A death clock app alternative for iPhone, compared honestly

Where the other apps are the better choice

Three of these are not close, and pretending otherwise would undermine everything else on this site.

Death Clock has fifteen thousand ratings. Yorick has none.

Yorick launched recently and has no user ratings at all. Death Clock: The Life Lab sits at 4.8 stars from 15,789 ratings and When Will I Die at 4.4 from 6,039. That is a real quality signal from real users, and no argument about methodology substitutes for it. If you want an app that thousands of people have already vouched for, that is not this one yet.

If you want bloodwork, Yorick cannot help you.

Death Clock's subscription is built around uploading or ordering blood panels and tracking biomarkers over time, with an AI assistant on top. That is a fundamentally better input than a questionnaire. Nineteen self-reported answers can never see your fasting glucose or your blood pressure. If you are willing to spend around a hundred dollars a year on measured biology rather than remembered habits, that is the more informative product, and the honest recommendation is to buy it instead.

Yorick needs iOS 26. Both others run on iOS 15.

Yorick requires iOS 26.0 or later, which rules out a large number of iPhones still in daily use. The other two run on iOS 15. If your phone cannot install Yorick, that is the end of the comparison, and it is Yorick's problem rather than yours.

Where Yorick is the better choice

You can audit the whole model before installing it.

Every effect size Yorick uses is published, on this site, with the paper it came from. Ten years for heavy smoking from Doll 2004 and Jha 2013. Three point seven years for social isolation from Holt-Lunstad 2010. Zero for supplements, from the VITAL trial. Inside the app each factor links through to PubMed. No competitor in this category lets you check a specific number against a specific paper, and that is the single thing that separates a calculation from a claim. The full scoring sheet is here.

Every result carries its uncertainty.

Yorick prints a likely range next to the date, never narrower than three years and wider the further out the projection reaches, and refuses to project past 105. A death clock that shows only a date is presenting a population average as a personal fact.

One payment, not a yearly one.

Yorick Pro is a single non-consumable purchase of $4.99, tied to your Apple ID, restoring free on a new iPhone. A questionnaire based estimate does not change until your answers change, so a recurring charge for one is difficult to justify. The subscription model makes sense for the app that draws your blood every few months. It makes much less sense for the one that asks whether you smoke.

The calculation happens on your phone.

The mortality tables and every effect size ship inside the app, about 5.8 MB of it, so your answers do not need to travel anywhere to produce a result, and there is no account to create. To be complete about it: the free version is supported by ads served through Google AdMob, which asks for your advertising consent choices on first launch, and Yorick Pro removes them.

Free download, free result, iOS 26.0 or later.

Competitor figures above come from the public App Store listings for the United States storefront on 2 September 2026, except the reported subscription price, which comes from press coverage of the Life Lab launch rather than from the listing itself. Product names belong to their owners and are used to identify the apps being compared.