Quick Journal vs Pixel Progress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Journal
This app offers a straightforward journaling experience with extensive customization options. Personalize themes, fonts, icons, and layouts to create your ideal digital notebook. Widgets and draft saving features enhance usability for daily reflection.
- Customizable themes and fonts
- App icon and layout personalization
- Home screen widgets
- Save entries as drafts
- Copy and share entries
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Quick Journal is the simplest way to keep a journal. You can customize your journal's theme, fonts, app icon, layout, and even where the composer button is placed. To help you write or keep track of your entries, the app features widgets you can put on your home screen. You can copy or share your entries. You can always come back to an entry later by saving it as a draft, just swipe down and the entry will be saved. Hope you enjoy! EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Pixel Progress
Transform your daily tasks into an engaging adventure. This app uses video game mechanics to help you track your to-dos, motivate friends, and earn rewards by defeating challenges.
- Gamified task tracking
- Friend encouragement
- Boss battles for loot
- Progress visualization
- To-do list management
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Pixel Progress is a to-do list with video game style! Track your tasks, encourage your friends, and defeat bosses for epic loot. Terms of Use: https://pixel-progress.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pixel-progress.com/pixel-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Journal at 4.7 against Pixel Progress's 4.0. Quick Journal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). Pixel Progress's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.4). 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
Both are free to download. Pixel Progress sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Quick Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Journal has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Quick Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixel Progress's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Quick Journal ships an update every 9 days, Pixel Progress monthly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Quick Journal | Pixel Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Charlie Deets | Travis Templeton |
Customer experience
Quick Journal
Pixel Progress
In-app purchases
Quick Journal
No in-app purchases
Pixel Progress
- Pixel Power-Up$2.991 Month
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