MilliLife vs Visual Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MilliLife
This app transforms how you perceive time by tracking your age in milliseconds and displaying it in a unique "year time" format. Set goals, manage countdowns, and customize themes to make every moment meaningful.
- Live age tracking in milliseconds
- Customizable circle goals
- Unlimited countdown management
- Full theme customization
- Age skip for past/future dates
- Smart home screen widgets
- Zero data collection for privacy
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Experience time like never before with MilliLife – the ultimate precision age tracker that transforms how you perceive every moment. MilliLife converts your existence into "year time," where every millisecond becomes meaningful. Whether you're studying, setting goals, or simply contemplating life's fleeting nature, this app turns time awareness into an art form. Key Features: - Live Age Tracking: Watch your life unfold in real-time with ultra-precise calculations down to the millisecond, displayed in an elegant year-time format. - Dashboard & Navigation: A completely revamped interface with intuitive navigation puts all your time data at your fingertips. - Circle Goals: Set custom completion ages and watch your progress arc toward meaningful milestones – perfect for academic goals, career targets, or personal achievements. - Multiple Countdowns: Create, name, and manage unlimited countdowns for everything from study sessions to life events. View and organize past countdowns to track your journey. - Full Theme Customization: Express yourself with comprehensive color themes and background modes (Dark, Light, and signature MilliLife mode) that adapt across the entire app. - Age Skip: Explore your past and future – discover exactly how old you were on any date or will be at any point in time. - Smart Widgets: Keep time awareness alive on your home screen with live age updates and rotating motivational quotes that inspire reflection. - Docked View: Full-screen time display with dynamic backgrounds, perfect for keeping your device docked while staying time-conscious. - Zero Data Collection: Your temporal journey stays private – we track time, not you. Perfect For: Students managing study goals and academic milestones Anyone interested in data visualization and personal analytics Philosophy and existential reflection enthusiasts People setting and tracking long-term life goals Those who want to make every moment count Transform procrastination into motivation and make time your ally with MilliLife.
Visual Timer
This app offers a visually engaging countdown timer with multiple unique styles to represent the passage of time. Customize colors, backgrounds, and alarm sounds for various activities like focus work, cooking, or kids' routines.
- Nine unique visual timer styles
- Customizable colors and backgrounds
- Over 50 alarm sound options
- Adjustable durations from seconds to hours
- Presets and recent duration quick-picks
- Designed for focus, cooking, kids, and workouts
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Visual Timer - Time you can actually see Make every minute count with a timer that's actually worth looking at. Visual Timer turns the wait into the show: nine beautiful, hand-crafted styles that each visualize time in a different way. Pick your style: • Circular - a classic clock-face wedge that drains as time runs out • Liquid - a wave-tinted pool that drains as the clock ticks • Pixel - a grid of pixels disappears one by one • Rain - thousands of tiny grains rain down and pile up to fill the screen • Blocks - falling pieces stack up to fill the screen • Maze - a snake winds across the screen until it fills every cell • Rings - concentric rainbow rings, one per minute, leaving a colored trail • Sun - the sun arcs across the sky, drifting from dawn through dusk to night • Path - a dot glides along a trail — follow the built-in curve or draw your own • Spread - a colorful infection blooms from a few seeds until it fills the screen Make it yours: • Pick any color for the timer fill or background • Use your own photos as a backdrop or foreground • Choose from 50+ alarm sounds, from a gentle chime to a rooster • Custom durations from a few seconds to several hours • Quick-pick recent durations and built-in presets Built for any moment: • Focus and deep work - visual progress without distraction • Cooking - set it on the counter and just glance over • Kids - turn time-outs, brushing teeth, or screen-time limits into something they actually watch • Workouts - clear interval timing without staring at numbers • Meditation - calm, smooth visuals that don't pull attention • Studying - Pomodoro sessions that look like part of the desk A timer that feels at home on your phone. Designed top-to-bottom for iOS - Liquid Glass controls, fluid animations, and dark-mode-first aesthetics.
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Verdict
MilliLife and Visual Timer both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of MilliLife's written reviews are positive against 33% of Visual Timer's. Visual Timer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. MilliLife sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Visual Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for MilliLife against 4.5 for Visual Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Timer has 129 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of MilliLife's written reviews are positive against 33% of Visual Timer's.
MilliLife ships an update every 3 months, Visual Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MilliLife | Visual Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (129 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 129 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Angulo | Applorium Ltd |
Customer experience
MilliLife
Visual Timer
In-app purchases
MilliLife
- Question Reality$1.99
- Existential Updates$4.99
- Cosmic Joke$9.99
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- Timeless Code$19.99
Visual Timer
- Visual Timer Unlock$5.99









