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. 3/5Needs 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

3. 5/5Could be stunning

   Update: I should’ve confessed by now something LifeCycle has been telling me for years- either I waste a lot of time, take my time or am just slow. Challenge yourself to find out what you’ve been hiding from yourself. ——————— ——————— ——————— ——————— ——————— I know I reviewed this before and always with the same comments. It's great, even when we don't go anywhere- I sometimes grab a screenshot or photo to mark a transition from one activity to another and add so many in manually later. There's not enough resolution to know from my Nia, Yoga or swimming in the same complex. I wouldn't expect it, don't know why other reviewers did and why they dropped 🌟 because of it. 🙄 My only (only?) issues are the colors and icons. Why so few? I've re-useds icons but they've often not been appropriate for any category. The same goes for the colors; the dreary, dreary colors. A color wheel could make us happy and how thrilling it would be if you bought or designed as many icons as there are now! What if even half of those had the subtle, sneaky movement some of the original have? Imagine how amazing your app would be!

   PhelineCat · 5 Sep 2026

4. 2/5Not Completely Automatic.

   I have been using this for a number of years now. At first I understood that I needed to tell it what I was doing as it learned the locations and many times it was just unable to get it close. After years of it having inaccurate location data I finally decided to raise a case with support just to find out if I can manually move the map pin to the correct location. I was told that it is unable to change the pin as it just pulls the data from the built in location services that the phone does automatically. Upon learning how it does it, I was able to look up the data from the most recent inaccurate map pin only to find that the phone had the location correct. I also noticed that the times on the in built data was more accurate than life cycle. I wrote back to support saying that the phone had the correct location and asked how can I get the app to use it. The response I got back that it wasn’t possible and just to create an event manually. When you do that though it doesn’t let you pick an address or location on a map so if you return you have to hope it gets it right when you go back. Would have given a higher rating if they showed some effort at improving it. But since there has been hardly any changes to the app since it started I shouldn’t expect them to start it now.

   kaimax18 · 5 Sep 2026

5. 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

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