Left vs TickTick

Left is an iOS and macOS time-planning app that shows progress through the year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and life. Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets present those views, while Ahead creates countdowns for custom dates, imported calendar dates, and shared dates with friends. Planner combines Apple Reminders, calendar events, habits, streaks, weather, sleep, and workouts in one view. Users can track habits, streaks, and Aim manually or with Apple Health updates. The app includes an Apple Watch companion, a configurable Pomodoro-style focus timer, and fasting tools with reminders, widgets, Live Activities, history, and watch controls. Mood entries use Apple Health’s State of Mind data, and Left says it never uploads Health history. Widgets work offline; on-device data can sync through iCloud, while shared items use a Left account. The Free plan is free. Left Premium is a lifetime purchase with price shown in-app.

TickTick is a task and reminder app with recurring tasks, subtasks, and calendar sync. Its calendar includes yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and agenda views, while reminders can repeat weekly, monthly, yearly, or on custom schedules. Users can share lists, assign tasks, and collaborate with friends or colleagues. Other features include Pomodoro, habit tracking, countdowns, Kanban, timeline, and Eisenhower Matrix tools, plus more than 40 themes. TickTick is available on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and also lists a Chrome extension. The free plan includes 9 lists and up to 99 tasks per list; it also allows 1 attachment per day and 2 shared members. Premium costs $49.99 per year and raises limits to 299 lists and 999 tasks per list. It adds higher attachment and collaboration limits. TickTick integrates with Notion and supports MCP, CLI, and OpenClaw workflows. If Premium expires, stored data remains, but Premium features are no longer available.