Comparison

10000 Hours vs The Life Planner

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

Head to head
About

10000 Hours

Track your progress on long-term life projects with a dedicated timer. Focus on meaningful activities and build a consistent habit, visualizing your growth over time with detailed charts and widgets.

Highlights
  • Create and track long-term projects
  • View total hours, daily, and weekly trends
  • Progress charts
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Watch widgets
  • iCloud automatic sync
  • Archive completed projects
Features
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10,000 Hours turns the time you invest in a skill into visible progress. Pick something you actually want to get good at — a language, an instrument, writing, training, code — start the timer, and watch the hours add up. As your total grows, you move through ten stages, so you always know where you are on the way to mastery. This isn't a productivity app for your to-do list. It's for the one or two things you want to still be doing in five years. WHY PEOPLE STAY WITH IT Ten stages, not one number Most trackers hand you a total and leave you to feel something about it. Here, every hour moves you along a path with named stages — so 57 hours isn't just 57 hours, it's more than halfway to the next one. Built for long projects, not 25-minute sprints Set a daily target, a weekly target, or simply accumulate at your own pace. Pause for a week and nothing is lost. Your progress waits for you. Always one tap away Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, and a proper Apple Watch app. Start a session without opening your phone. Yours alone No ads. No tracking. No account. No subscription. Nothing you record ever leaves your devices — it syncs privately over iCloud and that's it. WHAT'S INSIDE - Unlimited long-term projects, each with its own stage progress - Count up or count down, with a distraction-free timer screen - Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly trends, plus a calendar heat map - Milestones and shareable achievement cards - Home Screen / Lock Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch - Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac - Archive finished projects and keep the record - Dark Mode Made by one person who can't write code — every version built with AI tools, designed by hand, and updated more than twenty times this year. 10000 Hours Pro is available as: · 10000 Hours Pro · Annual subscription — ¥15/year (about ¥1.25/month), 12-month term · 10000 Hours Pro · Monthly subscription — ¥3/month, 1-month term · 10000 Hours Pro · Lifetime — ¥25, one-time purchase, never renews Subscriptions renew automatically 24 hours before the end of the current period unless cancelled beforehand. Cancel anytime from Membership → Manage Subscription, or in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://jessiezhang0314-hub.github.io/10000hours-legal/ios/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://jessiezhang0314-hub.github.io/10000hours-legal/ios/terms.html Questions, bugs, or ideas? Email zjy0314@icloud.com — I read and answer all of them myself. --------- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

The Life Planner

Features
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The Life Planner is your personal growth companion — completely offline, completely private, and built to keep you moving forward. Plan your goals across short, medium, and long-term horizons with clear deadlines, requirements, and resource tracking. Watch your progress update automatically as you check items off. Stay on top of your to-do list with tasks pulled straight from your goals plus anything you add manually. Filter by today, upcoming, or done so you always know what matters now. Reflect daily with a guided 5-question journal. Answer all five and unlock a motivational quote to keep the streak alive. Your streak counter grows right on your dashboard. Track everything from your dashboard — overall completion, progress by goal type, upcoming deadlines, and recent achievements. When you hit a goal, the app celebrates with you. Export your journey as a PDF report, back up your data to your own files, and restore anytime. Set goal deadline reminders so nothing slips through the cracks. Go Premium with a single $9.99 lifetime purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees. Unlock unlimited journal entries, unlimited goals of every type, and unlimited to-do items. Your data stays on your device forever.

Screenshots

10000 Hours4 screens
The Life Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Life Planner at Free against 10000 Hours's $0.99. 10000 Hours's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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 Planner is free to download; 10000 Hours costs $0.99 up front. 10000 Hours sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and The Life Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

10000 Hours ships an update every 10 days, The Life Planner every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
10000 Hours versus The Life Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter10000 HoursThe Life Planner
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB52 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer鸿宇 彭Abhirup Lahiri

In-app purchases

3 purchases

10000 Hours

Subscriptions2
  • 10000 Hours Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • 10000 Hours Pro Yearly7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 10000 Hours Lifetime Pro$3.99
1 purchases

The Life Planner

One-time1
  • The Life Planner Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is 10000 Hours free?
10000 Hours costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is The Life Planner free?
The Life Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 10000 Hours or The Life Planner have ads?
Neither 10000 Hours nor The Life Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 10000 Hours or The Life Planner?
10000 Hours ships an update every 10 days, and The Life Planner every 6 days. Most recently, 10000 Hours was updated on November 4, 2026 and The Life Planner on October 24, 2026.

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