Time Left vs Day Dial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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)
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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
Day Dial
Visualize your progress through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly time periods with intuitive circular progress bars. See how much time has passed and how much remains at a glance, even from your home screen with widgets.
- Circular progress bars
- Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Time management
- Goal monitoring
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Day Dial is a simple and intuitive time tracking app that helps you visualize your progress throughout the day, week, month, quarter, and year. With its unique circular progress bars, you can easily monitor how much time has passed and how much remains in each time period. The app features widgets that allow you to view your progress at a glance, directly from your home screen. Whether you want to stay on top of your daily tasks, manage your monthly goals, or keep track of your yearly achievements, Day Dial is the perfect companion for anyone looking to make the most of their time. Day Dial is free to use with a limit on color customization. Upgrade to Day Dial Premium to unlock color customization. Terms of Service: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/daydialterms.html Privacy Policy: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/privacypolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Day Dial at 5.0 against Time Left's 4.5. Day Dial also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Time Left's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (251 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Day Dial sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Day Dial holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Left has 251 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Time Left's written reviews are positive against 100% of Day Dial's.
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Day Dial every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Left | Day Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (251 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 251 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Lacroix | Ginkgo Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Time Left
Day Dial
Bugs and 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
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- 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
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- 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
Day Dial
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Day Dial
- Day Dial Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Day Dial Premium - Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
