Comparison

Progress Checker vs Left

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Progress Checker

Monitor remaining time for tasks directly on your home screen. This productivity tool offers a simple way to visualize time left for ongoing activities.

Highlights
  • Home screen time tracking
  • Visualize remaining time
  • Task management aid
Features
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You can check the rest of time in your home screen.

About

Left

Visualize your time with customizable widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. Track life progress, countdowns to important events, and monitor habits with streak tracking. Offers a clean and visually appealing way to stay aware of your time.

Highlights
  • Time progress widgets (year, week, day)
  • Life progress tracking
  • Event countdowns
  • Habit and streak tracking
  • Customizable widget styles and colors
  • Apple Calendar sync
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Left is a time-awareness app built on one idea: your time is limited, and seeing it changes how you use it. Left turns time into something you can see, then helps you act on it with habits, streaks, countdowns, and a planner for your day. TIME LEFT See where you are in the year, month, week, day, hour, and your life. Each unit is a symbol; the past dims, what remains stays in view. Your life in weeks, year progress, and life progress, made tangible. Choose dots, symbols, colors, and layouts. A quiet, honest way to face limited time without it becoming morbid. HABITS, STREAKS & AIMS Left is a habit tracker for the person you are trying to become. Build habits on any schedule: daily, several times a day, weekly, monthly, or custom. Track streaks and protect them, count the days since anything that matters, and set reminders so nothing slips. And you don't have to do it alone: share a habit or streak with a friend, keep each other accountable, and send kudos, cheers, and encouragement when it counts. With aims, you have a flexible goal tracker for anything you can count, helping you build up or cut down. Stay on track and see your progress every day. AHEAD - COUNTDOWNS & DATES Add the dates that pull you forward: trips, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, weddings, deadlines, retirement, and personal milestones. Count down to each one, import from Apple Calendar, and track both the days until and the days since. New: every Ahead date now has its own to-do list, so you can plan the small tasks that make the date happen and check them off as it approaches. Share an Ahead date with a friend, follow it side by side, comment, and add to-dos together on joint dates. PLANNER Planner pulls everything that matters into one beautiful, time-first view: your habits, streaks, Ahead dates, Apple Calendar events, Apple Reminders, weather, sleep, and workouts, together at last. Not another calendar, but a clear, calm picture of what the day is actually asking of you. Because everything lives in one place instead of five apps, Planner is a quiet ally for ADHD minds: see the whole day at a glance and miss nothing. Two new widgets come with it: a Planner widget and a Calendar widget for your Home Screen. FASTING TOOL A simple yet beautiful fasting tool inside Left. Pick a fasting window, start it in a tap, and follow every fast live from your Lock Screen, widgets and the Dynamic Island. Your history and stats are all there too. WHY LEFT Other apps give you habits without design, or aesthetics without depth. Left combines both: the widget range, the design quality, and the full set of time tools, in one app made with restraint and taste. Left requires a Premium plan to use its features. Choose a weekly, yearly plan or a one-time lifetime purchase to unlock everything. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Progress Checker3 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Left at 73% against Progress Checker's 25%. Left also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.8) and ads (none vs shown). Progress Checker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 33) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Left sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Progress Checker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Left holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 429 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Progress Checker's written reviews are positive against 73% of Left's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress Checker ships an update every 8 months, Left every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Progress Checker versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgress CheckerLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (4 ratings)4.6 (429 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4429 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakahiko NakadeCntxt Limited

Customer experience

Progress Checker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Left

All ratings429 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews311 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative18.0%

Bugs and requests

Progress Checker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Left

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not working
  • Blank screen on widget after update
  • Percentage left showing -inf%

Requested features

5 requests
  • Custom lifespan input
  • Ability to set custom milestones
  • Widget color customization
  • Life widget
  • Ability to track minutes left in the day

In-app purchases

None

Progress Checker

No in-app purchases

28 purchases

Left

Subscriptions14
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 11 more
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • LEGEND$8.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Left Premium$19.997 Days
  • Left Premium$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium$34.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial2 variants$34.991 Year
  • Thanks!$39.991 Year
One-time14
  • Left+$0.99
  • Awesome$1.99
  • Left+$2.99
Show 11 more
  • Left+$3.99
  • Legend$4.99
  • Left+ Thanks$5.99
  • Left+$6.99
  • Left+$7.99
  • Left+$8.99
  • Left Premium$12.99
  • Left Premium$29.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$49.99
  • Left Premium2 variants$69.99
  • Left Premium$149.00

Questions

Is Progress Checker free?
Progress Checker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress Checker or Left?
Left is rated higher. Progress Checker averages 1.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 429 ratings.
Do Progress Checker or Left have ads?
Progress Checker shows ads; Left does not.
Which is updated more often, Progress Checker or Left?
Progress Checker ships an update every 8 months, and Left every 4 days. Most recently, Progress Checker was updated on October 9, 2026 and Left on October 11, 2026.

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