Comparison

Sabolog vs LIFE/CTRL

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

Head to head
About

Sabolog

This app helps you playfully track tasks you're procrastinating on. Record your slacking with reasons, colors, and optional deadlines. Review your slacking history and streaks, and customize your experience with widgets and themes.

Highlights
  • Record slacking with reasons and colors
  • Optional deadlines and reminders
  • Slacking history and streak tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable color themes
  • Manual and automatic backups
Features
Read full description

Feel like slacking off today? We've got you. Work, studying, chores, reading. Give the things you're putting off a lighthearted excuse. Sabolog is a task list for days when you want to slack offβ€”not another push to get more done. RECORD YOUR SLACKING Add a task, the day you started slacking, a reason, and a color. Already been putting it off for a while? Choose a date in the past. Reasons are assigned at random from 200 presets, and you can change them. Sort by days slacking or filter by color. OPTIONAL DEADLINES AND REMINDERS Set a deadline only when you want one. See the date and the days remaining right on the task card. Alongside daily reminders, choose how many days before a deadline or after you started slacking to receive a notification. Add up to five timings for each reminder type. LOOK BACK Explore your total days slacking, longest streak, and distribution of slacking durations. Keep completed tasks as part of your history. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Medium and large widgets show your ongoing tasks and days slacking without opening the app. MAKE IT YOURS Color themes are free and also change your widget background. With Pro, choose the character-filled Original style or the clean Simple style. Customize your app icon with different designs and colors. BACKUPS Manually back up to iCloud and choose a saved version to restore. Keep up to five backups in total, across manual and automatic backups. Pro also includes automatic backups. REMOVE ADS: ONE-TIME PURCHASE Make one purchase to remove in-app ads. This purchase does not include automatic backups, app icon customization, or style changes. SABOLOG PRO: MONTHLY OR YEARLY β€’ No ads β€’ Automatic backups β€’ App icon customization β€’ Original and Simple styles Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. The price and billing period are shown on the purchase screen. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://leololo1.github.io/sabolog-privacy/privacy-en.html

About

LIFE/CTRL

This app helps you build and manage daily routines using customizable templates. It allows you to create reusable activity blocks, arrange them into daily schedules, and assign these schedules to specific dates. Widgets provide at-a-glance progress and task completion without needing to open the app.

Highlights
  • AI-powered day creation
  • Reusable activity parts
  • Customizable LIFE templates
  • Calendar assignment
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • TODO items and alarms
Features
Read full description

Most days follow a familiar flow. In LIFE/CTRL you build that flow first as a pattern, a LIFE, then add each day's plans on top of it. Make as many LIFEs as you like: weekdays, days off, days out and more. Put a LIFE on a calendar date and it becomes that day's plan. Add plans or changes for just that day, and the pattern stays as it is. Inside a LIFE, the day is divided into blocks by time and task, and you add parts, your actions, to each block. Your Home Screen widget keeps showing the tasks you need right now. γ€ŠHow it works》 β–  Create with CTRL Answer a few questions and CTRL builds a day from wake-up to sleep. You can also type a request to adjust an existing LIFE, create a part, or add TODO items and alarms. β–  Build reusable parts Turn brushing your teeth, meals, work, shopping and other activities into timed parts. Choose an icon and colour, then reuse each part across multiple LIFE templates. β–  Arrange your day Place parts inside blocks such as WAKE, WORK, HOME and SLEEP. Since wake-up starts the day and sleep ends it, schedules that cross midnight, including night shifts, work naturally. β–  Assign LIFE templates to dates Assign a LIFE to a calendar date to create that day. Keep settings that apply every time separate from changes for one specific date. β–  Run the day from widgets Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the current block and its parts. Mark actions complete without opening the app. β–  TODO items and alarms Store belongings or steps inside a part as TODO items. Alarms support sound, snooze and vibration-only options. Available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Spanish. Free, with no ads or in-app purchases. Your routine data is stored on your device. Only if you allow CTRL's input interpretation is the text you type sent through our server to Google Gemini. Alarm features require iOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

Sabolog4 screens
LIFE/CTRL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LIFE/CTRL at none against Sabolog's 3. LIFE/CTRL also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Sabolog's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment and device support 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

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

Both are free to download. Sabolog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. LIFE/CTRL asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sabolog ships an update every 3 weeks, LIFE/CTRL every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Β· 3 level
Sabolog versus LIFE/CTRL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSabologLIFE/CTRL
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days β€” better
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size41 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReo MorishigeYUKIYA SHIMODA

Customer experience

Sabolog

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LIFE/CTRL

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sabolog

Subscriptions2
  • さぼログ Pro ζœˆι‘γƒ—γƒ©γƒ³$1.991 Month
  • さぼログ Pro 年鑍プラン$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Hide ads$5.99
None

LIFE/CTRL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sabolog free?
Sabolog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LIFE/CTRL free?
LIFE/CTRL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sabolog or LIFE/CTRL have ads?
Sabolog shows ads; LIFE/CTRL does not.
Which is updated more often, Sabolog or LIFE/CTRL?
Sabolog ships an update every 3 weeks, and LIFE/CTRL every 2 days. Most recently, Sabolog was updated on November 5, 2026 and LIFE/CTRL on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons