Comparison

DAHLIA vs Left

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

Head to head
About

DAHLIA

This intelligent assistant helps you manage your day through natural conversation. It handles reminders, calendar events, emails, and tasks to keep you organized and in control.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personal assistant
  • Natural conversational interface
  • Manages reminders
  • Organizes calendar events
  • Handles emails
  • Task management
Features
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DAHLIA is your intelligent, deeply personalized assistant that helps you stay organized, productive, and in control of your day. Designed to feel like a real conversation with a human assistant, DAHLIA manages your reminders, calendar events, emails, tasks, and more — all through a natural conversational interface. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

DAHLIA4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DAHLIA at 93% against Left's 73%. DAHLIA also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DAHLIA sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and Left sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DAHLIA ships an update every 8 days, Left every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DAHLIA versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDAHLIALeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (507 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.3% of reviews — better73.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—507 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB246 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDAHLIA Intelligence Inc.Cntxt Limited

Customer experience

DAHLIA

Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

Left

All ratings486 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews341 reviews
Positive73.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative18.8%

Bugs and requests

DAHLIA

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

DAHLIA

Subscriptions2
  • DAHLIA Monthly$10.991 Month
  • DAHLIA Yearly$99.991 Year
10 purchases

Left

Subscriptions8
  • 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 Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Left Premium$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
  • Left Premium$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Left Premium$49.99
  • Left Premium$69.99

Questions

Is DAHLIA free?
DAHLIA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DAHLIA or Left have ads?
Neither DAHLIA nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DAHLIA or Left?
DAHLIA ships an update every 8 days, and Left every 3 days. Most recently, DAHLIA was updated on October 30, 2026 and Left on November 4, 2026.

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