless logging
- Smart reminders for goals
- Detailed data logging (notes, numbers)
- Visual insights and trends
- Private and secure iCloud sync

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Monthly | $0.99 | per month |
| Premium Annual | $9.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Lifetime | $39.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 58)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chronicling-life-tracker/id6445992145/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Amazing developer

*2026-10-03*

This app is helping me get a handle on some of my periodic chores that don’t quite need a formal repeating OmniFocus task. 

It’s also helping me track sporadic but important things like when one of my cats throw up.

I can quickly drill down into the events and do trend analysis. All with the ability to integrate automations via shortcuts. I put a few NFC tags in my house and I can log events just by tapping my phone. That kind of stuff.

The developer is super responsive and even deployed a feature suggestion literally a few days after I sent an email. WOW.

### 3/5 — Decent app, meh price

*2026-06-07*

I have no doubt the craft that goes into the app takes real effort. There is real love in here. 

Having said that. This is a 40 dollar habit tracker. Does it earn the price? Less confident. 

The marketing is cute, but ultimately this is a database logging tool with extremely basic visualizations. Sync/export is solid. Do your own research, as the sales funnel does not have a viable free edition or low cost option. 

I myself use it though. 

Pricing 1/5, Features 3.5/5, UI polish 5/5, UX 4/5. Multi-device is great. 

Better visualizations, better logging options, would bump up feature/UX rating more. Pricing is industry, despite indie dev framing.

### 5/5 — Simple but powerful!

*2026-03-31, version 1.8.6*

I was looking for an app where I could track whatever I wanted by just tapping a button as many times as I want — I looked for SO LONG, tried so many apps, but none were as simple and customizable as this! Other apps were either inflated with features, required more than one tap to log, did not have widgets, or didn’t have the ability for multiple entries. 

I really like Chronicling because of its simplicity — it’s not inflated with features and requires very minimal effort to add an entry once you’ve set up the categories you want to track. I really like that you can group your categories too. After setting those up, you just tap on the icon and it logs the time and date immediately (down to the second!) without any other work necessary. There is the option to add notes if you like but if you want anything further than that then you might be better off with a journaling app instead. 

I’ll list my pros, cons, and suggestions below!

FYI, I paid for the full version! I only used the app for a day before I decided to buy because I knew it was everything I needed and I’d definitely need more than the free three categories. But I do think you can use the free version of this app without running into problems if you’re more of a light user!

PROS:
- One tap logging — tracks the date and time (can add additional notes if needed)
- Multiple entries allowed
- Categories can be color-coded and organized into groups 
- Option to backdate or postdate entries
- Option to import/export data as a CSV
- Heatmap-style charts
- Modern UI and interactive widgets
- “Go to” date option, entries are searchable and can be filtered
- No AI! (If there are AI options, I haven’t gone looking for them and I can’t thank the app’s creator enough for not shoving it down our throat — thank you Rebecca!!!)

CONS:
- Limit to unique titles — duplicate titles are not allowed, even if they are in different groups. This was common in other apps I tried though!
- Does not backup to iCloud so you cannot use across devices. If you want to track on a separate device, the data set is not shared — you will have to create everything again. There are options for an Apple Watch but I don’t own one so I can’t comment. I mostly want to be able to move between my iPhone and iPad. 

SUGGESTIONS:
- iCloud backup — I really want the ability to access my entries across devices!
- Collaborative tracking — it would be nice if others could be added to a category/group so they could add entries to the data set as well.
- Grid view — right now the categories and events show up as an interactive list on the main page. It would be really nice to have an interactive grid of icons with the event’s title, like a button grid.
- “Events view” details — currently, the events view shows a list of times and is denoted by the category’s icon. If you use the same icon for multiple categories, it’s difficult to know which entries you’re looking at without tapping into the entry completely. In the same way you can see notes in this view, I think it would be helpful to also see the category title!

### 5/5 — Widget provides great Motivation

*2026-03-12*

While this didn’t do what I wanted out of the box it is customizable enough that I could get it to work how I expected and the widget showing me progress for exercising has been a great motivator to keep filling in the dots each day.

### 5/5 — Excellent tracker

*2026-02-18*

Does everything one would want it to

### 5/5 — Beautiful

*2026-02-02, version 1.8.4*

Great UI and UX design. Really appreciate the Watch complication too

### 5/5 — Simple but powerful

*2026-01-17*

This app is gorgeous and incredibly well designed. The event visualizations, in particular, look fantastic. It is simple yet powerful and it has become one of my new favorites. I also love that it’s private and ad free. I highly recommend this app to anyone looking for a great habit tracker, or simply wanting to keep track of chores (or anything, really).

### 5/5 — Stunning!

*2026-01-11, version 1.8.3*

Has proved instrumental in tracking my chronic illness symptoms. So logical and visually obvious. The best pacing solution I have found to date. Thanks!

### 5/5 — Organizing my life beautifully

*2025-11-05*

I am insistent in my need to organize and systemize whatever I can in my life to provide some calm in my day to day. I have used many apps to track my workouts, how often I meditate, when I read, and many other daily and weekly occurrences, but Chronicling is by far the most intuitive, polished, and effective I’ve used. Highly recommend for anyone looking to provide some structure in their life.

### 5/5 — Fantastic!

*2025-11-03, version 1.6.5*

Brilliant app.  I was looking for something simple to track my migraine frequency and plot on time graphs.  This does it perfectly, so simple.  The dedicated migraine apps were all crazily over-complicated!

## Frequently asked questions about Chronicling

### What does Chronicling do?

Chronicling is a flexible app designed to help you track your habits, routines, mood, health metrics, medications, and other aspects of your daily life. It aims to help you identify patterns and stay consistent with your goals through customizable logging and insightful data visualization.

### What are the key features of Chronicling?

Key features include all-in-one tracking for various life aspects, fully customizable categories with custom icons and colors, fast logging via widgets and shortcuts, smart reminders, detailed data logging (notes and numbers), clear charts and statistics for insights, private iCloud sync, and data export options.

### How much does Chronicling cost?

The app offers a freemium model. While there is a free version, a subscription to Chronicling Premium unlocks additional features. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

### What devices is Chronicling compatible with?

The app is built to support the latest iOS and iPadOS technologies, indicating compatibility with iPhones and iPads running recent versions of these operating systems. It also offers seamless syncing across devices using iCloud.

### What are common use cases for Chronicling?

Common use cases include tracking daily habits like exercise or meditation, monitoring health symptoms and medication intake, logging mood changes, recording workout details, and generally keeping a comprehensive daily log to understand personal trends and improve well-being.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.4 — 2026-10-03

Minor bugfixes and improvements

### 2.0.3 — 2026-10-02

This minor update contains the following fixes and improvements:
- Filter by notes: narrow a category's charts and stats to matching events
- Edit events in bulk: select and delete multiple events from a category's full event list
- iPad and Mac: new menu bar with keyboard shortcuts
- Siri and Shortcuts: more reliable, with spoken answers and new phrases
- Various minor fixes, including for a crash seen on macOS
- VoiceOver improvements

### 2.0.2 — 2026-09-25

This minor update fixes the "lollipop" chart annotation for recent yearly trends in the group view.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-09-18

Chronicling v2.0.1 contains minor fixes, following v2.0 with many new features across the app:
- Redesigned category pages, with gaps between events, comparisons with past weeks, months, and years, time-of-day charts, and lifetime stats
- Group insights, with combined stats for an entire group
- More widgets: category widgets are now available in large and extra-large sizes, plus there’s a new group widget
- Time between events displayed in your event lists
- Manual ordering for categories
- Improved Spotlight search for categories, events, and groups
- A fresh look, improved accessibility, and lots of fixes

### 2.0.0 — 2026-09-18

Chronicling 2.0 brings a number of improvements across the app:
- Redesigned category pages, with gaps between events, comparisons with past weeks, months and years, time-of-day charts and lifetime stats
- Group insights, with combined stats for an entire group
- More widgets: category widgets are now available in large and extra-large sizes, plus there’s a new group widget
- Time between events displayed in your event lists
- Manual ordering for categories
- Improved Spotlight search for categories, events and groups
- A fresh look, improved accessibility and lots of fixes

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