Jahresringe
A ring for every year
Jahresringe counts the time since your special events — wedding, first date, a birth, your first day at work. Like a tree, a ring grows for every year, and the outer arc shows how far the current year has progressed towards the next anniversary. Your most important events live right on your home screen as widgets.
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Features
The ring metaphor
Like a tree, a ring grows for every year; the outer arc shows the progress towards the next anniversary. You choose per event how many years one ring represents — 1, 2, 5 or 10.
Home screen widgets
Your events right on the home screen — in three styles: Rings, Minimal, or Live with a ticking full duration. Plus selectable backgrounds in soft pastel tones or your event colour. Event, unit and style are freely configurable.
Milestones
Round days like 100, 500, 1,000 or 5,000 and of course the anniversaries — filterable per event. If you like, a notification reminds you of upcoming milestones, as an opt-in per event.
Countdown too
Add a date in the future — Jahresringe counts down the days until it arrives. The big day itself is a milestone, and afterwards the app automatically keeps counting up.
Templates to get started
Personal templates like wedding or last cigarette — and historical ones like the C64 premiere (1982) or the moon landing: one tap and you see the decades as year rings. Plus countdown templates for vacation, retirement or a due date.
Display units
Show time the way it feels right to you: as days, weeks, combined (years, months, days) or even in hours.
Sharing & backup
Export your events as a ".jahresringe" file and share it via iMessage or AirDrop — or take it with you to your new iPhone. Import with a single tap.
Super simple
No settings screens, no menu maze: every option sits exactly where it takes effect. You pick symbol and color right on the event itself.
Frequently asked questions
What does Jahresringe actually count?
Jahresringe counts the time since your special events — wedding, first date, a birth, your first day at work — in days, weeks or a combined format. And the other way round: for a future date it runs a countdown until the big day, then automatically keeps counting up.
Do I need an account?
No. Jahresringe works without registration, without a cloud and without an internet connection. All events stay locally on your device.
Can I take my events to a new iPhone or share them?
Yes: export your events as a ".jahresringe" file (JSON) and send it via iMessage or AirDrop — on the new device or on the recipient's side, a single tap imports it.
Which languages does Jahresringe support?
Jahresringe is fully available in German and English.
Privacy
Jahresringe was built with privacy at its core: the app does not collect, store or transmit any personal data.
Everything stays on your device
All events, milestones and settings are stored exclusively on your iPhone. The app makes no network requests at all — there is no cloud, no server and no user account.
No tracking, no ads
Jahresringe contains no analytics, no advertising and no third-party trackers. Your usage is never recorded.
No account needed
Jahresringe works entirely without a user account, without registration and without an internet connection. No email address or credentials are required.
Local notifications
Milestone notifications are opt-in per event and are scheduled and delivered entirely locally on your device. No data is sent to external services.
Minimal permissions
The app only requests permission for notifications — and only if you enable milestone reminders. No access to location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera.
Controller
ilenvo media, Owner: Stefan Buchhofer, Meisenweg 1a, 63741 Aschaffenburg, Germany. Email: s.buchhofer@ilenvo.de.
Your rights (GDPR)
You have the rights under Art. 15–21 GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, etc.). Since we do not process any personal data, there is usually no data on our side (Art. 11 GDPR). Right to complain: Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA), Ansbach, Germany.
Since no data is collected, there is nothing for us to analyze, sell or share. Your memories belong to you.
Disclaimer
Please note the following information about using Jahresringe.
Warranty
The app is provided in its respective current version. To the extent permitted by law, the provider does not warrant that the app will be available without interruption, free of errors, or fit for a particular purpose. Your statutory rights, in particular as a consumer, remain unaffected.
Reliability of notifications and widgets
The delivery of notifications and the refresh of widgets are controlled solely by iOS — neither you nor the provider have reliable influence over them. Notifications may therefore be delivered late or not at all, and widget displays may be temporarily outdated. Therefore, do not use the app for time-critical purposes where a missing or delayed display could lead to damage.
Liability
The provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence as well as for damage resulting from injury to life, body, or health. In cases of slight negligence, the provider is only liable for the breach of essential contractual obligations, limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract. Liability under the German Product Liability Act remains unaffected. Any further liability is excluded.
Availability
The app is provided without any guarantee of uninterrupted or error-free availability. Features may change, be limited or be removed as part of updates.
Your responsibility
You remain responsible for additionally keeping track of important dates and occasions independently of the app. Jahresringe is a thoughtful companion, not a substitute for your own diligence.
Changes
The provider may amend the terms of use with effect for the future. Users will be informed of material changes within the app; they only apply if they are actively accepted again.
What's new
- Events as year rings with selectable ring scale (1–100 years per ring)
- Countdown for future dates — until the big day and automatically onwards
- Widgets in three styles: Rings, Minimal and Live with a ticking full duration
- Selectable widget backgrounds: event colour or soft pastel tones
- Milestones with opt-in notifications
- Templates: personal, countdown and historical
- Display as days, weeks, combined or hours
- Sharing & backup as a .jahresringe file
- Available in German and English
Support & contact
Questions, problems or suggestions? Write to us — we usually reply within 1–2 business days.
Built With
Parts of the development were created with the support of Claude (Anthropic).