The Life Timeline
Own Your Weeks. Own Your Data.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your life has a finite number of weeks. This app shows you exactly how many.
Please note: The base Life Timeline is free to use forever, including all cloud backup and syncing features. A premium annual subscription is required to unlock advanced features like custom themes, artwork exports, and multiple timeline archives.
Open The Life Timeline and it snaps directly to This Week—your fixed position in an infinite scroll that stretches from the week you were born to the week of your 100th birthday. Scroll up, and the past fades into a gentle archival haze. Scroll down, and the future unfolds as a concrete, numbered runway: not an abstract "someday," but an exact count.
A Different Kind of Calendar
Sync your Apple calendar and every future event transforms into a distance: You are 14 weeks from your anniversary. You are 312 weeks from your planned retirement. Tag anything with # and the app calculates the exact weight of the gap. The infinite scroll of social media replaced with the finite scroll of your own existence.
Your Data Is a File You Own
Most journaling apps store your life in a database on their servers. When they close, change pricing, or get acquired—your memories go with them.
The Life Timeline stores everything as a standard, human-readable Markdown file on your own iCloud, No proprietary format. No account required. If this app disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have every note, every tag, every memory in a file you can open on any device, in any text editor, for the rest of your life.
Built for Three Kinds of People
- The Data Sovereign: You self-host. You use iCloud for everything personal. You want a life-planning app that stores data in a format you actually control.
- The Practical Stoic: You practice Memento Mori to sharpen your priorities. You need to see the geometry of your remaining weeks to make better decisions today.
- The Legacy Builder: You think in decades. You want daily calendar entries to automatically become part of a generational archive you can hand to your children.
Features
- Infinite vertical scroll from birth to your 100th birthday snaps to This Week
- Zoom levels: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, Decade
- Live calendar sync with Apple Calendar
- @ events and # tags with automatic week-distance calculations
- Notes stored as plain Markdown readable by any text editor
- Free Cloud Sync: Seamlessly sync across iCloud
- Memory Canvas (Pro): Export any week or event as a shareable artwork
- Extra Timelines (Pro): Run separate named timelines (e.g., project, creative)
- Birthday markers, decade boundaries, and age sublabels throughout
- Search across all your notes and events instantly
- Zero tracking scripts. Zero analytics. Zero data collection.
Pro Annual Subscription to Unlock Annually ($3.99)
A premium annual subscription unlocks full access to:
- All 17 Pro themes: Cartographer, Deep Space, Neon Noir, Blueprint, and 13 more.
- Memory Canvas: Shareable artwork exports.
- Extra Timelines: Multiple named life archives.
Subscription Information:
Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. This is an automatically renewing annual subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew each year unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in your App Store Account Settings.
The Life Timeline is independent software. No venture capital. No growth targets. No incentive to monetize your attention. Just a tool built to be genuinely useful.
Try Pro free for 14 days (new subscribers only). After the trial, Life Timeline Pro renews yearly at the price shown in the app unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions.
LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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The developer, ETHAN KYLE HELGAGER, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- ETHAN KYLE HELGAGER
- Size
- 55.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Life Timeline Pro $14.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Overcomplicated DIY
