Life Tile vs OwnTime.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Life Tile
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Your day as a Mondrian-inspired grid. Passive. Private. On-device. Life Tile tracks where you spend your time and shows it as a colorful square grid. Your phone knows where you are. Life Tile uses that to build a picture of your day. Each colored block is a place or activity, sized by how long you were there. At a glance, you see exactly where your time went. HOW IT WORKS Life Tile detects the places you visit in the background. Set up a place once β name it, pick a category β and it's tracked automatically from then on. You can also correct or adjust entries when needed. PRIVACY Your location and activity data stays on your device. No accounts, no servers, no ads. Optional iCloud sync between your own devices only. Anonymous usage stats can be turned off in Settings. SQUARE TILE CHART Your day as a grid of colored blocks. It stays readable even with many categories. The bigger the block, the more time you spent there. TREEMAP, MAP & LIST Zoom out to your day, week, or month. The treemap shows proportionally where your time goes. Switch to map view to see every place you visited, or list view to browse your timeline. Patterns and habits become obvious. TWO-LEVEL CATEGORIES Organize your activities with main categories and subcategories. Exercise > Outdoor Run, Entertainment > Concert, Meals > Lunch β as detailed as you want. SLEEP & WORKOUTS Pulls sleep and workout data from Apple Health to complete the picture of your day. No extra setup needed. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS Check your day from the home screen. Widgets show your current activity and today's breakdown. Shortcuts let you automate common actions. CSV IMPORT Coming from another time-tracking app? Import your CSV data and keep your history. ONE-TIME PURCHASE No subscription. Buy once, use forever.
OwnTime.
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Track the time you mean to spend. Most time trackers answer "where did my hours go?" OwnTime answers a better question: which of the things you care about are you neglecting right now? You define a small set of priorities β the parts of your life that actually matter β and give each one a daily budget. Then you start and stop sessions as the day unfolds. At a glance you see what still has time left and what you've been ignoring. IPHONE AND APPLE WATCH OwnTime works on its own on iPhone β start, stop, and log sessions, get budget alarms, and follow the live session on the Lock Screen and Home Screen. Add an Apple Watch and it becomes a first-class second surface, built for the next two seconds of intent: start, stop, glance. Your priorities and sessions sync directly between your own devices, and neither one needs the other nearby. BUDGETS, NOT TIMESHEETS Each priority has a daily budget, so neglect is visible at a glance β no spreadsheets, no billing, no projects. Optional alarms warn you before a budget runs out. YOUR DATA, IN A FILE YOU OWN One tap exports your complete history as a standard SQLite database β the same file the app itself uses. Open it with any tool you like, or keep it as a backup. No export format to decode, no account to request it from. PRIVATE BY DESIGN OwnTime has no server and no account. Your priorities and sessions live on your iPhone and Apple Watch and sync directly between your own paired devices over Apple's WatchConnectivity β never through us, never to the cloud. No analytics, ever. ALSO INCLUDED β’ Home Screen widgets (small and medium) with your remaining budget at a glance β’ Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island β’ Start, stop, and log past sessions with Siri and Shortcuts β’ Quick edits on iPhone or Apple Watch β name, daily budget, colour β’ Light and dark appearance OwnTime is for personal attention, not invoicing. If you want to see whether you're actually living by your priorities β not just logging hours β this is the tracker for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Life Tile at Free against OwnTime.'s $1.99. OwnTime.'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Life Tile is free to download; OwnTime. costs $1.99 up front. Life Tile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OwnTime. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life Tile ships an update every 9 days, OwnTime. every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life Tile | OwnTime. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free β better | $1.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch β better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 β better | 26.1 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | dugodogu | Sta Labs FlexCo |
In-app purchases
Life Tile
- Life Tile Full Access$9.99
OwnTime.
No in-app purchases









