Comparison

Left vs 1 Percent Better

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

1 Percent Better

Features
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GET 1% BETTER EVERYDAY. Tiny Habits, Real Progress. Look no further on your One Percent Better (1% Better AI) journey with AI capability. This app is an AI-powered goal setting and habit tracking app designed to help you build consistency, track streaks, and turn tiny daily actions into real results. Inspired by the principles of Atomic Habits (Author: James Clear) and the power of compounding, 1% Better AI makes it simple to stay on track—without guilt, overwhelm, or complicated systems. Most habit trackers stop at checkboxes. 1% Better goes further with AI coaching, smart planning, and insightful analytics so you can see exactly how your small wins add up over weeks and months. Why 1% Better is different from other habit apps: *Less friction, more action You don’t need perfect routines. Log a session in seconds, keep momentum, and let the app guide you back when life gets busy. Compounding progress you can actually see *Track your invested time, streaks, and milestones to understand how “tiny wins” build real progress. AI coaching that adapts to you Get curated micro-tasks, encouragement, and coaching-style insights based on how you’re actually doing—not generic tips. *Built for ambitious people with limited time Perfect for busy professionals, side-hustlers, creators, parents, students, and anyone who wants consistent progress across health, career, learning, and life. Core features: *Goal setting made simple Create personal or professional goals (fitness, business, career, learning, finance, relationships) Choose a timeframe (30/90 days, 6 months, 12 months) Break goals into small, repeatable habits you can stick to *Habit tracker with streaks & consistency Track daily habits, weekly habits, and flexible routines Maintain streaks and build momentum Celebrate small wins and reinforce identity-based habits *Track your time and effort Log focused sessions and track total accumulated hours See your “effort investment” across goals and habits Build consistency without needing perfect days *Analytics that keep you motivated Streak tracking, weekly summaries, and progress trends Compounding progress views (your small sessions add up) Insights that help you stay consistent over time *AI coaching & planning (Premium / trial depending on your plan) AI-generated micro-actions to reduce decision fatigue Adaptive coaching based on what you complete or miss Motivational coaching styles (supportive, high-performance, or tough-love) Weekly review-style insights to refine your plan Perfect for: - Habit building - Goal tracking - Productivity and focus - Fitness & health routines - Studying and learning goals - Career development - Side hustle execution - Daily self-improvement Built on proven habit psychology 1% Better is inspired by the science of habits and behaviour change: - Start small, build consistency - Focus on identity and repetition - Make progress obvious and rewarding - Let momentum compound over time Download 1% Better and start today - You don’t need a new life. You need a tiny action today. - Start your 1% Better journey now. - For more information go to 1pctbetter.ai

Screenshots

Left4 screens
1 Percent Better4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 1 Percent Better at none against Left's 10. 1 Percent Better also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Left sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. 1 Percent Better asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Left versus 1 Percent Better: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeft1 Percent Better
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (507 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings507 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB15 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedAnthony Hua

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

1 Percent Better

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
None

1 Percent Better

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 1 Percent Better free?
1 Percent Better is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Left or 1 Percent Better have ads?
Neither Left nor 1 Percent Better shows ads.

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