Comparison

ProgressGif vs Borofish

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

Head to head
About

ProgressGif

Enhance your GIFs by adding visual progress bars. This open-source tool helps clarify the start and end points of animated content, making it easier to follow along. Contribute to its development on GitHub.

Highlights
  • Add progress bars to GIFs
  • Clarify GIF start and end points
  • Open-source project
  • Contribute to development
Features
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Gifs are versatile, universal, and easy to use… but there’s one flaw: You don’t know when they start or end. Is the cat jumping up or down? Did the guy eat his food on the table… or on the ground? Are you supposed to pour milk first, then cereal? These are the universe’s unanswered questions. ProgressGif adds progress bars to your gifs! Now you can finally follow along in peace. This is an open-source project. Anyone can contribute at https://github.com/aheze/ProgressGif.

About

Borofish

This app helps you remove hidden metadata from your photos and videos before sharing. It also offers tools to organize your photo albums, delete unwanted content, and clear out empty albums, all while keeping your originals safe.

Highlights
  • Remove location, device, time, and capture data
  • Clean photos and videos in bulk
  • Organize and delete albums with custom options
  • Delete empty albums
  • View photo metadata
  • Private by design, no tracking
Features
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Every photo you take carries more than you can see: where it was taken, which phone took it, when, and a trail of hidden data. Borofish helps you remove it before you share, and keeps your albums tidy while you're at it. STRIP — REMOVE HIDDEN INFO • Clean one photo or many at once, including videos • Choose exactly what to remove: Location, Device, Time, Capture settings, Description (IPTC, copyright, author) • Hidden data such as XMP, MakerNote and embedded thumbnails is always removed • Works with HEIC, JPEG, PNG and more; formats that can't be rewritten are saved as JPEG • Orientation and color profile are kept, so your photo looks exactly the same • Videos are exported without re-encoding whenever possible • The clean copy gets a new random file name, so the original name doesn't leak • Your originals are never touched THE BOROFISH ALBUM Clean copies land in a dedicated "Borofish" album, ready to share. Compare any copy with its original, and when you're done, Dump the whole album with a long press. ALBUMS — DELETE THE WAY YOU WANT Browse all your albums in a grid. See at a glance which ones contain photos with GPS data. When you delete an album, choose: • Delete the album only (your photos stay) • Delete the album and the photos that exist only in it • Delete the album and all of its photos Borofish warns you when a photo also lives in another album, and every photo you delete goes to Recently Deleted, where you can recover it for 30 days. SWEEP — CLEAR EMPTY ALBUMS Find every empty album in your library and sweep them away in one go. Uncheck any you want to keep. SEE WHAT YOUR PHOTOS REVEAL Tap any photo to see its full metadata. The home screen shows how many photos you have and where your most recent ones were taken, a quick reminder of what you might be sharing. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE AND IPAD A bold new dark design with smooth animations: clean photos fly into the Borofish album, and empty albums get swept off the screen. On iPad, a sidebar keeps everything one tap away. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Metadata is removed right on your device, and your photos are never uploaded.

Screenshots

ProgressGif4 screens
Borofish3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ProgressGif at Free against Borofish's $0.99. ProgressGif also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 16.6). Borofish's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On ads, in-app purchases 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

ProgressGif is free to download; Borofish costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Borofish holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ProgressGif has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ProgressGif ships an update every 10 days, Borofish every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ProgressGif versus Borofish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressGifBorofish
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.1 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFind App, Inc.Bin Hua

Customer experience

ProgressGif

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Borofish

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ProgressGif

No in-app purchases

None

Borofish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ProgressGif free?
ProgressGif is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Borofish free?
Borofish costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ProgressGif or Borofish?
Borofish is rated higher. ProgressGif averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Borofish averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ProgressGif or Borofish have ads?
Neither ProgressGif nor Borofish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ProgressGif or Borofish?
ProgressGif ships an update every 10 days, and Borofish every 4 days. Most recently, ProgressGif was updated on October 6, 2026 and Borofish on October 18, 2026.

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