Comparison

Time Left Today vs Halftime

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly time countdowns
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets (iOS)
  • Menu bar widgets (macOS)
  • Time balance monitoring
  • Intuitive visualization
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Visual Time Matrix
  • Life Progress Visualization
  • Focus Timer
  • Special Day Trackers
  • Home and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Apple Watch Support
  • Shareable Timeline Cards
Features
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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

Screenshots

Time Left Today4 screens
Halftime4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Time Left Today versus Halftime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime Left TodayHalftime
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZIJIAN CHEN虎 伏

Customer experience

Time Left Today

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Halftime

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Time Left Today

One-time1
  • Pro Version(One-Time Purchase)$1.99
3 purchases

Halftime

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Time Left Today free?
Time Left Today is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Halftime free?
Halftime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Time Left Today or Halftime?
Time Left Today and Halftime are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Time Left Today or Halftime have ads?
Neither Time Left Today nor Halftime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Left Today or Halftime?
Time Left Today ships an update every 2 weeks, and Halftime fortnightly. Most recently, Time Left Today was updated on October 21, 2026 and Halftime on October 2, 2026.

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