Comparison

Time Left vs ZupaBrain

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

ZupaBrain

Features
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ZupaBrain — your AI-powered second brain ZupaBrain is your personal knowledge assistant: an AI chat that automatically maintains, links, and organizes your Obsidian-compatible notes — whether you start a fresh vault or connect an existing one. What you get: • AI chat that understands your notes — just tell it what to remember, it creates notes, links them meaningfully, and files them into your folder structure • Dictation — speak instead of typing, right in the chat • Live-preview Markdown editor — notes format themselves as you type, just like in Obsidian • Interactive Orbit graph view — see every connection between your notes at a glance, color-coded by topic area • Todos collected straight from your notes, neatly grouped by area • Calendar integration — create your own events, connect iCloud calendars, let the AI (if you choose) add events automatically • Editable AI configuration — decide for yourself how your assistant handles your notes • Siri Shortcuts — start dictation or create a new todo with a voice command • Automatic cloud sync of your vault (optional add-on subscription "ZupaBrain Orbit") Ideas, projects, appointments, or just a clearer head — ZupaBrain grows with you, staying fully on Markdown and the Obsidian standard, with no lock-in. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Time Left4 screens
ZupaBrain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Time Left at 17.0 against ZupaBrain's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 ZupaBrain sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Time Left versus ZupaBrain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime LeftZupaBrain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (251 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings251 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJulien LacroixFlorian Salnikow

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

ZupaBrain

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
2 purchases

ZupaBrain

Subscriptions2
  • ZupaBrain Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • ZupaBrain Pro Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Time Left free?
Time Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ZupaBrain free?
ZupaBrain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Left or ZupaBrain have ads?
Neither Time Left nor ZupaBrain shows ads.

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