Comparison

Shortcuty vs Progress Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Shortcuty

Explore and share custom automations for your iPhone. Discover trending shortcuts, build your own, and connect with a community of creators. Enhance your device's productivity with user-generated solutions.

Highlights
  • Discover user-created shortcuts
  • Browse trending automations
  • Build and share your own shortcuts
  • Connect with creators
  • Detailed shortcut information
  • Version tracking and updates
Features
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Find useful shortcuts. Share what you create. Shortcuty helps you discover shortcuts for Apple’s Shortcuts app, explore how they work, and connect with the people who make them. DISCOVER YOUR NEXT SHORTCUT • Browse trending, popular, and recently added shortcuts. • Explore categories or search for what you want to do. • Read descriptions, view previews, and check version notes before downloading. SHARE YOUR WORK • Publish your own shortcuts for others to discover. • Release updates and explain what changed. • Get feedback through likes and comments. FOLLOW CREATORS • Follow creators whose work you enjoy. • Explore their shortcuts and join the conversation. TOOLS FOR YOUR SHORTCUTS • View shortcut logs. • Manage stored variables. • Manage provider API keys used by your shortcuts. Whether you’re exploring your first automation or sharing something you built, find your next idea on Shortcuty. Shortcuty is an independent community and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Progress Tracker

Track progress on goals measured in hours, like studying or practicing an instrument. Log sessions with a few taps, visualize your progress with engaging graphics, and receive celebratory milestones. Supports up to four goals with customizable scenes and widgets for easy monitoring.

Highlights
  • Log hours with two taps
  • Visual progress dashboard
  • Milestone celebrations
  • Up to four customizable goals
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Import/export CSV/XLSX
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Some goals are counted in hours: practice on an instrument, study for an exam, a thesis, flight time, the hours a license asks for. Chip Away turns each total into a mountain. Every session you log cuts it down, while a small figure with a pickaxe keeps swinging at what's left. Logging a session takes two taps. The app remembers your usual goal and length, so on most days you tap Log hours, then Log it. Change the hours with the quick buttons, pick yesterday instead of today, or add a note about what you worked on. Tap any session later to fix or delete it. The dashboard shows: • Hours logged and hours left, overall and for each goal • Your streak of days in a row • Hours in the last 7 days and your weekly average • The month you'll finish at your current pace Milestones get confetti. You'll see one for your first session, at 10, 25, 50, 75 and 90 percent of each goal, at round numbers along the total, like every 100 hours on the way to 700, and at 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 day streaks. Set up to four goals, each with its own name, target and scene. Piano and Spanish, a pilot's license, one big number for a dissertation. If you count it in hours, it fits. Widgets keep the mountains on your Home Screen. Pick a goal for a small widget or a full-width scene, put every goal side by side, or see this week's hours day by day. The large widget adds the hours left and your finish month, with log buttons that open a new session. On the Lock Screen you get a ring for one goal and a bar for the total. The Log hours control goes in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or on the Action button. Already tracking in a spreadsheet? Import an .xlsx or .csv file exported from Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. Any sheet with a date column and an hours column works. You see a preview first and choose which goal each type of hours counts toward. Sessions already in the app are skipped, so importing the same file twice doesn't double count. Export to CSV whenever you want a copy. Sessions sync through your private iCloud account to every device signed in with your Apple ID. There's no sign-up, no ads and no analytics, and the developer never sees what you log. Without iCloud, everything stays on the device. Also: • Dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver • The scenes hold still when Reduce Motion is on • Works offline and syncs when you're back online • Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26

Screenshots

Shortcuty3 screens
Progress Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress Tracker at none against Shortcuty's 5. Progress Tracker also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Shortcuty's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. Shortcuty sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Progress Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shortcuty against 5.0 for Progress Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortcuty has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shortcuty ships an update weekly, Progress Tracker daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shortcuty versus Progress Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShortcutyProgress Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (41 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperArthur HoeferVedaant Rajeshirke

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Shortcuty

Subscriptions1
  • AdFree Monthly$0.991 Month
One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Generous Tip$9.99
None

Progress Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shortcuty free?
Shortcuty is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Progress Tracker free?
Progress Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shortcuty or Progress Tracker?
Progress Tracker is rated higher. Shortcuty averages 5.0 out of 5 from 41 ratings, while Progress Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Shortcuty or Progress Tracker have ads?
Neither Shortcuty nor Progress Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shortcuty or Progress Tracker?
Shortcuty ships an update weekly, and Progress Tracker daily. Most recently, Shortcuty was updated on November 8, 2026 and Progress Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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