Comparison

Year Progress Diary vs Present Day

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

Head to head
About

Year Progress Diary

Visualize your daily habits and time with a minimalist dot grid. Track your progress, maintain streaks, and stay intentional with a distraction-free digital planner. Perfect for mindfulness and goal tracking.

Highlights
  • Visual habit tracking
  • Minimalist daily planner
  • Streak motivation
  • Year in pixels logging
  • Custom reminders
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
Features
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See your year, one day at a time. 365 Dots turns the year into a simple grid. Add a note, mood, category, and score to a day, then watch the year take shape. • Year at a glance — See days passed, days ahead, and your progress through the year. • Daily check-ins — Capture a thought, mood, or category in a few taps. • Life in weeks — Zoom out to a grid of weeks for a broader view of time. • Week and month views — Revisit entries, events, and streaks. • Yearly insights — Look back on your logging patterns, moods, categories, and meaningful days. • Reminders and widget — Set an optional check-in reminder and keep your progress close with a Home Screen widget. • Personalize — Choose a theme, search past entries, and export your data. Some themes and features may require an optional subscription. Check the app for current plan details. Make each dot count. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vS7CIsms1Gq-7mHP7Z-Cw6_0xqL9Ptd-cc4M6HlYRsQ/edit?usp=sharing

About

Present Day

This app visualizes your year as a grid of dots, encouraging you to 'show up' daily by checking in on your chosen pillars. It includes focus sessions based on the Pomodoro method and home screen widgets to keep your progress visible.

Highlights
  • 365-dot year grid visualization
  • Daily pillar check-in
  • Focus sessions with hourglass animation
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Multiple themes and customizable styles
  • Night mode
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Your whole year fits on one screen. A simple grid of dots. See how short it is. That's your year - 365 dots, each one a day you get exactly once. Present Day is not a habit tracker. It's not a journal. It's just proof you showed up. -- HOW IT WORKS Each day gets one question: did you show up? If yes, tap the dot. It's yours. Set your pillars - the 2 or 3 things that make a day count. Physical health. Family time. Deep work. Creative practice. Whatever "showing up" means for you. Check in on them. That's it. -- FOCUS SESSIONS Start a focus session and watch dots fall like sand through an hourglass - each one a minute of deep work, claimed. Built on the Pomodoro method, but it feels like presence, not a countdown. Choose your duration (5, 15, 25, 40, or 60 minutes), pick your pillar, set an intention, and begin. -- YOUR YEAR ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Put your year where you can't ignore it. Multiple widget sizes fit any home screen layout. Lock screen widgets keep the grid visible without even unlocking. Night mode dims everything down for late check-ins. Watch it fill, week by week. -- DESIGNED FOR PRESENCE 365-dot year grid - your whole year at once Daily pillar check-in - show up on your terms Focus sessions with hourglass animation Widgets in multiple sizes for home screen and lock screen Night mode for late-night glances Themes: Midnight, Paper, Ocean, Sunset, Cyber, and make your own Customizable dot shapes and styles No social features. No streaks to break. No guilt. Just you and your year. -- Present Day won't remind you to drink water. It won't gamify your morning routine. It just asks one thing: were you here today?

Screenshots

Year Progress Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Present Day at none against Year Progress Diary's 3. Year Progress Diary's advantage is device support. On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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. Year Progress Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Present Day 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 Year Progress Diary against 5.0 for Present Day. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Year Progress Diary versus Present Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYear Progress DiaryPresent Day
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFenuku KekeliJoseph Dearman

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Year Progress Diary

Subscriptions2
  • All Access for a week7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • All Access for a year7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • All Access for Lifetime$59.99
None

Present Day

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Year Progress Diary free?
Year Progress Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Present Day free?
Present Day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Year Progress Diary or Present Day?
Year Progress Diary and Present Day are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.

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