Comparison

Left vs Drops

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

Head to head
About

Left

This app helps you visualize and manage your limited time through habit tracking, countdowns, and a daily planner. It offers features like Pomodoro timers and fasting tools to enhance productivity and awareness of your time.

Highlights
  • Time visualization (year, month, week, day, hour)
  • Habit tracking with streaks and reminders
  • Countdown timers for future events
  • Integrated daily planner
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Fasting tool
  • Widgets for Home Screen and Dynamic Island
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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. POMODORO FOCUS A calm Pomodoro timer inside Left. Choose your focus and break lengths and one of four timer styles, start a session in a tap, and follow it live from your Lock Screen, widgets and the Dynamic Island. Your focus history is all there too. 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

Drops

Features
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Small habits compound. Drops is a calm, focused habit tracker built to make daily progress feel satisfying. See your whole week at a glance, check in with one tap, and build momentum without noisy dashboards or social pressure. MAKE PROGRESS VISIBLE • Track daily habits in a clear weekly grid • Watch streaks grow with detailed stats and a consistency heatmap • Move through past weeks without losing sight of today BUILD YOUR OWN RHYTHM • Choose a color and icon for every habit • Add notes that keep each goal meaningful • Set gentle daily reminders at the time that works for you • Reorder habits around your priorities KEEP IT CLOSE • Check today’s progress from the Home Screen widget • Export a local backup whenever you want • Restore your habits and history from a backup file Drops keeps your habit data on your device. There are no accounts, ads, or social feeds—just a simple place to keep showing up.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Drops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drops at none against Left's 10. Drops also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Drops asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 4 days, Drops every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Left versus Drops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftDrops
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (514 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings514 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedAkshay Maurya

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

Drops

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Left

Subscriptions7
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium$3.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Left Premium$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Left Premium Lifetime Deal$49.99
  • Left Premium Lifetime$69.99
None

Drops

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drops free?
Drops is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Left or Drops have ads?
Neither Left nor Drops shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Drops?
Left ships an update every 4 days, and Drops every 3 months. Most recently, Left was updated on November 8, 2026 and Drops on November 5, 2026.

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