Comparison

Progress Today vs Strive Journal

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

Strive Journal

This app helps you achieve your long-term goals through structured planning, journaling, and supportive exercises. Track your progress, share your journey with others, and reflect on your achievements.

Highlights
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Progress journaling
  • Shareable goals
  • Daily Gratitude exercises
  • Affirmations
  • Dear Future Self letters
  • Wheel of Life assessment
Features
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Increase your chance of achieving your long term goals and/or help others achieve theirs. Goal setting & Journaling Set goals, make a plan, visualize and stay focused. These are the key ingredients to achieving long-term goals. Write about your progress and look back on your life with appreciation on what you have achieved. Share your goals with friends and family, or keep them private for yourself. Add extra incentive to achieve your goals or the goals of others by adding supports. Once the objective has been finished, you choose to give it or not. Strive Journal comes with several exercises to increase your chance of succeeding: - Daily Gratitude - Affirmations - Dear Future Self - Wheel of Life Daily Gratitude A daily practice to focus on the positive instead of the negative Affirmations Set affirmations for yourself to embed beliefs and activate the law of attraction Dear Future Self Write letters to your future self. Predict what your future will look like and by visualizing and writing about it, increase your chance of actually getting there. Wheel of Life Discover which area in your life needs extra attention and set goals for this. Track your progress over the long term

Screenshots

Progress Today4 screens
Strive Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Strive Journal at fortnightly against Progress Today's every 19 months. Strive Journal also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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 Strive Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, Strive Journal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Progress Today versus Strive Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgress TodayStrive Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDriftwood Studio Software LLCRemco Simonides

Customer experience

Progress Today

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

Strive Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Progress Today

No in-app purchases

None

Strive Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress Today free?
Progress Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strive Journal free?
Strive Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Progress Today or Strive Journal?
Progress Today and Strive Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Progress Today or Strive Journal have ads?
Neither Progress Today nor Strive Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress Today or Strive Journal?
Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, and Strive Journal fortnightly. Most recently, Progress Today was updated on June 5, 2026 and Strive Journal on September 11, 2026.

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