LifeTimers vs MindNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LifeTimers
Track habits, goals, and milestones with customizable timers. Set reminders for recurring tasks and organize your life with categories and pinned timers. All data is stored locally for privacy.
- Create custom timers for habits, goals, and milestones
- Set cadence reminders for recurring tasks
- Organize timers with categories and pinning
- Link related timers with SubLifeTimers
- Local data storage for privacy
- Event history with editable notes
- Data export functionality
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LifeTimers helps you track how long it's been since you've done something, whether it's a habit you want to build, something you want to limit, or just a record you want to keep. CREATE TIMERS FOR ANYTHING • Habits: "Last worked out", "Last read a book", "Last called mom" • Goals to limit: "Days since smoking", "Days nicotine-free" • Milestones: "Last haircut", "Last oil change", "Anniversary" STAY ON TRACK • Cadence: Set how often you want to do something (e.g., workout every 3 days) and get notified when it's time • Milestones: Celebrate streaks with custom emoji milestones (1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, etc.) • Daily digest: Optional morning summary of timers that need attention ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE • Categories: Group timers by theme (Health, Car, Relationships, etc.) • Main view: Pin your most important timers to a front page • Hidden timers: Keep infrequent timers out of sight until you need them SUBLIFETIMERS • Link related timers so updating one updates another (e.g., "Worked Out Arms" and "Worked Out Legs" both update "Worked Out") PRIVACY FIRST • All data stored locally on your device, no servers, no cloud • No analytics, advertising, or tracking • Export your data anytime via Settings REORDER, SEARCH & HISTORY • Drag to reorder timers within any category • Pull down to search across all timers • Full event history with editable notes for each reset. Use your history as a personal journal or timeline for reflective writing, memoir, or documenting your journey over time. Perfect for sobriety tracking, habit building, maintenance schedules, and anything else you want to keep a record of.
MindNote
Visually organize your thoughts and ideas with this intuitive mind mapping application. Create unlimited colorful maps, manage them with folders, and export your work in various formats. Features include auto-layout, outline view, and citation management.
- Unlimited mind map creation
- Folder organization
- Auto-layout for tidy maps
- Outline view
- Export to PDF/Markdown
- Footnote citation management
- iCloud sync
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MindNote is an elegant, simple, smooth, and efficient mind mapping app designed to help you think clearly, plan effectively, and organize your ideas visually. Features: • Create unlimited mind maps with colorful, connected nodes • Organize maps into folders for easy management • Auto-layout to keep your maps tidy • Outline view for a structured overview of your map • Export to PDF or Markdown • Import from Markdown to generate maps instantly • Footnote citation management with support for APA, MLA, Chicago, and more, also with customizable citation formats • iCloud sync keeps your maps up to date across all your Mac and iPhone devices • Supports both light and dark backgrounds for export • Floating quick actions and keyboard shortcut for fast editing Simple to start, powerful as you grow. Download MindNote and start mapping your thoughts today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MindNote at every 2 days against LifeTimers's every 2 months. MindNote also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LifeTimers against 5.0 for MindNote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
LifeTimers ships an update every 2 months, MindNote every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LifeTimers | MindNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Moore | Zhaoyuan Chen |
Customer experience
LifeTimers
MindNote
In-app purchases
LifeTimers
No in-app purchases
MindNote
No in-app purchases









