Comparison

Raycast vs Left

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

Head to head
About

Raycast

This app extends your desktop productivity to your mobile device. It offers AI chat, note-taking, quick links, code snippets, and seamless cloud synchronization. Keep your essential tools and ideas accessible anywhere.

Highlights
  • AI chat with multiple models
  • Capture and organize notes
  • Save and access Quicklinks
  • Store code snippets and templates
  • Seamless cloud sync across devices
Features
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Introducing Raycast for iOS: Your all-in-one productivity toolkit with AI, notes, and more – now on mobile as the perfect companion to the macOS app. The app brings your favorite productivity tools from the Mac into your pocket. With Raycast for iOS, you can: • Chat with dozens of AI models from leading providers to get the perfect answers for any task • Capture, organize, and access your thoughts to never lose an important idea again • Save and open Quicklinks for instant access to your most important resources • Store and reuse code snippets and templates to save time on repetitive workflows • Enjoy seamless cloud sync to keep all your content updated across devices Whether you're a long-time Mac user or just discovering Raycast on iOS, you'll have your essential productivity tools always at hand. Raycast for iOS seamlessly extends your desktop workflow to mobile, ensuring you stay productive and organized wherever life takes you. Please note: Raycast for iOS requires a free Raycast account. Premium features available with a Raycast Pro subscription. Terms of Service: https://www.raycast.com/terms-of-service

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

Raycast4 screens
Left4 screens

Verdict

The call

Raycast and Left both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 73% of Left's written reviews are positive against 54% of Raycast's. Left also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days). Raycast's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs paid) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Raycast sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Raycast against 4.6 for Left. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 253 and 472 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Raycast's written reviews are positive against 73% of Left's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Raycast ships an update every 11 days, Left every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Raycast versus Left: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaycastLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (253 ratings)4.6 (472 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.9% of reviews73.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings253472 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB246 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaycast TechnologiesCntxt Limited

Customer experience

Raycast

All ratings250 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive53.9%
Neutral12.5%
Negative33.6%

Left

All ratings460 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive73.2%
Neutral8.6%
Negative18.2%

User reviews

Raycast

From 253 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Running circles around Spotlight and Siri
  • 👍 Great start
  • 👍 Amazing fast and effective!
  • 👍 Finally!! Absolutely amazing
  • 👍 Am I really this early?

Room to improve

  • 💰 Useless w/o a Subscription
  • 📁 iOS Limitations Stifle Raycast
  • 🤖 Too Much AI
  • 🤖 Not really Raycast as we know it
  • 🤖 This Isn't Raycast

Left

From 472 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Minimalist design
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive
  • 🔒 Privacy-respecting
  • 💡 Unique and insightful concept
  • 👍 Clean and bloat-free

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy app with frequent issues
  • 💡 Lack of customization options
  • 💡 Predetermined lifespan not accurate for all users

Bugs and requests

Raycast

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Sync feature should be free at least for Raycast notes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Attach documents via the UI when starting a conversation
  • Sync between desktop and iOS chat history
  • Create notes quickly from the Share Sheet
  • Extensions support

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

11 purchases

Raycast

Subscriptions6
  • Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Advanced AI$19.991 Month
  • Max Plan$49.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Pro14 Days trial$96.001 Year
  • Advanced AI$191.991 Year
  • Max Plan$479.991 Year
One-time5
  • 500 AI Credits$5.00
  • 2,500 AI Credits$23.90
  • 5,000 AI Credits$46.49
Show 2 more
  • 5,000 Team AI Credits$60.00
  • 10,000 Team AI Credits$116.99
28 purchases

Left

Subscriptions14
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 11 more
  • 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
One-time14
  • Left+$0.99
  • Awesome$1.99
  • Left+$2.99
Show 11 more
  • 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 Raycast free?
Raycast 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, Raycast or Left?
Left is rated higher. Raycast averages 4.5 out of 5 from 253 ratings, while Left averages 4.6 from 472 ratings.
Do Raycast or Left have ads?
Neither Raycast nor Left shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Raycast or Left?
Raycast ships an update every 11 days, and Left every 3 days. Most recently, Raycast was updated on October 27, 2026 and Left on October 28, 2026.

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