Comparison

How's It Going? vs Achieve

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

Head to head
About

How's It Going?

Track and visualize your progress towards multiple goals with daily deadline and goal checks. Share your achievements on Twitter and receive periodic input notifications to stay on track.

Highlights
  • Manage multiple progress trackers
  • Visualize progress with graphs
  • Check daily deadlines and goals
  • Share progress on Twitter
  • Receive periodic input notifications
Features
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It is an Application for manage progress. The function is as follows. · Manage multiple progress · Confirm progress with graph · Check deadline and goal per day · Share progress on Twitter · Notification for periodic input

About

Achieve

Manage your tasks with a straightforward to-do list and a progress counter. Visualize your achievement rate with customizable pie charts and easily edit or search your entries. Enjoy a clean, material design interface with dark mode options.

Highlights
  • To-Do list management
  • Progress counter
  • Achievement rate pie chart
  • Customizable pie chart colors
  • Edit and delete tasks
  • Search by title
  • Dark mode theme
Features
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A simple to-do list with a counter. You can set goals and check your achievement level. For managing task progress. Functions/Features - ToDo list - Counter - Display achievement rate in pie chart - Select pie chart color - Tap the list to edit/delete - Search by title - Select whether to add from the beginning or end of the list - Turn on/off reordering function - Customization (dark mode theme color) - Simple design compliant with Material Design

Screenshots

How's It Going?3 screens
Achieve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: How's It Going? at none against Achieve's 1. How's It Going? also leads on ads (none vs shown). Achieve's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). On price 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. Achieve sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. How's It Going? asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How's It Going? ships an update every 5 months, Achieve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
How's It Going? versus Achieve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow's It Going?Achieve
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakaki Hayashienoiu

Customer experience

How's It Going?

Written reviews31 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral22.6%
Negative0.0%

Achieve

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

How's It Going?

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Achieve

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is How's It Going? free?
How's It Going? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Achieve free?
Achieve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do How's It Going? or Achieve have ads?
Achieve shows ads; How's It Going? does not.
Which is updated more often, How's It Going? or Achieve?
How's It Going? ships an update every 5 months, and Achieve every 3 weeks. Most recently, How's It Going? was updated on November 2, 2026 and Achieve on November 3, 2026.

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