Comparison

Progress Today vs Thanksfor

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

Thanksfor

Cultivate a positive mindset and reduce negative thinking with this daily journal. Answer prompts, track your mood, and receive motivational phrases to build gratitude and improve your mental well-being.

Highlights
  • Daily gratitude prompts
  • Mood tracking
  • Motivational phrases
  • Journal history
  • Weekly improvement tasks
Features
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Start and end your day with gratitude. Thanksfor is a guided journal with simple morning and evening prompts, so you always have a place to begin. Make room for a short daily routine, around six minutes in total. Write at your own pace, reflect on how you feel, and return to the moments you want to remember. MORNING: NOTICE WHAT MATTERS Write down three things you are grateful for, what could make today great, and a positive thought to carry with you. EVENING: REFLECT ON YOUR DAY Remember the good moments, reflect on something you did for others, and consider what you would like to do better tomorrow. YOUR DAILY PRACTICE • Guided questions for morning and evening. • A space for notes about your thoughts, feelings, and mood. • A diary calendar to revisit past entries. • Reminders for your morning and evening routine. • Daily inspirational quotes. GO A LITTLE FURTHER Explore weekly tasks and write letters to your future self. These features require a subscription. You do not need a perfect day or a long entry. Start with one thing you appreciate. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Progress Today4 screens
Thanksfor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress Today at none against Thanksfor's 4. Progress Today also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Thanksfor's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Thanksfor sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Progress Today asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Progress Today against 5.0 for Thanksfor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thanksfor has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Progress Today's written reviews are positive against 90% of Thanksfor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, Thanksfor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Progress Today versus Thanksfor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgress TodayThanksfor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.5% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDriftwood Studio Software LLCVasilii Dmitriev

Customer experience

Progress Today

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

Thanksfor

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral9.5%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Progress Today

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Thanksfor

Subscriptions2
  • Thanksfor monthly subscription$3.991 Month
  • Year Thanksfor subscription3 Days trial$33.991 Year
One-time2
  • Valuable donation$0.99
  • Really valuable donation$1.99

Questions

Is Progress Today free?
Progress Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thanksfor free?
Thanksfor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Progress Today or Thanksfor?
Progress Today and Thanksfor are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Progress Today or Thanksfor have ads?
Neither Progress Today nor Thanksfor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress Today or Thanksfor?
Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, and Thanksfor every 2 weeks. Most recently, Progress Today was updated on October 29, 2026 and Thanksfor on October 24, 2026.

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