Time Left Today vs Halftime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Left Today
Visualize and track your remaining time in the day, week, month, or year with intuitive countdown widgets. Monitor your time balance anywhere, anytime, directly from your home screen or lock screen.
- Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly time countdowns
- Home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets (iOS)
- Menu bar widgets (macOS)
- Time balance monitoring
- Intuitive visualization
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- Check how much time has left in day, week, month, and year, like checking battery percentage, a new way to visualize and track time. - Support a variation of widgets, place it on your Home Screen, Lock Screen(iOS only) , and menu bar(macOS only), monitor your time balance at anywhere, anytime. Privacy Policy URL: https://timebalance.no-one.dev/privacy
Halftime
Visualize your life's progress and remaining time through a unique dot-based matrix. Track days, weeks, years, and significant events with focus timers and shareable progress cards. Designed for mindful living and intentional time management.
- Visual Time Matrix
- Life Progress Visualization
- Focus Timer
- Special Day Trackers
- Home and Lock Screen Widgets
- Apple Watch Support
- Shareable Timeline Cards
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How much time do you actually have left? Halftime helps you see time clearly, from the next hour to the shape of your entire life. Instead of hiding time inside lists, charts, or abstract numbers, Halftime turns your day, week, month, year, and life into a quiet matrix of dots. Each dot is a moment. Some have passed. Some are still ahead. Some can still be filled with focus, meaning, and intention. Halftime is not a traditional to-do list, habit tracker, or productivity system. It is a visual time tracker designed to help you understand where you are, what matters, and how you want to spend the time you still have. Key Features • Visual Time Matrix See your Day, Week, Month, Year, and Life as clean dot-based timelines. Zoom from the micro view of today to the macro view of your life. • Life Progress Set your birthday and expected lifespan to visualize your life progress in weeks and years. A simple, powerful reminder to make the present count. • Focus Timer Start a focused session with a simple gesture. Turn passing time into visible progress and transform grey dots into colorful records of attention. • Special Days Track birthdays, anniversaries, trips, deadlines, goals, and meaningful moments with countdowns and progress views. • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets Keep your Life, Day, Week, Month, Year, and Special Days progress visible without opening the app. • Apple Watch Support Check your time progress from your wrist. Add Halftime complications to your watch face for Life, Year, Month, Week, Day, and selected Special Days. • Visual Heatmap Your effort is more than a number. Watch your timeline light up as you focus, build routines, and create a visual record of how your time is spent. • Shareable Timeline Cards Create clean visual cards for your time progress and share your Day, Month, Year, or Life timeline. Why Halftime? Halftime is for people who want to: • Feel the passage of time more clearly • Track life progress without anxiety or clutter • Build focus with a minimal timer • Visualize habits, effort, and attention • Remember important dates and countdowns • Use widgets and Apple Watch complications as gentle reminders • Spend less time scrolling and more time living Design Philosophy Halftime is intentionally simple. No ads. No noisy social features. No complicated project systems. No endless settings. Just a calm, visual way to understand time and make better choices with it. Time does not become longer when you track it. But when you can see it, you can choose it more deliberately. Stop scrolling. Start living. Welcome to Halftime. Take control of your second half. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://limxfx.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-21528332de66804d9c3fcacd01e709b1
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Verdict
Time Left Today and Halftime are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Today sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Halftime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Time Left Today against 5.0 for Halftime. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Time Left Today ships an update every 2 weeks, Halftime fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Left Today | Halftime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZIJIAN CHEN | 虎 伏 |
Customer experience
Time Left Today
Halftime
In-app purchases
Time Left Today
- Pro Version(One-Time Purchase)$1.99
Halftime
- Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$8.99
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