Comparison

Playbook vs Left

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

Head to head
About

Playbook

Access and manage your creative files seamlessly across all your devices. Share your work, get feedback on the go, and post directly to social media from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Seamless cross-device file access
  • Share work and receive feedback
  • Post directly to social media
  • On-the-go creative file management
  • Beautifully view and find files
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You asked and we answered: it’s finally here! The Playbook Mobile App is now available on iOS so you can see everything and find anything, beautifully, anywhere. Share your work and receive feedback while you’re on the go, seamlessly access your creative files across devices, and even post to social media - all from your Playbook. Happy Playbookin’! Psst… tag us on social media at @playbook_hq to let people know that it’s time to make the switch to Playbook! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.playbook.com/privacy

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

Playbook4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Playbook at 4.8 against Left's 4.6. Playbook also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and device support (3 vs 1). Left's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 63%) and ratings volume (429 vs 117). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Playbook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $18.00 per month and Left sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Playbook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 117 and 429 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Playbook'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

Playbook ships an update weekly, Left every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Playbook versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaybookLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (117 ratings) — better4.6 (429 ratings)
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings117429 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaybook.comCntxt Limited

Customer experience

Playbook

All ratings117 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative31.6%

Left

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

Bugs and requests

Playbook

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

2 purchases

Playbook

Subscriptions2
  • Playbook Pro$18.001 Month
  • Playbook Team$250.001 Month
28 purchases

Left

Subscriptions14
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
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  • 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
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  • 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 Playbook free?
Playbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Playbook or Left?
Playbook is rated higher. Playbook averages 4.8 out of 5 from 117 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 429 ratings.
Do Playbook or Left have ads?
Neither Playbook nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Playbook or Left?
Playbook ships an update weekly, and Left every 4 days. Most recently, Playbook was updated on October 16, 2026 and Left on October 19, 2026.

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