Progress vs ProgressBar
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
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: Progress at 80% against ProgressBar's 0%. Progress also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (871 vs 1). ProgressBar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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. ProgressBar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Progress holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Progress has 871 ratings behind it against 1, 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 0% of ProgressBar's.
Progress ships an update every 5 weeks, ProgressBar every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress | ProgressBar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (871 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 871 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shayes Apps LLC | Leo Cui |
Customer experience
Progress
ProgressBar
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)
ProgressBar
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
ProgressBar
No in-app purchases
