Comparison

Mural vs Goaldyn

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

Head to head
About

Mural

This app provides a digital whiteboard for real-time and asynchronous team collaboration. It allows users to brainstorm, ideate, and align on projects from anywhere, fostering business-driving outcomes. Capture inspiration and share it with your team on the go.

Highlights
  • Real-time and asynchronous collaboration
  • Digital whiteboard for ideation
  • Freehand drawing and concept mapping
  • Sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes
  • Icon library for visual thinking
  • Voting sessions and reactions
  • Export murals as PDF, image, or zip
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Mural is a collaborative intelligence company powering effective ideation, innovation, alignment, and team building at 95% of the Fortune 100. Work together in real-time or asynchronously with a digital whiteboard and collaboration features designed to inspire better collaboration that leads to business-driving outcomes. The Mural app for iPhone and iPad keeps you connected to your team and enables you to capture and share inspiration on the go. Innovative teams at IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, GitLab, Steelcase, Thoughtworks, and Atlassian use Mural to collaborate from anywhere. Use the Mural iPhone and iPad apps to: * Bring your best ideas to life, wherever you work best * Invite your team to a collaboration session no matter where they are * Review content and provide feedback to keep work moving forward * Spark creative thinking with freehand drawing * Map concepts and ideas with your Apple Pencil Mural meets security standards for enterprise organizations with mobile device management and secure sign in supported by our Microsoft Intune Mobile Application Management integration. With the Mural app for mobile devices, you can: * Create a new mural * Add content in sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes with a variety of formatting options at your fingertips * Draw ideas and sketch notes with a number of colors and line sizes * Invite collaborators to your murals and easily change link permissions * Add, edit, delete, and mention other collaborators in comments * Enhance your visual thinking with a library of icons * Participate in a voting session * Share excitement and visual feedback with reactions * Export a mural as a PDF, image, or zip file * Add images from your photo library, take in the moment photos, or upload files * Send a mural to a touchscreen display for hybrid collaboration sessions * Organize content and ideas with frameworks * Change mural settings * Digitize physical sticky notes with Mural Scan or Post-it® App integration * Easily present with outline and presentation mode To use the Mural app, an account and sign-in is required. Learn more at www.mural.co.

About

Goaldyn

This app combines tasks, habits, focus sessions, and goals into a single, private planner. Organize your to-dos with natural language input, track habit streaks, and utilize a focus timer. It offers calendar views and progress tracking, all stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Natural language task input
  • Habit scheduling and streak tracking
  • Pomodoro-style focus timer
  • Day, week, month calendar views
  • Eisenhower Matrix task sorting
  • Goal tracking with targets
  • Home Screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts
Features
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Goaldyn is a calm, private planner that brings your tasks, habits, focus sessions, and goals together in one place — with everything stored on your iPhone. START WITH TODAY • One screen for the day: overdue, due today, planned for today, habits, a Focus card, your schedule, and what you finished • Add to Today from a task with a tap on the sun, a swipe, or a long-press — a plan, not a deadline, so the task keeps its list and due date • Plan today: pick the day's work from every list in one pass • Fold Overdue, Tasks, and Habits away; the headers keep their counts TASKS THAT STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY • Quick-add with natural language, or dictate a task with the voice button • Organize with lists, tags, priorities, and subtasks — subtasks sit indented under their parent, right in the list • A task can live in several lists: one task, one checkbox, everywhere • Sort any list by My order, Due date, Title, or Date created • New tasks appear at the top; move them up and down or drag to reorder • Swipe to complete or delete; star what matters most; delete all completed tasks at once, with a confirmation • Due dates are color-coded by urgency so today never sneaks up on you REMINDERS THAT GET THROUGH • Set one or more reminders on any task • Turn on Ring as alarm and a reminder keeps ringing until you stop it on iOS 26 and later; earlier versions repeat the alert several times • Pick your own sound for reminders, alarms, the focus timer, and habit check-ins — or go silent HABITS THAT STICK • Flexible schedules — daily, weekly, or specific days • Streaks and consistency stats over 7, 30, or 90 days, or all time • Check in with a tap from Today or Habits • Up to three short check-in reminders a day, each with an encouraging line DEEP FOCUS • A clean Pomodoro-style focus timer with short and long breaks, from five minutes to three hours • Pause and resume without losing your place • Live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen • Link sessions to a task or habit and watch your focus time add up PLAN YOUR TIME • List, day, 3-day, week, month, and year views • Tap an empty slot to create a task right there • Two-way sync with the Calendar app on your iPhone — reschedule in either app THE EISENHOWER MATRIX • Sort tasks by urgent and important • See at a glance what to do first, schedule, delegate, or eliminate PROGRESS YOU CAN FEEL • Completion, habit consistency, and goal momentum at a glance • Track goals with targets and units — books read, miles run, anything • Choose how far back the habit view looks PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. No tracking. No data collection. • Everything lives on your device. Also includes Home Screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts.

Screenshots

Mural4 screens
Goaldyn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Goaldyn at 100% against Mural's 16%. Goaldyn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.4) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Mural's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Goaldyn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mural has 68 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Mural's written reviews are positive against 100% of Goaldyn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, Goaldyn every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mural versus Goaldyn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuralGoaldyn
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (68 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactivos Inc.Nrdyn LLC

Customer experience

Mural

All ratings68 ratings
Positive26.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative63.2%
Written reviews210 reviews
Positive16.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative74.8%

Goaldyn

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Mural

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • App crashes on launch or when opening boards
  • White/blank screen on startup
  • Stuck on logo screen indefinitely
  • Login failures and authentication errors
  • Microsoft authentication process hangs
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  • App won't open on iPad Pro
  • Forced logout during editing
  • Sticky notes disappear after creation
  • Text input hidden by UI elements
  • Pencil drawing lag and delayed rendering
  • Board resizing during pencil use
  • Images appear blurry or pixelated on mobile
  • Fonts not rendering correctly
  • Paste function not working in text fields
  • Objects snap unexpectedly to grid
  • Shapes change color inexplicably
  • Connector handles not functioning
  • Zoom and pan gestures not responsive
  • App freezes when scrolling dense boards
  • Connection timeouts and reconnection loops
  • Content not loading on boards
  • Synchronization issues between devices
  • Automatic zoom on sticky edit causes frustration
  • Camera permission dialog creates unescapable state
  • Placeholder text not clearing on input

Requested features

20 requests
  • Google and Apple login options
  • Full desktop feature parity on mobile
  • Proper keyboard and trackpad support
  • Folder visibility and management on iOS
  • Search functionality for murals
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  • Outline feature on mobile
  • Object linking and grouping
  • Landscape mode support
  • Better Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Multi-object selection
  • Template access on mobile
  • Activity log viewing
  • Improved pen tool options (thickness, color, style)
  • Browser access without app redirect
  • Language localization options
  • Full-screen mode without UI buttons
  • Copy/paste functionality improvements
  • Image import from device
  • Subscription management in app

Goaldyn

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mural

No in-app purchases

None

Goaldyn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mural free?
Mural is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Goaldyn free?
Goaldyn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mural or Goaldyn?
Goaldyn is rated higher. Mural averages 2.4 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while Goaldyn averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mural or Goaldyn have ads?
Neither Mural nor Goaldyn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mural or Goaldyn?
Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, and Goaldyn every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mural was updated on October 16, 2026 and Goaldyn on October 2, 2026.

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