Comparison

Time Left vs Later

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

Later

Features
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Read it later. Understand it now. Your read-later list is a graveyard. 500+ articles, half-watched YouTube, Twitter threads you swore you'd come back to — none of it organized, most of it forgotten. Later flips the script. The moment you save a link, AI reads the content, summarizes it in 10 seconds, and auto-tags it semantically. No folders to maintain. No "I'll organize this later" debt. When you want it back, search by what you actually remember — "that design post with floating purple globes" — instead of hunting for an exact title. WHAT LATER DOES • AI Deep-Summarize — Skim the key points from long articles, newsletters, and papers in under 10 seconds. Powered by Gemini. • Semantic Auto-Tagging — Captures the topic, category, and intent on save. No manual folders, no tag entry, no setup. • Natural Concept Search — Find anything by describing what you remember. The article about Stripe's design system. The thread on EU AI regulation. The recipe with three cheeses. • Save Anything — Articles, videos, threads, recipes, code repos, newsletters. One share-sheet tap from Safari, Twitter/X, Reddit, browsers, anywhere. • Smart Library — A clean inbox that doesn't feel like a to-do list. Filter by topic. Sort by relevance. Quick scan, deep read. WHO IT'S FOR • Knowledge workers drowning in saved links • Students and researchers managing reading lists across domains • Writers, developers, designers tracking inspiration • Anyone who's ever opened Pocket and immediately closed it Built for people who actually want to read what they save. Read it later. Understand it now. — — Questions, feedback, or feature requests: contact@meoa.space Terms of service & privacy policy: https://later.meoa.space/terms https://later.meoa.space/privacy

Screenshots

Time Left4 screens
Later4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Later at 3 against Time Left's 1. Later also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Time Left sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Later sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Later weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Left versus Later: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime LeftLater
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (245 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings245 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJulien LacroixRassul Kainazarov

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
Show 4 more
  • 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

Later

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
1 purchases

Later

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Time Left free?
Time Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Later free?
Later is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Left or Later have ads?
Neither Time Left nor Later shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Left or Later?
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, and Later weekly. Most recently, Time Left was updated on October 29, 2026 and Later on October 24, 2026.

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