Comparison

Progress vs Gradium

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

Head to head
About

Progress

This app helps you visualize your physical transformation over time by creating AI-generated timelapse videos from weekly photos. It offers features like perfect alignment, automatic background removal, and voice-activated shutter for easy photo capture. Seamlessly track your weight with HealthKit integration and share your journey with others.

Highlights
  • AI-generated timelapse videos
  • Perfect photo alignment and matching
  • Automatic background removal
  • Voice-activated shutter
  • HealthKit integration for weight tracking
  • Easy video export for social media
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Progress is here to keep you motivated by seeing yourself change over time. Just capture a photo once a week and let Progress seamlessly weave them into an AI generated time-lapse video of your transformation. • Perfect Alignment To ensure your photos are perfectly aligned, Progress automatically aligns your photos, and shows you a helpful outline of your previous photo as well as a handy level. • Perfect Match Progress checks your photos for consistency in lighting, hair, pose, and clothing and warns you about any mismatches. • Automatically background removal Keep your progress photos clean and focused with automatic background removal. • Voice activated shutter Take photos from a tripod simply by saying a trigger word! • HealthKit With HealthKit integration, tracking your weight becomes effortless. Just step on your smart scale before taking your photo, and your weight is automatically logged alongside each picture. • Share your journey Ready to share your journey? Progress lets you easily export a video of your transformation, especially formatted for the most popular social networks. See your evolution, stay motivated, and inspire others with your journey. Progress is here to celebrate every step of your fitness journey, one photo at a time. Progress requires a subscription in order to be used. You can try it for free for a period of time and have the option of monthly or annual membership. Standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Gradium

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Gradium is a minimal workout logging app with a gamified muscle rank system. Log your workouts, save your exercise history, and turn your best sets into muscle ranks. Instead of only tracking numbers, Gradium gives your progress a visual shape. Muscle groups can earn ranks based on the exercises, weight, and reps you record. As your results improve, your rank map changes with you. What you can do in Gradium: Track workouts Create workout sessions, add exercises, and record weight and reps for each set. Earn muscle ranks Some exercises can assign ranks to specific muscle groups. Stronger results can unlock higher ranks. View your shape progress See your ranked muscle groups displayed on a simple body map. Check rank history Review which exercises earned your ranks and how your progress changed over time. Explore exercise statistics Look back at your logged exercises and training results. No account required Your workouts, ranks, body weight, and settings stay on your device. Gradium is designed for people who want a clean workout tracker with a simple progression system. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, health reports, or training recommendations. Ranks are gamified progress indicators based only on the workout data you enter.

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Gradium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gradium at none against Progress's 4. Gradium also leads on iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). 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. Progress sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Gradium asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Progress versus Gradium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressGradium
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAmor Fati AppsEfim Polianovskii

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Progress

Subscriptions4
  • Full Access - Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Full Access - Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Full Access - Yearly$24.991 Year
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  • Full Access - Yearly$59.991 Year
None

Gradium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gradium free?
Gradium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Progress or Gradium have ads?
Neither Progress nor Gradium shows ads.

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