Comparison

Flex Widgets vs The Life Timeline

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flex Widgets

Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.

Highlights
  • Build custom widgets
  • Add text, images, and health data
  • Place icons, emojis, and shapes
  • Create countdowns and calendars
  • Design digital and analog clocks
  • Share and import widget designs
  • Create custom widget themes
Features
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)

About

The Life Timeline

Features
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Your life has a finite number of weeks. This app shows you exactly how many. Please note: The base Life Timeline is free to use forever, including all cloud backup and syncing features. A premium annual subscription is required to unlock advanced features like custom themes, artwork exports, and multiple timeline archives. Open The Life Timeline and it snaps directly to This Week—your fixed position in an infinite scroll that stretches from the week you were born to the week of your 100th birthday. Scroll up, and the past fades into a gentle archival haze. Scroll down, and the future unfolds as a concrete, numbered runway: not an abstract "someday," but an exact count. A Different Kind of Calendar Sync your Apple calendar and every future event transforms into a distance: You are 14 weeks from your anniversary. You are 312 weeks from your planned retirement. Tag anything with # and the app calculates the exact weight of the gap. The infinite scroll of social media replaced with the finite scroll of your own existence. Your Data Is a File You Own Most journaling apps store your life in a database on their servers. When they close, change pricing, or get acquired—your memories go with them. The Life Timeline stores everything as a standard, human-readable Markdown file on your own iCloud, No proprietary format. No account required. If this app disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have every note, every tag, every memory in a file you can open on any device, in any text editor, for the rest of your life. Built for Three Kinds of People - The Data Sovereign: You self-host. You use iCloud for everything personal. You want a life-planning app that stores data in a format you actually control. - The Practical Stoic: You practice Memento Mori to sharpen your priorities. You need to see the geometry of your remaining weeks to make better decisions today. - The Legacy Builder: You think in decades. You want daily calendar entries to automatically become part of a generational archive you can hand to your children. Features - Infinite vertical scroll from birth to your 100th birthday snaps to This Week - Zoom levels: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, Decade - Live calendar sync with Apple Calendar - @ events and # tags with automatic week-distance calculations - Notes stored as plain Markdown readable by any text editor - Free Cloud Sync: Seamlessly sync across iCloud - Memory Canvas (Pro): Export any week or event as a shareable artwork - Extra Timelines (Pro): Run separate named timelines (e.g., project, creative) - Birthday markers, decade boundaries, and age sublabels throughout - Search across all your notes and events instantly - Zero tracking scripts. Zero analytics. Zero data collection. Pro Annual Subscription to Unlock Annually ($3.99) A premium annual subscription unlocks full access to: - All 17 Pro themes: Cartographer, Deep Space, Neon Noir, Blueprint, and 13 more. - Memory Canvas: Shareable artwork exports. - Extra Timelines: Multiple named life archives. Subscription Information: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. This is an automatically renewing annual subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew each year unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in your App Store Account Settings. The Life Timeline is independent software. No venture capital. No growth targets. No incentive to monetize your attention. Just a tool built to be genuinely useful. Try Pro free for 14 days (new subscribers only). After the trial, Life Timeline Pro renews yearly at the price shown in the app unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flex Widgets4 screens
The Life Timeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Life Timeline at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

The Life Timeline is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. The Life Timeline sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, The Life Timeline every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flex Widgets versus The Life Timeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlex WidgetsThe Life Timeline
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (98 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYannik SchradeETHAN KYLE HELGAGER

In-app purchases

None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

The Life Timeline

Subscriptions1
  • Life Timeline Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Life Timeline free?
The Life Timeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flex Widgets or The Life Timeline have ads?
Neither Flex Widgets nor The Life Timeline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flex Widgets or The Life Timeline?
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, and The Life Timeline every 10 days. Most recently, Flex Widgets was updated on October 27, 2026 and The Life Timeline on October 25, 2026.

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