Where vs Progress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Where
This app helps you track and organize your belongings by annotating them on photos of your rooms. Simply take a picture, mark your items, and find them easily later. It offers features like dark mode, area locking for privacy, and item reminders.
- Annotate items on photos
- Search with Spotlight
- Dark Mode support
- Area Lock for privacy
- Item reminders
- Siri & Shortcut integration
- iCloud Sync & Backup
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Where is it? Where is a manager which helps to manage your stuff by annotating them on your room photos. Track your stuff and stay organized with 3 simple steps: 1. Take an area photo 2. Annotate important items on it 3. Find anything anytime Several photos are enough to track all your stuff. Things management should be as simple as your life. ----- Powerful Features Under the Hood: Annotate, Edit, Manage, Search... Annotate your items on photos with color tags, add descriptions, user manual, the remaining amount... Move items, edit items, update item reminder. Search with Spotlight. Dark Mode Full support for iOS 13 dark mode. Where can follow the system to switch between dark and light, you can also select your favorite interface style. Area Lock Manage your private items with full privacy protection. Use passwords to view items in locked areas. You can even choose to hide the area photo, so no one can know your little secret. Item Reminders Set up reminders for food to avoid heath-risky consumption after expiration. Set up reminders for important items and checkout them regularly. Siri & Shortcut Record a shortcut for an area and you can check it via Siri anytime. You can even paste an NFC tag on your room, your cabinet, or a storage box, and set up the automation on iOS Shortcut App. Anytime you are going to check the items in this area, just scan this tag. iCloud Sync & Backup Never lost an item, never lost any data. ----- Contact: hi@yuanjoy.com
Progress
Easily track your progress and countdown to important dates. Set custom periods and visualize remaining days at a glance. Utilize home screen widgets for quick access to your progress updates.
- Set custom periods
- Display days remaining
- Home screen widgets
- Progress visualization
- Countdown timer
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【Check your progress !! 】 Progress is a simple application with only one function. You can display the current progress and the number of days remaining by setting the period. 【Check at a glance from the home screen】 You can also set Widget, which is a new feature from iOS14. This allows you to easily check your progress from the home screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress at every 2 days against Where's every 5 months. Progress also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 10). Where's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On 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
Where costs $1.99 and Progress $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Where holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Where's written reviews are positive against 83% of Progress's.
Where ships an update every 5 months, Progress every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Where | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better | 4.0 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YuanJing Co.,Ltd. | Gaku Sakai |
Customer experience
Where
Progress
In-app purchases
Where
No in-app purchases
Progress
No in-app purchases
