Comparison

Left vs Forge

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/

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Forge

Features
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Forge is a daily quest system built to help you turn goals into consistent action. Instead of letting habits sit as vague intentions, Forge helps you break them into repeatable quests you can track every day. Whether you are trying to build better routines, stay focused on personal growth, or simply become more consistent, Forge gives you a clear structure that is simple to use and satisfying to stick with. Forge is designed around momentum. You set up your quests, define how often they should happen, and track progress as you go. The app helps you stay engaged with streaks, consistency tracking, progress summaries, badges, and a flexible daily window that works around your real schedule. If your day starts late or runs past midnight, Forge can adapt to that instead of forcing you into a rigid calendar definition of a day. Key features: • Create repeatable daily quests and routines Set up quests that match your goals and build a system you can realistically follow. • Track consistency over time See how often you show up, monitor your progress, and build stronger routines through repetition. • Build streaks and earn rewards Stay motivated with streak tracking, badges, and progression that make daily effort feel meaningful. • Flexible day window support Define when your day starts and ends so your progress reflects your actual lifestyle, including schedules that go past midnight. • Timed quests and reminders Use timers for focused work sessions and receive alerts when sessions finish or when quests still need attention. • Daily notes and reflection Capture notes for the day and stay more intentional about what you completed and how you felt. • Stats and progress views Review your weekly and monthly performance to understand patterns and keep improving. • Widgets, Live Activities, and Apple Watch support Keep your progress visible throughout the day and stay connected to your quests without opening the app every time. • Local-first experience Your progress stays centered on your device, making Forge feel lightweight, fast, and personal. Forge is for people who want a system that feels motivating without becoming overwhelming. It combines structure, visibility, and momentum into a focused daily experience that helps you keep moving. If you want to be more consistent, follow through more often, and turn your goals into something actionable, Forge gives you a clear path to do it.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forge at none against Left's 33. Forge also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Left sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Left versus Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (461 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings461 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedRajesh Kumar Madhavan

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

Forge

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 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
None

Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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