Comparison

Halftime vs LivePocket

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

Head to head
About

Halftime

Visualize your life's progress and remaining time through a unique dot-based matrix. Track days, weeks, years, and significant events with focus timers and shareable progress cards. Designed for mindful living and intentional time management.

Highlights
  • Visual Time Matrix
  • Life Progress Visualization
  • Focus Timer
  • Special Day Trackers
  • Home and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Apple Watch Support
  • Shareable Timeline Cards
Features
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How much time do you actually have left? Halftime helps you see time clearly, from the next hour to the shape of your entire life. Instead of hiding time inside lists, charts, or abstract numbers, Halftime turns your day, week, month, year, and life into a quiet matrix of dots. Each dot is a moment. Some have passed. Some are still ahead. Some can still be filled with focus, meaning, and intention. Halftime is not a traditional to-do list, habit tracker, or productivity system. It is a visual time tracker designed to help you understand where you are, what matters, and how you want to spend the time you still have. Key Features • Visual Time Matrix See your Day, Week, Month, Year, and Life as clean dot-based timelines. Zoom from the micro view of today to the macro view of your life. • Life Progress Set your birthday and expected lifespan to visualize your life progress in weeks and years. A simple, powerful reminder to make the present count. • Focus Timer Start a focused session with a simple gesture. Turn passing time into visible progress and transform grey dots into colorful records of attention. • Special Days Track birthdays, anniversaries, trips, deadlines, goals, and meaningful moments with countdowns and progress views. • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets Keep your Life, Day, Week, Month, Year, and Special Days progress visible without opening the app. • Apple Watch Support Check your time progress from your wrist. Add Halftime complications to your watch face for Life, Year, Month, Week, Day, and selected Special Days. • Visual Heatmap Your effort is more than a number. Watch your timeline light up as you focus, build routines, and create a visual record of how your time is spent. • Shareable Timeline Cards Create clean visual cards for your time progress and share your Day, Month, Year, or Life timeline. Why Halftime? Halftime is for people who want to: • Feel the passage of time more clearly • Track life progress without anxiety or clutter • Build focus with a minimal timer • Visualize habits, effort, and attention • Remember important dates and countdowns • Use widgets and Apple Watch complications as gentle reminders • Spend less time scrolling and more time living Design Philosophy Halftime is intentionally simple. No ads. No noisy social features. No complicated project systems. No endless settings. Just a calm, visual way to understand time and make better choices with it. Time does not become longer when you track it. But when you can see it, you can choose it more deliberately. Stop scrolling. Start living. Welcome to Halftime. Take control of your second half. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://limxfx.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-21528332de66804d9c3fcacd01e709b1

About

LivePocket

Features
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Keep the night long after the show ends. LivePocket is a private concert journal for the shows you have seen and the nights still ahead. From concerts and festivals to a memorable club show, give each live experience a place in your own collection. RECORD THE SHOW, REMEMBER THE NIGHT Add a show manually or recognize details from a poster or ticket image, then review and fill them in. Keep the artist, tour, date, city, venue, seat and price alongside your setlist, ticket stubs and live photos. Add a rating, a note or a feeling. You can complete the details later. REVISIT YOUR MEMORIES Organize attended, upcoming and missed shows in Lists. Browse your poster wall and revisit the places on your city footprint. Annual reports bring together your artists, cities and shows, with an option to save and share. KEEP THE NEXT SHOW CLOSE Home Screen widgets show the countdown to your next concert or display your poster collection. Set ticket-sale reminders for the sale time or 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes before, and optionally add the schedule to your system calendar. MAKE YOUR OWN SCRAPBOOK Arrange posters, ticket stubs and photos on a collage canvas. Add stickers, text, drawing and frames. Save a draft to finish later or export your completed work to Photos. CAPTURE ON IPHONE, ORGANIZE ON IPAD Use a sidebar and multi-column concert cards in portrait or landscape on iPad. Enjoy more space for concert details, the poster wall, annual reports and collage editing. With iCloud sync enabled, records can sync across devices using the same iCloud account. YOUR MEMORIES, UNDER YOUR CONTROL No LivePocket account is required. Records and media are stored locally by default. Choose private iCloud sync or export and restore a backup. No ads, third-party analytics SDKs or cross-app tracking. The free version stores up to five shows and includes selected collage assets. A one-time Lifetime VIP purchase unlocks unlimited concert records, the full collage collection, more themes and report layouts, and seven-day Recently Deleted recovery. No subscription or automatic renewal. Current pricing and features shown in the app apply.

Screenshots

Halftime4 screens
LivePocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

Halftime and LivePocket are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Halftime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and LivePocket sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halftime ships an update fortnightly, LivePocket every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Halftime versus LivePocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalftimeLivePocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB221 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer虎 伏理洋 王

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Halftime

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$8.99
1 purchases

LivePocket

One-time1
  • LivePocket Lifetime VIP$4.99

Questions

Is Halftime free?
Halftime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LivePocket free?
LivePocket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Halftime or LivePocket have ads?
Neither Halftime nor LivePocket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Halftime or LivePocket?
Halftime ships an update fortnightly, and LivePocket every 9 days. Most recently, Halftime was updated on October 2, 2026 and LivePocket on October 9, 2026.

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