Inkle Visualizer vs ProgressBar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inkle Visualizer
This app helps you design intricate patterns for inkle looms. It offers tools for organizing charts, quickly painting colors, and tracking your warping process. Share your creations easily with others.
- Organize charts with folders
- Quickly paint colors with palettes
- Real-time color updates
- Mirror mode for symmetrical design
- Warping thread tracker
- Offline data storage
- Apple Pencil support
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Inkle Visualizer is an app for your iPad / iPhone that improves the way you create designs for plain weave, warp faced bands, typically woven on an Inkle loom. Library features + Organize your chart library using folders. Easily drag and drop to reorganize. + Thumbnail of each chart makes it easy to find a specific chart + Search library easily, finding folders and charts whose name matches the search text + Sort by name, width, created date, updated date + Share full sized image of your chart. Great for use on social media like Ravelry or Instagram + Share Inkle Visualizer chart files to other users of Inkle Visualizer via email, Air Drop or to the File app. Editing Features + Quickly paint colors on your band by tapping the draw-down + Each chart has a Color Palette you build to use in designing your chart + Update a color in the Palette and the chart reflects the change immediately + Swap colors used in your chart quickly from those available in your Color Palette + Import colors from other charts in your library + Use Mirror mode to keep both halves of your band in sync + Add threads + Duplicate or flip selected threads + Multiple levels of undo/redo while editing + Lock chart to prevent editing + Share full size image or thumbnail image + Reorder your colors inside the Palette using drag and drop Warping Tracker + Easily keep track of which thread you're currently warping + Tap screen or keyboard to move forward to the next thread, and mark off previous thread Other features + Stores data locally on device, does not require internet connectivity + Supports Dark Mode + Works with Apple Pencil For more information and support check out our Ravelry user group: https://www.ravelry.com/groups/knit-foundry-user-group
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 review sentiment: Inkle Visualizer at 50% against ProgressBar's 0%. Inkle Visualizer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). ProgressBar's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). On update cadence, 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
ProgressBar is free to download; Inkle Visualizer costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inkle Visualizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkle Visualizer has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Inkle Visualizer's written reviews are positive against 0% of ProgressBar's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkle Visualizer | ProgressBar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Knit Foundry LLC | Leo Cui |
Customer experience
Inkle Visualizer
ProgressBar
In-app purchases
Inkle Visualizer
No in-app purchases
ProgressBar
No in-app purchases
Questions
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