Comparison

X Progress vs Year Progress Bar

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Year Progress Bar

This app provides a complication for your Apple Watch to visualize the progress of the year, day, or hour as a percentage. It serves as a subtle reminder to reflect on long-term goals and stay on track. Users can customize which time period is displayed.

Highlights
  • Year progress complication
  • Day progress complication
  • Hour progress complication
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Goal reflection reminder
  • Customizable settings
Features
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Remind yourself to think long term with this simple complication for Apple Watch. It provides an Apple Watch complication that shows you how much of the year has passed. As you glance at your wrist, and see the number go up every few days, you can take an opportunity to check in with yourself. Are you staying on track for your long-term goals? Alternatively, you can choose to see the percentage of the day that has elapsed (midnight to midnight) or hour, represented as a percentage rather than minutes. Note: The Apple Watch app is only used to update the complication settings. When you change the setting in the Apple Watch app, it will update the complication.

Screenshots

X Progress4 screens
Year Progress Bar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Year Progress Bar at 100% against X Progress's 59%. Year Progress Bar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). X Progress's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (87 vs 3). On price, ads 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. X Progress sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Year Progress Bar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Year Progress Bar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: X Progress has 87 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of X Progress's written reviews are positive against 100% of Year Progress Bar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X Progress ships an update every 2 months, Year Progress Bar every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
X Progress versus Year Progress Bar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterX ProgressYear Progress Bar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (87 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings87 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鹏 张Ganotis Holdings, Inc.

Customer experience

X Progress

All ratings87 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral8.0%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral25.6%
Negative15.4%

Year Progress Bar

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

X Progress

Subscriptions1
  • X Progress Unlimited Monthly3 Days trial$0.491 Month
One-time9
  • 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
None

Year Progress Bar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is X Progress free?
X Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Year Progress Bar free?
Year Progress Bar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, X Progress or Year Progress Bar?
Year Progress Bar is rated higher. X Progress averages 4.7 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Year Progress Bar averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do X Progress or Year Progress Bar have ads?
Neither X Progress nor Year Progress Bar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X Progress or Year Progress Bar?
X Progress ships an update every 2 months, and Year Progress Bar every 11 months. Most recently, X Progress was updated on September 29, 2026 and Year Progress Bar on September 30, 2026.

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