# The Life Calendar

> Minimalist lock-screen wallpapers that visualize your life progress in weeks.

The Life Calendar generates dynamic lock-screen wallpapers for iPhone that display your life, year, or goals as grids of dots. It acts as a visual memento mori, updating automatically to show weeks lived and progress made every time you glance at your phone.

Website: https://thelifecalendar.com/

## What it is for

- Visualize your total lifespan in weeks on your phone lock screen
- Track progress through the current calendar year at a glance
- Count down weeks remaining until a personal deadline or goal

## Features

- Life calendar view displaying an entire lifetime rendered as a grid of weeks
- Year calendar view to track daily and weekly progress across the current year
- Goal calendar view showing a visual countdown to a specified deadline
- Automatic wallpaper updates directly on the iPhone lock screen
- Percentage-based progress stats (e.g. percentage toward age 90)

## Pricing

Free

## Details

- Type: Mobile app
- Category: [Productivity](https://xiry.app/topics/productivity.md)
- Open source: no
- Platforms: iOS, Web
- For: People interested in memento mori, mindfulness, and visual time-tracking tools.
- Tags: memento mori, wallpaper, lock screen, habits, tracking, minimalism

## Why it was saved

- [@luismbat, 1 January 2026](https://x.com/luismbat/status/2006693230109176288): A memento-mori productivity tool you see every time you unlock the phone; concept the author prototyped and shipped publicly.

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Updated 10 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/the-life-calendar

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