Fancy Hands vs Time Left
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fancy Hands
Access a team of human assistants to complete tasks for you. Submit requests, track progress, and communicate with your assistant directly through the app. Leverage a blend of human intelligence, AI, and automation to boost your productivity.
- Submit new requests
- Check up on old requests
- Message your assistant
- View call and email activity
- View attachments
Read full descriptionHide full description
Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've got a team of assistants ready to work for you today. Just tell us what to do and we'll have an actual human get it done for you. We've blended humans, artificial intelligence, and automation to ensure you're as productive as possible. This app has been rewritten from the ground up. It allows you to submit new requests, check up on old ones, message your assistant, see call and email activity, view attachments.
Time Left
This app helps you visualize the finite nature of your time, displaying the remaining days, months, and years. It encourages a more present and creative life by emphasizing the preciousness of each moment. Your data remains private, with no notifications or ads.
- Displays remaining days, months, and years
- Emphasizes the preciousness of time
- Encourages a happy and creative life
- No notifications, ads, or sign-up
- Private data storage
- Unlockable widgets and customization (Pro)
Read full descriptionHide full description
No notifications. No ads. No sign-up. Just you and your time. TIME LEFT DESCRIPTION Sometimes life seems really short, and other times impossibly long. This app will help you to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Time Left shows you, the days, months, and years you have left and that they are all you have got. Don’t be afraid, that means the only appropriate word to describe your time left is “precious”. So I hope this app will enable you to create a life in which you will be happy and creative. WHAT ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY? I think Privacy is a fundamental human right. To that end, I have designed Time Left from the ground up without any external framework. In this way, your data, like your birthdate, stays entirely private. HOW CAN YOU HELP ME? As I don’t collect any data on this app, to improve it I need your help! You can send me an email to julien@lacroix.dev for any feedback, issues, or bugs on this app or just to say “Hello!”. I answer every email! ********** A special thank you to Wait But Why for this amazing article (https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html). Without their work, this app would not have seen the light of day. ********** TIME LEFT PRO - Unlock widgets & skins. - Unlimited moments. - Live Photos in Life Calendar. - Automatically access all future features and widgets. - Support an indie developer. ********** Terms of Use: https://gettimeleft.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://gettimeleft.app/privacy
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Time Left at 73% against Fancy Hands's 19%. Time Left also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 15 months). Fancy Hands's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Time Left sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Fancy Hands asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Left holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Left has 234 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Fancy Hands's written reviews are positive against 73% of Time Left's.
Fancy Hands ships an update every 15 months, Time Left every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fancy Hands | Time Left |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (234 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.2% of reviews | 73.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 234 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fancy Hands, Inc. | Julien Lacroix |
Customer experience
Fancy Hands
Time Left
Bugs and requests
Fancy Hands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Time Left
Reported bugs
9 issues- Widget not updating daily after recent updates
- Display text rendering issues (font size problems)
- App fails to load past welcome screen on some devices
- Widget incompatibility with iOS 18.4
- Years and months numbers displaying upside down
Show 4 moreShow fewer
- Days not appearing in display
- Laggy page transitions
- Current day needle stuck and not moving
- Developer unresponsive to support requests
Requested features
11 requests- Lock screen widget support
- Apple Watch widget integration
- Multiple time granularity options (weeks, days, hours)
- Life expectancy limit increased beyond 90 years
- Customizable row lengths in calendar view
Show 6 moreShow fewer
- Auto dark mode for app and widgets
- Specific date countdown feature
- Weekly and monthly visualization options
- Ability to adjust widget size and display metrics
- Calendar view showing weeks per year
- Pan and zoom functionality for overall view
In-app purchases
Fancy Hands
No in-app purchases
Time Left
- Per week$4.997 Days
- Annual3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Per year$17.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- One time$24.99
