Comparison

Left vs Mononote

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

Mononote

Capture your thoughts and reminders with a focus on simplicity. This app lets you jot down notes, to-dos, or motivational messages and keep them easily accessible. Pin your most important notes to your Home Screen or Lock Screen for constant visibility.

Highlights
  • Single note focus
  • Home Screen widget
  • Lock Screen Live Activity
  • Dynamic Island integration
  • Note archiving and restoration
  • Intentional simplicity
Features
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Mononote helps you focus on one note at a time. Simply open the app and write down anything you want your future self to remember, whether it's a to-do, reminder, or motivational note. Keep it visible on your Home Screen with a widget, or start a Live Activity to pin it to your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island when it's something more urgent. The app is intentionally simple, showing only one active note at a time. Archive or delete it when you're done, and a new blank note is ready for whatever comes next. Archived notes can always be restored if you need them again. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Mononote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mononote at none against Left's 34. Mononote also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 73%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Left's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume and ads 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 29 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Mononote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mononote holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 486 and 388 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Left's written reviews are positive against 96% of Mononote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 3 days, Mononote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Left versus Mononote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftMononote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (486 ratings)4.9 (388 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews95.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings486 — better388
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedTHE DIGITAL MINIMALIST PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Left

All ratings486 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews329 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral8.5%
Negative18.5%

Mononote

All ratings367 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.5%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive95.9%
Neutral1.0%
Negative3.1%

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

Mononote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

29 purchases

Left

Subscriptions15
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 12 more
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • LEGEND$8.991 Year
  • Left Premium7 Days trial$9.991 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

Mononote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mononote free?
Mononote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Left or Mononote?
Mononote is rated higher. Left averages 4.6 out of 5 from 486 ratings, while Mononote averages 4.9 from 388 ratings.
Do Left or Mononote have ads?
Neither Left nor Mononote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Mononote?
Left ships an update every 3 days, and Mononote every 2 weeks. Most recently, Left was updated on October 30, 2026 and Mononote on October 28, 2026.

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