Hourglass vs Life Tally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hourglass
A minimalistic countdown clock app designed for iPhone. It offers a clean interface with a visual progress indicator and supports multiple time units. Easily share countdowns and receive notifications when events conclude.
- Minimalistic design
- Multiple time units
- Visual progress indicator
- Unlimited countdowns
- Sharable content
- Push notifications
- Notification Center widget
- Apple Watch compatibility
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When time doesn't fly, countdown in style with Hourglass. Hourglass is a minimalistic countdown clock for iPhone. It's simplistic, easy to use, and has a beautiful design. Features: - Beautiful, Minimal Design: The flagship feature of Hourglass is its incredible design. The sleek, black background blends seamlessly with the device bezel. No complicated features or in-app purchases, just a clear design with easily readable text. - Multiple Time Units: Simply tap the time remaining to switch between seconds, minutes, hours, and days. - Visual Progress Indicator: The beautiful blue ring surrounding the time indicates the progress of the time remaining to an event. - Unlimited Countdowns: Countdown to as many events as your heart desires. Simply swipe left or right to switch countdowns, and get an overview of all your countdowns by going back to the Countdowns list - Sharable Content: Easily E-mail, Text, or Tweet the time left to an event by tapping the Share icon. - Push Notifications: Get notified when a countdown finally finishes. - Notification Center Widget: Instead of having to open Hourglass, just swipe down to view your Countdowns in the Notification Centre. - Compatible with Apple Watch: Now, you can easily view your countdowns quickly and easily, right on your wrist!
Life Tally
Discover fascinating life milestones and celebrate significant moments. Track birthdays, anniversaries, and even count down to future events. View fun estimates of your life's moments and share milestones with others.
- Track birthdays and anniversaries
- Celebrate life milestones
- Countdown to future events
- View photo memories
- Estimate life statistics
- Share milestones
- Compare time between events
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Everyone knows when their birthday is, but do you know when your 10,000th day is? It happens in your 27th year. What about your one billionth second? That happens in your 31st year. Discover these and many more interesting life milestones with Life Tally. Birthdays and Anniversaries. Never forget your friends’ and family’s birthdays and anniversaries by creating simple profiles and turning on notification reminders. Celebrate Milestones. Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Celebrate milestones like the millionth second of a wedding anniversary, the 1,000th day since a pet adoption, or the 10,000th hour of a child’s life. Future Event Countdown. Add an event in the future, or the expected birthdate of a child, and countdown the days remaining. Photo Memories. Check each day to see photos from a year or two (or five or ten) ago. Fun Estimates. View estimates such as your total heartbeats, breaths, blinks, and more. Share Milestones. Easily share an upcoming milestone through Messages for a fun conversation starter. Compare and Contrast. Track the time between two people or events down to the second. Find your next reason to celebrate with Life Tally!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Life Tally at 4.8 against Hourglass's 4.0. Life Tally also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 4). Hourglass's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. Life Tally sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Hourglass asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life Tally holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Hourglass's written reviews are positive against 78% of Life Tally's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hourglass ships an update fortnightly, Life Tally every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hourglass | Life Tally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 233 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mat Cartmill | Matthew Parrott |
Customer experience
Hourglass
Life Tally
In-app purchases
Hourglass
No in-app purchases
Life Tally
- Starter Stats Add-on$0.99
- Pro Version$4.99









