LifeTrack vs Lifely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LifeTrack
This app helps you create a visual timeline of your life's important moments. Organize events into separate tracks within your life story and share them via print or PDF. It's a personal journaling tool to help you remember and cherish your experiences.
- Photo journal timeline
- Organize life events into tracks
- Create multiple lives and tracks
- Share via print or PDF
- Personal life diary
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LifeTrack is the best photo journal timeline diary available. You can share your life with others or keep it to yourself. Keep track of all the important events in your life. Let LifeTrack help you remember your life and how wonderful it is. LifeTrack features a simple way to organize your life events into separate tracks. Each track may contain any number of events. All of the tracks and events are organized into a life -- your life. Create a life with one or more tracks and many events. Then share it with others through print or a PDF. LifeTrack is free with advertisements. An in-app purchase option is available to remove ads if you like. Let's get started. Download LifeTrack today and start tracking the most important thing -- your life.
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: LifeTrack at 4.7 against Lifely's 3.8. LifeTrack also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Lifely's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. LifeTrack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lifely sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LifeTrack holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of LifeTrack's written reviews are positive against 33% of Lifely's.
LifeTrack ships an update every 2 months, Lifely every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LifeTrack | Lifely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dale Ninmann | Sheep Apps Inc |
Customer experience
LifeTrack
Lifely
Bugs and requests
LifeTrack
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes and freezes frequently
- App won't load
- GPS location causes app to shut down
- Endless loop in tutorial
- Date subtraction issue when selecting from calendar
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- Text unreadable with light colors
- Words run into each other
- App stops working after a certain number of entries
- Banner ads appear in paid version
- App crashes when saving entries
- Interface issues after updates
- Events display incorrectly based on orientation
Requested features
27 requests- Auto backup feature
- Cloud syncing/iCloud integration
- Exporting to PDF or spreadsheet
- Sharing in real-time
- PC version availability
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- Desktop companion version
- Time range for events
- Auto add birthdays
- Pin on map and edit name
- Sharing data between devices
- Ability to pick and choose which lives to show
- Add event to multiple lives
- Auto add birthday ages each year
- Repeat events like Holidays
- Add video attachments
- Overlay life tracks of friends
- Integration with Facebook
- Short title for timeline events
- Separate section for extra information
- Add color to comments
- Develop separate files for different stories/histories
- Export file to computer by Email
- Dark mode option
- Forgot password feature
- Show durations on timeline (bars/lines)
- High resolution photos support
- Translate app content accurately
Lifely
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LifeTrack
- Banner Advertisements Disable$1.99
Lifely
- Full access for 1 month$4.991 Month
- Full access for 1 year3 Days trial$29.991 Year
