4KWks

Your life in 4,000 weeks.

Peer into the details of your life — past, present, future — on a single page. Tag the eras, note the milestones, reflect as time defines a clear pattern. A quiet companion for living deliberately.

Download and use it for free forever with three tags. One-time purchase allows you to create unlimited tags to create a richer, more detailed tapestry from your life.

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4KWks life grid on iPhone
Features

A different relationship with time.

Life as a grid

See your weeks laid out — past, present, future — all on one page. Time suddenly stops being abstract.

Tag the chapters

Color the eras of your life: school, jobs, relationships, travels. See the patterns only retrospection reveals.

A note per week

Drop a sentence in any cell. A memory, an achievement, an emoji — anything worth keeping.

Wallpapers + exports

Generate a life-grid wallpaper or print-ready PDF. Display it as inspiration or motivation.

Perspective on time

Understanding that you have a finite number of weeks changes how you think about time. 4KWks makes this wisdom visual and actionable, helping you live more intentionally.

Yours alone

No accounts. Your data is never harvested or shared. Optional iCloud sync stays inside your Apple ID.

Use cases

A grid for every kind of life.

Memento mori, decade reviews, journaling, family planning — same grid, many lenses.

Memento mori

Carry the awareness that time is finite — without the dread. A daily glance reframes what is actually worth doing this week.

Career mapping

Color jobs, gigs, sabbaticals, gap years.

Relationships

Track the seasons of friendships and partnerships.

The decade review

Plan a birthday milestone or year-end retrospective. The grid surfaces the chapters you would otherwise forget.

Travel + chapters

Mark moves, sabbaticals, and big trips. Geography across time.

Health journeys

Eras of recovery, training cycles, sobriety milestones.

Family planning

Visualize life stages alongside the people you love. Childhood, school years, retirement — side by side, week by week.

Goal setting

Pin future weeks for milestones. Walk toward them, week by week.

Journaling

Lightweight, dated, structured by week. Lower friction than daily journaling.

Privacy

A deeply personal artifact, kept that way.

4KWks is built so the most personal thing you might ever map — your life — stays privately yours. Your grid never leaves your device by default. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no analytics you did not opt into.

Wallpapers and exports are generated on device. The grid you create is yours to print, share, or keep private — your call.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

4KWks visualizes the roughly 4,000 weeks of an average life. Each square is a week — past, present, or yet to come.
Roughly the weeks in an 80-year life. The framing was popularized by Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks. 4KWks is an independent app and not affiliated.
No. 4KWks is a contemplative tool — memento mori as a gentle reminder, not a doom counter. Most people find it clarifying, not heavy.
Yes. Tag any range of weeks with a color and label — eras, jobs, relationships, travels. Tags layer on the grid.
Yes. Tap any week to add a note, emoji, or short reflection. Useful for marking milestones or capturing the gist.
Yes. Generate a life-grid wallpaper for your phone or a print-ready PDF for a wall print.
By default, everything stays on your device. You can export all data to be used any way you like.
Yes. Switch between "zoom" levels, pick your colour palette for tags, and add emojis for specific weeks to add character.
4KWks is a contemplative tool, not a service. You should never feel that the details of your life are ransom to a subscription fee.
Support

Need help?

Visit our comprehensive support center for FAQs, documentation, and contact information.

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