Comparison

Left vs Focusify

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

Focusify

This app combines habit tracking, task management, and goal setting with gamification elements to make self-improvement engaging. Earn points, unlock achievements, and track progress with detailed statistics, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Gamified habit and task completion
  • Daily and weekly habit tracking
  • Full-featured task manager
  • Integrated monthly calendar
  • Notes and daily journal
  • Detailed progress statistics
  • Unlockable achievements
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Focusify: Habits, Tasks & Goals Focusify is the all-in-one productivity app that makes self-improvement actually fun. Whether you're building better habits, staying on top of your tasks, or chasing long-term goals, Focusify keeps you organized, motivated, and rewarded every step of the way, all while respecting your privacy by never collecting your data. Productivity Meets Gamification Earn XP for every habit you complete and every task you check off. Level up, unlock achievements, and build streaks that keep you coming back day after day. Focusify turns your daily routine into a game you'll want to win. Habit Tracking Build lasting habits with daily, weekday, weekly, and monthly tracking, streak counters, and milestone rewards. Choose from pre-built habit packs like Morning Routine, Fitness, and Mental Health, or create your own with custom colors and emojis. Hit 7, 30, 100, or 365-day streaks and watch your XP soar. Task Management Stay on top of everything with a full-featured task manager. Set priorities, due dates, and tags. Filter and sort your list your way, and never miss a deadline with overdue warnings and smart reminders. Your Apple Reminders sync automatically, so everything lives in one place. Calendar & Countdown Events View your schedule at a glance with a clean monthly calendar. Add and manage events, import directly from Apple Calendar, and mark any event as a Countdown to see a live days-remaining badge right on your Today screen. Swipe to navigate months and days with ease. Home Screen Widgets Keep Focusify on your home screen with four widgets: Habits, Tasks, Calendar, and Countdown. The Countdown widget lets you pin a specific event so you always know exactly how many days away it is. Notes & Journal Capture thoughts, ideas, and reflections with freeform notes and a built-in daily journal. The redesigned journal editor is clean and full-screen, inspired by Apple Journal. On iOS 17.2 and later, tap the sparkles button to pull in suggestions from your day, workouts, locations, and more. Recaps & Insights Track your progress over time with detailed stats. View weekly, monthly, yearly, or all-time recaps of your habit completion rates, tasks finished, mood trends, journal entries, and XP earned, so you always know how far you've come. Mood Tracking Log how you're feeling each day directly from the calendar tab. See your mood history over time and connect how you feel to what you've been doing. Achievements Unlock 25 unique achievements across Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary tiers. From completing your first habit to maintaining a 365-day streak, every milestone is worth celebrating. Smart Reminders Never forget a habit or miss a deadline. Set custom reminders for any habit or task and let Focusify keep you on track without the mental load. Why Focusify? Most productivity apps feel like a chore. Focusify feels like progress. It's built for people who want to show up for themselves every day, and actually enjoy doing it. Download Focusify today and start building the life you want, one XP at a time.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Focusify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focusify at none against Left's 33. Focusify also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (472 vs 3). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Focusify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focusify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 472 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Left's written reviews are positive against 100% of Focusify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 3 days, Focusify every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Left versus Focusify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftFocusify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (472 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings472 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedAiden Jacobs

Customer experience

Left

All ratings460 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive73.2%
Neutral8.6%
Negative18.2%

Focusify

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
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

Focusify

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

Focusify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focusify free?
Focusify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Left or Focusify?
Focusify is rated higher. Left averages 4.6 out of 5 from 472 ratings, while Focusify averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Left or Focusify have ads?
Neither Left nor Focusify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Focusify?
Left ships an update every 3 days, and Focusify every 3 weeks. Most recently, Left was updated on October 28, 2026 and Focusify on October 24, 2026.

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