Element vs Thrive | Life Planning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Element
Plan your life by organizing tasks around key life elements to achieve a better work-life balance. Includes a habit tracker to help you reach daily goals for health, wealth, and wisdom.
- Life element-based planning
- Work-life balance focus
- Integrated habit tracker
- Daily goal achievement
- Health, wealth, and wisdom focus
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Element is a new way to plan your life. Plan your tasks around elements in your life and create a healthy work-life balance. With a built in habit tracker, make sure you are achieving your daily goals to stay healthy, wealthy and wise.
Thrive | Life Planning
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Thrive is a tool for life planning. It provides goals management, task tracking, habit building, chores management, lists, metrics, a personal relationship manager, and much more all in a unified package.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Element at every 3 weeks against Thrive | Life Planning's every 21 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Element ships an update every 3 weeks, Thrive | Life Planning every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Element | Thrive | Life Planning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | No Quarter B.V | CHM SQRT2 SRL |
In-app purchases
Element
No in-app purchases
Thrive | Life Planning
No in-app purchases
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