Comparison

Progress vs Octane Fuel

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

Octane Fuel

Features
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Octane reads your plan, your recovery, what you ate, the weather and the protocols you're on, and gives you one recommendation each morning: proceed, ease off, shorten, or recover. Then it reads the session you actually did against your own history, and the morning after tells you how your body responded. WHAT IT READS • Your plan, from Runna's private calendar link. What's planned today, what's next, which session is key. • Recovery from Oura, Garmin or Apple Health: sleep, resting heart rate, HRV and training load, against your own 28-day baseline. • Fuel: what you ate yesterday and today, against the day's target. • Conditions: heat and humidity, as a range to plan by. • Protocols: what you take, when, and how you've felt since. THE RECOMMENDATION Every morning, one line, with the why behind it. On an easy day before a key long run, with HRV 18% below your baseline, Octane says to cut the volume and protect tomorrow. The advice only ever recommends less. YOUR RUN, READ Every run is read against your own past runs of the same distance and type. Tempo miles listed as they happened. Heart-rate recovery against your usual. In words, not scores. THE MORNING AFTER Whether your body responded in its usual range, or not, in plain words. NUTRITION Log by photo, voice, barcode or search. Every estimate is editable, and the edited value is what gets logged. Ten meal slots including pre-run, during and post-run. Water against a target. A target for each kind of training day, because a long-run day and a rest day are not the same day. PROTOCOLS Supplements, medications and GLP-1s, recorded as stated. Doses, how you're feeling, and adherence kept honestly. Octane records doses and never computes one. WHAT OCTANE DOESN'T DO It learns patterns. It doesn't invent causes. Below the trust floor it says nothing. A missing day is absent, never zero. FREE AND PRO Free is the app itself: connections, logging, the recommendation's verdict. Octane Pro adds the why behind every recommendation, the session read, the morning-after response, the written morning brief, and meal plans. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Cancel any time in Settings. Octane is not medical advice. Terms of Use: https://octanefuel.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://octanefuel.app/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Octane Fuel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Octane Fuel at daily against Progress's weekly. Octane Fuel also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Octane Fuel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update weekly, Octane Fuel daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Progress versus Octane Fuel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressOctane Fuel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmor Fati AppsRichard Carey

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
3 purchases

Octane Fuel

Subscriptions3
  • Octane Pro14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Octane Pro: Founding Athlete14 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Octane Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Octane Fuel free?
Octane Fuel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Progress or Octane Fuel have ads?
Neither Progress nor Octane Fuel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Octane Fuel?
Progress ships an update weekly, and Octane Fuel daily. Most recently, Progress was updated on October 25, 2026 and Octane Fuel on October 6, 2026.

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