Comparison

Time Left vs Line Run

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

Line Run

This app helps actors memorize lines by having them speak their part while the app plays the other characters' lines. It offers recording options or automated voice generation for a realistic rehearsal experience. Designed by an actor, it aims to make getting off book easier and faster.

Highlights
  • Hear scenes instead of reading
  • Record other characters yourself
  • Import scripts for automated voices
  • Loop tricky sections
  • Mark up lines with notes
  • Prompt for lines when blank
Features
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Getting off book is the hardest part of the job. It usually happens in the living room: your script in one hand, the other covering your lines. That's how I memorized for years, and it never came easily. I would read the other lines and recite mine, never really listening. The words didn't stick because I wasn't thinking the thoughts. With Line Run, you hear the scene instead of reading it. It speaks the line before yours and listens while you respond, so you hear your cue and think your way into the reply. You're thinking the thoughts and connecting the dots, and this time the words stick. RECORD IT, OR IMPORT IT Record the other characters yourself, once. It's the more lifelike way: your own pacing, your own pauses, each part pitched up or down so they sound like different people. Or let Line Run Pro do the work. Import your script and every other part gets a natural-sounding voice, made right on your phone. One is more lifelike, the other is less effort. Either way, it sounds like a cast running the scene with you. BUILT FOR ACTORS, BY AN ACTOR Hi, I'm Kelly. I've been in this industry for over 25 years, and memorizing is still a challenge. I built Line Run so that we can get off book sooner, with confidence, and rehearsal can be about the acting. SIMPLE TO START, DEEP WHEN YOU WANT IT If you can press play, you can use Line Run. Open a scene and start talking. If you go blank, say "Line, please" and it prompts you. When you want more, it's all there: loop a tricky section, fine-tune the line text, mark it up with notes about motivation, hide the lines to suit your learning style. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account and nothing to sign up for. There are no ads and your data will never be sold to anyone. Your recordings stay on your phone, and the generated voices are made there too, not in a data centre. FREE FOREVER Line Run is free forever, and it's a complete tool, not a trial. It has everything you need for an audition or a less demanding role: one script of up to three scenes, recorded in your own voice, with every way to rehearse. LINE RUN PRO Unlock everything in the app: • Import your scripts, even scanned pages or sides • Natural-sounding voices for every other character, generated automatically • Unlimited scripts and scenes I know how tough it is out there for actors to make ends meet, so I've priced this low to cover costs, not to profit. An annual subscription, with a free trial to start. Cancel anytime. Generated voices need a one-time download of about 330 MB. On iPhone 11 and earlier, and the 2nd-generation iPhone SE, Line Run uses the phone's built-in voices instead. Questions or ideas? Write to me at hello@linerunapp.com. Proudly made in Canada. Terms of Use: https://linerunapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://linerunapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Time Left4 screens
Line Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Line Run at 5.0 against Time Left's 4.5. Line Run also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Time Left's advantage is ratings volume (246 vs 1). 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 Line Run sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Line Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Left has 246 ratings behind it against 1, 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 Line Run's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Left ships an update every 6 days, Line Run every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Time Left versus Line Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime LeftLine Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (246 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings246 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJulien LacroixKelly Wong

Customer experience

Time Left

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

Line Run

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Line Run

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

Line Run

Subscriptions1
  • Line Run Pro1 Month trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Time Left free?
Time Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Line Run free?
Line Run is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Time Left or Line Run?
Line Run is rated higher. Time Left averages 4.5 out of 5 from 246 ratings, while Line Run averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Time Left or Line Run have ads?
Neither Time Left nor Line Run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Left or Line Run?
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, and Line Run every 3 days. Most recently, Time Left was updated on November 3, 2026 and Line Run on October 31, 2026.

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