Progress Today vs Motivation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Progress Today
This app helps you stay on track with ongoing goals that don't have a definitive end. It acts as a daily reminder to dedicate time to your priorities, focusing on consistent progress rather than task completion.
- Daily priority reminders
- Time tracking for activities
- Focus on daily progress
- Simple, clean interface
- Natural gesture navigation
- Adjustable timers
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Some activities aren't just a To Do. There's no "done." Studying a foreign language, learning the guitar, working fitness into your life... You make progress by doing, not by finishing one task and calling it complete. Every day is a new opportunity to make progress on the goals that are important to you. Every day is a new chance to spend time focused on the priorities you don't want to forget but which can so easily be pushed aside by the demands of every day living. Sometimes all you really need to stay "on track" is a reminder that you'd like to be spending time making progress on something. A reminder that what's important isn't whether or not you "finished" a task, but whether or not you made time in your day to do something -- even something small -- towards getting a little step closer to your goals. And that's where Progress Today can help. Tell the app what you'd like to not forget to make time for, and let the app be your "priority reminder" helping you remind yourself at a glance what you want to make time for today. The timers will show you what you've done, and whether or not you've reached your goal. Tomorrow, reset the timers and start again. Every day is a new chance to make progress. Progress Today intentionally doesn't keep a history or a "brag log" of what you've done in the past. The focus is on today. No matter what you did yesterday, or last week, or last month... today is a new opportunity to refocus on your commitments to yourself. Trying to learn French? Set up a goal of an hour a day of reading practice. Do you do freelance work and constantly "forget" to do the marketing work to find new clients? Set up a goal of spending 45 minutes a day writing proposals. Always wanted to learn to play the guitar? Spending 5 hours a day for a week and then never finding time to "get back to that" isn't going to work... But setting a plan of spending 20 minutes a day, then following through as often as you can will! With a simple, clean interface and natural gesture-based navigation, Progress Today lets you easily enter, revise and track your time on as many priorities as you care to enter. Best of all, you can easily add or subtract time from any event, for those times when you forget to start or stop the timer! Note: the app initially includes ads, but these can be removed in the Settings screen! ---- As a small, independent developer every five star review helps us to keep improving our apps, so if you find this app useful please consider a favorable review. Thanks and keep the feedback coming! info@7thCodex.com www.7thCodex.com/progresstoday
Motivation
This app helps combat procrastination by visually reminding you of the time passing in the year. It aims to boost productivity and encourage users to make the most of their valuable time.
- Time remaining visualization
- Procrastination reduction tool
- Productivity enhancement
- Motivation reminders
- Yearly progress tracking
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Use this app to remind you that time moves fast. Time is a priceless asset that we should not waste. Procrastination is one of the biggest problems that plagues our generation. This app aims to reduce procrastination by notifying you of how much time is left in the year. Increase your productivity, stay motivated, and don't let your time go to waste.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Progress Today at 100% against Motivation's 40%. Progress Today also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Motivation's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Motivation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Progress Today asks for nothing beyond the download.
Progress Today holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Motivation has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Progress Today's written reviews are positive against 40% of Motivation's.
Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, Motivation every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress Today | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Driftwood Studio Software LLC | Don Bytyqi |
Customer experience
Progress Today
Motivation
In-app purchases
Progress Today
No in-app purchases
Motivation
- Motivation Pro$2.99
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