Progress Today vs Simplio Meal Reminder
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
Simplio Meal Reminder
This app helps you build healthier eating habits by providing timed meal alerts and reminders. Customize your schedule, set preferred sounds, and repeat reminders daily or weekly. It offers offline functionality and a clean, distraction-free interface for consistent meal tracking.
- Custom meal schedules
- Flexible repeat options
- Customizable sound notifications
- Offline functionality
- No sign-up required
- Minimalist design
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A gentle nudge to eat, for people who forget — not count. If you have realised at three in the afternoon that you have not had breakfast, or watched your lunch break disappear into one more meeting, Simplio Meal Reminder is built for you. It is a calm meal reminder for adults who simply need a small alarm when the day gets loud — not a calorie tracker, not a macro coach, not a meal planner trying to redesign your diet. Just a quiet nudge to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at times that fit your real schedule. The philosophy is simple: a meal alarm should help you eat on time, then step out of the way. There is no account, no cloud upload, no third-party server in the loop — your meal log stays on this device, used by you and nobody else. Every feature described below is unlocked only with an auto-renewable subscription purchased inside the app. New users receive a 3 day free trial; you may cancel anytime during the trial to avoid being charged. Set reminder times for each meal in a single screen, add snack reminders if your blood sugar prefers smaller intervals, and the app does the rest. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep the next mealtime glanceable, an Apple Watch complication taps you on the wrist when your phone is across the room, and a Focus-mode-aware design respects deep work without burying the alert when it matters. Optionally log what you ate in a single line, with no judgement and no portion math, and watch a quiet streak build without shaming the days life got in the way. A clear daily view shows the next mealtime ahead and the ones you have already taken care of, nothing more. Beyond the basic alarm, this eat reminder handles the texture of how people really eat. Weekly patterns let work days run on a tight breakfast-lunch-dinner rhythm and let off days breathe with brunch or a late dinner. Medication-aligned reminders help people who must eat before or after a dose, and family reminders make it easy to nudge a child to finish lunch or remind an elderly parent that dinner is ready. Custom reminder sounds beyond the default let a quiet office hear a soft chime instead of a default alert, and a CSV export of the meal log can be shared with a dietitian, doctor or caregiver. Edge cases are handled gracefully — a delayed flight, a missed breakfast, a shift change — without forcing you to rebuild the schedule. The interface ships in 39 languages with VoiceOver accessibility, Dynamic Type and high-contrast support. Everything works offline, including the food reminder, widgets and history. There is no marketing email, no analytics framework and no nutrition score sold on. Built for people with ADHD who forget to eat, busy parents, shift workers, caregivers reminding an elderly relative, students skipping breakfast, or anyone who wants a regular eating rhythm restored — a calm breakfast reminder, lunch reminder and dinner nudge rather than another diet app. Unlock with Pro: • All widgets, themes and StandBy layouts • Weekly patterns for work days and off days • Medication-aligned reminders and family reminders for kids or elderly • Export your meal log as CSV • Custom reminder sounds beyond the default Subscription Pricing & Terms Features require a subscription. Pricing and terms available in-app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription and free-trial conversion in Settings > Apple ID after purchase. Any unused portion of the free-trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Progress Today at 5.0 against Simplio Meal Reminder's 2.3. Progress Today also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.5). Simplio Meal Reminder's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Simplio Meal Reminder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Progress Today asks for nothing beyond the download.
Progress Today holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Progress Today ships an update every 19 months, Simplio Meal Reminder every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress Today | Simplio Meal Reminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Driftwood Studio Software LLC | Bahattin Duran |
Customer experience
Progress Today
Simplio Meal Reminder
In-app purchases
Progress Today
No in-app purchases
Simplio Meal Reminder
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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