Comparison

Progress vs Together Board

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

Head to head
About

Progress

Easily track your progress and countdown to important dates. Set custom periods and visualize remaining days at a glance. Utilize home screen widgets for quick access to your progress updates.

Highlights
  • Set custom periods
  • Display days remaining
  • Home screen widgets
  • Progress visualization
  • Countdown timer
Features
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【Check your progress !! 】 Progress is a simple application with only one function. You can display the current progress and the number of days remaining by setting the period. 【Check at a glance from the home screen】 You can also set Widget, which is a new feature from iOS14. This allows you to easily check your progress from the home screen.

About

Together Board

A shared digital pinboard for loved ones to privately pin photos, notes, countdowns, and more. It syncs automatically across devices without accounts or feeds, offering a simple way to stay connected and organized.

Highlights
  • Shared digital pinboard
  • Pin photos, notes, countdowns, polls
  • Automatic syncing via iCloud
  • No accounts or feeds
  • Shared to-do lists and expense splitting
  • Home Screen and Apple Watch widgets
  • Private by design, uses iCloud
Features
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Together Board is a warm little pin board you share with the people you love. Pin the stuff of your life together — photos, sticky notes, countdowns, polls — and it shows up on your partner’s or family’s devices automatically. No accounts, no feeds, no noise. Just your board, your people, and a bit of everyday delight. PIN ANYTHING Photos and albums, sticky notes and long-form notes, links, files, scanned documents, voice notes, finger drawings, GIFs, videos, songs, map locations, events, and folders to keep it all tidy. Every card lands on a cozy cork-board with pushpins, hand-drawn touches, and just the right amount of tilt. DO THINGS TOGETHER • Polls — settle “dinner tonight?” once and for all • Shared to-do lists — see who checked off what • Habit streaks — cheer each other on, day by day • Countdowns — the trip, the birthday, the big day • Expense splitting — who owes whom, settled in taps • Rate-it-together — score that restaurant side by side ALWAYS IN SYNC Your board lives in iCloud and syncs privately between everyone you invite — changes appear on their iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch without anyone hitting refresh. When someone pins something new or votes in your poll, you’ll know. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets — your latest pins, next countdown, and tappable check-ins, right on your Home Screen • Siri — Create and pin notes from Siri and add to any board • Apple Watch app — browse boards, check off todos, vote, check in on habits, even pin a voice note from your wrist • Share sheet — send links, photos, maps, and events straight to your board from any app • Shortcuts — automate your pins with Siri and the Shortcuts app • Export — your board is yours; download everything as regular files anytime TRANSLATED Together Board speaks your language: Translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese — across the app, widgets, Apple Watch, and the share sheet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Together Board uses your iCloud account. Your pins sync through Apple’s servers, encrypted in transit — we never see your data, and there’s nothing to sign up for. FREE TO TRY, PRO WHEN YOU’RE READY Free: one board with up to 3 pins — a taste of the cork board. Together Board Pro (yearly subscription): unlimited pins, unlimited boards, and sharing with your favorite people. New subscribers get a free trial. Pin something small today. It adds up to something lovely. Terms of Service: https://rapidsilence.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rapidsilence.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Together Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Together Board at Free against Progress's $3.99. Together Board also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Progress's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On ads and iOS requirement 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

Together Board is free to download; Progress costs $3.99 up front. Together Board sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Progress asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Together Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Progress's written reviews are positive against 100% of Together Board's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update every 2 days, Together Board fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Progress versus Together Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressTogether Board
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (30 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaku SakaiRapid Silence LLC

Customer experience

Progress

All ratings30 ratings
Positive76.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Together Board

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Progress

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Together Board

Subscriptions1
  • Together Board Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pass$39.99

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Together Board free?
Together Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress or Together Board?
Together Board is rated higher. Progress averages 4.0 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Together Board averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Progress or Together Board have ads?
Neither Progress nor Together Board shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Together Board?
Progress ships an update every 2 days, and Together Board fortnightly. Most recently, Progress was updated on October 27, 2026 and Together Board on October 25, 2026.

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