Your whole life on one timeline
Write down the moments that matter, with the people, places, photos and songs around them. Then zoom out from a single day to the decades that made you.
iPhone · iPad · Android phones and tablets · Mac with Apple silicon · Web
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From one day to decades
Lifely draws your life as one continuous stripe. Pinch to zoom out and a busy week becomes a month, then a year, then everything since the day you were born.
- Any date, past or presentAdd the day you met, your first job, or what happened this morning.
- Life periodsMark chapters like school, a city you lived in or a relationship. They run alongside your events.
- Search and filtersFind any moment by text, tag, person or period.
An example life. Switch the zoom level to see it from further away.
Everything a moment needs
An event is more than a line in a diary. Keep the photos, the people who were there, where it happened, how you felt and the song that was playing.
Rain all morning, then the sun came out right before the ceremony. Dad cried first.
People
Tag the people in your life and open a timeline of the events you have linked to them.
Songs
Attach the soundtrack of a moment from Apple Music’s catalogue and play a preview right in the event.
Places, mood, tags
Pin where it happened, pick an emoji for how it felt and group events with your own tags.
Importance
Colour each event by how much it meant, so the big moments stand out from far away.
Your past comes back to you
Lifely can bring back past events from your timeline as stories you can tap through and share.
Do you remember that day
some time ago?
Remember that day?
Moments from a week, a year or ten years ago resurface on their own, so the small good days don’t get lost.
Your life, estimated
Lifely uses your age and fixed averages to estimate things you rarely think about, such as heartbeats and distance travelled around the Sun.
Estimated heartbeats
Trips around the Sun
Estimated cups of teaShare it
Turn any event or memory into a ready-made image for stories and chats.
Your life in weeks
A life calendar shows your life as a grid of weeks or years. Try this free calculator with your birthday, then choose a memory you want to keep.
This is your life in years. Each circle represents a year.
Each square is a week. Each row groups 52 weeks, about one year.
An example birthday is shown on your first visit; replace it with your own. The week view has 90 rows of 52 weeks: 4,680 boxes. This is a simplified illustration, not a prediction of your lifespan or an exact 90-year calendar. Unfinished weeks include the current week.
Every circle is a year and every square is a week. In Lifely, the life calendar uses the colours of your events. Here, the demo shows elapsed time; your birthday stays in your browser.
From weeks to memories
Pick a week you remember: moving somewhere, meeting a friend, finishing a project or sharing a meal. Save a dated event in Lifely with the people and details around it, then see it in the context of your life.
Choose a memory with our life timeline prompts →
See how the life calendar works in Lifely →
Tim Urban explored this way of seeing time in Your Life in Weeks on Wait But Why.
A few curious estimates about your life so far
Rough estimates calculated from your birthday using fixed averages, as in Lifely’s memories. These are not personal measurements.
–estimated heartbeats
–estimated km travelled around the Sun
–estimated blinks
–estimated days asleep
–estimated lunar orbits
–cups of tea, give or take
On your phone, tablet and Mac
Keep one diary on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Mac with Apple silicon, or the web. Sign in with the same account on each device and sync when you’re online.
Phones and tablets
Install Lifely on iPhone or iPad from the App Store, or on Android phones and tablets from Google Play. Record a moment on your phone and revisit it on a bigger screen.
Mac with Apple silicon
Install Lifely directly from the Mac App Store on a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later and macOS 12 or later. The iPad app runs on your Mac without a browser.
Get Lifely for Mac → Mac installation guide →Web app
Write longer stories on a big screen and scroll through years of your life with a mouse.
Open app.lifely.page →App lock and export
The mobile app offers a passcode and biometric unlock on supported devices. CSV and text export options are available; access and full backup options vary by plan and platform. Read our privacy policy for data practices.
A life timeline, a personal diary
Lifely is made for recording your life: dated events, the people in them and the periods that connect them.
How is a timeline different from a diary?
A diary gives a moment its words and details. A life timeline puts dated moments in context across days, years and decades. Lifely combines both, with life periods and people to help organize your story.
Can I add memories from before I installed it?
Yes. Add past events using their dates, then zoom out to see them alongside more recent moments. Start with our personal life timeline guide and free worksheet.
Is Lifely free?
Lifely is free to download. It includes in-app purchases and ads; some media, organization, export and personalization options require Premium or a rewarded ad. Check the app and your local store for current options and prices.
Where can I use it?
Lifely is available on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Macs with Apple silicon, and in your browser at app.lifely.page. Use the same sign-in account on each device. Features can differ between the installed apps and the web.
Can I install Lifely on my Mac?
Yes. Install Lifely from the Mac App Store on a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later and macOS 12 or later. You use the iPad app directly on your Mac without a browser. See the Mac installation guide.
Does Lifely work on iPad and Android tablets?
Yes. Install Lifely on iPad from the App Store or on a compatible Android tablet from Google Play. Sign in with the same account as on your phone to continue with the same diary. See the tablet guide.
Is this a public diary or an AI journal?
Lifely is a personal timeline and diary, rather than a public feed or an AI writing assistant. You can choose to share designed memory cards. Read our privacy policy for details about data practices.
Who makes Lifely?
Lifely is made by Sheep Apps Inc. This is the website for our personal life timeline and diary. Get Lifely for iPhone, iPad and compatible Macs from the App Store, for Android phones and tablets from Google Play, or use our browser app. For support, email lifely@sheep-apps.com.
Start your timeline today
Start with a few moments you want to remember, then add more as your life unfolds.