Comparison

Memento Mori vs LockCal

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

Head to head
About

Memento Mori

Features
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Your year is 365 dots. Some are already gone. One of them is today. Memento Mori turns the time you have left into a quiet grid of dots, in the app and in widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Dots behind you fade. Dots ahead of you stay bright. The dot you are living right now is marked in colour. It is a daily reminder rooted in Stoic philosophy: your time is finite, so spend it on purpose. WHAT YOU SEE • Year: every day of the year as a dot, or every week • Month: laid out like a calendar • Week: seven days, four parts each • Day: 24 hours • Life: add your birthday and see your whole life, one dot per week Each view shows how much is left, as a percentage and in plain words: "85 days left". Prefer to count what has passed? Tap the number. WIDGETS • Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large • Lock Screen widgets: circular, rectangular and inline • Choose what each widget shows: year, month, week, day, life, or all four at once • A separate Stoic Quote widget • Works with the tinted and clear Home Screen styles • Six accent colours for the current dot, or plain white STOIC WISDOM, TWICE A DAY A thought from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus appears in the app and on the large widget, and changes every 12 hours. More than 240 quotes on time, mortality and how to live. "While we wait for life, life passes." — Seneca PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. No notifications. Your birthday stays on your device and is only used to draw your dots. Available in English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Quotes are in English. Memento mori: remember that you will die, so that you remember to live.

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LockCal

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LockCal puts your schedule where you already look all day: on your Lock Screen. YOUR AGENDA AS A LIVE ACTIVITY Start your day's agenda with one tap — it stays visible as a card on the Lock Screen. Use the ‹ › buttons to page through the coming days right on the Lock Screen, without unlocking and without opening the app. FIVE DESIGNS Night Sky, Classic, Retro 2010, Minimal or Timeline — pick the layout that matches your Lock Screen. With calendar color dots, locations and a configurable number of events per page. WIDGETS ON TOP Your next events as a Lock Screen widget above or below the clock — plus a Home Screen widget. AUTOMATIC EVERY MORNING With a Shortcuts automation, your agenda starts into the day by itself and can clean itself up at night. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS LockCal reads your calendar strictly on-device. No servers, no account, no ads, no data collection — the app does not even have internet access. ALWAYS FRESH If you like, LockCal reminds you shortly before iOS ends the Live Activity — one tap on the notification puts your agenda right back on the Lock Screen. FEATURES • Day agenda as a Live Activity with paging buttons on the Lock Screen • 5 designs, 3–6 events per page, 3 days to 2 weeks range • Toggle individual calendars, color dots, locations • Hide past events; ongoing multi-day events move to "Today" ("until Fri") • Reminder shortly before the Live Activity expires, with one-tap renewal • Lock Screen widgets (inline + rectangular) and a Home Screen widget • Shortcuts actions for automations ("Agenda to Lock Screen", "End agenda") • Dynamic Island glance with your next event • Fully localized in English and German

Screenshots

Memento Mori4 screens
LockCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LockCal at Free against Memento Mori's $0.99. LockCal also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

LockCal is free to download; Memento Mori costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memento Mori ships an update every 6 months, LockCal monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Memento Mori versus LockCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemento MoriLockCal
Price$0.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB4 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSergey LiVladimir Popov

In-app purchases

None

Memento Mori

No in-app purchases

None

LockCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memento Mori free?
Memento Mori costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LockCal free?
LockCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Memento Mori or LockCal have ads?
Neither Memento Mori nor LockCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memento Mori or LockCal?
Memento Mori ships an update every 6 months, and LockCal monthly. Most recently, Memento Mori was updated on October 16, 2026 and LockCal on October 20, 2026.

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