Comparison

Left vs DocVault by TetsuoLab

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/

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DocVault by TetsuoLab

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DocVault is a private document vault for iPhone and iPad. Scan, import, organize, preview, rename, search and share your important documents from one calm place. Keep IDs, contracts, bills, invoices, tax papers, insurance, receipts, warranties, health documents, vehicle papers, recipes, travel files and more ready when life asks for them. FREE TO START DocVault lets you start with up to 20 personal documents. Demo documents do not count toward the limit, and your existing documents remain accessible if you reach it. DocVault Pro is available as a one-time in-app purchase and unlocks unlimited documents and advanced tools. No subscription. CAPTURE EVERYTHING Use your camera to scan paper documents, or import PDFs, images and other supported files from iOS. You can also import multiple files at once and send them straight to Inbox for later review. ORGANIZE BY REAL LIFE Save each document with a clear name, category, subcategory, tags, notes, document date and optional expiry date. DocVault includes practical categories such as Identity, Contracts, Bills, Invoices, Government, Taxes, Banking, Insurance, Health, Vehicle, Home, Work, Travel, Receipts, Warranties, Certificates, Legal, Utilities, Recipes, Education and Family. Categories only appear on the main screen when they contain documents, keeping the interface clean and focused. FIND DOCUMENTS FAST Search by document name, category, subcategory, tags or notes. Use document previews to recognize files quickly, rename documents from the preview, and share them with clean filenames. IMPORTANT DATES, UNDER CONTROL Add document dates and expiry or review dates for contracts, IDs, insurance policies, certificates, vehicle papers and more. With DocVault Pro, you can add reminders and optional calendar events so important dates are easier to track. SYNC OR BACK UP YOUR WAY DocVault Pro can sync your documents between iPhone and iPad using your personal iCloud account. Pull down on the main screen to sync whenever you need. Prefer not to use iCloud? DocVault also includes manual backup and restore tools. SHARE WHEN NEEDED Share one document, select multiple documents inside a category, or create a ZIP file before sharing. Use the native iOS share sheet to send files through Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Files and other apps. DOCVAULT PRO DocVault Pro unlocks: • Unlimited documents • iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad • Pull-to-sync • Expiry and review reminders • Calendar events • Bulk sharing • ZIP export • Custom accent colors One-time purchase. No subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN DocVault does not require a Tetsuo Lab account. It has no ads, no tracking and no Tetsuo Lab document collection. Your documents stay on your device and, if you enable iCloud sync, in your personal iCloud. Tetsuo Lab does not collect, read, sell or store your documents. When life asks for a document, know exactly where it is.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
DocVault by TetsuoLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DocVault by TetsuoLab at 16.0 against Left's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and DocVault by TetsuoLab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Left versus DocVault by TetsuoLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftDocVault by TetsuoLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (455 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings455 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedHector Pardal Arias

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

DocVault by TetsuoLab

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
1 purchases

DocVault by TetsuoLab

One-time1
  • DocVault Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocVault by TetsuoLab free?
DocVault by TetsuoLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Left or DocVault by TetsuoLab have ads?
Neither Left nor DocVault by TetsuoLab shows ads.

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