Progress vs Simple Progress Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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
Simple Progress Tracker
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Progress | Simple Progress Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (871 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 871 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shayes Apps LLC | Carlos 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
Progress
- Progress Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Progress Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlock$19.99
Simple Progress Tracker
- Pro Service$0.691 Month
- Pro Version$4.99
Questions
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