Left vs Human Hours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Human Hours
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Your phone was engineered to win your attention. Human Hours is a counterweight - a small app built around one belief: your hours are yours to spend. MINDFUL PAUSES Choose the app that eats your hours. When you open it, Human Hours steps in first with a calm, full-screen question. Close the app and keep the moment, or continue for a short, deliberate window. If you wrote your own reason for keeping the app around, Human Hours brings it back when it matters. A JOURNAL FOR THE MOMENTS YOU'D OTHERWISE MISS Why did you pick up your phone? A task, a reply, boredom, escape, or just habit - log it in one tap and let your own patterns come into focus. Awareness, not shame, is where change starts. FLOW FOR TIME YOU ALREADY CHOSE TO PROTECT Start a focused session in Human Hours or from Control Center, Siri, Shortcuts, timers, and saved habits. Flow blocking is available to everyone and can keep supported apps out of reach for the session. Pro lets you choose the apps that remain available. FRESH MIND FOR THE EDGES OF YOUR DAY Protect a morning window and an evening window with a recurring routine. The full routine is free. Pro adds a private allowlist and can link it to the apps you already allow during Deep Work. CIRCLES FOR COMMITMENTS YOU KEEP TOGETHER Create or join a Circle for Flow, Fresh Mind, or app discipline. Human Hours turns each person's completed days into a shared streak, while keeping Screen Time details and private reasons out of the circle. Circles use Apple's iCloud sharing, so there is no Human Hours account to create. SOMETHING SMALL THAT GROWS WHEN YOU DO A baby dinosaur hatches when you begin. It grows with your choices - every pause you sit with and every app you close instead of open. A WEEK, HANDED BACK TO YOU See Flow history and a weekly reflection that brings your pauses, step-aways, and journal entries together kindly, never as a report card. Pro also unlocks widgets for Year Progress, Daily Momentum, Screen Battle, Life Impact, and quick Journal entry. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Screen Time totals, selected apps and websites, Journal content, reasons, reflections, Story progress, and protection rules stay on your device. If you use Circles, only the circle identity, your chosen member identity, membership details, calendar boundary, and completion-day labels are shared through Apple's private and shared CloudKit databases. Human Hours has no analytics, ads, or Human Hours server. HUMAN HOURS PRO Free protects one app with unlimited standard Intent Checks and includes Flow blocking, Fresh Mind, and up to three Circles. Pro adds protection for multiple apps and websites, custom pause lengths, attempt caps, quick actions, private allowlists, unlimited Circles, weekly reflection, widgets, and 30 days of Journal history. Eligible new yearly subscribers can try Pro free for seven days; the monthly plan starts right away with no trial. Your hours are the only thing you truly spend. Human Hours helps more of them end up where you meant them to go. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Human Hours at 17.0 against Left's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Left sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Human Hours sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Left ships an update every 4 days, Human Hours weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Left | Human Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (429 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 429 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 244 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cntxt Limited | Anand Sharma |
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
Human Hours
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Left
- Left Premium$0.997 Days
- Left Premium$2.997 Days
- Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
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- 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
- Left+$0.99
- Awesome$1.99
- Left+$2.99
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- 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
Human Hours
- Human Hours Pro$2.991 Month
- Human Hours Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year









