Comparison

Left vs Forge

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

Forge

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Forge is a self-mastery system built around one question: Who do you want to become? A paid Forge subscription is required to access the full Forge experience. Monthly and annual plans are available. Define your Identity. Set your Mission. Establish the Standards that move you forward - and identify the Leaks that pull you away. Then turn intention into structure. Use Planner to organize your Standards and tasks across the day. Plan manually or use Plan the Day for a guided approach. When it is time to execute, NOW / NEXT keep your current and upcoming actions in sight without adding noise. Each day, Forge gives you a simple system: - Begin with direction. - Plan when you will act. - Execute your Standards. - Track your Leaks honestly. - Close the day with reflection. - Build a record of Alignment over time. Forge turns intention into evidence. History reveals your patterns. Streaks show what you consistently uphold. Weekly Review gives you a clear view of where you are progressing - and where you are drifting. No feeds. No gamification. No motivational noise. Just your Mission, your Standards, your actions, and the record they create. Direction -> Action -> Evidence. Never Stop Moving. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Forge at 17.0 against Left's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 27 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Forge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 3 days, Forge every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Left versus Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (413 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings413 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size243 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedDavid Sigl

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

Forge

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Left

Subscriptions13
  • Left Premium$0.997 Days
  • Left Premium$2.997 Days
  • Left Premium2 variants$3.997 Days
Show 10 more
  • Thanks!$3.991 Year
  • 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
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
2 purchases

Forge

Subscriptions2
  • Forge Membership Monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • Forge Membership Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forge free?
Forge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Left or Forge have ads?
Neither Left nor Forge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Forge?
Left ships an update every 3 days, and Forge every 5 days. Most recently, Left was updated on October 2, 2026 and Forge on September 23, 2026.

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