Monk Mode vs Left
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monk Mode
Regain control of your attention with this productivity tool that combines a minimalist phone mode with app and website blocking. Designed to combat digital distractions and enhance concentration, it helps users achieve focused work sessions.
- Minimalist phone mode
- App blocker
- Website blocker
- Distraction control
- Focus enhancement
- 3-day free trial
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Feeling overwhelmed by distractions? Drowning in notifications and social media feeds? Take control of your focus with Monk Mode, the productivity app designed to help you achieve laser-sharp concentration. Monk Mode is a 2-in-1 app featuring a minimalist phone feature and an app/website blocker. Monk Mode offers a 3-day free trial. There are three purchase options: - $9.99 Monthly Plan - $49.99 Yearly Plan - $99.99 Lifetime Plan These prices are in US Dollars (USD). Pricing in other currencies and countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. *A Monk Mode subscription is required to enjoy full access to features* Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Monk Mode at 5.0 against Left's 4.6. Monk Mode also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (461 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Monk Mode sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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.
Monk Mode holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 461 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Monk Mode's written reviews are positive against 73% of Left's.
Monk Mode ships an update every 3 weeks, Left every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monk Mode | Left |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.6 (461 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 73.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 461 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 246 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Red Eye Studios | Cntxt Limited |
Customer experience
Monk Mode
Left
Bugs and requests
Monk Mode
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
Monk Mode
- Monthly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Monthly Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Quarterly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$9.993 Months
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- Yearly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly Plan3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Minimal Phone Feature$9.99
- Lifetime Membership$9.99
- Bundle & Save$14.99
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- Lifetime Plan$99.99
Left
- 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 Premium2 variants$24.991 Year
- Left Premium7 Days trial$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
- 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









