Comparison

Progress Today vs Motivation

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily priority reminders
  • Time tracking for activities
  • Focus on daily progress
  • Simple, clean interface
  • Natural gesture navigation
  • Adjustable timers
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Time remaining visualization
  • Procrastination reduction tool
  • Productivity enhancement
  • Motivation reminders
  • Yearly progress tracking
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Progress Today4 screens
Motivation3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Motivation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Progress Today asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Progress Today versus Motivation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgress TodayMotivation
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.2 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDriftwood Studio Software LLCDon Bytyqi

Customer experience

Progress Today

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Motivation

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

Progress Today

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Motivation

One-time1
  • Motivation Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Progress Today free?
Progress Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Motivation free?
Motivation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress Today or Motivation?
Progress Today is rated higher. Progress Today averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Motivation averages 4.2 from 10 ratings.
Do Progress Today or Motivation have ads?
Neither Progress Today nor Motivation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress Today or Motivation?
Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, and Motivation every 3 months. Most recently, Progress Today was updated on October 15, 2026 and Motivation on October 24, 2026.

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