Tally Counter & Habit Tracker vs X Progress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tally Counter & Habit Tracker
This digital counter app helps you track and record various events and habits. It offers detailed insights with charts and calendars, quick recording options, and custom cycles for goal tracking. Manage multiple groups of data and sync across devices with iCloud.
- Interactive widgets for quick recording
- Customizable daily, weekly, monthly, yearly cycles
- Comprehensive visual reports and charts
- Group management for tasks and inventory
- Real-time iCloud sync and local backups
- Apple Watch support for direct logging
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Tally is a super convenient digital counting app, designed to help you track and record everything in your life, big or small. Whether you're forming daily habits, logging important events, or managing item quantities, this app can handle it all with ease. With features like notifications, repeat cycles, charts, and memos, you can track nearly every number in your daily life effortlessly. # Use Cases Whether you want to log the number of cigarettes you smoke, track how much coffee you drink each week, or monitor your daily water intake, Tally makes it easy. It’s also perfect for inventory management, foot traffic counting, or even managing classroom tasks and point systems, giving you an effortless way to keep track of all your data. # Rich Data Insights Track your events over various timeframes—daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. You can easily view the frequency of events, the number of days since they last occurred, and the intervals in your history. With a wealth of charts, calendar views, and heat maps, your data is clear and easy to understand. # Key Features ## Quick Recording, Convenient Tracking With interactive widgets, Shortcut App, URL Scheme, Action Notifications, and Picture-in-Picture counting, tracking is a breeze. Plus, Tally supports Apple Watch, so you can log directly from your watch. ## Custom Cycles, Track Your Key Totals Support for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles, along with custom cycles. You can also set the number of completions needed for each cycle, making it easy to track your goals. ## Up to 15 Different Widgets, Tailored to Your Needs ## Group Management Manage your own or others' tasks, track various life events, form habits, and even manage counters for classrooms or inventory. Tally is versatile and not limited to habit tracking. It supports grouped statistics and various visual charts, making it easy to view data across different groups. ## Comprehensive Visual Reports Track statistics over daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or all timeframes, with a rich selection of visual charts—bar charts, tables, calendars, line graphs, pie charts, and heat maps. ## No Limit on Number of Entries The more you add, the more you'll discover just how convenient Tally is, making management a breeze. ## Real-Time iCloud Sync ## Data Security We always prioritize your data. Not only do we offer iCloud sync, but also local backups to ensure your data is safe. You can also set a privacy lock on the app to protect your information. --- Privacy Statement: We do not collect any user information, except for data related to bug reports and user experience improvements collected via Google. If you're enjoying the app, we'd be incredibly grateful if you could leave a positive review. Your feedback means a lot to us! If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to reach out at iapp605+tally@gmail.com.
X Progress
Track progress for any event, from daily to custom intervals. Set reminders, add notes, and utilize auto-repeat. View progress on your Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Apple Watch with customizable themes and widgets. Share progress with friends using Zen Mode and SharePlay.
- Customizable event tracking (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Zen Mode with SharePlay integration
- Multiple designer themes
- iCloud syncing across devices
- iPad optimized with Split View
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Time passes quietly. X Progress makes it visible. Count down to a trip. Count up from a memory. Watch a semester, a project, a year, or any chapter of life - fill in. X Progress turns the moments that matter into beautiful, living progress you can understand at a glance. SEE TIME YOUR WAY • Track one-day moments, longer periods, repeating events, and the built-in progress of the year, month, week, and day. • Show days passed, days left, or a percentage. Count up, count down, or let Auto change direction as time moves. • Add all-day or timed dates, alerts, notes, and photos. • Organize with tags, search, pinned events, Archive, and a Hidden tab protected by Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. MAKE EVERY EVENT YOURS • Choose from 40+ designer themes, from quiet gradients and pixel art to animated worlds. • Use Photo Theme Studio to turn a photo or Live Photo into your own theme. • Customize backgrounds, subject cutouts, colors, gradients, fonts, text layouts, and motion. • Keep important events visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets or Apple Watch complications. COUNT DOWN TOGETHER • Invite friends and family to view or edit an event. Changes stay synchronized through iCloud, with shared activity collected in one place. • Share any event as a photo, Live Photo, video, Instagram Story, or sticker. • Use ZEN with SharePlay to focus on a moment together over FaceTime. CREATE IN LESS TIME • With Smart Create, describe an event in a sentence, or share a photo to X Progress, and review the completed event before saving. • Ask Siri to create an event or check its progress. ON EVERY SCREEN X Progress works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. iCloud keeps your events, photo themes, and notes in sync across devices. You’ll also find Date Gap for measuring the exact time between two dates, a calendar, public holiday events, reminders, search, and accessibility support for VoiceOver. Start free. X Progress Unlimited unlocks the complete designer theme gallery. Smart Create requires a compatible device with Apple Intelligence. Availability may vary by language and region. Terms of Use: https://www.roczhang.com/x-progress/terms_and_conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.roczhang.com/x-progress/privacy_policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tally Counter & Habit Tracker at every 5 days against X Progress's every 2 months. Tally Counter & Habit Tracker also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 59%) and ratings volume (340 vs 87). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Tally Counter & Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and X Progress sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tally Counter & Habit Tracker against 4.7 for X Progress. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 340 and 87 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Tally Counter & Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 59% of X Progress's.
Tally Counter & Habit Tracker ships an update every 5 days, X Progress every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tally Counter & Habit Tracker | X Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (340 ratings) | 4.7 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better | 59.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 340 — better | 87 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 海峰 陈 | 鹏 张 |
Customer experience
Tally Counter & Habit Tracker
X Progress
Bugs and requests
Tally Counter & Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
11 issues- Data duplication on sync (especially with iCloud)
- Data completely wiped after app updates
- Affirmation overlap after 11 screen taps
- Widget not appearing on home screen despite creation
- Apple Watch complication not functioning properly
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- Multi-line text in notes getting stuck on page
- Duplicate entries created automatically
- iCloud sync causing data loss
- Clock synchronization issues
- Music stopping when app is in use
- Unable to exit settings without closing app (older version)
Requested features
12 requests- Streak/consecutive days tracking feature
- Duration-based tracking (time spent vs count-based)
- CSV import functionality
- Badge count on app icon
- Hourly analysis view
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- Goal target dates with progress tracking
- Yes/no toggle tracking (non-numeric)
- Timestamp display of last changes
- Image/icon customization for each tracker
- Automated data export via shortcuts
- Ability to turn off percentage displays in graphs
- More detailed data export/reporting formatting
X Progress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tally Counter & Habit Tracker
- Tally Pro (Lifetime)$5.99
X Progress
- X Progress Unlimited Monthly3 Days trial$0.491 Month
- Turtle Theme$0.99
- WuFan Theme$0.99
- Snail Theme$0.99
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- The Color of Time Theme$0.99
- NUONUO Theme$0.99
- Full Moon Theme$0.99
- Expedition Theme$0.99
- Toby Likes Bone Theme$0.99
- X Progress Unlimited Lifetime$19.99
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