How Long Left vs Just Timers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
How Long Left
This app helps you visualize the time remaining for your calendar events. It offers a Today Widget, Siri integration, and an Apple Watch app for convenient access. Receive notifications for upcoming events and customize your watch face with countdown complications.
- Countdown calendar events
- Today Widget integration
- Siri integration
- Apple Watch app
- Time remaining notifications
- Apple Watch complications
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How Long Left is a simple app that helps you manage your time by displaying the time remaining of current calendar events. It also includes a Today Widget, Siri integration, and an Apple Watch app, time remaining notifications, and more. There is also an Apple Watch complication that, with an in-app purchase, can display a countdown for current and upcoming events.
Just Timers
Create and manage multiple named timers, including counters, stopwatches, and interval timers. Customize alerts with sounds and haptics, and integrate with Shortcuts for advanced automation. Sync across devices and utilize widgets for convenient control.
- Multiple named timers (counter, stopwatch, interval)
- Customizable alerts (sound, haptics, critical alerts)
- Shortcuts and URL integration
- Interval templates for complex routines
- Widgets and Live Activities support
- iCloud sync across devices
- Light and Dark themes
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Just Timers: The missing timers app Quickly and easily create multiple named counter, stopwatch and interval timers, sync across devices and even use Tags to group timers together Assign alert sounds, haptics and even critical alerts to notify you when a timer expires Assign Shortcuts and URLs to run when timers stop* (more actions coming soon!) Use intervals to create complex workout routines, or go a step deeper with interval templates and Shortcuts integration Use Shortcuts to create complex interval sets and control timers with your voice Use Widgets to keep track of and control your timers, as well as quickly create single-use "self-destruct" timers Sync timers with iCloud across your other devices Supports Live Activities, Widgets and the Dynamic Island Light and Dark Themes * Shortcuts and URLs can only run when the app is open or notification is tapped Need help? Contact support@justtimers.app or find us on Twitter @JustTimers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Just Timers at every 4 weeks against How Long Left's every 4 months. Just Timers also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.8). How Long Left's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. How Long Left sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Just Timers sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Just Timers holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 30 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of How Long Left's written reviews are positive against 57% of Just Timers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
How Long Left ships an update every 4 months, Just Timers every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | How Long Left | Just Timers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (40 ratings) | 4.1 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews — better | 57.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Kontos | Aaron Dippner |
Customer experience
How Long Left
Just Timers
User reviews
How Long Left
From 40 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for staying organized
- 👍 Useful for busy schedules
- 👍 Excellent for time management
- 👍 Helpful for tracking time left
- 👍 Good for school/work schedules
Room to improve
- 🐛 Watch complication not working
- 🐛 Broken restore purchases
- 🐛 UI is unattractive
- 🐛 MacOS app won't open
- 🐛 Widget doesn't work
Just Timers
From 30 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent Shortcuts integration
- 💰 Affordable one-time purchase
- 🚫 No data collection
- ✨ Clean and intuitive UI
- 🚀 Fast and performant (v3)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Numerous bugs and glitches
- 🔇 No sound/alarms
- ⚠️ Notifications not stopping
- ⏳ Slow loading times
- ⌚ Watch app issues
Bugs and requests
How Long Left
Reported bugs
17 issues- Watch complication/widget doesn't update correctly
- Current feed no longer displays current events
- Restore purchases button is broken
- Developer ignores emails
- MacOS app won't open
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- Widget doesn't work on iOS 17
- Complication countdown bugged (time until end of next event)
- Complication shows wrong time remaining
- Tiny complications don't work
- Corner complications display wrong time left
- Widget only counts down for beginning of event, not start
- In-app purchase disappears on uninstall/reinstall
- Can't add as complication or widget
- Calendars do not sync to Apple Watch
- Always On Display shows empty time remaining
- Empty widget sometimes
- Refresh rate issue (doesn't update when calendar moved)
Requested features
7 requests- Update to iOS 26/27 widgets
- Update to Apple Watch smart widgets
- Add custom event for future dates
- Widget for upcoming events
- Restrict event display time
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- Add percentage to Apple Watch interface
- Home Screen widget
Just Timers
Reported bugs
32 issues- Repeat function causing repeated shortcut execution
- No sound even with critical alerts on
- Notifications won't stop after timer completion
- Interval timer progress lost
- Stock timers restoring after deletion
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- Watch app unusable, complications incorrect
- Timers activating and changing duration after update
- Timers going off after being stopped
- Negative timers displayed
- Alerts not going off
- Timers with intervals spontaneously resetting
- Watch notifications inconsistent
- Timer display stuck
- Widget display stuck
- Intervals stuck, skipping inconsistent
- Choosing sound causes it to play indefinitely
- Timer resets when modifying sound
- No default timer settings
- Manual sync required for phone/watch timers
- Buttons do nothing or wrong action
- Siri not working with new version
- Shortcut action to create timer throws error
- Can't change timer volume (too loud with headphones)
- Sound continues to ring after stop/dismiss
- Contact button in settings not working
- Can't scroll down to add new custom timer on Watch
- Watch face off means no alert
- Alert only happens when app is open on Watch
- Weak buzz with no customization on Watch
- App crashes before timer expires
- App sluggish and buggy
- Purchasing tiers not clearly disclosed upfront
Requested features
19 requests- Menu bar timer on Mac
- Widgets for home screen
- Custom sounds for timers
- Delayed timer start (date/time)
- Group timers and trigger individual timers
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- Enter date and time for timers
- Option to quickly create one-off timers
- Prevent app launch when tapping Live Activity
- Templates for timer types
- Clear explanations for settings
- Siri integration improvements
- Ability to set different sounds for each timer
- More alarming sound options
- Vibrating function on Watch
- Improved x-callback integration
- Rest API improvements
- Ability to group timers
- Reset individual timers on Watch easily
- More alert tones
In-app purchases
How Long Left
- How Long Left Widget$1.99
- Premium Watch Complication$4.99
- Legacy Pro Lifetime$39.99
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- How Long Left Pro (Lifetime)$49.99
Just Timers
- Small Toy$0.99
- v1 Unlimited Timers (Legacy)$1.99
- Tier 1$1.99
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- Medium Toy$2.99
- v1 Upgrade$2.99
- Large Toy$4.99
- Tier 2$4.99
- Huge Toy$9.99
Questions
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