Comparison

Progress vs Day Dial

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

Day Dial

Visualize your progress through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly time periods with intuitive circular progress bars. See how much time has passed and how much remains at a glance, even from your home screen with widgets.

Highlights
  • Circular progress bars
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Time management
  • Goal monitoring
Read full description

Day Dial is a simple and intuitive time tracking app that helps you visualize your progress throughout the day, week, month, quarter, and year. With its unique circular progress bars, you can easily monitor how much time has passed and how much remains in each time period. The app features widgets that allow you to view your progress at a glance, directly from your home screen. Whether you want to stay on top of your daily tasks, manage your monthly goals, or keep track of your yearly achievements, Day Dial is the perfect companion for anyone looking to make the most of their time. Day Dial is free to use with a limit on color customization. Upgrade to Day Dial Premium to unlock color customization. Terms of Service: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/daydialterms.html Privacy Policy: https://daydial.ginkgolabs.dev/privacypolicy.html

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Day Dial4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Day Dial at none against Progress's shown. Day Dial also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Progress's advantage is ratings volume (871 vs 5) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 Day Dial sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Day Dial holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress has 871 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Progress's written reviews are positive against 100% of Day Dial's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, Day Dial every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Progress versus Day Dial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressDay Dial
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (871 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings871 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShayes Apps LLCGinkgo Labs LLC

Customer experience

Progress

All ratings871 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive80.2%
Neutral6.3%
Negative13.5%

Day Dial

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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)

Day Dial

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

Day Dial

Subscriptions2
  • Day Dial Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Day Dial Premium - Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Day Dial free?
Day Dial is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress or Day Dial?
Day Dial is rated higher. Progress averages 4.8 out of 5 from 871 ratings, while Day Dial averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Progress or Day Dial have ads?
Progress shows ads; Day Dial does not.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Day Dial?
Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, and Day Dial every 4 months. Most recently, Progress was updated on September 27, 2026 and Day Dial on September 8, 2026.

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