Live Level vs MLA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Live Level
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LiveLevel is the perfect app for anyone looking to build new habits or break old ones. Track your progress through an intuitive leveling system. Whether you want to quit smoking, eat healthier, or exercise more, LiveLevel helps you reach your goals. Complete a quest to earn XP and level upβbut if you miss a quest within your set timeframe, you lose XP and drop in level. LiveLevel perfectly combines the psychological aspects of an RPG with your real-life goals. CREATE HABITS Add the habits you want to track quickly and easily. Just enter a name, category, and time interval, and you're ready to go. LEVEL SYSTEM Stay motivated by your level. Set the difficulty and frequency of your habits, and watch your level rise! DASHBOARD See all your habits at a glance in a clean, organized dashboard. Manage your quests with just a few clicks. STATISTICS Find out how to optimize your habits to achieve the perfect result. LiveLevel provides you with detailed, customizable statistics. REMINDERS Never miss a habit again by adding reminders to your quests. Privacy Policy: https://jan-timmermann.com/live-level/datenschutzerklΓ€rung/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
MLA
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Stop texting each other about what's on the calendar, or what's for dinner. Mental Load Assistant is a smart shared planner built around the way people actually share their lives. Instead of handing someone your entire calendar, you organize events with color-coded tags, then share exactly the tags that matter with exactly the people who need them. β β β TELL MLA: SAY IT ONCE β β β Type, or hold the mic and talk: "Dentist Tuesday at 3, soccer every Thursday, buy milk and eggs." MLA turns it into events, tasks and shopping items, and you check them before anything is added. Plans changed? "Move today's dinner to 7" or "Tag Dance with Chloe" updates the event you already have, for just that day or the whole series. Ask "What do I have after 12?" or "When is Colin's wedding?" and tap any event to see it. It all runs on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence; nothing you say is sent anywhere. β β β YOUR DAY, IN PLAIN ENGLISH β β β The top of Today tells you what's on and when the day picks up again, with what's due and what's left to buy. After your last event it moves on to tomorrow. Get it as a morning and evening notification too. Week Ahead opens with one line: a light, medium or busy week, your free days, and how the weekend looks. β β β CREATE EVENTS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE β β β Full recurrence support: daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, or patterns like "the first Saturday of the month." Add a location, notes, reminders and tags, and pick dates from a calendar with the time wheel right below it. β β β TAG-BASED SHARING β β β Create color-coded tags like "Family," "Work" or "Date Night." Share a tag with read-only access to stay informed or write access to collaborate. Revoke access instantly. No over-sharing. β β β TASK LISTS THAT KEEP UP β β β Shared to-do lists with due dates and repeating tasks. Give a list a place and get reminded when you arrive, so the hardware store list shows up at the hardware store. β β β PLAN MEALS & SHOP SMARTER β β β Save recipes with ingredients, steps, cook time and a photo, or snap a cookbook page or pick a PDF and MLA fills in the recipe for you. Drag recipes onto a weekly meal plan and turn it into a shopping list that combines duplicates and converts units. Items land under the store you bought them at last time. β β β HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI (iOS 27) β β β "Add an event in Mental Load Assistant." "What's on next week in Mental Load Assistant?" Siri adds events, tasks and shopping items, tells you what's coming up, and lets you undo with one tap. β β β BUILT FOR TWO (OR MORE) β β β Partners, co-parents, households or a small team: everyone stays on the same page without one person remembering everything. β β β SMART, SECURE & NATIVE β β β β’ Face ID / Touch ID β’ Push notifications and event reminders β’ Home-screen widget showing what's next β’ Quick Action: create a new event from your home screen β’ Dark and light mode β’ Optimized for iPhone and iPad β β β GO PRO β β β The free plan covers the basics, including the weekly summary and store-sorted shopping. Pro removes every limit on events, tags, lists and recipes, and adds Tell MLA, the daily summary, recipe import and weather on every event with a location. β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β Mental Load Assistant is free to download. Set up your first event before you sign up; an account is needed to save and share. Tell MLA and recipe import need an iPhone with Apple Intelligence.
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Verdict
Live Level and MLA are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Live Level sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and MLA sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Live Level ships an update every 3 weeks, MLA every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live Level | MLA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 15.1 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan Timmermann | Jeffrey Kiyomura |
In-app purchases
Live Level
- Live Level Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Live Level Pro - Yearly$12.991 Year
- Live Level Pro - Lifetime$24.99
MLA
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$19.991 Year









