Comparison

TimeLeft vs OwlCal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TimeLeft

Organize upcoming dates and visualize remaining time for important events. Create and manage a list of occasions like birthdays, trips, and anniversaries with real-time countdowns and timely reminders.

Highlights
  • Real-time event countdowns
  • Customizable reminders and notifications
  • Sortable event list
  • Quick date filters
  • Detailed event view
  • Event editing and updating
Features
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Some dates deserve better than a note buried in your calendar. TimeLeft turns the moments you are waiting for into live countdowns you can read at a glance — in the app and right on your Home Screen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create a countdown in seconds: a name, an emoji, a date and a time • Watch the time left tick down in months, days, hours and minutes • Pin your most important event to a Home Screen widget • Switch between a compact list and a visual grid • Filter by All, Next 7 days or This month, and sort by closest or furthest away • Add notes to an event so the details travel with the date • Look back at everything that has already happened FOR EVERY KIND OF DATE Birthdays and anniversaries. Trips and holidays. Weddings and graduations. Concerts, exams, paydays, due dates, retirement, Christmas and New Year. Anything you are counting on. DAILY REMINDERS Turn reminders on and TimeLeft checks in once a day at noon, so nothing important quietly sneaks up on you. MAKE IT YOURS Pick an emoji for every event from a searchable picker. Set dates to repeat every year for the ones that come back around. Choose a light, dark or system theme. Use the app in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian or Simplified Chinese. NOTHING TO SET UP No account, no sign-up, no login. Your events stay on your device and the app works offline. Start counting down to what matters.

About

OwlCal

This app centralizes family schedules with color-coded calendars for each member. It allows for shared shopping and to-do lists, meal planning, and integration with existing calendars. It also supports creating profiles for children without requiring individual accounts.

Highlights
  • Color-coded family calendars
  • Shared shopping and to-do lists
  • Integrated meal planner
  • Child profiles without accounts
  • Subscription to external calendars
  • Event reminders with attendee details
Features
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OwlCal keeps your whole family on one calendar, color-coded so a glance tells you whose day it is. EVERYONE, ONE CALENDAR Give each person a color. See the family in Month, Week, Day, and List views, and tap a name to filter to just them. KIDS WITHOUT ACCOUNTS Add children as profiles with no email or password. On a shared device you switch into their profile like a streaming app, and everything they add is theirs. SHOPPING & TO-DO LISTS A list per store. Assign a whole list or a single item to someone. Check things off and see who did it and when. MEAL PLANNER Breakfast, lunch, and dinner on one weekly board, per person. SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR CALENDARS Fold in your Google, Outlook, or Apple calendars. Put each on the right person's color and choose who sees it. REMINDERS THAT SAY WHO A push before events with the time, the person, and a tappable address. Start with a 30-day free trial. After that, OwlCal is $9.99 per year for up to 6 family members. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS OwlCal Yearly: $9.99 per year (1-year auto-renewing subscription) after a 30-day free trial. Payment is charged to your App Store account; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://owlcal.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TimeLeft3 screens
OwlCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeLeft at none against OwlCal's 1. OwlCal's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. OwlCal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. TimeLeft asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TimeLeft against 5.0 for OwlCal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OwlCal has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeLeft ships an update weekly, OwlCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TimeLeft versus OwlCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeLeftOwlCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGonzalo Caira AguilarSignOut

Customer experience

TimeLeft

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

OwlCal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TimeLeft

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

OwlCal

Subscriptions1
  • OwlCal Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is TimeLeft free?
TimeLeft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OwlCal free?
OwlCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TimeLeft or OwlCal?
TimeLeft and OwlCal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do TimeLeft or OwlCal have ads?
Neither TimeLeft nor OwlCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeLeft or OwlCal?
TimeLeft ships an update weekly, and OwlCal every 4 days. Most recently, TimeLeft was updated on September 19, 2026 and OwlCal on October 6, 2026.

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