Comparison

X Progress vs Records

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

Head to head
About

X Progress

Visualize time's passage with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Track events, periods, and repeating moments with beautiful themes and live updates. Share progress with others and organize events with tags and secure hidden tabs.

Highlights
  • Count down to events or count up from memories
  • Track daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom repeating events
  • Visualize progress with percentage, days passed, or days left
  • Customize events with themes, photos, and motion
  • Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
  • Widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen
  • Share events and collaborate with others
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. • Repeat events daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, or set custom rules like every other week or the last day of the month. • 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 50+ designer themes, from quiet gradients and pixel art to cozy animal crowds and 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. ALWAYS IN VIEW • Follow a countdown live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with Live Activities, drawn in your event's own theme. • Keep important events on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets, or on your wrist with Apple Watch complications. JUST ASK SIRI • Tell Siri about an event in your own words, and it's created for you. • Ask Siri how far along an event is, or start a Live Activity without opening the app. • Find your events in Spotlight, each shown with its own theme. 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 • Start from Ready to Go templates for working hours, paydays, trips, birthdays, and more. • With Smart Create, describe an event in a sentence, or share a photo to X Progress, and review the completed event before saving. ON EVERY SCREEN X Progress works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and it's ready for iPhone Duo: unfolded, folded, or half open, the layout adjusts automatically to fit the way you're using it. 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, Live Activities, and more. Smart Create, including creating events with Siri in your own words, 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

Records

Features
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How long has it been since that day? The day you quit smoking. The day you met them. The day you decided. Records keeps your life's turning points and counts the time since each one — in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, ticking in real time. ## Ways to use it - Stay on track: watch your smoke-free, sober, or saving streak grow - Keep the dates that matter: anniversaries, first meetings, memorial days - Add as many records to a year as you like — got married and changed jobs in 2020? Keep them both - Get a reminder every year for each record — tap it to jump straight in - Share a milestone card ("3 years since I quit") to social media ## A timeline of your years Scroll through every year from 1868 to today and see at a glance how many years ago each one was. ## Simple enough to stick with A record is just a title, a date, and an emoji. No sign-up, no clutter. Glance back anytime, and remember why you started.

Screenshots

X Progress4 screens
Records3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: X Progress at Free against Records's $1.99. X Progress also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Records's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On ads and iOS requirement 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

X Progress is free to download; Records costs $1.99 up front. X Progress sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Records asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X Progress ships an update every 2 months, Records every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
X Progress versus Records: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterX ProgressRecords
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (87 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鹏 张Rhinoapp.dev

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

Records

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is X Progress free?
X Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Records free?
Records costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do X Progress or Records have ads?
Neither X Progress nor Records shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X Progress or Records?
X Progress ships an update every 2 months, and Records every 4 days. Most recently, X Progress was updated on October 30, 2026 and Records on October 25, 2026.

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