Time Left vs Later
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
Later
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Later weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Left | Later |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (245 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 245 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Lacroix | Rassul 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
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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
Later
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
Later
- Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month









