Life Compass

Life Compass is a life planning app that treats goals, habits, and relationships as one system rather than a to-do list. It borrows its structure from Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, and describes itself as an independent product inspired by published works on personal effectiveness rather than an official companion. The pitch is that a task list tells you what's due, but not whether your weeks add up to the life you said you wanted.

The problem it's built for is imbalance that creeps in unnoticed. Work goals get tracked because they have deadlines, while health, family, and learning drift because nothing measures them, and by the time you notice, a year has gone. Life Compass makes every area visible at once, through a Life Wheel across eight dimensions and a Compass Index, which the site describes as a multi-dimensional scoring system that lets you see balance and growth trends across all areas of your life. The point of the number isn't precision, it's that a falling score in one area is hard to ignore. Mood tracking on the Today View and the Life Wheel trends feed the same idea, that you can't manage what you don't see.

Day to day, it opens on a Today View with the Compass Index, habit check-ins, and mood tracking. Goals are sorted with the time management matrix from The 7 Habits, with the emphasis on Quadrant II, the important but not urgent work that a reactive week squeezes out. Habits follow an atomic habits approach with heatmaps to show consistency. A weekly planner lines your week up against your roles and priorities, which is the ritual at the centre of Covey's system, and morning and evening rituals bookend the day. Beyond the basics there are emotional accounts for tracking deposits and withdrawals in relationships, a flow journal, a decision journal, and Circles, plus analytics on decision quality, flow patterns, relationship balance, and Life Wheel trends over time. Roles come from Covey too, the idea that you're a parent, a manager, a friend, and a student at the same time and that a good week gives each one something, and the free plan's cap of five roles is about that structure.

It's for people who already buy into a framework for living deliberately and want software that follows it instead of fighting it. Readers of Covey who have tried to run the weekly planning ritual in a paper planner or a spreadsheet are the obvious audience, along with anyone who tracks habits but wants them tied to roles and goals rather than floating on their own. It also suits people who want relationships and decisions to get the same attention as tasks, which almost no task manager offers. It's a personal tool rather than a team one. The site describes nothing about sharing or collaboration, so it sits alongside a work task manager rather than replacing it. You sign up on the site and use it in the browser, in English or Chinese, and the site doesn't mention native mobile apps.

What sets it apart from generic habit trackers and task managers is that the philosophy is the schema. Roles, values, quadrants, emotional accounts, and the Life Wheel are first-class objects, not tags you bolt onto a task. That's also the main caveat. If you don't want Covey's vocabulary, the structure will feel imposed, and because there are no app store listings the phone experience is the web app in a mobile browser. It's also an independent product with no company or founder named on the site, so you're trusting a small team. The Chinese-language option is unusual for an indie productivity app and suggests where part of the audience is.

Getting started costs nothing. There's a free Wheel of Life assessment on the site that doesn't need an account, and the app itself has an onboarding flow and a first assessment on the free plan, so you can see the Life Wheel and the Compass Index before deciding whether the framework fits you. The seven-day trial is full Pro rather than a cut-down version, so the analytics and journals can be judged on real data. The data policy is worth noting too, since the site says your data is never deleted on a downgrade and stays viewable in read-only mode alongside the free features.

Access is freemium. The Free plan allows up to five active goals, three active habits, and five roles, with the Today View, weekly planner, values, focus mode, the Life Wheel, basic stats and achievements, and a first assessment. Pro is $79 a year, which the site presents as $6.58 a month billed annually, and lifts the limits while adding emotional tracking, flow states, the decisions journal, Circles, and the advanced analytics. New users get a seven-day trial with full Pro access, there's a 14-day money-back guarantee on first purchases, and you can cancel any time with Pro access running to the end of the billing period. Support is at hello@lifecmp.com.