Comparison

Life Tile vs Arctic Habit

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

Head to head
About

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 — name it, pick a category — 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 — 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.

About

Arctic Habit

Enhance focus and productivity with a unique timer that rewards your concentration by growing a virtual Arctic habitat. Rescue animals and decorate your island as you complete study, reading, or deep work sessions. Track your habits and gain insights into your focus patterns.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus timer with animal rewards
  • Customizable Arctic island habitat
  • Session tagging for study, reading, and more
  • Streak tracking and habit analytics
  • Deep Focus mode to block other apps
  • Focus sounds (rain, waves, lo-fi)
  • To-do list integration with Pro
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Focus and rescue your Arctic friends. Turn study, reading and deep work into a growing island of penguins, seals and orcas. MAKE FOCUS FEEL REWARDING • Set a session from 10 to 180 minutes. As you focus, the ice melts; completing the session frees your chosen animal or decoration. • Place your rewards on your own ice island. Watch penguins huddle, seals greet one another at the water's edge and orcas swim and dive. • Shape the snow and ocean with Focus Ice earned from completed sessions. Day and night follow your device's clock. UNDERSTAND YOUR HABITS • Tag sessions for study, reading, languages or exercise. • Follow your streak, compare day, week, month and year charts, and revisit your session history. • Turn on Deep Focus to lock other apps during a session. Screen Time permission is required; essential system apps remain available. • Choose focus sounds such as rain, waves, white noise, lo-fi and piano. GO FURTHER WITH ARCTIC PRO • Analyze time by tag, see your six-month focus grid and discover your golden hours. • Organize To-Dos under your tags and start a focus session for a task. Create unlimited tags. • Save Deep Focus presets of the apps you allow for study and work. • Enjoy an aurora over your island and double a completed session's Focus Ice without ads. • Unlock the orca after your first paid subscription purchase, rather than during the free trial. The focus timer, core island progression, streaks and focus charts are available free. Free users can optionally watch a rewarded ad after a session to double that session's Focus Ice; ads never interrupt an active focus session. Pro offers monthly and yearly auto-renewable plans. Eligible new subscribers receive a 7-day free trial. Prices, eligibility and renewal details appear before purchase. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app. Focus history and your island stay on this device. Sign in with Apple, Google or a one-time email code. Delete your account from Settings. Build a habit. Grow a habitat. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://policy.go2gym365.com/arctichabit/en/privacy

Screenshots

Life Tile4 screens
Arctic Habit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Life Tile at none against Arctic Habit's shown. Arctic Habit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Life Tile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Arctic Habit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Tile ships an update every 9 days, Arctic Habit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Life Tile versus Arctic Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife TileArctic Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdugodogujeonghwan lee

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Life Tile

One-time1
  • Life Tile Full Access$9.99
2 purchases

Arctic Habit

Subscriptions2
  • Arctic Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Arctic Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Life Tile free?
Life Tile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arctic Habit free?
Arctic Habit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Life Tile or Arctic Habit have ads?
Arctic Habit shows ads; Life Tile does not.
Which is updated more often, Life Tile or Arctic Habit?
Life Tile ships an update every 9 days, and Arctic Habit every 2 days. Most recently, Life Tile was updated on October 17, 2026 and Arctic Habit on October 23, 2026.

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