Life Anchors vs masterfile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life Anchors
This app provides a focused space to identify and display your top life priorities. It helps users cut through overwhelm by keeping essential goals visible on their Home Screen, promoting a calmer approach to life management.
- Set three life priorities
- Add reasons for each priority
- Visible on Home Screen
- Calm focus surface
- Not a task manager
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Life Anchors: Focus Widget helps you see the few priorities that matter most right now. For people who feel buried under tasks, notes, reminders, and to do lists, the app creates a calmer place to name the bigger things your life should move around. Set three life priorities, add a short reason for each one, and keep them visible in the app and on your Home Screen. The app is intentionally not a busy task manager. It is a small focus surface for the priorities you want to return to.
masterfile
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masterfile is five everyday tools in one quiet place. Scratch, Vault, Budget, Notes+, and Kanban. Built for people who'd rather think than juggle apps and for those ready to start tracking. — Scratch — Type anything. As you write, a chip appears suggesting where the line belongs, tap it to promote. Credentials go to Vault, money goes to Budget, ideas go to Notes+, tasks go to Kanban. One note keeps your mind clear, the modules keep your day organized. — Vault — Logins, cards, and credential keys, locked behind your device's authentication and stored only on your device. No account, no sync, no tracking. Real device-level encryption underneath as masterfile just makes it pleasant to use. — Budget — Multi-currency budgeting that actually understands how Filipinos, especially freelancers and remote workers earn. ₱, $, ¥, €, and 20+ more currencies tracked in parallel. Net worth stacked by currency, category-level budgets, calendar view, and a calm pie chart of where the month went. — Notes+ — Plain notes for the quick stuff, rich notes when you need them. Folders, tags, internal linking, checklists, bookmarks, document-scanning, camera, attachments. Reading mode opens each note like a printed page you set yourself. Highlights, links, and headings all preserved where you put them. — Kanban — Every project, sorted into columns. Priority flags, due dates, color labels, archived cards, and an aging indicator that quietly tells you which cards have been waiting too long. — Widgets, Notifications, the rest — 19 home-screen widgets across all five modules. Credit card due dates, budget thresholds, friendly nudges. Soft prompts to keep you tracking, organizing, and checking in. Every alert opt-in, every one off by default. — How masterfile stays calm — No account. No tracking. No ads. masterfile lives on your device, owned by you. One purchase unlocks every module, every widget, every alert. Yours forever, no subscription, no renewal. Launch special — one-time unlock at the launch price, until July 31. Regular pricing returns on August 1.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life Anchors at none against masterfile's 1. Life Anchors also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). masterfile's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On price, ads and device support 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. masterfile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life Anchors asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life Anchors ships an update every 5 months, masterfile weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Life Anchors | masterfile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johnathan Mawdsley | Louis Cada |
In-app purchases
Life Anchors
No in-app purchases
masterfile
- masterfile unlock$2.99









