Collections September 2026

5 apps for hobbies you measure in years

Some hobbies only make sense over years: a starter you feed daily, a tree you prune each season, a cellar you lay down. These five keep the record that turns repetition into progress you can see.

The apps for hobbies you measure in years are Loaflo, Bonsai, CellarTracker, Discogs and WristTrack. I built Bonsai; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published September 2026 · apps and prices last checked 6 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   Loaflo

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.7 (528)

   A starter is something you feed twice a day for years, and Loaflo is where that record lives: the feedings, the hydration, and a photo of the crumb it produced.

   Skip it if you are on your first starter — the subscription is not flagged in the description, and reviewers say the guidance repeats itself rather than reading your loaf.

   Official site ↗More lists with Loaflo

   
2. 

   Bonsai Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Lifestyle · App Store 5.0 (7)

   Bonsai is one tree, photographed across seasons, with pruning, wiring and repotting logged per tree — because year six only means something next to year one.

   App Store ↗More lists with Bonsai

   
3. 

   CellarTracker

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.9 (13,112)

   CellarTracker knows the bottle you laid down five years ago, and whether it's ready yet: your cellar underneath a database of community tasting notes.

   Skip it if you knew the old app: the rewrite is what nearly every recent one-star review is about, and some of the sorting people relied on did not survive it.

   Official site ↗More lists with CellarTracker

   
4. 

   Discogs

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Music · App Store 4.8 (67,058)

   Discogs catalogues the records you own down to the pressing. Scan a barcode, check what it goes for, and find the one missing from the run.

   Skip it if you want it to stay signed in — the app logs reviewers out repeatedly, and search has broken more than once after an update.

   Official site ↗More lists with Discogs

   
5. 

   WristTrack

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Utilities · App Store 4.9 (182)

   WristTrack holds reference numbers, movements and purchase dates — plus which watch you actually wore each day, which turns out not to be the same list.

   Skip it if you want to know what removing the ads costs before you commit — the app does not make it obvious, and a couple of ordinary edits take hunting for.

   Official site ↗More lists with WristTrack

   

Bonsai is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.