Comparison

ActiveSignage vs TimeLeft

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ActiveSignage

Create dynamic digital signage and customer displays using your iPhone or iPad. Easily design advertisements, manage queues, or display transaction details without professional help. Supports images, video, music, and multiple languages for enhanced business promotion and customer satisfaction.

Highlights
  • Create digital signage with iPhone/iPad
  • Display to external screens (horizontal/vertical)
  • Supports images, video, and music
  • Show webpages and 27 display templates
  • Use as a customer display for transactions
  • Queue management and kitchen display system
  • Multi-language and vertical writing support
Features
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Create digital signage with your iPhone and iPad Create digital signage that is in motion yourself! You can build your own digital signage content with your iPhone and iPad. No need to retain any professional and it's inexpensive. Make businesses more profitable with digital advertisement (digital signage) or improve customer satisfaction by using it as an effective customer display! Digital signage will help increase sales by leading customers to a shop or a certain sales floor and make the merchandise appealing. It's easy and inexpensive to change information about the seasonal merchandise or events that enable you to make the merchandise appealing depending on the clientele. The app supports images and a multi-language display, which helps foreign tourist arrivals. Start your digital signage now! ● You can make your own digital signage (dynamic signage) with your iPhone and iPad ・Create digital signage by yourself with an iPhone or iPad ・Display it to an external display both in the horizontal and vertical positions ・Send it to an external display via an HDMI cable or AirPlay ・Insert music ・Support both image and video ・Show webpage ・27 display templates ・Added 10 fonts ・Support vertical writing ● Use as a customer display ・Use an iPhone or iPad as a display...   Show a total amount for the transaction and change the amount for your customer   Use as a queue management system   Use as a kitchen display screen. As soon as orders are taken, it shows them to the kitchen screen and reads them aloud   Show the age verification screen ・Restrict access with http (Use "Insert from URL" with FileMaker)   text/image/rectangle/alert/text to speech (signage play and stop)/animation (flashing/moving/size/color, etc.) ● Complete your business with FileMaker! ・Our printer app PrintAssist is integrated to FileMaker, and it prints receipts, opens the cash drawer, provides for age verification or displays the total price. It acts as a full cash register.

About

TimeLeft

Organize upcoming dates and visualize remaining time for important events. Create and manage a list of occasions like birthdays, trips, and anniversaries with real-time countdowns and timely reminders.

Highlights
  • Real-time event countdowns
  • Customizable reminders and notifications
  • Sortable event list
  • Quick date filters
  • Detailed event view
  • Event editing and updating
Features
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Some dates deserve better than a note buried in your calendar. TimeLeft turns the moments you are waiting for into live countdowns you can read at a glance — in the app and right on your Home Screen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create a countdown in seconds: a name, an emoji, a date and a time • Watch the time left tick down in months, days, hours and minutes • Pin your most important event to a Home Screen widget • Switch between a compact list and a visual grid • Filter by All, Next 7 days or This month, and sort by closest or furthest away • Add notes to an event so the details travel with the date • Look back at everything that has already happened FOR EVERY KIND OF DATE Birthdays and anniversaries. Trips and holidays. Weddings and graduations. Concerts, exams, paydays, due dates, retirement, Christmas and New Year. Anything you are counting on. DAILY REMINDERS Turn reminders on and TimeLeft checks in once a day at noon, so nothing important quietly sneaks up on you. MAKE IT YOURS Pick an emoji for every event from a searchable picker. Set dates to repeat every year for the ones that come back around. Choose a light, dark or system theme. Use the app in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian or Simplified Chinese. NOTHING TO SET UP No account, no sign-up, no login. Your events stay on your device and the app works offline. Start counting down to what matters.

Screenshots

ActiveSignage4 screens
TimeLeft3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeLeft at none against ActiveSignage's 1. TimeLeft also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months). ActiveSignage's advantage is iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ActiveSignage sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TimeLeft asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ActiveSignage ships an update every 9 months, TimeLeft weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ActiveSignage versus TimeLeft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActiveSignageTimeLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB46 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperiWare Inc.Gonzalo Caira Aguilar

Customer experience

ActiveSignage

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TimeLeft

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ActiveSignage

One-time1
  • Unlock entry limit$79.99
None

TimeLeft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ActiveSignage free?
ActiveSignage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeLeft free?
TimeLeft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ActiveSignage or TimeLeft have ads?
Neither ActiveSignage nor TimeLeft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ActiveSignage or TimeLeft?
ActiveSignage ships an update every 9 months, and TimeLeft weekly. Most recently, ActiveSignage was updated on October 9, 2026 and TimeLeft on October 7, 2026.

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