Progress vs Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Progress
This app helps you plan and track your strength training workouts with a clean interface. Log sets, reps, and weight, and visualize your progress with personal records and charts. Stay consistent and motivated on your fitness journey.
- Workout planning
- Session tracking
- Set, rep, and weight logging
- Personal records
- Progress charts
- Weekly summaries
- Widgets and Live Activities
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Progress is a premium workout planner and tracker designed to help you train with clarity and consistency. A workout companion that helps you show up, log your training, and see the wins add up. Create workout plans, start a session in seconds, and record sets, reps, and weight with a clean, distraction-free interface. Watch your progress build with personal records, charts, and weekly summaries. Track distance-based workouts, and keep your momentum going with widgets and Live Activities. Whether you’re just getting started or already deep into your routine, Progress keeps things simple and encouraging — so you can move more, feel stronger, and stay consistent. Privacy: https://prog.ress.co/privacy Terms of Use: https://prog.ress.co/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Drift
A minimalist journaling app focused on simple writing, drawing, and photo entries. Entries gradually fade over time, encouraging users to let go. It features optional shared prompts for community interaction without personal profiles.
- Simple text, drawing, and photo entries
- Entries fade over time
- Touch to restore entries
- Shared prompts for community thoughts
- Private by default, journal stays on device
- No streaks, reminders, or mood tracking
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Drift is the most minimal journal app. It doesn't ask you to build anything. Simple journaling. · Write up to 120 characters. Add a drawing. Attach a photo. That's it. · No streaks, no reminders, no mood tracking, no AI, no ads. Just write and let go. Entries fade over time. · Text softens. Drawings lose their edges. Photos grow faint. · Touch and hold any entry to bring it back. · Nothing is deleted without your permission. Private by default. · Your journal stays on your device. We never see it. Drift is for people who want less. Featured on Product Hunt — #5 Product of the Day Tell us what you think hi@letitdrift.com EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress at every 3 days against Drift's every 6 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Progress sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Drift sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Progress against 5.0 for Drift. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Progress ships an update every 3 days, Drift every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Progress | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eff Corp | NORILAB Inc. |
In-app purchases
Progress
- English14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- English14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- English14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- English14 Days trial$150.001 Year
Drift
- Drift Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year









