Comparison

Left vs LinkStow

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

Head to head
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/

About

LinkStow

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LinkStow is the ultimate link manager built for speed, simplicity, and privacy. Save and organize your bookmarks, URLs, and digital references with smart tools that make finding and managing content effortless. Designed for productivity, research, and personal use, LinkStow helps you stay focused and in control of your digital knowledge. Save Links Quickly Add websites, articles, videos, and more in seconds — all stored in a clean, scrollable interface. Organize with Groups Create custom groups with unique icons and colors to visually separate and categorize your links. Face ID & Touch ID Privacy Lock specific groups with biometric authentication for secure access to private or sensitive content. Swipe to Edit or Delete Quickly manage links with intuitive swipe gestures. Clean Interface Minimal design focused on clarity and speed — no clutter, no distractions. Full Search and Sort Find links instantly by title, group, or tag. Sort by custom criteria for better navigation. Whether you’re building a reading list, collecting research, or organizing saved URLs across topics, LinkStow offers a focused and flexible tool for link management.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
LinkStow3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkStow at none against Left's 33. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Left sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. LinkStow asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Left versus LinkStow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftLinkStow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (429 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings429 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size244 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedRonan Kenkare

Bugs and 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

LinkStow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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 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
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
None

LinkStow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LinkStow free?
LinkStow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Left or LinkStow have ads?
Neither Left nor LinkStow shows ads.

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