Progress vs Focus Timer
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
Focus Timer
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Every session from now on is a step toward a more mindful life. Focus Timer is a simple way to see where your time actually goes. Make a handful of categories for anything you want to measure, good or bad: Work, Reading, Studying, Meditation… or Gaming and Scrolling, if you're up for it. Then start a timer with a default track and break time whenever you start one of them. That's the whole habit. After a few days the numbers start talking, and most people are surprised by what they hear. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a category, tap Start. • Pause when life gets in the way. Pauses are saved too, so your history stays honest. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Your day as a timeline, in each category's colour. Pinch to zoom in, all the way down to the minute. • Every past day and week is there too. • Filter by category to see just your Work, or just your Gaming. ON YOUR WRIST • The Apple Watch app runs sessions on its own. Turn off your iPhone, leave it in another room, and keep tracking from your wrist. • Start on your iPhone, pause on your Watch. They stay in sync. JUST TELL SIRI • "Start Work in Focus Timer." Any category works, no setup needed. • Pause, resume, stop, take a break, or ask for today's summary without touching a thing. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • Everything syncs between your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch through your own iCloud. • Export your whole history to CSV or SQL anytime, with a README that explains every column. Hand it to your spreadsheet, your analytics app or your AI and ask things like "Which hour of the day do I get the most tracked time, and is it different on weekends?" • Import it back whenever you like. • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. We never see your data. OUR PROMISE Create a handful of categories and keep tracking your sessions through the week. This one simple change will save you hours of your life, every week. We know from our testing that this works for most people, but certainly not everyone. If the experiment doesn't save you real time after a few days, please feel free to delete the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Focus Timer at none against Progress's shown. Progress's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). On price, update cadence, 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 Focus Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Progress ships an update every 4 weeks, Focus Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress | Focus Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (900 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 900 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shayes Apps LLC | Cododev Technology Inc. |
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)
Focus Timer
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
Focus Timer
- 7-day TrialFree
- Full Version$7.99









