Comparison

pocketgg vs Left

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

Head to head
About

pocketgg

This app provides a mobile interface for start.gg, allowing users to easily find and follow esports tournaments. View event details, live streams, registration links, and navigate tournament brackets with intuitive controls. Track your favorite players and organizers, and manage your own tournament participation.

Highlights
  • Discover upcoming tournaments
  • View tournament details
  • Access live streams and registration
  • Native bracket view with zoom
  • Follow tournament organizers
  • Search start.gg tournaments
  • View personal tournament participation
Features
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pocketgg is a client app for start.gg that makes it easy to keep up with the latest tournament results. Discover upcoming tournaments for your favourite video games, or view details of tournaments happening right now. Once you've selected a tournament, information like location, contact info, live streams, or even registration are all just a tap away. View event details from entrant standings all the way down to individual games for a specific match. And when you want to get a bird's-eye view of the entire bracket, use the native bracket view (complete with pinch-to-zoom controls) and see your favourite player's progression through the tournament. Features: • Discover upcoming and featured tournaments for your favourite video games • View tournament details such as events, location, contact info, etc. • Easy access to tournament live streams and registration • Native bracket view with pinch-to-zoom controls for single/double elimination and round robin brackets • Follow tournament organizers to see when the next local or regional is • Search for any tournament on start.gg • Profile page where you can view tournaments that you're organizing or competing in • Pin your favourite tournaments for easy access pocketgg is in no way affiliated with start.gg.

About

Left

This app helps you visualize and manage your limited time through habit tracking, countdowns, and a daily planner. It offers features like Pomodoro timers and fasting tools to enhance productivity and awareness of your time.

Highlights
  • Time visualization (year, month, week, day, hour)
  • Habit tracking with streaks and reminders
  • Countdown timers for future events
  • Integrated daily planner
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Fasting tool
  • Widgets for Home Screen and Dynamic Island
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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. POMODORO FOCUS A calm Pomodoro timer inside Left. Choose your focus and break lengths and one of four timer styles, start a session in a tap, and follow it live from your Lock Screen, widgets and the Dynamic Island. Your focus history is all there too. 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

pocketgg4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: pocketgg at none against Left's 10. pocketgg also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 73%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (514 vs 76). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. pocketgg asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Left holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 514 ratings behind it against 76, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of pocketgg's written reviews are positive against 73% of Left's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

pocketgg ships an update every 2 months, Left every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
pocketgg versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterpocketggLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (76 ratings)4.6 (514 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews — better73.0% of reviews
Number of ratings76514 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB238 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel SiuCntxt Limited

Customer experience

pocketgg

All ratings70 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral10.5%
Negative7.9%

Left

All ratings514 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews341 reviews
Positive73.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative18.8%

User reviews

pocketgg

From 76 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smoother than website
  • 👍 Great for tournament management
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 👍 Better mobile experience
  • 👍 Follow organizers feature

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Search feature is poor
  • 🐛 Old tournaments in search
  • 🐛 Cannot view seeding
  • 🐛 Doesn't update immediately
  • 🐛 Tournament search worthless

Left

From 514 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Minimalist design
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive
  • 🔒 Privacy-respecting
  • 💡 Unique and insightful concept
  • 👍 Clean and bloat-free

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy app with frequent issues
  • 💡 Lack of customization options
  • 💡 Predetermined lifespan not accurate for all users

Bugs and requests

pocketgg

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Old tournaments in search
  • Cannot view seeding
  • Doesn't update immediately after bracket is live
  • Tournament search feature is basically worthless
  • Featured and Upcoming tournaments list doesn’t acknowledge geography
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  • Nothing loads on the app. Everything is labeled as “Unable to load tournament.”
  • App has stopped loading tournaments
  • Search feature is pretty poor
  • Search function is very limited
  • Search button isn’t quite working

Requested features

19 requests
  • Add editing profile feature
  • Add filtering to search/home tabs
  • Add ability to accept invites
  • Add notifications for invites
  • Add way to see registered people
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  • Add support for character data in bracket
  • Add roster view in bracket/standings
  • Add notifications for following organizers
  • Add pending invites/active roster view
  • Add tournament time
  • Add rule sets for tournaments
  • Add ability to follow players
  • Add search for specific players
  • Add bookmark/pin tournament feature
  • Make bracket the first tab
  • Add radius setting for location
  • Add attendees list
  • Add tournament descriptions
  • Add Spanish language support

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

pocketgg

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Left

Subscriptions7
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium$3.997 Days
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  • Left Premium7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Left Premium Lifetime Deal$49.99
  • Left Premium Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is pocketgg free?
pocketgg 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, pocketgg or Left?
Left is rated higher. pocketgg averages 4.4 out of 5 from 76 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 514 ratings.
Do pocketgg or Left have ads?
Neither pocketgg nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, pocketgg or Left?
pocketgg ships an update every 2 months, and Left every 4 days. Most recently, pocketgg was updated on November 3, 2026 and Left on November 8, 2026.

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