Comparison

Progress vs Progress BAR app

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

Progress BAR app

Features
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Progress BAR helps you turn goals into steady progress. Create goals for fitness, learning, health, creativity, or anything else you want to improve, then track each day from one simple dashboard. Make every goal fit the way you work: • Choose daily, weekly, specific-day, monthly, or custom schedules • Track minutes, hours, steps, pages, reps, sessions, and more • Log progress in just a few taps • Build streaks and see your consistency over time • Review weekly progress, statistics, and calendar history • Set reminders to stay on track • Celebrate milestones and look back on your progress Progress BAR is built for goals that do not fit a one-size-fits-all habit tracker. Whether you are training, reading, learning a skill, building a routine, or working on something completely your own, you decide what progress means. Start small. Track it. Keep moving.

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Progress BAR app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress BAR app at none against Progress's 3. Progress BAR app also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Progress BAR app asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Progress versus Progress BAR app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressProgress BAR app
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (889 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings889 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShayes Apps LLCJakub Vondra

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)

Progress BAR app

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
None

Progress BAR app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Progress BAR app free?
Progress BAR app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Progress or Progress BAR app have ads?
Progress shows ads; Progress BAR app does not.

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