The invention discloses a display method and device for a task execution progress, relates to the technical field of information and mainly aims to display various progress bars of personalized shapes to increase the visual experience of a user on a premise that the current task processing progress of an APP (Application) is guaranteed to be displayed in a notification bar. The main scheme of the display method comprises the following steps that: creating a notification message in the notification bar by corresponding to a task of which the progress needs to be displayed, wherein the notification message is used for displaying the progress bitmap of a self-defined shape of the task; according to the current execution progress of the task, drawing the progress bitmap of the self-defined shape; transferring the progress bitmap of the self-defined shape to the notification message; and displaying the progress bitmap of the self-defined shape in the notification message. The display method is applied to a display process of the task execution progress.