# LIFE/CTRL: Routine Planner — Daily routines in widgets

> Daily routines in widgets (iPhone/iPad app by YUKIYA SHIMODA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifectrl-routine-planner/id6815015986 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YUKIYA SHIMODA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6804373908)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifectrl-routine-planner/id6815015986/reviews.md

## What is LIFE/CTRL?

LIFE/CTRL turns everyday actions into reusable parts that you arrange into a daily template called a LIFE.

Create separate LIFE templates for workdays, days off, night shifts and any other pattern, then assign them to dates in your calendar.

■ Create with CTRL
Answer a few questions and CTRL builds a day from wake-up to sleep. You can also type a request to adjust an existing LIFE, create a part, or add TODO items and alarms.

■ Build reusable parts
Turn brushing your teeth, meals, work, shopping and other activities into timed parts. Choose an icon and colour, then reuse each part across multiple LIFE templates.

■ Arrange your day
Place parts inside blocks such as WAKE, WORK, HOME and SLEEP. Since wake-up starts the day and sleep ends it, schedules that cross midnight, including night shifts, work naturally.

■ Assign LIFE templates to dates
Assign a LIFE to a calendar date to create that day. Keep settings that apply every time separate from changes for one specific date.

■ Run the day from widgets
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the current block and its parts. Mark actions complete without opening the app.

■ TODO items and alarms
Store belongings or steps inside a part as TODO items. Alarms support sound, snooze and vibration-only options.

Available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Spanish.
Free, with no ads or in-app purchases. Your routine data stays on your device and is not sent outside the app.

Alarm features require iOS 26 or later.

## Recent user reviews (3 of 3)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifectrl-routine-planner/id6815015986/reviews.md

### 4/5 — PARTS

*2026-10-02*

細かめに設定したいので、PARTSを一回だけでなく何回もおけるようにしたいです、。LIFEを組み立てている時に時間の変更ができたらなお嬉しいです。

**Developer response:** レビューいただきありがとうございます。

partsに関しては本日のアップデートで対応いたしました。
ぜひ使ってみて下さい！

時間の変更に関しては今しばらくお待ちください。

引き継ぎよろしくお願い致します。

### 5/5 — カレンダーについて

*2026-09-29*

シフト制の仕事をしているため、カレンダーでの表示色を変更できるのが視覚的に分かりやすくて助かります！

(確認不足でしたらすみません)カレンダーを月曜日始まりに変更できるとありがたいです

追記:
カレンダーの曜日変更アップデート本当にありがとうございます🙇‍♀️

ウィジェットやロック画面ですぐに確認できるので忘れ物が減りました！

**Developer response:** レビューいただきありがとうございます。
そちら早急に変更可能にさせていただきます。
次のアップデートをお待ちください。

### 5/5 — 痒いとこに手が届くアプリ

*2026-09-27*

何時に何をやるか、アラーム付きのものを探していました。最初の登録に時間はかかりますが、設定が自由性が高くとても使いやすいです。
またシンプルなデザインもとても好みで、かなり毎日の生活が楽になりそうです。
これからたくさん使ってみようと思います。

**Developer response:** ご使用いただきありがとうございます。
今回のアップデートで初期設定も少し使いやすくなったかと思います。
ぜひアップデートをお願いします。
ご要望などあれば改善しますので、今後とも宜しくお願い致します。

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5 — 2026-10-03

LIFE/CTRL now works with our new app, LIFE/CLCT.
• Link business cards, shop cards, books and tickets you collected in LIFE/CLCT to your PARTS. Choose them from "CLCT" in the PARTS settings
• From "Use in LIFE/CTRL" in LIFE/CLCT, link an object to existing PARTS, make new PARTS, or place them on a date
• Open PARTS on a date's board to see the linked object; tap it to open it in LIFE/CLCT

### 1.4.1 — 2026-10-02

Bug fixes and stability improvements.
• Placing the same part more than once in a day no longer shares its completion, items and alarm. Each extra placement becomes its own copy, numbered within the same block (e.g. Meeting2)
• Fixed a crash when tapping Done twice quickly in a part's settings
• Fixed dates shifting when the iPhone uses a non-Gregorian calendar
• Fixed an old alarm sometimes staying set after quick successive changes

### 1.4 — 2026-09-30

• On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, CTRL now understands your text on the device.
• Dates like "Oct 5", "Friday" or "in 3 days" and requests to remove things now work.
• A new menu: switch each alarm on or off and set its own sound and volume from the alarm list, or pause all alarms at once.
• Resetting now asks for Face ID or your passcode, and you can restore the board from before the reset.
• Choose whether the week starts on Sunday or Monday, right on the calendar.
• The widget can hide finished pieces.
• Other improvements and fixes.

### 1.3 — 2026-09-28

• Added CTRL: answer a few questions to create a new LIFE, or type a request to adjust a LIFE and add parts, TODOs and alarms.
• Opening a date in the calendar now lets you tick off parts and TODOs just like the widget. Tap Edit at the top right to change that date only.
• Navigation is now CALENDAR / LIFE / PARTS / CTRL, starting on the calendar. TODAY opens today's board straight away.
• Tap Select in the calendar to pick several days and place one LIFE on all of them.
• Touch and hold a date in the calendar to empty that day.
• Add parts to a block several at a time: pick them, then tap Add.
• The calendar can now start the week on Monday (Settings › Week starts on), and Settings opens from the calendar too.
• Part settings are saved where you open them: PARTS, a LIFE, or a date.
• Blocks now last until the next block starts; the end time setting has been removed.
• Colours are now traditional Japanese tones: shu, ai, wakatake, yamabuki and edo-murasaki.
• Improved place search, part copying and the in-app guides.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-25

・各画面の「？」から、使い方を順に確認できるようになりました。
・1日の始まりを起床、終わりを睡眠として扱うようになりました。夜勤など、日付をまたぐ生活にも合わせられます。睡眠は翌日の起床までの時間として計算します。
・翌日の起床が睡眠と重なるときは、お知らせを表示します。
・パーツに場所を設定できるようになりました。ウィジェットの「向かう」から、今いる場所からの経路をマップで開けます。
・パーツの中身（TODO）をPARTSから設定すると、すべての日に反映されるようになりました。
・DAYごとにカレンダーでの色を選べるようになりました。DAYの名前の変更もカレンダーに反映されます。
・移動のパーツを追加しました。
・タブバーと引き出しを新しいデザインにしました。

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