Comparison

Progress vs Heke

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

Heke

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Track. Progress. Lighter You. Heke is a private, on-device tracker for your weight journey. It is built for adults who want a quiet place to log weigh-ins, see real progress, and keep going — without an account, a calorie database, a social feed, or a Heke server. Whether you are working toward a goal or simply want to understand how your weight changes over time, Heke keeps the picture clear: where you started, where you are now, how far you have come, and what comes next. GET STARTED IN A MINUTE Choose kilograms or pounds, and centimetres or feet and inches. Add your height, starting weight, and goal. Optionally add your name and whether you are a woman or a man so BMI can use the matching adult range. Tap Start my journey. There is nothing to sign up for. SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE ON HOME Home shows your current weight beside your starting weight and goal, how much you have lost or gained, how much is left, your BMI, and the next milestone. Switch the view between this week, this month, and this year. A week strip lets you tap any day to log, edit, or review that weigh-in. LOG IN SECONDS Add today’s weight, or backdate a weigh-in. That is enough. When you want more context, you can also record: • Body fat %, visceral fat, and water % from a smart scale • Waist, hips, chest, thigh, and arm measurements • A short note (exercise, diet, mood, or anything you noticed) • A progress photo from the camera or your photo library Photos and notes stay on this device. Open History anytime to review every weigh-in, edit one, or swipe to delete. WATCH THE TREND Progress plots the same log line as a chart. Filter by week, month, year, or your entire journey, and pinch to zoom. Latest measurements and progress photos sit with the graph so the numbers and the pictures stay together. FOLLOW MILESTONES, NOT JUST A NUMBER Journey turns your start and goal into a timeline: 5%, 10%, and 15% of the way, then the goal itself. You can see how many unique days you have logged, which milestones you have reached, and what is still ahead. Add journal notes along the way so the story is more than a scale reading. SHARE ONLY IF YOU WANT TO Create a journey report card on your device — start, current, goal, days on the journey, days logged, streak, and milestones. Share it through the system share sheet when you choose. You decide whether your name is included. If you never share, nothing leaves the phone. STAY ON TRACK, GENTLY Turn on an optional 7-day reminder and Heke will notify you only if a week goes by without a weigh-in. There is no daily nag and no streak punishment. Log when you want. KEEP A COPY, OR START OVER Export a JSON backup (profile, weigh-ins, notes, and photos) or a CSV of your weigh-ins to a folder you choose. Restore from JSON if you move devices. Clear all data anytime to remove your profile, logs, notes, and photos from this device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No subscription. No Heke cloud. Your data lives in a local database on the device. Heke does not upload your weigh-ins, photos, or notes to a Heke server. Network access is only used if you open Terms, Privacy, or Support in the browser, export or restore a file you choose, or share a report card yourself. WHAT HEKE IS — AND IS NOT Heke is a personal wellness tracker. It does not count calories, plan meals, connect to Apple Health, coach with AI, or diagnose or treat any condition. BMI and body-composition fields are reference numbers you enter; they are not medical advice. Your journey, your pace. Log when you want, follow your milestones, and keep moving toward your goal.

Screenshots

Progress4 screens
Heke4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heke at none against Progress's 4. Heke also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Progress sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Heke asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Progress ships an update weekly, Heke every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Progress versus Heke: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressHeke
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmor Fati AppsNur Syafiza Osmayati

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

Heke

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heke free?
Heke is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Progress or Heke have ads?
Neither Progress nor Heke shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Progress or Heke?
Progress ships an update weekly, and Heke every 5 days. Most recently, Progress was updated on October 9, 2026 and Heke on October 1, 2026.

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