How Long Left vs Sticky Timers and Countdowns
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.
Sticky Timers and Countdowns
Display multiple custom timers directly on your lockscreen or in the dynamic island. Personalize their appearance with colors, emojis, and designs for at-a-glance tracking of various events. Offers quick restart and duplication features for efficient time management.
- Customizable timers
- Lockscreen widgets
- Dynamic Island display
- Multiple timer views
- Customizable designs and colors
- Quick restart and duplicate timers
- App shortcuts
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Keep track of multiple timers at the same time from the dynamic island or your lockscreen with Sticky Timers. If you're keeping track of multiple things at the same time it's useful to have your timers available at a glance at all times. Customise colors, designs to make it fit in with your aesthetic! Features include: - Create custom timers - Customise background, emoji and text color for your timers - Quick timers for easy access - View up to six timers at the same time on your Lockscreen - Show up to two active timers at the same time in the Dynamic Island - Lockscreen Widget to start all your timers - Different alert sounds - Choose a background color for your Lockscreen timers - Quickly restart and duplicate timers - App shortcuts to quickly start timers from Siri or your own shortcuts Choose from different designs in the Dynamic Island and your Lockscreen: Compact: - One Timer with progress circle - One Timer with Emoji - Two Timers Expanded (long press on the dynamic island) and Lockscreen: - Coloured Pill - Coloured Pill with title - Minimal - Emoji If you purchase the 'Super Sticky Timers' in app purchase you will get - Unlimited Timers - Up to six active timers - All designs - Edit and create quick timers - Change the alert sounds - Show two timers in your compact Dynamic Island at the same time - Support Indie Development If you have any questions or feature suggestions, send an email to jordi@goodsnooze.com! This app offers subscriptions for "Super Sticky Timers". Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period (and charged to your iTunes account). You can turn off auto-renew/manage subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use can be found at https://getvivid.app/stterms and Privacy Policy can be found at https://getvivid.app/stprivacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sticky Timers and Countdowns at daily against How Long Left's every 4 months. Sticky Timers and Countdowns also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.8). How Long Left's advantage is review sentiment (59% vs 48%) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Sticky Timers and Countdowns sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sticky Timers and Countdowns holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 51 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of How Long Left's written reviews are positive against 48% of Sticky Timers and Countdowns'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, Sticky Timers and Countdowns daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How Long Left | Sticky Timers and Countdowns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (39 ratings) | 4.0 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews — better | 48.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Daily — 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 |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Kontos | Good Snooze |
Customer experience
How Long Left
Sticky Timers and Countdowns
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
Sticky Timers and Countdowns
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Lifetime$9.99
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