Comparison

Lifetime vs Lachlan

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

Head to head
About

Lifetime

Visualize your entire life in weeks to stay mindful and intentional. Track your progress with a calendar view and detailed statistics. Premium features offer enhanced insights and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Life Weeks Calendar visualization
  • Life Progress Tracker with percentage
  • Home screen widgets for quick glance
  • Detailed time statistics (days, weeks, months, years)
  • Customizable life expectancy
Features
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Do you ever wonder how much time you have left and how you’re spending it? Lifetime is a motivator for lifetime that helps you visualize your entire life in weeks—bringing motivational progress monitoring to your fingertips so you can stay mindful and intentional. Features: • Life Weeks Calendar: Your life, visualized as a series of dots—each dot is a week. Track what’s been spent and what’s still ahead using your life expectancy as a guide. Premium Tools with Pro Subscription: • Life Progress Tracker: Monitor your life progress with a percentage bar, helping you stay on track with your personal lifetime checklist. • Widgets: Stay connected to your journey with home screen widgets that offer: • Progress Bars and Percentages: Clear visuals of what’s lived and what’s to come. • Time Statistics: Get accurate counts of days, weeks, months, and years you’ve spent and what remains. • Time Tracking: Precisely measure your time usage for deeper insight and accountability. The Importance of Time Time is your most limited asset. Lifetime offers a clear view of your progression pass through life, empowering better decisions and daily reflection. Widgets (Requires Subscription): Motivate yourself daily with our fully customizable widgets: • Life Progress Widget: Instantly see the percentage of life lived and remaining—your motivational progress monitoring at a glance. • Time Left Widget: Know exactly how many days, weeks, months, and years you have left. • Quick Glance: Keep your lifetime reminder always visible to stay inspired and focused. A Pro subscription is required to access these features. You can subscribe through an auto-renewing subscription available via In-App Purchase. Frequently Asked Questions Q: How does Life Calendar calculate my life expectancy? A: Life Calendar uses the average life expectancy for your country but allows you to customize it based on personal factors. Q: How do the widgets work? A: Our widgets are designed to keep you connected with your life’s timeline directly from your home screen. You can add widgets that display your life progress with progress bars and percentages, as well as detailed time statistics showing days, weeks, months, and years spent and remaining. Customize them to suit your preferences and stay mindful every day. Live Intentionally Don’t wait for tomorrow to start living the life you want, begin your journey toward a more mindful and fulfilling life. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • Auto-renewable subscription • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Privacy policy: https://lifecalendarapp.wordpress.com/privacy-policy • Terms of use: https://lifecalendarapp.wordpress.com/terms-of-use

About

Lachlan

This app acts as a digital padlock that blocks distracting applications on a set schedule. It requires users to explain their reasons for wanting to access blocked apps, making the decision to bypass the block a conscious one rather than a reflex. It aims to create friction and awkwardness to prevent accidental usage.

Highlights
  • Scheduled app blocking
  • Justification required for bypass
  • Personalized reminders
  • Instant lockdown mode
  • Offline functionality
  • Home screen widget
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Every app blocker is one tap from off. This one asks why. Lachlan is a small, deeply opinionated padlock who blocks your most distracting apps on a schedule you set, and then makes you explain yourself before he lets you back in. WHY THIS WORKS WHEN NOTHING ELSE HAS Most blockers are a wall you learn to climb in about three seconds. Lachlan is a conversation you have to have with a character who remembers what you said you wanted, and wants to know why you're doing this instead. The friction isn't the lock. It's the awkwardness. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your problem apps. Social media, games, news, whatever's eating your afternoons. 2. Set a schedule, time limit, location, or timer to block your apps the way you want. 3. Try to open a blocked app and you'll hit the shield instead. 4. Open Lachlan and make your case. Depending on how good your reason is, he'll grant you 5, 15, or 30 minutes. 5. He keeps score. The fourth unlock of the day does not go like the first. HE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS YOU When you set up, Lachlan asks why you're cutting back and what you'd do with the time you got back. Then he brings it up. "You said you wanted to finish the record" lands very differently at 11pm than a generic productivity notification. He knows your name, your reasons, and exactly how many times you've caved today. Most blockers are stateless. Lachlan is not, and that's the whole difference. ALSO INCLUDED - Trends tab showing you screen time history - Streak system to keep you engaged each day - A home screen widget showing Lachlan's current mood - Custom block screens - Works offline, on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere Subscription is required for access to the above features. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Lifetime4 screens
Lachlan4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lifetime and Lachlan both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Lachlan's written reviews are positive against 25% of Lifetime's. Lifetime's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Lifetime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Lachlan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lifetime against 5.0 for Lachlan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of Lifetime's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lachlan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lifetime ships an update every 5 days, Lachlan every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lifetime versus Lachlan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifetimeLachlan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB42 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRICKHIL PUNEET PRAKASHND Enterprises

Customer experience

Lifetime

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Lachlan

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Lifetime

Subscriptions2
  • Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Pro (Annually)$21.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$29.99
  • Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Lachlan

Subscriptions2
  • Lachlan Monthly Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Lachlan Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Lifetime free?
Lifetime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lachlan free?
Lachlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lifetime or Lachlan?
Lifetime and Lachlan are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Lifetime or Lachlan have ads?
Neither Lifetime nor Lachlan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lifetime or Lachlan?
Lifetime ships an update every 5 days, and Lachlan every 11 days. Most recently, Lifetime was updated on October 1, 2026 and Lachlan on September 30, 2026.

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