Time Left vs CranScan
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
CranScan
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CranScan is a document scanner that respects you: no account, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. Scanning and text recognition run entirely on your device. Pay once, own it forever. SCAN • Point your camera at any document or receipt — CranScan finds it, crops it and fixes the perspective • Drag the corner handles for a perfect manual crop • Color, Grayscale and crisp Black & White filters • Combine multiple pages into one document • Or import photos you already have READ — 100% on-device OCR • Local text recognition in Cyrillic (Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) and Latin scripts — nothing is uploaded • Works with crumpled receipts, slanted photos, sideways pages — CranScan straightens and rotates automatically • Recognition runs in the background; you get a notification when your document is ready • Add extra language packs on demand — you choose when to download them RECEIPTS, ITEMS & ANALYTICS • Receipt mode extracts the merchant, date and total automatically • Line items are pulled out too, and each receipt is sorted into a spending category • The Items screen totals your spending by month, by category and by merchant — all computed locally • Auto-tagging: set keyword rules ("lidl" → #groceries) and stay organized without lifting a finger • Export all receipts and items as a CSV spreadsheet OPTIONAL ON-DEVICE AI • On supported devices you can download an optional AI model that reads even messy receipts more accurately — and it still runs fully on your device, offline ORGANIZE & EXPORT • Folders, tags, and full-text search over everything you ever scanned • Category-colored library, quick filters, and a bin so nothing is deleted by accident • Export searchable PDFs (with an invisible text layer), JPEG, TXT and CSV • Your entire library is a plain folder on your device — back it up by copying it PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Everything happens on-device: your documents, photos and receipt data never leave your phone • The only time CranScan uses the network is when you tap "Download" to fetch an optional language or AI pack — no documents, images or usage data are ever sent • No account, no subscription, no "premium" nagging: pay once, own forever
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Time Left at every 6 days against CranScan's every 3 weeks. CranScan's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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 CranScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time Left ships an update every 6 days, CranScan every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Left | CranScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (237 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 237 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien Lacroix | Dmitrii Samoilenko |
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
CranScan
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
CranScan
- Unlock CranScan$34.99









