Custom Widgets vs The Life Timeline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Widgets
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Widgetly puts what matters most on your home screen: countdowns, life progress, goals, and daily motivation. Build beautiful, functional widgets in minutes with zero design skills required. 11+ WIDGET TYPES Time & Life Awareness - Life Counter: your age in months, weeks, or days - Years Remaining: visualize your life as a dot grid - Year Progress: see how much of the year has passed - Day Progress: track hours as they go by Calendars & Countdowns - Month Countdown: days left this month - Month Calendar: minimal calendar view - Month Grid: all 12 months at a glance - Countdown: days until any future event - Count Up: days since a meaningful date Goals & Motivation - Progress Ring: circular progress for any goal - Custom Text: quotes, reminders, mantras DESIGN IT YOUR WAY - Live preview while editing - Small, Medium, and Large sizes - 10 color themes - Multiple text styles and dot shapes - Pixel LED displays and clean minimal looks SIMPLE TO USE 1. Pick a widget type 2. Choose size and style 3. Save and add to Home Screen Done. Stop scrolling past a boring home screen. Make it yours. ------ Privacy Policy: https://dazarang.com/apps/widgetly/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://dazarang.com/apps/widgetly/terms/
The Life Timeline
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Your life has a finite number of weeks. This app shows you exactly how many. Please note: The base Life Timeline is free to use forever, including all cloud backup and syncing features. A premium annual subscription is required to unlock advanced features like custom themes, artwork exports, and multiple timeline archives. Open The Life Timeline and it snaps directly to This Weekβyour fixed position in an infinite scroll that stretches from the week you were born to the week of your 100th birthday. Scroll up, and the past fades into a gentle archival haze. Scroll down, and the future unfolds as a concrete, numbered runway: not an abstract "someday," but an exact count. A Different Kind of Calendar Most apps treat your schedule as an infinite list of things to do. The Life Timeline treats it as what it actually is: a finite resource you're spending right now. Sync your Apple calendar and every future event transforms into a distance: You are 14 weeks from your anniversary. You are 312 weeks from your planned retirement. Tag anything with # and the app calculates the exact weight of the gap. The infinite scroll of social media replaced with the finite scroll of your own existence. Your Data Is a File You Own Most journaling apps store your life in a database on their servers. When they close, change pricing, or get acquiredβyour memories go with them. The Life Timeline stores everything as a standard, human-readable Markdown file on your own iCloud, No proprietary format. No account required. If this app disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have every note, every tag, every memory in a file you can open on any device, in any text editor, for the rest of your life. Built for Three Kinds of People - The Data Sovereign: You self-host. You use iCloud for everything personal. You want a life-planning app that stores data in a format you actually control. - The Practical Stoic: You practice Memento Mori to sharpen your priorities. You need to see the geometry of your remaining weeks to make better decisions today. - The Legacy Builder: You think in decades. You want daily calendar entries to automatically become part of a generational archive you can hand to your children. Features - Infinite vertical scroll from birth to your 100th birthday snaps to This Week - Zoom levels: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, Decade - Live calendar sync with Apple Calendar - @ events and # tags with automatic week-distance calculations - Notes stored as plain Markdown readable by any text editor - Free Cloud Sync: Seamlessly sync across iCloud - Memory Canvas (Pro): Export any week or event as a shareable artwork - Extra Timelines (Pro): Run separate named timelines (e.g., project, creative) - Birthday markers, decade boundaries, and age sublabels throughout - Search across all your notes and events instantly - Zero tracking scripts. Zero analytics. Zero data collection. Pro Annual Subscription to Unlock Annually ($3.99) A premium annual subscription unlocks full access to: - All 17 Pro themes: Cartographer, Deep Space, Neon Noir, Blueprint, and 13 more. - Memory Canvas: Shareable artwork exports. - Extra Timelines: Multiple named life archives. Subscription Information: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. This is an automatically renewing annual subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew each year unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in your App Store Account Settings. The Life Timeline is independent software. No venture capital. No growth targets. No incentive to monetize your attention. Just a tool built to be genuinely useful. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Custom Widgets at every 2 days against The Life Timeline's every 10 days. The Life Timeline's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Custom Widgets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and The Life Timeline sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Custom Widgets ships an update every 2 days, The Life Timeline every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Widgets | The Life Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days β better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DENA AZARANG | ETHAN KYLE HELGAGER |
In-app purchases
Custom Widgets
- Widgetly Plus Week$0.997 Days
- Widgetly Plus Year$14.991 Year
- Widgetly Plus Lifetime$29.99
The Life Timeline
- Life Timeline Pro$3.991 Year
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