Time Left vs Ripples
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
Ripples
This app helps you build and maintain new habits and achieve your goals. It offers a visual calendar grid to track your progress, detailed metrics, and the ability to log specific amounts for each action. You can also add notes, use Siri shortcuts, and view your progress with widgets.
- Visual calendar grid progress tracking
- Vital metrics and analytics
- Track specific amounts and custom units
- Notes and journal entries
- Siri shortcuts and automation
- Interactive widgets
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Build habits with a visual tracker that makes daily progress easy to see—and easier to continue. Ripples turns every check-in into a clear, color-coded picture of your routines, goals, and consistency. SEE THE PATTERN Use flexible calendar grids to spot streaks, gaps, and trends at a glance. Organize habits into dashboards and create a view that fits your routine. TRACK MORE THAN CHECKMARKS Record simple check-ins or quantities such as pages, minutes, water, distance, money, and custom units. Add a note to any entry and review your history in the Journal. STAY CONSISTENT WITH LESS FRICTION Set multiple reminders, check in from interactive widgets, and build Shortcuts or Siri automations for the routines you repeat every day. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS See current and best streaks, consistency metrics, totals, averages, and daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. Compare years to understand what changed and where you are improving. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits and goals remain visible only to you and sync through end-to-end encrypted iCloud. Start with one habit. Watch the pattern grow. Privacy Policy: https://www.ripples.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ripples at 93% against Time Left's 73%. Ripples also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Time Left's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). 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. Time Left sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Ripples sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ripples holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 245 and 235 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Time Left's written reviews are positive against 93% of Ripples's.
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Ripples fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Left | Ripples |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (245 ratings) | 4.7 (235 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 92.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 245 — better | 235 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Lacroix | Mykola Harmash |
Customer experience
Time Left
Ripples
User reviews
Time Left
From 245 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Innovative memento mori concept
- 🎨 Beautiful and elegant design
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 🆓 Free app with no ads or data collection
- 📱 Effective widget implementation
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive premium subscription ($260/year)
- 🐛 Widget functionality broken after updates
- 🐛 Display rendering issues (upside-down text, missing elements)
- 🐛 App crashes and fails to load on some devices
- 🐛 Slow performance and laggy navigation
Ripples
From 235 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Minimalist and clean UI design
- 🎨 Beautiful animations and fluid interactions
- 📱 Excellent widget implementation
- 🚀 Simple and intuitive to use
- 💰 One-time purchase (no subscription)
Room to improve
- 🔔 Unreliable notification system
- 🐛 UI bugs affecting usability
- 💳 Purchase restoration issues
- 🔐 Lifetime purchase unlock problems
- ⚠️ No developer response to support issues
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
Ripples
Reported bugs
5 issues- Notifications not working reliably
- UI bugs causing app to become unusable
- Restore purchases not functioning
- Pro features not unlocking after purchase
- Lifetime purchase redemption not working
Requested features
12 requests- Check-in reminders/notifications
- Apple Watch app and complications
- iCloud sync across devices
- Weekly and monthly habit tracking
- Filtering by categories or tags
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- Smaller board sizes for better screen visibility
- Easier bulk check-in for past dates
- Notes field for individual check-ins
- Habit reordering functionality
- Compact main menu view
- Track amounts with custom units (e.g., pages read)
- Square widgets
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
Ripples
- Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
- Powerpack$9.99
- Powerpack Family$17.99
- Ripples Plus Lifetime$24.99









