Life Cycle - Track Your Time

• Premium Features with Online Backup — $29.99

Last verified 5 Sep 2026

4.7 38879 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Best App I’ve Ever Downloaded, Best Company I’ve Ever Supported

   I’ve been using Life Cycle for almost 10 years now (probably around 8-9) and I’ve never been more loyal to an app. Life Cycle has been tracking my location and giving me statistical insights for SO long that it feels like a part of me. The functionality of this app is absolutely amazing, only very rarely bugging out or breaking, and by rarely I mean maybe three times in the past decade. There are no pop up ads every few seconds, no paywalls that lock away half the app, no sponsorships or partnerships pushing products or microtransactions, it’s beautiful. The data it collects is NOT SOLD!! Northcube is transparent in their values on personal data and doesn’t store it or sell it. They even give you an option to export your data to CSV format if you’re interested in doing a more thorough, personal data analysis. The $30 a year for premium is genuinely a steal and I’d recommend anyone who likes this app to pull the trigger on it, it is MORE than worth it. I pray this app never changes to be predatory, because the way it is now has given me the utmost respect and trust to the app and the company. I believe more companies/apps should strive to be like Northcube/Life Cycle, they are truly a blessing in today’s world.

   Lxnibug · 5 Sep 2026

2. 3/5Incredible app, but flawed pricing

   I use this app on a daily basis to help me track my time spent on activities in a week. There are 168 hours in a week, and by using this app, I can see how that time is allocated. In doing so, it helps me keep a balanced life, and I'm currently subscribed for the premium features. I love the structure and aesthetics of the app, and it's very user-friendly. However, it is absolutely ridiculous to require a $30 annual subscription from Sleep Cycle in order to access some of the sleep trend data charts. It's clearly unnecessary as the two options unavailable are "activities affecting your sleep quality" and "location effecting your sleep quality." Since Life Cycle continuously tracks your location & the sleep recorded by Sleep Cycle is synced, then there is absolutely no reason for the Sleep Cycle online backup subscription to be required. And how can Sleep Cycle selectively transfer data to Life Cycle by requiring online backup for some data, but not all data in the Life Cycle trends? I will gladly pay $10 a year for many years, but to quadruple that expense for access to two "additional" sleep trend data charts is ludicrous. I've recommended this app to several friends, but this limitation has really turned them away.

   Account4this · 5 Sep 2026

3. 3/5Needs a few changes

   I’ve been trying out the free trail for a few weeks, and I love the idea behind this app so far. However, I will not be paying for premium and don’t see myself sticking even to the free version because of a few small bugs that irritate me. First, there are some bugs with this app tracking location. It can sometimes take a couple days for it to pop up that I was in an area or it won’t show up at all, then I have to enter it manually (which is both annoying and inaccurate). Second, why can’t I edit the activities already in the app? I don’t need a lunch and dinner option, just a “food” option. I could create my own, but it still irritates me to see the other options cluttering up my activities. Third, an activity at a uncategorized location will have a general area on a map tagged to it. But once I put in a custom name for the location, sometimes the location is untagged? Fourth, I’d like to be able to start an activity in the app somehow and stop it manually. Rather than having to remember my start and stop times and enter it after I finish if I want to manually create an activity. Finally, it would be nice to have more color options and be able to view my day in chronological order as well as by category. Overall the concept behind this app is great but I’m going to delete it because the execution makes the app more difficult to use than it’s insights are worth.

   pepe's child · 5 Sep 2026

4. 2/5Nice idea but horrible errors

   I rarely write app reviews, especially negative ones, but I had to write one about Life Cycle. I’ve been using this app for a couple years, but I couldn’t stand it anymore, and I just deleted it. I don’t know if I’ve ever deleted an app based on sheer annoyance, and I very rarely delete apps at all! Every single week when this app tells me the weekly cycle is done and I review each day, there are always location and/or time errors. Some I can fix, some the app refuses to allow me to edit. Some of them are beyond ridiculous and inexplicable where it could’ve gotten the wrong data and why I can’t fix it. But the straw that broke the camel’s back for me today is that the app insists I was at an airport from 4:59 p.m. Thursday to 11:53 a.m. Friday. I was in reality in the last few hours of a visit at my parents’ that entire time, at their house, miles away. Twice I manually edited it and tried to override that errant data, but both times it reverted back to claiming I was at the airport all those hours. It’s insane. Their house isn’t even close to the airport, I never drove near the airport Thursday, and my WiFi was on the entire time, connected to their home WiFi, not even in the same town. In reality, I was at the airport from about 11:45 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. on Friday. I am so tired of dealing with how annoying this app is, especially when it won’t let me fix their wrong, crazy data, and the app developer never improves/fixes these problems, despite the fact that I’ve provided feedback. Goodbye, Life Cycle. Hope you figure it out someday.

   xcwomac · 5 Sep 2026

5. 5/5Simply the best time tracking

   Such a great. So many time tracking apps are focused solely on what you’re doing, and force you to manually tell it what you’re doing and when. That doesn’t feel like time tracking at all. That feels like time waisting. This app does something pretty obvious, and it does it so well. It tracks your time based on location. You’re at work, that must mean you’re doing work, you’re driving somewhere that must mean you’re driving in a car. It makes assumptions for you based on what you do at different locations. If you work from home one day, just go in and tap the plus icon to change that home time to worked time. I’m sure they’re people who need to track projects and tasks at a much more micro level. But for me, getting info such as I normally eat lunch at a certain time on Tuesdays or the last time I was at a friends house or even that I got less sleep than I normally do is such a great value for money. I love that this app lets me look back easily on what I did and when I did it with very little work or effort. Great app that offers incredible insights.

   johndoeindigo · 5 Sep 2026

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