Comparison

Left vs Year Progress

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. FRIENDS All-new. Add the people who matter and keep each other moving. Stay accountable on the habits and streaks you share, join an Ahead date together, comment, add to-dos, and stay in the loop as it counts down. Private by design, with no public feed. 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. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Year Progress

Visualize your year's progress with aesthetic widgets and lock screen backgrounds. Track remaining days and stay motivated with customizable themes and symbols. Share your progress visually to inspire others.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen background wallpaper generator
  • Elegant Lock Screen widgets
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app & complications
  • Deep customization options
  • Visual day grid calendar
  • Shareable progress cards
Features
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Time is your most valuable asset. See it. Feel it. Stay motivated. Year Progress turns the passage of time into a beautiful visual experience. Track how much of the year has passed, how many days remain, and keep your goals in focus every single day. Whether you care about productivity, mindfulness, or simply a clean aesthetic setup, Year Progress makes your iPhone feel intentional — not cluttered. Lock Screen Background & Widgets The feature users love most: you can now set your Year Progress as a Lock Screen background wallpaper. Place the year progress directly behind your lock screen clock and watch time move forward every day. It’s not just a widget anymore — your lock screen itself becomes a living calendar. • Lock Screen background wallpaper generator • Elegant Lock Screen widgets • Multiple styles that match iOS themes • Works perfectly with tinted and clear wallpapers Home Screen Widgets Transform your Home Screen with elegant progress widgets showing exactly how much of the year has passed. Choose different sizes and layouts to fit your setup perfectly — minimalist, aesthetic, or productivity-focused. Apple Watch App & Complications Track the year right from your wrist. Check the percentage completed and remaining days instantly without unlocking your phone. Custom complications keep your progress visible all day. Deep Customization Make it truly yours. • Theme presets with curated color palettes • Fully custom colors (Light & Dark mode) • Unique symbols: stars, diamonds, yin-yang, roses, bees, donuts and more • Different day indicators and grid styles. Detailed Progress Tracking Understand time in a clear, motivating way: • Exact percentage of the year completed • Remaining days countdown • Visual day grid calendar Share Your Progress Create beautiful shareable cards for social media and inspire friends to use their time better. Why People Love Year Progress A year progress bar is a simple but powerful psychological motivator. Seeing time visually helps you stay consistent, avoid procrastination, and focus on what truly matters. Students, professionals, creators, and goal-setters all use Year Progress as a daily reminder: time is moving — use it intentionally. Download Year Progress and make every day count!

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Year Progress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Year Progress at 5.0 against Left's 4.6. Year Progress also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and device support (3 vs 1). Left's advantage is ratings volume (396 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, 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. Left sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Year Progress sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Year Progress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 396 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 3 days, Year Progress weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Left versus Year Progress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftYear Progress
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (396 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings396 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedSamet Pilav

Customer experience

Left

All ratings396 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews297 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral9.1%
Negative16.5%

Year Progress

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Year Progress

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Left

Subscriptions13
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 10 more
  • Thanks!$3.991 Year
  • 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
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
2 purchases

Year Progress

Subscriptions1
  • Year Progress Yearly Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Year Progress Unlimited$0.99

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Year Progress free?
Year Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Left or Year Progress?
Year Progress is rated higher. Left averages 4.6 out of 5 from 396 ratings, while Year Progress averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Left or Year Progress have ads?
Neither Left nor Year Progress shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Year Progress?
Left ships an update every 3 days, and Year Progress weekly. Most recently, Left was updated on September 26, 2026 and Year Progress on August 25, 2026.

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