Comparison

mymind vs Left

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

Head to head
About

mymind

This app acts as a private digital space to store and organize everything you care about, from notes and images to articles and bookmarks. It offers a clutter-free experience without algorithms or social feeds, allowing you to effortlessly save and recall information.

Highlights
  • Save images, notes, articles, and bookmarks
  • Effortless saving via share sheet
  • Automatic organization and visualization
  • Private and ad-free experience
  • No algorithms or social feeds
Features
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mymind isn't another productivity app. It's a quiet, private garden for the things you care most about. With just a single tap you can save images, notes, articles, products, text highlights, recipes, movies or other bookmarks to your mind. It works effortlessly via the share sheet. One place for everything you care about. No need to file it, label or even tag it. It's all magically organized and visualized for you. Some call mymind it a treasure trove of ideas, inspiration & references. No algorithms selling your data, no social feeds fighting for your attention. It's just you and your mind, extended into a clean, private and almost magical space that feels less like software and more like memory itself. —— https://mymind.com/privacypolicy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Left

Visualize your time with customizable widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. Track life progress, countdowns to important events, and monitor habits with streak tracking. Offers a clean and visually appealing way to stay aware of your time.

Highlights
  • Time progress widgets (year, week, day)
  • Life progress tracking
  • Event countdowns
  • Habit and streak tracking
  • Customizable widget styles and colors
  • Apple Calendar sync
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Left is a time-awareness app built on one idea: your time is limited, and seeing it changes how you use it. Left turns time into something you can see, then helps you act on it with habits, streaks, countdowns, and a planner for your day. TIME LEFT See where you are in the year, month, week, day, hour, and your life. Each unit is a symbol; the past dims, what remains stays in view. Your life in weeks, year progress, and life progress, made tangible. Choose dots, symbols, colors, and layouts. A quiet, honest way to face limited time without it becoming morbid. HABITS, STREAKS & AIMS Left is a habit tracker for the person you are trying to become. Build habits on any schedule: daily, several times a day, weekly, monthly, or custom. Track streaks and protect them, count the days since anything that matters, and set reminders so nothing slips. And you don't have to do it alone: share a habit or streak with a friend, keep each other accountable, and send kudos, cheers, and encouragement when it counts. With aims, you have a flexible goal tracker for anything you can count, helping you build up or cut down. Stay on track and see your progress every day. AHEAD - COUNTDOWNS & DATES Add the dates that pull you forward: trips, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, weddings, deadlines, retirement, and personal milestones. Count down to each one, import from Apple Calendar, and track both the days until and the days since. New: every Ahead date now has its own to-do list, so you can plan the small tasks that make the date happen and check them off as it approaches. Share an Ahead date with a friend, follow it side by side, comment, and add to-dos together on joint dates. PLANNER Planner pulls everything that matters into one beautiful, time-first view: your habits, streaks, Ahead dates, Apple Calendar events, Apple Reminders, weather, sleep, and workouts, together at last. Not another calendar, but a clear, calm picture of what the day is actually asking of you. Because everything lives in one place instead of five apps, Planner is a quiet ally for ADHD minds: see the whole day at a glance and miss nothing. Two new widgets come with it: a Planner widget and a Calendar widget for your Home Screen. FASTING TOOL A simple yet beautiful fasting tool inside Left. Pick a fasting window, start it in a tap, and follow every fast live from your Lock Screen, widgets and the Dynamic Island. Your history and stats are all there too. FRIENDS All-new. Add the people who matter and keep each other moving. Stay accountable on the habits and streaks you share, join an Ahead date together, comment, add to-dos, and stay in the loop as it counts down. Private by design, with no public feed. WHY LEFT Other apps give you habits without design, or aesthetics without depth. Left combines both: the widget range, the design quality, and the full set of time tools, in one app made with restraint and taste. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

mymind4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Left at 4.6 against mymind's 4.0. Left also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (74% vs 60%). mymind's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. mymind sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Left sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Left holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 410 and 396 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of mymind's written reviews are positive against 74% of Left's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mymind ships an update every 3 weeks, Left every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
mymind versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermymindLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (410 ratings)4.6 (396 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.9% of reviews74.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings410 — better396
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB238 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developermymind, Inc.Cntxt Limited

Customer experience

mymind

All ratings410 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive59.9%
Neutral18.2%
Negative22.0%

Left

All ratings396 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews297 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral9.1%
Negative16.5%

User reviews

mymind

From 410 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
  • 💡 Innovative AI-powered organization
  • 🧠 Helps organize thoughts and ideas
  • 🎨 Beautiful and visually appealing design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unstable
  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 📱 Lacking iPad support
  • 🔍 Unreliable search and tagging
  • 🤔 Confusing onboarding and workflow

Left

From 396 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Minimalist design
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive
  • 🔒 Privacy-respecting
  • 💡 Unique and insightful concept
  • 👍 Clean and bloat-free

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy app with frequent issues
  • 💡 Lack of customization options
  • 💡 Predetermined lifespan not accurate for all users

Bugs and requests

mymind

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and data loss
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Buggy UI elements and navigation
  • Inconsistent behavior across platforms

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode
  • Ability to edit and rearrange saved items
  • Integration with more third-party services
  • Password/biometric protection
  • Improved sharing and collaboration features

Left

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not working
  • Blank screen on widget after update
  • Percentage left showing -inf%

Requested features

5 requests
  • Custom lifespan input
  • Ability to set custom milestones
  • Widget color customization
  • Life widget
  • Ability to track minutes left in the day

In-app purchases

5 purchases

mymind

Subscriptions5
  • The Bookmarker$4.991 Month
  • Student$7.991 Month
  • Mastermind$12.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Student of Life Yearly$79.001 Year
  • Mastermind Yearly$129.001 Year
27 purchases

Left

Subscriptions13
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 10 more
  • Thanks!$3.991 Year
  • LEGEND$8.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Left Premium$19.997 Days
  • Left Premium$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium$34.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$34.991 Year
One-time14
  • Left+$0.99
  • Awesome$1.99
  • Left+$2.99
Show 11 more
  • Left+$3.99
  • Legend$4.99
  • Left+ Thanks$5.99
  • Left+$6.99
  • Left+$7.99
  • Left+$8.99
  • Left Premium$12.99
  • Left Premium$29.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$49.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$69.99
  • Left Premium$149.00

Questions

Is mymind free?
mymind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mymind or Left?
Left is rated higher. mymind averages 4.0 out of 5 from 410 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 396 ratings.
Do mymind or Left have ads?
Neither mymind nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mymind or Left?
mymind ships an update every 3 weeks, and Left every 3 days. Most recently, mymind was updated on September 25, 2026 and Left on September 26, 2026.

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