Comparison

Life Timer Digital vs Steep

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

Head to head
About

Life Timer Digital

Track your life in real-time with a ticking countdown and explore it across dozens of unique calendar systems. Visualize your life percentage and stay updated with Lock Screen Live Activities and Home Screen widgets. Customize your experience with 13 distinct visual themes.

Highlights
  • Real-time life countdown
  • 36 diverse time systems
  • Life percentage visualization
  • Lock Screen Live Activities
  • Home Screen widgets
  • 13 customizable themes
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How old are you in Mars Years? How many Earth rotations have you been alive? What percentage of your life have you lived? Life Timer turns time into perspective. Set your birth date, and watch every second of your life tick by in real time — rendered in a stunning retro LCD display inspired by classic digital watches. TRACK EVERY SECOND A live, ticking countdown that never stops. See your time alive, time remaining, or both side by side. Every digit updates in real time, down to the hundredth of a second. 36 TIME SYSTEMS Go far beyond the Gregorian calendar. Explore your life measured in: • World Calendars — Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese, Persian, Ethiopian, Buddhist, Hindu, Japanese, Coptic, and Julian • Astronomical — Moon Phases, Earth Rotations, Solar Orbits, Mercury Years, Venus Years, Mars Years, Jupiter Years, and Saturn Years • Animal Years — Dog, Cat, Elephant, Tortoise, Mouse, Hamster, Horse, Parrot, Rabbit and Goldfish • Plus Decimal Time — the revolutionary French 10-hour day • Fictional Calendars - Star Date, Galactic Cycle, Central Earth Reckoning, Imperial Cycle, Cyber time. SEE YOUR LIFE PERCENTAGE A single number that puts everything in perspective. Watch your life percentage tick upward in real time. It's the kind of number that changes how you spend your afternoon. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Start a Live Activity and your life timer stays with you — on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and at a glance. Tap to switch between time alive and time remaining. No need to open the app. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small, medium, and large widgets keep your life timer visible on your Home Screen. Always updating, always reminding you: every second counts. 13 BEAUTIFUL THEMES • Classic LCD — the iconic green retro look • Retro Amber — warm vintage CRT glow • Dark Mode — sleek black and white • Tinted — follows your system accent colour • Greyscale — minimal and monochrome • Nixie Tube — warm orange-red on near-black • Synthwave — hot magenta digits + cyan accents on deep purple • Blueprint — cyan on navy • Crimson — red on near-black • Paper — dark grey on warm off-white • Porcelain — soft charcoal on clean ivory • Mint Cream — muted green on pale cream • Metal LCD — silver metallic frame with liquid crystal display BUILT FOR PRIVACY Life Timer collects zero data. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no cloud. Your birth date and preferences stay on your device and nowhere else. Delete the app and everything is gone. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No paywalls. Every feature, every time system, every theme — included in one-time payment. Life Timer is not a health app. Life expectancy estimates are for personal reflection and entertainment only — not medical advice. Every second counts. Start yours. Terms of Use EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://lifetimer.digital/privacy.html

About

Steep

This app offers a daily reflection ritual where users engage with a single thought each morning. They can choose to keep or discard the thought, building a personal archive over time. Premium features offer deeper insights and personalized reports.

Highlights
  • Daily single thought prompt
  • Option to keep or discard thoughts
  • Accumulating archive of reflections
  • Automatic topic (thread) gathering
  • Weekly silence on Sundays
  • Premium layered re-reading
  • Monthly and yearly personalized reports
Features
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Steep is a journal for one thought a day. Each morning, a single thought lands on your phone. You can steep it (sit with it, keep it) or pour it (let it go). That's the whole rhythm. There is no streak counter. There is no daily score. Sundays default to a quiet rest day with no notification. If you miss a day, nothing breaks. If you miss a week, the app waits. Over months, the thoughts you keep accumulate into something quietly meaningful. A list of threads you returned to. A small portrait of what you paid attention to. A year, in cross-section. What you get for free: • A new thought, every morning • A growing archive of what you kept and what you let go • Threads, the topics you returned to, gathered automatically • A weekly silence on by default Premium adds six slow artefacts that build over months: • Pull the thread, a layered re-reading of today's thought — three hand-written reflections pulled one at a time, deepening what you came to sit with • Thread Letters, a short letter on the first of each month composed from the thoughts you kept that month • Your Virtues, a slow self-portrait that fills in across six axes as you steep • Your Rings, a 12-month cross-section of the threads that shaped your year • Your Words, a typeset page of the words your kept thoughts keep returning to, sized by how often each one came up • Your Year, once a year a long letter composed from twelve months of kept thoughts, with the artefact trio compiled into a single printed-feeling page • The full archive, with no horizon Steep is private by design. Your reflections never leave your phone. There is no analytics, no sync, no server, no account. Apple sees only that you're subscribed. We never see your reflections. A small, careful piece of software, made by one person, slowly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://steepdaily.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://steepdaily.app/privacy

Screenshots

Life Timer Digital4 screens
Steep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life Timer Digital at none against Steep's 3. Steep's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Steep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Life Timer Digital asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Life Timer Digital against 5.0 for Steep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Timer Digital ships an update fortnightly, Steep every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Life Timer Digital versus Steep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife Timer DigitalSteep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperINNOVATIVE ONLINE INDUSTRIESAlex Stewart

Customer experience

Life Timer Digital

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Steep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Life Timer Digital

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Steep

Subscriptions2
  • Steep Premium · Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Steep Premium · Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Steep Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Life Timer Digital free?
Life Timer Digital is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Steep free?
Steep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Life Timer Digital or Steep?
Life Timer Digital and Steep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Life Timer Digital or Steep have ads?
Neither Life Timer Digital nor Steep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Timer Digital or Steep?
Life Timer Digital ships an update fortnightly, and Steep every 2 days. Most recently, Life Timer Digital was updated on October 28, 2026 and Steep on October 25, 2026.

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