Comparison

SinceWhen vs LifeShelf

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

Head to head
About

SinceWhen

Effortlessly track irregular tasks and chores without the pressure of daily streaks. Record events with a tap, receive gentle reminders, and visualize your progress with smart intervals and custom charts. Keep your mind clear by letting the app manage your unique rhythms.

Highlights
  • Zero-friction logging with widgets
  • Gentle, custom nudges and offline reminders
  • Smart intervals and dynamic sorting
  • Visual history with auto-scaling charts
  • Total customization with colors and emojis
  • 100% private and secure, on-device data
Features
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Stop asking, "When did I last do that?" Standard habit trackers demand daily streaks. But real life doesn't happen every 24 hours. You change the AC filter, wash the pillows, get sick, and track your cycle when it actually happens. When you try to log these irregular events in a normal app, they break your streak and hit you with a red ring of failure. SinceWhen is the "anti-streak" day counter. No guilt, no daily pressure. Just a quiet, stress-free timeline of your actual life. NEW: TRACK MULTI-DAY DURATIONS Not everything happens in a single moment. SinceWhen now supports logging durations from start to finish. • Private Period Tracking: A secure, bloat-free way to track your cycle. No pink themes, no accounts, no data harvesting. • Health & Sickness: Log exactly how many days a fever, migraine, or cold actually lasted. • Travel & Breaks: Track vacations, digital detoxes, or multi-day fasting. Just tap to start and tap to end. Your home screen tracks the current day (e.g., "Day 3"), and your interval charts will elegantly shade the entire duration. TRACK ANY IRREGULAR ROUTINE We built this for the messy, easy-to-forget maintenance tasks that streak-based apps ignore. • Home Maintenance: AC filters, deep cleaning the fridge, washing bedsheets, checking smoke detectors. • Plant & Pet Care: Unpredictable watering schedules, repotting, flea and tick medication, grooming. • Car & Life Admin: Oil changes, tire rotations, haircuts, dental visits. • Health & Self-Care: Irregular vitamins, pain relief, eye drops, replacing contact lenses. • ADHD-Friendly: A zero-shame, zero-streak visual history for executive dysfunction. SMART PREDICTIONS & INSIGHTS You don’t have to set a rigid schedule. • Learns Your Real Rhythm: Our Pattern-Aware engine calculates your natural intervals. If your routine shifts, SinceWhen instantly recognizes your new rhythm and adjusts expectations. • Interactive Calendar: Tap any day on your Insights grid to see exactly what you did and the notes you left. • Due at a Glance: See what is expected today, tomorrow, or overdue via smart, zero-pressure nudges. • Custom Time Display: Tailor exactly how time is counted—choose strict 24-hour periods or calendar midnights crossed. LOG IT IN SECONDS When your hands are full, you don’t want to tap through an app. • Interactive Widgets: 1-tap logging directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. • Siri Integration: Just say, "Hey Siri, log the fridge cleaning," and it saves in the background. • Apple Shortcuts: Build custom automations, or trigger logs from Back Tap. YOUR DATA, IN YOUR HANDS Your life is private, and your data stays on your device. • 100% Private: No accounts, no logins, zero data tracking. • iCloud Sync: Seamlessly syncs your logs, pins, and hidden items across your iPhone and iPad. • Direct File Access: Auto-backups save directly to your iCloud Drive Files folder (SinceWhen_Latest.json) so you can build your own custom scripts. SINCEWHEN PRO Start completely free. Track your first 3 events forever, no credit card needed. Upgrade to unlock unlimited events, full iCloud sync, Siri logging, and interactive insights: • Monthly: Includes Apple Family Sharing. • Yearly: Includes Apple Family Sharing (Best subscription value). • Lifetime: A simple one-time purchase to own it forever (Family Sharing not included). With Family Sharing (Monthly/Yearly), your entire household can track chores, pet care, and home maintenance together—each using their own Apple ID, keeping everything fully private. Privacy Policy: https://devapt.com/sincewhen/privacy Terms of Use: https://devapt.com/sincewhen/terms

About

LifeShelf

This app consolidates all your saved content, from links and photos to notes and files, into a single, searchable timeline. It intelligently finds items by meaning, even text within images, and offers features like checklists and reminders. Designed for privacy, your data stays on your device unless you opt for iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Unified timeline for all saved content
  • Intelligent search by meaning and keywords
  • Extracts text from photos and screenshots
  • Checklists with section titles
  • Reminders for tasks
  • Private by design, no account needed
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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Everything you save ends up somewhere different. A link in Safari, a screenshot buried in Photos, an address in a text message, a voice memo you never played again. LifeShelf gives all of it one place. Notes, checklists, links, photos, files, voice notes and saved places land on a single timeline, newest first and grouped by day. There are no folders and no tags — nothing to file when you save, and nothing to remember about where you put it. FINDS IT BY MEANING Search reaches into your notes, file names, your own descriptions, and text read out of your photos. It matches by meaning as well as by keyword, using a model that runs on your device — so you can still find something when the words you remember are not the words you saved. BUILT FOR APPLE INTELLIGENCE On supported devices, Apple's on-device models write the short description that makes a note findable later. As they get better, so does your shelf. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share into LifeShelf from any app that can share — a link, a photo, a PDF, an address from Maps, a line of text someone sent you. It lands on the shelf without LifeShelf ever coming to the foreground. ALSO IN IT • Checklists with section titles, so a long list can be grouped • Do This Later — one reminder, on a day and time you choose • Last Time — know when you last did something, with its full history • Recent, what is coming up, and what you saved on this day in past years • Text in photos and screenshots read on device and made searchable • PDFs open inline; calendar invites can be added to your calendar • Light and dark, on iPhone, iPad and Mac PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account. No sign-up, no email, no password — download it and start saving. Your shelf is a database and files on your own device, not a copy of something on a server, and it works with no connection at all. Nothing is tracked and nothing is profiled. iCloud sync is optional and off until you switch it on. When you do, it syncs through your own iCloud account, not ours. You can export the whole shelf as a single file whenever you like. PRICING Your first 50 items are free, with every feature included — no trial period, no card required. After that a single one-time purchase removes the limit for good. It is not a subscription, it covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac together, and it works with Family Sharing.

Screenshots

SinceWhen4 screens
LifeShelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LifeShelf at 5.0 against SinceWhen's 4.3. LifeShelf also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). SinceWhen's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. SinceWhen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and LifeShelf sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LifeShelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SinceWhen has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of SinceWhen's written reviews are positive against 100% of LifeShelf's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SinceWhen versus LifeShelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSinceWhenLifeShelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (13 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB227 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBasharath ShaikFnu Shabana Sulthana Begum

Customer experience

SinceWhen

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

LifeShelf

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SinceWhen

Subscriptions2
  • SinceWhen Pro + Family (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • SinceWhen Pro + Family (Yearly)$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • SinceWhen Pro (Lifetime)$39.99
1 purchases

LifeShelf

One-time1
  • Unlimited LifeShelf$9.99

Questions

Is SinceWhen free?
SinceWhen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LifeShelf free?
LifeShelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SinceWhen or LifeShelf?
LifeShelf is rated higher. SinceWhen averages 4.3 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while LifeShelf averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SinceWhen or LifeShelf have ads?
Neither SinceWhen nor LifeShelf shows ads.

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