Comparison

Left vs Paper by Embasis

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

Paper by Embasis

Features
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Embasis Paper is a quiet page that writes back. Write naturally with Apple Pencil, your finger, or touch. After a short pause, Paper reads what you wrote, your ink softly fades, and a response appears on the page. No chat bubbles. No prompt box. Just write. AI runs on your device Choose from supported local intelligence options powered by Apple, Liquid, or Gemma. Your writing is not sent to a hosted AI model for inference. A conversation on paper Write something, wait for the response, then keep writing. Paper remembers the conversation on that page so you can continue naturally. Your handwriting stays yours Original ink and conversation history are saved locally on your device. Handwriting recognition also runs on-device after the required recognition model is installed. Choose how Paper responds Pick a personality such as Companion, Dreamer, or Trickster to change the tone of the conversation independently of the AI model. Simple by design Create a page, write, and let Paper answer. Past pages can be reopened or continued later without turning the experience into a traditional chatbot. Embasis Paper is built for iPhone and iPad with local intelligence at its core. A page that thinks with you.

Screenshots

Left4 screens
Paper by Embasis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paper by Embasis at none against Left's 33. 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. Paper by Embasis asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Left ships an update every 3 days, Paper by Embasis every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Left versus Paper by Embasis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeftPaper by Embasis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (461 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings461 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCntxt LimitedMICHAEL LIU

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

Paper by Embasis

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
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  • 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

Paper by Embasis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left free?
Left is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paper by Embasis free?
Paper by Embasis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Left or Paper by Embasis have ads?
Neither Left nor Paper by Embasis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Left or Paper by Embasis?
Left ships an update every 3 days, and Paper by Embasis every 2 days. Most recently, Left was updated on October 25, 2026 and Paper by Embasis on October 14, 2026.

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