Goal Ahead vs ProgressBar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goal Ahead
Track your progress towards any measurable goal with a visual indicator. Log your achievements, see how far you've come, and stay motivated with on-screen updates and widgets.
- App icon fills up with progress
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Supports decimal values for goals
- Log progress up or down
- Edit goal name and target
- Entry history and swipe to repeat
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Goal Ahead is a simple progress indicator for the goals that matter most. Saving up for a house, a car or your education? Aiming for 300 workouts this year? Any measurable goal works. Set a target, log your progress as you go, and always see how far you've come and how much is left. Your progress stays in sight: • Your app icon fills up as you get closer to your goal • Widgets put your progress on your Home Screen • The Apple Watch app and watch face complications keep it on your wrist One goal at a time Goal Ahead keeps you focused on a single goal. When you're ready for the next one, start a new goal. It replaces the current one. Features: • Home Screen widgets in light or dark style, with your choice of bar color • Apple Watch app and complications • App icon that changes with your progress • Goals with decimal values, such as 12.5 km • Log progress up or down, or set the exact total • Edit your goal's name and target at any time • History of every entry, with today's and this month's change • Repeat a previous entry with a swipe A quiet reminder on your screen. Keep striving toward your goal!
ProgressBar
Track your progress towards goals with a simple visual interface. Set up multiple trackers to monitor your achievements and stay motivated. This app offers a straightforward way to visualize your journey to success.
- Progress bar visualization
- Goal tracking
- Multiple trackers
- Simple interface
- Motivation tool
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Simple progress bar tracker for your goals
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ProgressBar at Free against Goal Ahead's $1.99. ProgressBar also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.6). Goal Ahead's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
ProgressBar is free to download; Goal Ahead costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ProgressBar holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Goal Ahead's written reviews are positive against 0% of ProgressBar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Goal Ahead ships an update every 3 months, ProgressBar every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goal Ahead | ProgressBar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.2 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fedor Guryanov | Leo Cui |
Customer experience
Goal Ahead
ProgressBar
In-app purchases
Goal Ahead
No in-app purchases
ProgressBar
No in-app purchases
