How Long Left vs DoorCodes Vault
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.
DoorCodes Vault
This app securely stores your access codes for places like apartment buzzers, gates, and offices. It provides privacy-safe reminders when you approach a saved location, ensuring you have the right code ready.
- Save access codes for various locations
- Privacy-safe location-based reminders
- Secure Reveal for hidden codes
- Nearby and Recents views
- Optional iCloud sync
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DoorCodes keeps your saved access details ready when you actually need them. Save apartment buzzers, gate codes, garage entries, office suites, and other place-based access details in one calm, private app. When you get close to a saved place, DoorCodes can surface a privacy-safe reminder so you are not digging through notes, texts, or old emails at the door. DoorCodes is designed for everyday trust: - save places with one or more access codes - see Nearby and Recents views built around real arrival moments - keep lock-screen alerts privacy-safe - protect hidden codes with Secure Reveal - optionally sync through your private iCloud account Launch scope for v1 focuses on the iPhone and iPad core app experience. Apple Watch, widgets, and Live Activity remain out of the public launch promise, and Apple Watch is intentionally sidelined for this release unless launch scope changes in a later update.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DoorCodes Vault at 5.0 against How Long Left's 3.8. DoorCodes Vault also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 months). How Long Left's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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 DoorCodes Vault sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DoorCodes Vault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How Long Left has 39 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of How Long Left's written reviews are positive against 100% of DoorCodes Vault's.
How Long Left ships an update every 4 months, DoorCodes Vault every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How Long Left | DoorCodes Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Kontos | Tom Lewis |
Customer experience
How Long Left
DoorCodes Vault
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
DoorCodes Vault
- DoorCodes Plus$9.99
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