Comparison

iHour vs Progress

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

Head to head
About

iHour

Plan and track your time spent on developing habits and mastering skills. Set daily reminders, use a countdown timer, and plan up to ten years ahead. Unlock achievements to stay motivated on your journey to mastery.

Highlights
  • Daily activity tracking
  • Long-term planning (up to 10 years)
  • Daily reminders and countdown timer
  • Progress statistics and visualization
  • Over 80 unlockable achievements
  • Cloud synchronization
Features
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"iHour" helps you plan & track your time spending on habits. You can record things like Play Guitar, Read Book, Coding, Running etc. The app supports daily reminder, countdown timer, up to 10 years long-term planning. Special designed Achievements help you achieve your goal. 10000 Hours to Master a Skill. =Special Feature= · Daily Tracker: Record your daily activities by hours & minutes · Cloud Sync · Task Planner & Reminder · Time Statistics: Visualize your efforts · Achievements: 80+ Achievements are waiting for you · Share with your friends —————— About the In-App Subscription: We provide "iHour Pro · Monthly Membership" for $0.49 / month. Your subscription will be billed through your Apple ID account after purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of your billing cycle. Renewal cannot be cancelled. Privacy Policy: https://clover.ly/privacy Terms: https://m.icity.ly/tos

About

Progress

This app helps you achieve your goals by breaking them down into manageable tasks, scheduling your activities, and tracking your progress. It offers a focus timer, to-do lists in various formats, and detailed goal breakdown with customizable tracking methods. Stay organized and productive with this comprehensive planning tool.

Highlights
  • Unlimited goal breakdown levels
  • Multiple progress tracking methods
  • Task organization (List, Kanban, Eisenhower)
  • Integrated focus timer (Pomodoro)
  • App blocking for distractions
  • Calendar view with scheduling
  • Recurring tasks and reminders
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Progress is a goal tracker and planner with to-do lists, scheduling, and a focus timer. Break down goals, set personal OKRs, organize tasks, plan your studies and work, track reading, and schedule reviews. With a calendar, reminders, recurring check-ins, and a Pomodoro timer, bring structure to goal management, time management, habit building, and project planning. 【Goal Breakdown & Measurable Progress】 Turn big plans into concrete actions with unlimited levels of subgoals. • Unlimited levels: Break goals into projects, phases, and tasks, then divide them further as needed. • Progress roll-up: Subgoal progress automatically updates parent goals. Choose simple average, weighted average, highest progress, or lowest progress to track each phase and the overall plan. • Goal weights: Assign weights to key goals to calculate overall progress. Ideal for personal OKRs and project management. Choose a tracking method for each goal to measure progress and record your focus time. • Completion tracking: Mark tasks as complete when done. • Quantity tracking: For a 100-page reading goal, log the pages you read each time to build progress. • Time tracking: For a 10-hour study goal, use the focus timer or add records manually. • Scheduled activity tracking: For a goal of 3 practice sessions, each completed scheduled activity automatically adds one session to your progress. 【Scheduling & To-Do Lists】 Plan short-term actions for long-term goals. Organize tasks in list, Kanban, or Eisenhower Matrix views, set priorities, and coordinate your time with the calendar timeline. • Scheduling: Schedule activities for goals or create standalone to-dos for study, work, and daily life. • Reminders: Set reminders for goals and activities to keep important plans on track. • Recurrence rules: Plan recurring tasks, daily check-ins, and study reviews with flexible repeat patterns, including Ebbinghaus-based spaced repetition. • Calendar view: See schedules and focus records together to plan around existing commitments. • Eisenhower Matrix: Sort tasks by importance and urgency to decide what comes first. • Kanban view: View tasks in columns for easy browsing and organization. • Flexible sorting: Sort by date, title, priority, and more to quickly find your next task. 【Focus Timer & Time Estimates】 Record your actual focus time and stay on task with the Pomodoro Technique and app blocking. Link sessions to goals to estimate the focus time still needed and plan ahead. • Focus timer: Use a stopwatch or countdown to study, read, or work at your own pace. • Break timer: Alternate focus and rest with the Pomodoro Technique. • Goal linking: Link focus records to goals to track time invested and add progress to time-based goals. • Time estimates: Estimate the focus time needed to reach a goal based on current progress and time already recorded. • App blocking: Block selected apps during focus sessions to reduce distractions. • Calendar timeline: Compare planned activities with actual focus records, review daily time use, and adjust future plans. 【Quick Access & Data Management】 • Widgets: View goal progress and schedules on your Home Screen or desktop. • iCloud sync: View and update plans across devices using the same iCloud account. • Data backup: Save and restore records with local and cloud backups. Whether you are preparing for an exam, completing a course, reading regularly, or finishing a project, start by breaking down your first goal. Turn what you want to do into progress you can see.

Screenshots

iHour4 screens
Progress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress at every 9 days against iHour's every 6 weeks. iHour's advantage is ratings volume (819 vs 35) and review sentiment (90% vs 82%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. iHour sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Progress sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for iHour against 4.8 for Progress. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iHour has 819 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of iHour's written reviews are positive against 82% of Progress's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iHour ships an update every 6 weeks, Progress every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iHour versus Progress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriHourProgress
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (819 ratings) — better4.8 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better81.6% of reviews
Number of ratings819 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size243 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiDaily Corp.巨 林

Customer experience

iHour

All ratings816 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews462 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative5.6%

Progress

All ratings35 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral6.6%
Negative11.8%

User reviews

iHour

From 819 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient time tracking
  • 💎 Cute and motivating design
  • 🎯 Helpful for productivity and focus
  • 🎮 Gamification elements are engaging

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional performance issues (e.g. overheating, crashes)
  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • 📊 Lack of detailed data export/analysis features
  • 🔕 Intrusive notifications/sounds
  • 🌙 No dark mode option

Progress

From 35 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and understand
  • 🎯 Good for goal setting and progress tracking
  • 📊 Visual progress bars are motivating
  • ✨ Clean and simple interface
  • 🚀 Efficient time management tool

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes frequently (TestFlight)
  • 🤔 Sync issues between devices
  • ⚠️ Complex for new users
  • 📚 Poorly written user guide
  • 😵 Overly complicated features

Bugs and requests

iHour

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Apple Watch version has sync issues
  • Countdown timer stops when screen is locked
  • Time records not always accurate

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more detailed time tracking (e.g. down to the second)
  • Improve data visualization and analytics
  • Introduce a desktop/iPad version
  • Allow more customization of UI and sounds
  • Implement a dark mode option

Progress

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • 2.0 version timer not updated
  • TestFlight version crashes frequently
  • Phone and iPad not auto-syncing in real-time
  • MacBook app crashes after updates
  • Focus timeline not opening
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  • Completed tasks not showing on desktop widgets
  • Duplicate tasks after data sync

Requested features

25 requests
  • Update 2.0 timer function
  • Real-time sync between phone and iPad
  • Multi-select archive function
  • One-click date setting for daily check-ins
  • Countdown focus widget
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  • Flip clock widget with seconds
  • Automatic date setting for time words (tomorrow, Monday)
  • Export focus records to CSV
  • Traditional Chinese language support
  • English language support
  • Widget text color customization (white/black)
  • Task completion weighting
  • Add simple one-time tasks
  • Sync system calendar events to app
  • Minimize timer to dock bar
  • Freeze top row of timeline
  • Add English version
  • More widget customization options
  • Add habit templates
  • Show completed quantity when entering numerical values for check-ins
  • Directly set timeline within the app
  • Link list items to sub-tasks
  • Improve iPad widget font size
  • Add distribution chart for focus in widgets
  • Allow tasks to be linked to sub-tasks and checklists

In-app purchases

6 purchases

iHour

Subscriptions1
  • iHour Pro - Monthly Membership7 Days trial$0.491 Month
One-time5
  • 咖啡$2.99
  • iHour Pro$3.99
  • 银币$5.99
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  • 金币$14.99
  • Coffee for Everyone$29.99
6 purchases

Progress

Subscriptions4
  • 月度订阅$1.991 Month
  • 季度订阅$3.993 Months
  • 年度订阅$6.991 Year
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  • 半年订阅$6.996 Months
One-time2
  • 完整版(优惠)$6.99
  • 完整版$12.99

Questions

Is iHour free?
iHour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Progress free?
Progress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iHour or Progress?
iHour is rated higher. iHour averages 4.8 out of 5 from 819 ratings, while Progress averages 4.8 from 35 ratings.
Do iHour or Progress have ads?
Neither iHour nor Progress shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iHour or Progress?
iHour ships an update every 6 weeks, and Progress every 9 days. Most recently, iHour was updated on November 11, 2026 and Progress on November 7, 2026.

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