Comparison

Progress vs Simple Progress Tracker

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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

About

Simple Progress Tracker

Features
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Simple Progress Tracker is an app that lets you add tasks and the desired value goal for each one. You can easily and simply increase or decrease your task progress to reach your goal! It's great for tracking courses and books. Features: ◽Add tasks and the value to reach ◽View tasks and easily modify their value ◽Enable progress percentage ◽View the added date for each task ◽Multiple themes ◽Sort tasks by time, value, max value, and name (pro) ◽View the total of all progress (pro) All Tasks are stored locally on each device. Here's the link to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy: https://qookie-privacy.carrd.co/#progresstracker

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Simple Progress Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Simple Progress Tracker at none against Progress's shown. Simple Progress Tracker also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Progress sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Simple Progress Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.69 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, Simple Progress Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Progress versus Simple Progress Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressSimple Progress Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (871 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings871 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShayes Apps LLCCarlos Saoud

Bugs and 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)

Simple Progress Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Progress

Subscriptions2
  • Progress Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Progress Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$19.99
2 purchases

Simple Progress Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Service$0.691 Month
One-time1
  • Pro Version$4.99

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Progress Tracker free?
Simple Progress Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Progress or Simple Progress Tracker have ads?
Progress shows ads; Simple Progress Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Simple Progress Tracker?
Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, and Simple Progress Tracker weekly. Most recently, Progress was updated on September 21, 2026 and Simple Progress Tracker on September 15, 2026.

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