Comparison

Time Left vs Left

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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

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. 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. Left requires a Premium plan to use its features. Choose a weekly, yearly plan or a one-time lifetime purchase to unlock everything. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Time Left4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Time Left at free with in-app purchases against Left's paid. Time Left also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Time Left sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Left sells 28 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Time Left against 4.6 for Left. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 237 and 429 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 73% and 73% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Left every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Left versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime LeftLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (237 ratings)4.6 (429 ratings)
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews — better73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings237429 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJulien LacroixCntxt Limited

Customer experience

Time Left

All ratings237 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral8.0%
Negative18.6%

Left

All ratings429 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews311 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative18.0%

User reviews

Time Left

From 237 App Store ratings

What 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

Left

From 429 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

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

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

Time Left

Subscriptions3
  • Per week$4.997 Days
  • Annual3 Days trial$17.991 Year
  • Per year$17.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • One time$24.99
28 purchases

Left

Subscriptions14
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
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  • Left Premium7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • 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
  • Thanks!$39.991 Year
One-time14
  • Left+$0.99
  • Awesome$1.99
  • Left+$2.99
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  • 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 Time Left free?
Time Left 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, Time Left or Left?
Time Left and Left are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 237 and 429 ratings respectively.
Do Time Left or Left have ads?
Neither Time Left nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Left or Left?
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, and Left every 4 days. Most recently, Time Left was updated on October 16, 2026 and Left on October 16, 2026.

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