Comparison

Left vs Melt Focus

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

Melt Focus

This app uses a unique visual metaphor of melting ice to help users track focus sessions. It offers customizable timers, progress tracking, and reflective journaling to build consistent habits without feeling overwhelming.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus sessions
  • Session history and progress statistics
  • Journal reflections
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Ambient focus sounds
  • Secure syncing across devices
Features
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Melt Focus is a calming focus timer designed to help you start, stay present, and see your progress over time. Choose a session length, begin focusing, and watch the ice melt as time passes. Each completed session contributes to your focus history, helping you build consistency without making productivity feel overwhelming. Features include: • Custom focus sessions • Pause, resume, complete, or end sessions early • Session history and progress statistics • Journal reflections after focusing • Home Screen widgets • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support • Ambient focus sounds • Reminders and customizable settings • Secure syncing across devices Melt Focus Pro provides access to additional premium features and personalization options. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled through your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available inside the app. Whether you are studying, working, reading, or building a better routine, Melt Focus helps make each focused minute count. Privacy Policy: https://www.melt-focus.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.melt-focus.com/terms

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Melt Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Melt Focus at none against Left's 33. Melt Focus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Left's advantage is ratings volume (429 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Melt Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Melt Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left has 429 ratings behind it against 1, 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 Melt Focus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 4 days, Melt Focus every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Left versus Melt Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftMelt Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (429 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings429 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size244 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedCHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CORDERO

Customer experience

Left

All ratings429 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews311 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative18.0%

Melt Focus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

Melt Focus

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 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
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

Melt Focus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Melt Focus free?
Melt Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Left or Melt Focus?
Melt Focus is rated higher. Left averages 4.6 out of 5 from 429 ratings, while Melt Focus averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Left or Melt Focus have ads?
Neither Left nor Melt Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Melt Focus?
Left ships an update every 4 days, and Melt Focus every 6 days. Most recently, Left was updated on October 16, 2026 and Melt Focus on October 10, 2026.

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