My Five Year vs Progress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Five Year
This app helps you achieve your long-term aspirations by breaking them down into manageable yearly and short-term goals. Set deadlines and receive timely notifications to stay on track and ensure your progress aligns with your plans.
- Yearly goal setting
- Breakdown into short-term goals
- Deadline setting
- Progress notifications
- On-schedule reminders
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My Five Year is an easy to use app designed to keep you and your goals on target. It's as simple as adding your yearly goals, then breaking those goals down into smaller, more achievable short term goals. By setting deadlines for these goals, My Five Year will be able to notify you if you're falling behind, or if you're right on schedule. Stop worrying about where you will be in 5 years, and start planning.
Progress
This app helps you monitor your progress towards personal goals, from financial targets to fitness achievements. Visualize your journey with historical data and projected completion dates. It offers a beautiful design, customizable widgets, and Siri shortcuts for seamless tracking across your devices.
- Track distance, money, time, weight, and more
- History charts and projected completion dates
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Automatic tracker resets (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)
- Cross-device syncing (iOS & macOS)
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Progress is an app for iOS & macOS designed to help keep track of progress towards goals. Progress is perfect for tracking almost anything - distance, money, time, weight, and more! Stay on target with history charts showing your recent trends! ◆ Beautiful Design Intuitive layout puts progress tracking right at your fingertips ◆ Widgets Powerful widgets available right on your Home Screen or Lock Screen ◆ Shortcuts Siri shortcuts integration to unlock even more possibilities ◆ History See trends over time and projected completion dates ◆ Automatic Reset Set trackers to reset every day, week, month, quarter, or year ◆ Quick Actions Customizable quick actions for each tracker ◆ Smart Formatting Intelligent formatting for currencies, times, weights, and distances ◆ Categories Sort your trackers into lists ◆ Multiple Device Support Available for iOS & macOS devices with seamless syncing The free version of Progress allows for tracking up to 5 items at a time. To remove this limitation & all advertising within the app, we offer our premium upgrade. Premium is available as an auto-renewing subscription or a one time lifetime purchase. Progress premium subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime by going to your account settings in the App Store. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our privacy policy & terms of use: https://www.shayesapps.com/policies
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Five Year at none against Progress's 3. My Five Year also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Progress's advantage is ratings volume (900 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Progress sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. My Five Year asks for nothing beyond the download.
My Five Year holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress has 900 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Five Year ships an update monthly, Progress every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | My Five Year | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (900 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 900 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bradley Ensign | Shayes Apps LLC |
Customer experience
My Five Year
Progress
Bugs and requests
My Five Year
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Progress
Reported bugs
2 issues- Widgets not working as expected
- App crashing on launch
Requested features
6 requests- Add pages/word count tracking
- Implement daily/weekly/monthly goal tracking and statistics
- Ability to reorder and view multiple trackers on widgets
- Automate progress updates based on schedule
- Increase font and UI element sizes
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- Add negative goal tracking (e.g., body fat percentage)
In-app purchases
My Five Year
No in-app purchases
Progress
- Progress Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Progress Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlock$19.99
Questions
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