chronalife Downloads & Revenuechronalife · App Store
chronalife is #97 in Games › Role Playing Paid in United States and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAndrew Wade
CategoryGames
Price1.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.3 (86)
Version1.8.0
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)5k+ worldwide
⭐Passed 100 ratings📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country📦Updated to version 1.8.0⭐Passed 100 ratings🆕Its developer released another app: Chrona FC: Manage Your Club📦Updated to version 1.7.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 32 events
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · PH
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countryPhilippines
- 📦chronalife updated to version 1.8.0ChronaLife 1.8.0 — Partnership finances, real pregnancies, working royal succession, and a big bug sweep.
NEW
• Partnership finances: keep money separate, open a joint account, or put it all together, and borrow on combined income
• Real pregnancies: babies arrive on a later Age Up, and you find out "It's a girl!" or "It's a boy!" before naming them
• Change your name: take your spouse's surname when you marry, hyphenate, or file a legal name change
• New siblings: your parents can have more kids while you're growing up
• Inheritances from grandparents: grandkids get a share of the estate, and closer grandkids get more
• Buy assets with your credit card. Watch that balance!
• Asset prices that move: every item has a daily price, with Good deal and Dealer premium tags
• Property Manager targets: choose which home types your acquisitions lead buys, or pin specific homes
• Time Machine eras: rewind all the way back to childhood, or jump to any decade
• Service all assets in one tap, a private caretaker on Health, and Top Dividends on Stocks
• Sandbox: No cooldowns and Add sibling
FIXED
• Royal succession: the next heir takes the throne, and monarchs are no longer demoted
• Time Machine rewinds now remove later children, businesses, homes and titles
• Characters no longer graduate high school at 17
• Military branches no longer require a bachelor's degree to enlist
• Spouse income now reaches the household
• No more freezes when removing contacts from huge friend lists
• Net worth no longer carries over into new saves
• Plus 20+ more player-reported fixes across money, relationships, business and casinos
Thanks for all the reports on Discord. Keep them coming!… more - 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · Role Playing · DE
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countryVietnam
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 🆕chronalife: its developer released another app: Chrona FC: Manage Your Club
- 📈chronalife entered the top 10Top Paid · Games · ZA
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countrySouth Africa
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · Simulation · FR
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · Role Playing · FR
- 📈chronalife charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · IN
- 📦chronalife updated to version 1.7.0ChronaLife 1.7.0 — College Sports & NIL
The biggest sports update in ChronaLife history. Go from high school standout to college star to pro draft, and cash in on NIL along the way.
COLLEGE SPORTS
• Commit to a college program, from Mid-Major to Power Five to Blue Blood, and play a full 4-year career with seasons, depth charts, and real stakes
• NIL deals: your market value (draft stock, production, prestige, awards) unlocks local, regional, and national brand offers with signing bonuses and yearly payouts. Hold up to 3 at once and drop brands for bigger ones
• Draft stock: your production moves your pro projection. Declare for the pro draft, or go undrafted with a real ending
• Walk-ons: no scholarship? Walk on to any program and earn every rep from the bottom of the depth chart
• Coach pressure: land on the Hot Seat and you're benched; max it out and you're cut
• Redshirts, a position picker, and college awards (All-Conference to National POY) based on actual production, not practice ratings
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
• Full varsity seasons for Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and Track, with positions, game days, real scores, stat lines, and depth chart progression from bench to team star
• Challenge for the job: battle the incumbent starter (Senior captain, Coach's kid, Transfer standout, and more) for your spot
• College recruiting letters and signing day: strong tape earns offers from D-II to Power Five, and signing is binding
• Athletic full-ride scholarships: elite athletes get recruited with tuition covered at enrollment
• Tappable game schedules, playoff runs, and season awards for every sport
MAFIA
• Rival Hit operation: take on the rival boss to carve 18–30% off their turf. Drive them to 0% and absorb the whole family
• Cold-case stacking: get caught later and prosecutors can pin up to 3 priors onto the new case
MONEY & RETIREMENT
• 401(k) and Roth IRA with employer match preview, deferral % picker, manual deposits, and a Retire Early button with live FIRE progress
• High-yield savings account: base APY + 3 points, credited yearly
• Per-holding dividend estimates in your stock portfolio
• Life insurance on loved ones, from $50K to $1M. Policies pay out in full, but crime doesn't pay: the slayer rule voids the policy, and a fraud investigation may reopen the case
LIFE & TEENS
• Teen jobs improved: youth part-time jobs show up first, more roles hire at 16, and 15-year-olds no longer get told "too young"
• Trait editing: reinvent yourself from your Profile (up to 5 traits)
• Business stewardship for minor heirs: your empire passes to your kid under a chairman until they turn 18
FIXES
• Retirement Max chip now works
• Alimony and child support now actually move money
• Renters are classified correctly
• Varsity stat lines reset each season
• School-year wrap-ups are no longer skipped
• Plus a pile of crash fixes and stability improvements
Thanks for playing ChronaLife!… more - 📈chronalife charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Role Playing · IN · Top Paid · Simulation · IN
- 📈chronalife entered the top 10Top Paid · Role Playing · GB
- 📈chronalife entered the top 10Top Paid · Role Playing · ID
- 📈chronalife entered the top 100 in 5 chartsTop Paid · Role Playing · AU · Top Paid · Role Playing · GB · Top Paid · Simulation · GB · Top Paid · All Apps · ID · +1 more
- 🆕chronalife first spotted by AppInsider#52 in Top Paid · Role Playing · United States
- 📦chronalife version 1.5.5This update includes improvements to save management, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements for a smoother experience.
- 🆕chronalife: its developer released another app: chronalife: Hollywood Edition
- 🆕chronalife released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.3 ★
86 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#97
Games › Role Playing PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
2.4
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
chronalife at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Life Simulation Text-based / UI-driven Modern medium sessions Premium
#single-player #choices-matter #career-sim #family-sim #replayable #no-ads
chronalife on the App Store
App details
App ID
6758961635
Publisher
Wade Holdings Group LLC
On the store since
Jun 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
17+
4 content notes below
Languages
3
EN FR ES
Size
110 MB
Also listed in
Roleplaying, Simulation
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceFrequent/Intense Simulated GamblingFrequent/Intense ContestsInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
chronalife downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where chronalife's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Games › Role PlayingPaid | #97 |
 United Kingdom | Games › Role PlayingPaid | #41 |
| United States | Games › SimulationPaid | #163 |
 Indonesia | Games › Role PlayingPaid | #160 |
Apps near chronalife on the chart
Games › Role Playing Paid, around #97.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
86 ratings
Measured
Ratings
86
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
2.4
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.4★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
58/100
faster than 64% of Games apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about chronalife
From the 23 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the game's depth and detail, comparing it favorably to BitLife and The Sims, but frequently report bugs and UI issues that hinder gameplay. While many appreciate the developer's responsiveness to updates, others find the interface overwhelming and criticize specific mechanics like broken career paths or locked features.
Mixed but leaning positive (74% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and working reliably. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and the design. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Fun: “I’m having a lot of fun with this game now”
- Crashes & bugs: “There are some bugs, sure, but it also seems like it is a single developer that *does* care about their product”
- Features & content: “No matter what I do the options stay grayed out”
- Price & subscription: “My character is a multimillionaire so money is not an issue”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “It’s so obviously made with AI and so many bugs”
- Design: “Very buggy, scrolling is a pain, choices don’t seem to matter much, very slow pacing and not very intuitive UI, needs work”
- Price & subscription: “I bought this app because the reviews made it look good, however the app is broken and it’s impossible to choose any activities so it is a waste of money”
- Fun: “It’s too detailed and realistic to have any fun”
About chronalife
ChronaLife is a deep single-player life simulator where every choice can change your story.
Create a character, age up year by year, and decide who you become. Build a family, chase fame, go to school, start a career, invest, gamble, run businesses, enter politics, fight in the ring, take someone to court, commit crimes, or leave behind a legacy.
Every life can go somewhere different — stable success, total chaos, a legendary rise, or a complete disaster.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Age up year by year and watch your choices shape your life
- Build relationships, date, marry, start a family, and manage friendships
- Go to school, choose careers, earn promotions, or completely change paths
- Take on the world's toughest exams — the Bar, USMLE, CFA, UPSC, Gaokao, and more — to unlock elite careers
- Buy homes, run your household, manage money, and track your net worth
- Invest in stocks and crypto through in-game simulation systems
- Start businesses, hire teams, manage executives, and grow an empire
- Chase fame through acting, music, creator careers, athletics, and more
- Fight your way up in Boxing and MMA, or start martial arts as a kid and go pro
- Run for political office from local races to Senator, Governor, and President
- File lawsuits, defend yourself in court, and survive the criminal justice system — bail, plea deals, trials, and appeals
- Take risky paths through crime, mafia, prison, casino, sportsbook, and lottery systems
- Serve in the military and climb the ranks from enlistment to officer
- Use multiple save slots and Time Machine checkpoints to branch your story
DEEP LIFE SIMULATION
ChronaLife connects dozens of systems into one save. Your health, money, family, career, reputation, relationships, home, legal record, choices, and random life events all shape the story you create.
REPLAYABILITY
No two lives have to play the same. Try a safe life, a rich life, a chaotic life, a famous life, a political life, a criminal life, a fighter's life — or something completely unexpected.
BUY ONCE AND PLAY
ChronaLife is built as a paid life simulator with no subscription required.
SIMULATION NOTICE
Stocks, crypto, casino, sportsbook, and lottery are in-game systems only. They do not involve real-money gambling, real-money investing, or investment advice.
Optional: sign in with email to back up saves to the cloud across devices.
Create a character, age up year by year, and decide who you become. Build a family, chase fame, go to school, start a career, invest, gamble, run businesses, enter politics, fight in the ring, take someone to court, commit crimes, or leave behind a legacy.
Every life can go somewhere different — stable success, total chaos, a legendary rise, or a complete disaster.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Age up year by year and watch your choices shape your life
- Build relationships, date, marry, start a family, and manage friendships
- Go to school, choose careers, earn promotions, or completely change paths
- Take on the world's toughest exams — the Bar, USMLE, CFA, UPSC, Gaokao, and more — to unlock elite careers
- Buy homes, run your household, manage money, and track your net worth
- Invest in stocks and crypto through in-game simulation systems
- Start businesses, hire teams, manage executives, and grow an empire
- Chase fame through acting, music, creator careers, athletics, and more
- Fight your way up in Boxing and MMA, or start martial arts as a kid and go pro
- Run for political office from local races to Senator, Governor, and President
- File lawsuits, defend yourself in court, and survive the criminal justice system — bail, plea deals, trials, and appeals
- Take risky paths through crime, mafia, prison, casino, sportsbook, and lottery systems
- Serve in the military and climb the ranks from enlistment to officer
- Use multiple save slots and Time Machine checkpoints to branch your story
DEEP LIFE SIMULATION
ChronaLife connects dozens of systems into one save. Your health, money, family, career, reputation, relationships, home, legal record, choices, and random life events all shape the story you create.
REPLAYABILITY
No two lives have to play the same. Try a safe life, a rich life, a chaotic life, a famous life, a political life, a criminal life, a fighter's life — or something completely unexpected.
BUY ONCE AND PLAY
ChronaLife is built as a paid life simulator with no subscription required.
SIMULATION NOTICE
Stocks, crypto, casino, sportsbook, and lottery are in-game systems only. They do not involve real-money gambling, real-money investing, or investment advice.
Optional: sign in with email to back up saves to the cloud across devices.
Latest updates
1.8.0
ChronaLife 1.8.0 — Partnership finances, real pregnancies, working royal succession, and a big bug sweep.
NEW
• Partnership finances: keep money separate, open a joint account, or put it all together, and borrow on combined income
• Real pregnancies: babies arrive on a later Age Up, and you find out "It's a girl!" or "It's a boy!" before naming them
• Change your name: take your spouse's surname when you marry, hyphenate, or file a legal name change
• New siblings: your parents can have more kids while you're growing up
• Inheritances from grandparents: grandkids get a share of the estate, and closer grandkids get more
• Buy assets with your credit card. Watch that balance!
• Asset prices that move: every item has a daily price, with Good deal and Dealer premium tags
• Property Manager targets: choose which home types your acquisitions lead buys, or pin specific homes
• Time Machine eras: rewind all the way back to childhood, or jump to any decade
• Service all assets in one tap, a private caretaker on Health, and Top Dividends on Stocks
• Sandbox: No cooldowns and Add sibling
FIXED
• Royal succession: the next heir takes the throne, and monarchs are no longer demoted
• Time Machine rewinds now remove later children, businesses, homes and titles
• Characters no longer graduate high school at 17
• Military branches no longer require a bachelor's degree to enlist
• Spouse income now reaches the household
• No more freezes when removing contacts from huge friend lists
• Net worth no longer carries over into new saves
• Plus 20+ more player-reported fixes across money, relationships, business and casinos
Thanks for all the reports on Discord. Keep them coming!
1.7.0
ChronaLife 1.7.0 — College Sports & NIL
The biggest sports update in ChronaLife history. Go from high school standout to college star to pro draft, and cash in on NIL along the way.
COLLEGE SPORTS
• Commit to a college program, from Mid-Major to Power Five to Blue Blood, and play a full 4-year career with seasons, depth charts, and real stakes
• NIL deals: your market value (draft stock, production, prestige, awards) unlocks local, regional, and national brand offers with signing bonuses and yearly payouts. Hold up to 3 at once and drop brands for bigger ones
• Draft stock: your production moves your pro projection. Declare for the pro draft, or go undrafted with a real ending
• Walk-ons: no scholarship? Walk on to any program and earn every rep from the bottom of the depth chart
• Coach pressure: land on the Hot Seat and you're benched; max it out and you're cut
• Redshirts, a position picker, and college awards (All-Conference to National POY) based on actual production, not practice ratings
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
• Full varsity seasons for Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and Track, with positions, game days, real scores, stat lines, and depth chart progression from bench to team star
• Challenge for the job: battle the incumbent starter (Senior captain, Coach's kid, Transfer standout, and more) for your spot
• College recruiting letters and signing day: strong tape earns offers from D-II to Power Five, and signing is binding
• Athletic full-ride scholarships: elite athletes get recruited with tuition covered at enrollment
• Tappable game schedules, playoff runs, and season awards for every sport
MAFIA
• Rival Hit operation: take on the rival boss to carve 18–30% off their turf. Drive them to 0% and absorb the whole family
• Cold-case stacking: get caught later and prosecutors can pin up to 3 priors onto the new case
MONEY & RETIREMENT
• 401(k) and Roth IRA with employer match preview, deferral % picker, manual deposits, and a Retire Early button with live FIRE progress
• High-yield savings account: base APY + 3 points, credited yearly
• Per-holding dividend estimates in your stock portfolio
• Life insurance on loved ones, from $50K to $1M. Policies pay out in full, but crime doesn't pay: the slayer rule voids the policy, and a fraud investigation may reopen the case
LIFE & TEENS
• Teen jobs improved: youth part-time jobs show up first, more roles hire at 16, and 15-year-olds no longer get told "too young"
• Trait editing: reinvent yourself from your Profile (up to 5 traits)
• Business stewardship for minor heirs: your empire passes to your kid under a chairman until they turn 18
FIXES
• Retirement Max chip now works
• Alimony and child support now actually move money
• Renters are classified correctly
• Varsity stat lines reset each season
• School-year wrap-ups are no longer skipped
• Plus a pile of crash fixes and stability improvements
Thanks for playing ChronaLife!
1.5.5
This update includes improvements to save management, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements for a smoother experience.
