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name: "Life Tile"
subtitle: "Your day, auto-tracked and rendered as a Mondrian-style grid"
date: 2026-07-24
shortlist: true
link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-tile-auto-tracker/id6767332648"
linkText: "apps.apple.com"
source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
topics: [ios-apps, productivity]
tags: [time-tracking, mondrian, passive-tracking, on-device]
description: "An iPhone app that passively tracks where you spend your day and renders it as a colorful Mondrian-style block grid instead of a chart or a list of numbers."
---

Most time trackers ask you to log things; Life Tile just watches your location in the background and turns the day into a grid of colored blocks sized by how long you spent in each place — a dead ringer for a Mondrian painting, not a dashboard. It also stacks up as a chronological view, a map, or a list if you want the numbers back. Free, with a $9.99 one-time unlock for full history; iPhone only, needs iOS 26.
