Comparison

This Year Progress 2026 vs Life Progress Journal

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

Head to head
About

This Year Progress 2026

This app helps you visualize the passage of time throughout the year, showing your progress and remaining time. It offers subtle notifications and dynamic wallpapers to encourage mindful appreciation of each day. Designed for those who prefer a calm, minimalist approach to time management.

Highlights
  • See year's progress at a glance
  • View remaining time in real-time
  • Automatically update wallpaper
  • Home screen widgets
  • Subtle milestone notifications
Features
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Time always moves at the same pace. But because it feels so ordinary, we rarely stop to notice it. This app helps make the passage of time visible—showing how far the year has progressed and how much time remains—so you can treat each day with a little more care. There are no big goal-setting features or flashy tools. It simply and quietly shows you where you are, right now. --- ## What you can do with this app ### See the year’s progress at a glance * Instantly check how much of the year has passed, in percentage ### View remaining time in real time * Remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds Not to make you think “only X days left,” but to help you notice: “this is where I am now.” ### Automatically update your wallpaper * Generate a wallpaper that reflects the year’s progress * Update it automatically every day (Requires iOS Shortcuts. Clear, step-by-step instructions are included.) ### Home Screen widgets * Small, medium, and large sizes supported Check your progress without opening the app. ### Subtle notifications * Notifications at milestones such as 1%, 2%, 5%, and 10% A gentle reminder to notice the passage of time. --- ## Recommended for people who * Don’t want to waste time, but don’t want to be managed by it * Don’t want the year to end “before they know it” * Prefer minimal, calm design * Want a small moment to pause each day --- ## About the design Information is kept to a minimum to reduce visual noise. The app is designed to stay quietly in your daily life— present, but never demanding attention. Time cannot be stopped. But you can choose how you notice it. If this app helps you value “today” just a little more, that’s more than enough.

About

Life Progress Journal

Features
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Life Progress shows you where you are — in today, in this week, in this year, and in your life — and lets you leave a mark on the way through. Most progress apps stop at the bar. This one lets you plant a flag: how the moment feels, what you're doing, one line about it. Those marks tint your life grid, so "how has this year actually gone" becomes something you can see instead of something you guess. NOW The day fills in hour by hour. Because you've told it when you sleep, it doesn't just count the hours left — it tells you how many of them are actually yours. Days left this year, weekends left this year, and where you stand in the week and the month. YOUR LIFE One cell per year, ten to a row, so every row is a decade. Label the rows by age or by calendar year. Open a year to see its months, open a month to see its days. Any day will hold a note — a look back if it has passed, a plan if it hasn't. MILESTONES Give one an age and it lands on your timeline. Leave the age out and it becomes something you want to do, with a box to tick the day you do it. TIME BUDGET Set your bedtime and wake-up, then adjust where the rest of your hours go — and add your own categories for the things only you spend time on. See what each costs you across a whole life, and how much free time is left in yours. LOOKING BACK Averages, trend, your most common activity, the time of day you tend to feel best. Seven days, or thirty. MARKING One tap. Pick how you feel, add what you're doing and a line if you want. Build your own states and activities when the presets don't fit. Skip any of it. Nothing to configure, nothing to maintain. QUIET BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no server. Nothing you write leaves your device — which also means we can't read it. It never asks for your location, camera, contacts, photos, or notifications. Dark, warm light, or pure light. Erase everything in one step whenever you want.

Screenshots

This Year Progress 20264 screens
Life Progress Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life Progress Journal at none against This Year Progress 2026's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. This Year Progress 2026 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life Progress Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
This Year Progress 2026 versus Life Progress Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThis Year Progress 2026Life Progress Journal
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAIKI YUASAWeiyanda (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

This Year Progress 2026

One-time1
  • Premium Plan$3.99
None

Life Progress Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is This Year Progress 2026 free?
This Year Progress 2026 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Life Progress Journal free?
Life Progress Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do This Year Progress 2026 or Life Progress Journal have ads?
Neither This Year Progress 2026 nor Life Progress Journal shows ads.

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