Comparison

Time Progress vs BeeDay

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

Head to head
About

Time Progress

Visualize your time with progress bars for the year, month, and day. Create countdowns for important dates and track progress for projects or events. Features include recurring events, home screen widgets, and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Year, month, and day progress visualization
  • Countdown and progress event tracking
  • Recurring event scheduling
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
  • Import and export functionality
Features
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Time Progress keeps the days that matter in view: how many days are left until the next one, how many have passed since the last, and how far the year has come. The day you are waiting for sits at the top, big enough to read at a glance. Put it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and you do not even have to open the app. HOW MANY DAYS LEFT A trip, an exam, a birthday, a wedding, a due date, a last day at work. Add a name and a date and Time Progress counts down to it. The nearest one is always up top, and days that have gone by move to Past. HOW MANY DAYS SINCE Give something a start date and watch the number grow: the day you met, the day the baby arrived, the day you quit. For a habit you are breaking, let it restart: start over when you slip, and your longest streak and restart count stay on record. REMINDERS AND MILESTONES Get a reminder 7 days before, 1 day before or on the day, at the time you choose. Count-ups can tell you when they reach 7, 30 or 100 days, and every year after that. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN Small, medium and large widgets, plus Lock Screen widgets. Show the next day automatically, a day you pick, or the year, the month or today. Tap a widget to jump straight to that day. THE YEAR, THE MONTH, TODAY The Progress tab shows how much of the year, the month and today has already gone, live. Add a stretch of time of your own with a start and an end, such as a semester, a training plan or a whole life of 80 years, and watch it move toward 100%. SHARE A DAY Turn a countdown, a milestone or the year's progress into a clean card and send it to the people it matters to. TWO THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Plum and Indigo, each in light and dark. Widgets and share cards follow your choice. Supports large text sizes and VoiceOver. FREE TO USE Up to 5 active events, one standard reminder per event (7 days before, 1 day before or on the day), every widget, both themes and sharing are free. No ads, no account, no sign-up. TIME PROGRESS PRO One purchase unlocks Time Progress Pro for good: unlimited active events, advanced reminders (several per event, on your own days and times), CSV import and export, iCloud Sync across your devices, and Print & PDF export. It is not a subscription: pay once, and Pro works on every device signed in to your Apple Account. Privacy: your days are stored on your device, and in your own iCloud account when sync is on. The app collects usage analytics to help us improve it. There is no advertising and no tracking. The privacy policy has the details.

About

BeeDay

This app helps you remember important dates for loved ones, including birthdays and anniversaries. It offers countdowns, custom notes, and optional holiday reminders, syncing privately via iCloud. It also supports lunar calendars and provides home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Birthday and anniversary reminders
  • Custom notes for people
  • Lunar calendar support
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Friend self-fill links
  • Holiday reminders
Features
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BeeDay keeps the people you care about close — their birthdays, and everything else worth remembering. Free, ad-free, and no limit on how many people you add. Add someone and BeeDay counts down to their birthday, right on your home and lock screen. It speaks both the everyday calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar, so a grandparent's lunar birthday lands on the right day, year after year. Open a person and you'll find their comb. The first cell holds their birthday. The rest hold whatever you like: a wedding anniversary, the day you met, the day the dog came home, how they take their coffee, the shoe size you keep forgetting. Cells with a date get the same quiet reminders birthdays do, lunar included. Holidays, if you want them. Pick the regions your people live in and BeeDay marks the big days the same quiet way — Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn, Thanksgiving, Boxing Day, thirty of them in all. Leave it alone and none of them show up. Share a link and friends fill in their own birthday, plus one thing about themselves. When they do, BeeDay tells you, and you tap to add them. Everything syncs privately through your own iCloud and stays on your devices. Free and generous • No ads, not one • Unlimited people • Anniversaries and notes for everyone • Home and lock screen widgets • An Apple Watch app — the comb on your wrist • Friend self-fill links • A hand-drawn card to send, on the day • Holidays from the regions you choose • Private iCloud sync • Import from Contacts in a tap Calm by design • Quiet, well-timed reminders • Solar and lunar dates side by side • One clean list, sorted by what's next • Drag the cells into whatever order feels right • Ask Siri when someone's birthday is, or to open them • A star sign on every solar birthday, if you tap it BeeDay is part of the Bee family of small, honest apps — made to do one thing well: help you show up for the people you love.

Screenshots

Time Progress4 screens
BeeDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BeeDay at none against Time Progress's 1. BeeDay also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Time Progress sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BeeDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Progress ships an update every 3 weeks, BeeDay every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Progress versus BeeDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime ProgressBeeDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBin YangYingtao Guo

Customer experience

Time Progress

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BeeDay

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Time Progress

One-time1
  • Time Progress Pro$4.99
None

BeeDay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Progress free?
Time Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeeDay free?
BeeDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time Progress or BeeDay have ads?
Neither Time Progress nor BeeDay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Progress or BeeDay?
Time Progress ships an update every 3 weeks, and BeeDay every 5 days. Most recently, Time Progress was updated on October 24, 2026 and BeeDay on October 28, 2026.

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