Comparison

Torn PDA vs Progress Knight

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

Head to head
About

Torn PDA

This app enhances the Torn City gaming experience by providing quick access to game data, notifications for important events, and tools for trading and combat. It helps players manage their in-game resources, track progress, and strategize effectively.

Highlights
  • Profile page with status data and cooldowns
  • Travel status and arrival notifications
  • Foreign stock market analysis
  • User script support
  • YATA mobile interface integration
  • Quick item management and trade calculator
  • Automatic city item finder
  • Faction chain watcher and target lists
Features
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Torn PDA has been developed as an assistant for players of Torn City (www.torn.com). It was conceived to enhance the experience of playing Torn from a mobile platform, and other already existing applications, such as YATA, have been a great influence. * Profile page with shortcuts to you preferred sections, access to basic status data, recent events, cooldowns and net-worth calculation. You can also manually activate notifications so that you don't waste any energy, nerve, or miss any cooldown expiry. * Check your travel status and configure notifications just before you arrive. No more forgetting and being mugged abroad. Also, configure the notification shown so that it is safe to use even at work or in other public environments. * Have a look at foreign stocks directly in the Travel section. Filter and sort items at your convenience, including profit based on item capacity. Also, by using the in-app browser, you are contributing by sending stock data automatically to the shared database! * User scripts support. * YATA mobile interface: new sections (e.g. Awards) that constitute the first official YATA mobile interface. Data comes straight from your YATA account. * Ability to fill max items on arrival to destination, based on current capacity and money available. Then, use the quick home return button in the top bar to make your stay quicker and safer. * Quick crimes option when you visit the crimes section. Just set up your preferred crimes and they'll appear in the top bar. * Quick Items: browse to the items section in Torn with the full browser and add your prefer items for a quick access later on. * Trade calculator with total price calculation for cash, items and shares, plus the ability to copy total figures for a quick trading. If you are a professional trader, you can also synchronize with Torn Trader and the Arson Warehouse. * Automatic city items finder in the map. * Automatic alerts for travel, energy, nerve, hospitalization, drugs, racing, messages, events, trades and stocks. * Torn chat: options to highlight your name or hide the chat completely if you wish. * Follow your faction's chain live from the app, with instant energy updates. Use the chain watcher feature to avoid surprises. * Create your own target list, adding your own comments and many other details. Import and export your targets to/from YATA. While chaining, automatically skip targets that can't be attacked (hospitalised/jailed or in a different country). Get optimal targets directly from Torn Attack Central, included in the Chaining section. Chaining has never been easier. * Have a look at your last few attacks, with simple statistics so that you can decide when/who to add to your common chaining targets. * Export targets as a backup or share them with other players. * When in hospital, send Nuclear Central Hospital a revive request by clicking a button. * Create a friends list, with quick access to in-game messaging, trading and other important details. Also, add note to your friends' profiles. Backup functionality included. * Activate alerts for NPC loot. * Dark mode.

About

Progress Knight

Embark on a fantasy life-simulation where you progress through careers, gain skills, and manage expenses. Choose your path from commoner to military or magic, and eventually prestige for faster progression in subsequent lives.

Highlights
  • Fantasy medieval life simulation
  • Career progression
  • Skill acquisition
  • Expense management
  • Multiple career paths (commoner, military, magic)
  • Prestige system for multipliers
  • Idle gameplay
Features
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Progress Knight is a life-sim incremental based in a fantasy/medieval setting, where you must progress through the career ladder and acquire new skills to become the ultimate being. You first start off as a beggar, barely being able to feed yourself as the days go by. However, over the years you learn new skills and gain plenty of work experience to enter new high paying jobs while managing your living expenses... Will you decide to take the easy route of doing simple commoner work? Or will you go through harsh training to climb the ranks within the military? Or maybe will you decide to study hard and enrol in a magic academy, learning life-impacting spells? Your career path is open-ended, the decision is up to you. Eventually, your age will catch up to you. You will be given an option to prestige and gain xp multipliers (based on the performance of your current life) for your next life at the cost of losing all your levels and assets. Fear not though, as you will re-gain your levels much, much more quickly than in your previous life...

Screenshots

Torn PDA4 screens
Progress Knight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Torn PDA at none against Progress Knight's 1. Torn PDA also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Progress Knight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Torn PDA asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Torn PDA against 4.4 for Progress Knight. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 273 and 257 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Torn PDA's written reviews are positive against 73% of Progress Knight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Torn PDA ships an update every 11 days, Progress Knight every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Torn PDA versus Progress Knight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTorn PDAProgress Knight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (273 ratings) — better4.4 (257 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better72.9% of reviews
Number of ratings273 — better257
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB53 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperManuel OrtegaNoe LE PHILIPPE

Customer experience

Torn PDA

All ratings273 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative13.5%

Progress Knight

All ratings257 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews96 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative15.6%

User reviews

Torn PDA

From 273 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Streamlined mobile experience
  • 🔒 Robust security features
  • 🔋 Helpful notifications
  • 👍 Customizable scripts and tools
  • 💡 Integrated Torn browser

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Confusing UI navigation
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🤔 Compatibility issues with updates

Progress Knight

From 257 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 💡 Interesting progression
  • 🤩 Satisfying incremental experience

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔋 Battery drain issues
  • 🔒 Lack of accessibility features
  • ⏱️ Slow progression at endgame

Bugs and requests

Torn PDA

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Blank screen after full-screen mode
  • Unable to log in with Google
  • Travel stock updates not working

Requested features

3 requests
  • Hospital timer for warring
  • Live widgets for travel and energy
  • Automatic cache clearing

Progress Knight

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Progress and data loss issues
  • Skill level resets after transcendence
  • Autopause not working as expected
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More content and updates
  • Auto-purchase feature for the store
  • Offline progress tracking
  • Improved autopause functionality

In-app purchases

None

Torn PDA

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Progress Knight

One-time1
  • Remove the ads$2.99

Questions

Is Torn PDA free?
Torn PDA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Progress Knight free?
Progress Knight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Torn PDA or Progress Knight?
Torn PDA is rated higher. Torn PDA averages 4.5 out of 5 from 273 ratings, while Progress Knight averages 4.4 from 257 ratings.
Do Torn PDA or Progress Knight have ads?
Progress Knight shows ads; Torn PDA does not.
Which is updated more often, Torn PDA or Progress Knight?
Torn PDA ships an update every 11 days, and Progress Knight every 3 weeks. Most recently, Torn PDA was updated on October 1, 2026 and Progress Knight on October 1, 2026.

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