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What you can track with Progress

Progress is an Android progress tracking app for personal projects, goals, tasks, and subtasks. It shines whenever a goal is too big for a single to-do checkbox and you want to see steady momentum build over weeks or months. Here are common ways people use it — and which features fit each one.

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Studying for exams

Make a project for the exam, add a task per subject or textbook, and break each into chapters as subtasks. As you finish chapters, your overall exam-prep percentage climbs, and the daily target keeps a huge syllabus feeling manageable one day at a time.

Best features: subtasks, progress percentages, start & due dates with daily targets, Today view.
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Learning programming

Track a course or roadmap as a project — "Learn Python", "Full-stack roadmap" — with tasks for each module and subtasks for lessons and exercises. Weighting lets a hard project count for more than a quick quiz, so your progress reflects real understanding.

Best features: nested subtasks, weighted progress, charts, activity heatmap for daily consistency.
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Fitness goals

Whether it's a couch-to-5K plan or a strength program, set the goal as a project and log each session. The activity heatmap rewards showing up consistently, and the timer can record workout durations so effort stays visible.

Best features: activity heatmap, Time Log, Today view, home screen widgets.
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Writing a book

A manuscript is a classic "too big to start" goal. Make chapters into tasks and scenes or sections into subtasks, then set a percentage as each draft takes shape. Watch the whole book's progress bar fill chapter by chapter, and use milestones for "first draft" and "final edit".

Best features: subtasks, milestones, progress percentages, per-project charts.
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Side projects

Keep your after-hours project moving without a heavy project-management tool. Break the build into tasks and subtasks, attach notes and files, and set due dates so the deadline prediction tells you whether launch day is realistic.

Best features: tasks & subtasks, deadline prediction, comments & attachments, Time Log.
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Personal projects

Home renovation, planning a trip, decluttering, a wedding — any multi-step personal goal fits neatly into a project. See everything left to do in one place, and a single progress bar for how close you are to done.

Best features: projects, tasks & subtasks, Today view, archive when finished.
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Language learning

Track a language as a long-term project with tasks for grammar, vocabulary, listening and speaking, and subtasks for lessons or units. The heatmap keeps your daily practice streak visible, which is exactly what language learning rewards.

Best features: subtasks, activity heatmap, daily targets, reminders.
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Certification study

Prepping for a professional certification means covering a fixed body of material by a fixed date. Add the exam date as a due date, break the blueprint into weighted tasks, and let Progress tell you if you're on pace to be ready in time.

Best features: due dates & deadline prediction, weighted progress, PDF report of your study log.
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Long-term goals

Goals that span months or years are the hardest to stay connected to. Progress records your percentage every day, so even slow, steady effort shows up as a climbing line on the chart — proof that you're moving even when it doesn't feel like it.

Best features: milestones, charts over time, daily targets, activity heatmap.
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Creative projects

Music, art, a portfolio, a game — creative work is open-ended and easy to lose momentum on. Break it into concrete tasks and subtasks, attach reference files and notes, and give the intangible a visible finish line.

Best features: subtasks, comments & file attachments, progress percentages, milestones.

Whatever your goal, make it visible

If it has more than one step and a finish line, Progress can track it. New to the app? Start with the how-to-use guide or browse all features.