GatherZone vs Lifely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GatherZone
Discover events and connect with people who share your interests at specific locations. Organize meetups with friends and receive promotions from your favorite places. Communicate directly with connections through in-app messaging.
- Discover events based on location
- Connect with people at shared places
- Receive place-specific promotions
- Arrange meetups with friends
- In-app messaging
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The idea behind OurHangouts is you meet people who like to go to the same places you do. You add places to your Hangouts list and then learn about events, people, and other things related to those places. The places you like can send you promotions, schedules, and other things. As you get to know people by connecting to places you can communicate with them thru messaging. OurHangouts also allows you to easily arrange meets at places with friends whom you already know, without playing phone tag. (See guide on website for more details.)
Lifely
This app helps you record life's important moments, achievements, and memories in a chronological timeline. It offers secure data encryption and synchronization, allowing you to easily navigate and revisit past events.
- Chronological timeline of memories
- Secure data encryption
- Server synchronization
- Event tracking by category
- Zoom and scroll navigation
- Password protection
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Your whole life on one timeline. Lifely is a personal diary and journal for everyday memories and the moments that change your story. Keep the same diary on your phone and in your browser. Install Lifely on iPhone and iPad. On a Mac with Apple silicon, get the iPad app from the Mac App Store (Apple M1 or later, macOS 12 or later). You can also use the same diary in your browser. Write about today, add a memory from years ago, or record a milestone you want to look back on. Give each event a date and keep your thoughts, the people involved and the details together. SEE YOUR LIFE AT EVERY SCALE Zoom out to see years and decades, then zoom in to a single day. Follow the connections between everyday entries, important events and the different chapters of your life. The life calendar gives you another view of your years and weeks. On your phone, swipe to scroll through your timeline and pinch to change its scale. GIVE MEMORIES THEIR CONTEXT Add photos, a place, a mood or a song to an event. Keep a travel memory, a family celebration or an ordinary afternoon with someone you love. A short note can hold the details you would otherwise forget. FIND THE MOMENTS THAT MATTER Organize your diary with tags, people, life periods and importance levels. Revisit your time at school, the years in a particular city or the memories you share with one person. Search your entries when you want to find a specific moment. RETURN TO YOUR STORY Rediscover past events through memories, look back at how your life has unfolded and share selected moments as designed cards. Write as much or as little as you want, whenever you have something to remember. YOUR DIARY ON YOUR PHONE AND IN YOUR BROWSER Open your online diary in a browser with the same account you use on your phone. Your entries sync when you are connected. On your phone, write entries offline and sync when you reconnect. Protect access to the app with a passcode or biometric unlock on a supported device. Lifely includes ads and in-app purchases. Photo attachments and some organization features are part of Premium. Start with one moment that matters to you. Let the next entries become part of your life story. Terms of Use: https://sheep-apps.com/lifely/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sheep-apps.com/lifely/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GatherZone at 5.0 against Lifely's 3.8. GatherZone also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Lifely's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Lifely sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. GatherZone asks for nothing beyond the download.
GatherZone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifely has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GatherZone ships an update every 9 days, Lifely every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GatherZone | Lifely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Hull | Sheep Apps Inc |
Customer experience
GatherZone
Lifely
In-app purchases
GatherZone
No in-app purchases
Lifely
- Full access for 1 month$4.991 Month
- Full access for 1 year3 Days trial$29.991 Year









