Life Tally vs Mini Chroma Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Mini Chroma Clock
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ChromaClock — a color‑coded clock for the rhythm of your day. ChromaClock turns the time on your phone into something you can feel at a glance. Instead of just numbers, the entire screen shifts color throughout the day based on time windows you define — morning yellow, lunchtime green, afternoon blue, evening red, or whatever fits your life. It's a beautifully simple bedside clock, desk companion, kitchen timer reference, and gentle daily rhythm — all in one. HOW IT WORKS • Set up to four time slots, each with a custom start time, end time, message, and background color. • When the clock enters a slot, the background and greeting change automatically. • Outside of any scheduled slot, a default "in‑between" color takes over. • That's it — no accounts, no setup beyond your slots. WHAT YOU SEE • Big, easy‑to‑read time in a rounded display • The full date — day of the week, month, day, year • A friendly greeting you write yourself ("Good Morning", "Time to focus", "Wind down") • Current weather for your location, right in the corner WEATHER, WITHOUT THE FUSS Tap the weather chip to see live conditions and temperature for where you are. Tap again to refresh. Weather data comes from the free, open Open‑Meteo service — no accounts, no tracking, just the forecast. PERFECT FOR • A bedside clock that signals morning vs. late evening at a glance • A desk clock that reminds you when it's lunchtime or time to log off • A kitchen or family clock with messages everyone in the house can read across the room • Kids learning the rhythm of a school day, before they can read a clock • Anyone who wants a calmer, more colorful way to keep time THOUGHTFULLY MADE • Built entirely in modern SwiftUI for iOS • Big, accessible type with high‑contrast color backgrounds • Landscape support — great when propped on a stand or dock • Dark, screen‑friendly design • No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Your settings stay on your device. Set it once, prop it up, and let your day take on a little color.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mini Chroma Clock at none against Life Tally's 2. Life Tally's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 54 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Mini Chroma Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life Tally ships an update every 2 months, Mini Chroma Clock every 54 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life Tally | Mini Chroma Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 54 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 233 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Parrott | David Mickey |
In-app purchases
Life Tally
- Starter Stats Add-on$0.99
- Pro Version$4.99
Mini Chroma Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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