Comparison

Cadence vs Progress

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

Head to head
About

Cadence

This app helps you quietly track recurring tasks without push notifications. It displays what needs to be done on your home screen widget, allowing for quick completion and customization. It also tracks your task completion history to help you understand your patterns.

Highlights
  • Widget-based task display
  • No push notifications
  • Customizable appearance
  • Streak and completion tracking
  • On-device data storage
  • Task grouping by relevance
Features
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Cadence is the recurring task tracker that doesn't nag. Water the plants. Change the sheets. Call your mum. Cadence keeps the rhythm of recurring life quietly on your Home Screen, so you can see what's due without a single push notification. Every household task, on a gentle loop. Set up a task once, choose how often it repeats, and Cadence takes it from there. When it's time, it shows up. When it's not, it stays out of the way. Count the next due date from the day you finish, or keep a fixed schedule for things like rent day. Your week, quietly organized. See today, this week, and later at a glance. Cadence groups tasks by when they actually matter, so you can scan the week ahead without scrolling through a wall of checkboxes. Did it yesterday? Mark it done on the day you actually did it. One-off jobs, right next door. Turn on the optional To do list for the things that happen only once: book the boiler service, return the library books, renew the passport. It sits in its own tab next to your recurring tasks, and stays out of sight until you switch it on. See it on your Home Screen. The widget is the whole point. One glance tells you what needs doing. Tap it to open Cadence, and tick things off with a single tap. No badge to clear, no inbox feeling, no opening yet another app just to remember what you were supposed to be doing. Make it yours. Forty colors, dozens of icons, one tap to pick. Give "water plants" a leaf. Give "rent day" red. Your widget ends up looking like you, not like a productivity app. See your rhythm. Cadence shows how often you get things done on time, with a lane for every task that marks each completion and each stretch it sat overdue. Open a task to see the current cycle as a dial, your streak, and its full history. Notice the patterns without obsessing over them. The gym tasks you always skip. The weekly ones you nail every Sunday. Stop worrying. Start doing. No push spam. No daily summary emails. No reminders piling up in Notification Center. Cadence shows you the right task at the right time, in the one place you already look, and otherwise stays silent. Your data, your cloud. No account required, and no Cadence server. Your tasks live on your iPhone. Want them on more than one iPhone? Turn on iCloud sync, and your tasks and to-dos are saved in your own iCloud storage, where Cadence can't see them. Sync stays off until you turn it on. Export anytime to back up, import anytime to move over. Cadence is for the stuff that comes back around. The gentle, unglamorous, every-few-days tasks that keep a life running. Set them up once, glance at the widget, carry on.

About

Progress

This app combines a task board, team chat, and calendar into a single workspace for managing projects collaboratively. It also includes file sharing, document signing, and booking capabilities.

Highlights
  • Kanban task board with checklists and labels
  • Team chat with channels and direct messages
  • Integrated calendar with Google Calendar sync
  • File upload, preview, and sharing
  • Document signing and sending
  • Activity feed for project updates
  • Booking link for scheduling meetings
Features
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Progress is a shared workspace for running projects together: a task board, team chat, and calendar in one place, with files and signing alongside. WHAT'S IN EVERY PROJECT • Board: a fast kanban board with checklists, labels, attachments, comments, and due dates • Chat: channels and direct messages with mentions, threads, and photo and file sharing • Calendar: your events and due dates together, with two-way Google Calendar sync • Files: upload, preview, and share images, videos, and documents • Links: save the links a project depends on • Sign: send documents for signature and sign them on your phone • Activity: see what changed across the project • Bookings: share a link so people can book time with you BUILT FOR IPHONE • Share to Progress: send screenshots, photos, and files from the share sheet straight into a chat or a board card • Home and Lock Screen widgets for today's tasks and agenda • Push notifications for messages, mentions, and card updates • Works alongside the web and desktop apps, so everything stays in sync

Screenshots

Cadence4 screens
Progress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress at weekly against Cadence's every 2 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cadence against 5.0 for Progress. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cadence ships an update every 2 months, Progress weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cadence versus Progress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCadenceProgress
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKadi KramanCatch Recap LLC

Customer experience

Cadence

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Progress

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cadence

No in-app purchases

None

Progress

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cadence or Progress?
Cadence and Progress are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cadence or Progress have ads?
Neither Cadence nor Progress shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cadence or Progress?
Cadence ships an update every 2 months, and Progress weekly. Most recently, Cadence was updated on November 5, 2026 and Progress on November 5, 2026.

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