Comparison

Progress vs Habit 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

Habit Tracker

This app helps you break down large objectives into manageable daily actions. It allows you to set measurable targets, cultivate consistent routines, and visualize your progress with detailed analytics and pre-built templates.

Highlights
  • Set measurable goals with numeric targets
  • Build daily/weekly habits with trackers
  • Track streaks and daily activity scores
  • Detailed progress analytics
  • 100+ goal and habit templates
  • Data stored locally on device
Features
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You've done this before. You started strong, you missed a Tuesday, and the app made sure you knew it. The number went back to zero, and you stopped opening it a few days later. That's not a discipline problem. That's an app that only knew how to keep score. HabitScript keeps the whole picture instead. The water you drank. The ten minutes on the mat. The twenty pages before bed, the phone left in the kitchen. Miss a Tuesday and Tuesday is just a day — everything else you did is still there, still yours, still visible. AS MANY HABITS AS YOUR LIFE HAS Other apps let you have three, maybe five, then ask for money. HabitScript doesn't count your habits. Add the one you're serious about and the small one you're embarrassed about. Add the one you'll drop in a week. Free means free. NOTHING TO PROTECT, NOTHING TO LOSE There's no fragile number you owe the app. Nothing scolds you, nothing resets to zero, and nobody's disappointed in you on Thursday morning. Come back after a bad week and you'll find the good weeks still sitting there. IT'S YOURS, AND IT STAYS YOURS No account. No sign-up, no email, no password to forget. Your habits live encrypted on your phone. HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS • Some things you just do — tap once and it's done • Some you count — a glass of water at a time, until you've had eight • Some you sit down for — ten minutes of stretching, timed in the app • Pick the days that are real for you: every day, weekdays, or three times a week • Want a plan instead of a blank page? Answer a few questions and HabitScript builds you a routine — mornings, fitness, focus, reading, less phone Give it a few weeks and something quiet happens: the months behind you fill in with color, and you can see, without counting, that you've been doing this. PERFECT FOR • Anyone who has deleted three habit apps already • People who want the proof without the pressure • Anyone starting over — again — and hoping it holds this time SUBSCRIPTION & PURCHASE OPTIONS Auto-renewal: subscriptions automatically renew unless disabled 24 hours before the period ends. Manage subscription in Account Settings. Trial Information: The trial converts to a subscription unless canceled 24 hours before the trial ends. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://primepeak.io/products/habitscript/privacy GET STARTED Add one habit. Do it today. Then do it tomorrow, or don't — it'll still be here either way.

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Habit Tracker at none against Progress's shown. Habit Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (91% vs 80%). Progress's advantage is ratings volume (871 vs 137). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Habit Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Progress against 4.8 for Habit Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress has 871 ratings behind it against 137, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Progress's written reviews are positive against 91% of Habit Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, Habit Tracker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Progress versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressHabit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (871 ratings)4.8 (137 ratings)
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews91.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings871 — better137
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShayes Apps LLCPrimePeak Inc.

Customer experience

Progress

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

Habit Tracker

All ratings137 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%

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)

Habit 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
5 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Script+ Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Script+ Monthly Subscription2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Script+ Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
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  • Script+ Annual Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Offer$14.99

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress or Habit Tracker?
Progress and Habit Tracker are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 871 and 137 ratings respectively.
Do Progress or Habit Tracker have ads?
Progress shows ads; Habit Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Habit Tracker?
Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, and Habit Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, Progress was updated on September 21, 2026 and Habit Tracker on September 23, 2026.

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