Sandglass: Life Perspective
Adam Palethorpe Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Sandglass: Life Perspective is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Adam Palethorpe. Requires iOS 26.5. Updated August 26, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 26
- 2026 · v1.0.1
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About Sandglass: Life Perspective
Sandglass shows you how much time you actually have to spend each week — not the fantasy version, the real one, after sleep, work and life admin are accounted for. What you can do: Work out your own numbers in a few minutes. Your date of birth becomes a life in weeks, your week becomes 168 hours, and what's left after everything already spoken for becomes the number you actually get to decide about. Decide where that time goes. Pick the three things that matter most this season, your children, your partner, your work, whatever it actually is, and put a rough shape on how you mean to spend your hours between them. Look back for thirty seconds, once a week. Not a log, not a habit tracker: just an honest answer to how each priority actually felt. No grading yourself against what you meant to do. Watch it build into something. Every week you reflect on adds its colour to a picture of your life: a grid of every week you've lived and every week ahead, and a closer strip of the last year, filling in as you go. Why it's different: Sandglass is not a productivity app. There's nothing to complete, nothing to optimise, and nothing to fail at. No streaks, no scores, no tasks. It shows you the shape of your time and asks one question: does the way you're spending it reflect what matters to you? Your life stays yours: no account, no advertising, and nothing ever leaves your device. It's built to be opened for a minute a week, not to pull your attention — the goal is to spend less time thinking about your time, not more. Free to set up and see your numbers. One lifetime unlock, £4.99, no subscription, for the full version — forever.
What’s new
Version 1.0.1 · Updated August 26, 2026
Fixes a bug where the weekly reminder to look back on your week wouldn't ask for notification permission if it was set from Settings before your first reflection.
App privacy
The developer, Adam Palethorpe, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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