Comparison

First Chair vs Until

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

Head to head
About

First Chair

Transform your living space with AI-powered interior design. Upload a photo of your room, define your style, and get photorealistic design concepts featuring real, shoppable furniture. Refine designs with natural language commands and preview items in your space before purchasing.

Highlights
  • AI-powered room redesigns
  • Photorealistic design concepts
  • Shoppable furniture integration
  • Natural language design refinement
  • Before & after transformation slider
  • Save unlimited designs
Features
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Snap a photo of your home. First Chair turns it into complete room designs in your taste, built with real, shoppable furniture from leading brands. First Chair is an immersive, interactive premium interior design experience. It turns inspiration into complete designs of your actual room using real furniture. We learn your taste, and every design, piece, and suggestion is built around it. HOW IT WORKS 1. Snap a photo of your home. 2. Share your inspiration and tell us what stays and what goes. 3. See complete designs of your actual room in your unique taste. 4. Shop the pieces yourself, or ask our concierge to help source them and coordinate your purchases. WHY FIRST CHAIR • Every design starts with your space: your walls, windows, and light. • Recommended pieces are real, shoppable, and from an established brand. • Browse over 10 million real furniture and decor pieces. • Swipe Before & After to see the transformation instantly. • Chat with your designer. Ask for changes in plain language and see them come to life. • Preview pieces in your room before you decide. • Save and share unlimited design concepts. • Shop on your own, or ask our design concierge team for optional help purchasing the pieces. Whether you're moving in, refreshing a space, or just dreaming, First Chair turns "I wish my place looked like that" into a home you can actually live in. See your room fully designed with real pieces you can shop. Buy from retailers, or ask our concierge to coordinate approved purchases. Each retailer sells its pieces at its own prices and under its own terms. First Chair provides design and purchasing support. Before you approve a concierge purchase, we show you the retailer, current price, retailer policies, and any First Chair fees. A First Chair membership requires an auto-renewable subscription. Plans and pricing are shown in the app. Member savings on First Chair may be available on eligible pieces and are confirmed before you approve. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED • Subscription options and pricing are shown before purchase. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel your subscription in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.firstchair.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.firstchair.app/privacy-policy

About

Until

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Until is a countdown app that does one thing exceptionally well. Create a countdown to anything: a birthday, a trip, a wedding, a premiere, an exam, a personal goal. Open the app and instantly see the thing you are waiting for, huge and beautiful, counting down in real time. WHAT MAKES UNTIL SPECIAL Sky, the living theme. The background drifts through sunrise, daylight, sunset and night, following your day. Or pick a curated color theme, or use your own photo, gently dimmed behind the numbers. The display adapts. Years become months, months become days, and the final hour becomes a ticking clock. Tap the number to switch between automatic, total days, or total hours. Some people just want to watch 100 hours counting down. Celebrations. When zero arrives, the screen blooms into a short message that feels like an achievement, with a sound you chose. Pick from gentle chimes, triumphant fanfares, insistent alarms, or import your own sound. It follows you. A Live Activity keeps your countdown ticking in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. A notification rings the moment it ends, even when the app is closed. Timers too. Count down a duration instead of a date: two hours, one hundred hours, sixty seconds. Pause, stop, and start over. SIMPLE ON PURPOSE No accounts. No feeds. No clutter. No data collection at all. Swipe between countdowns, tap to rename, done. Try Until free for three days. One purchase of $1.99 unlocks it forever.

Screenshots

First Chair4 screens
Until4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Until at none against First Chair's shown. Until also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). First Chair's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. First Chair sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month and Until sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

First Chair ships an update weekly, Until daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
First Chair versus Until: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst ChairUntil
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKassa Labs IncBejo Dohmen

In-app purchases

4 purchases

First Chair

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$24.991 Month
  • First Chair Quarterly$59.993 Months
  • First Chair Semiannual$99.996 Months
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  • Annual$179.991 Year
1 purchases

Until

One-time1
  • Until Full Version$1.99

Questions

Is First Chair free?
First Chair is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Until free?
Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do First Chair or Until have ads?
First Chair shows ads; Until does not.
Which is updated more often, First Chair or Until?
First Chair ships an update weekly, and Until daily. Most recently, First Chair was updated on October 24, 2026 and Until on October 8, 2026.

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