Goally vs OnFire Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goally
This app allows parents and caregivers to manage a child's tablet experience. Create custom routines, set reminders, and build checklists to help children develop life skills and reduce nagging during daily activities.
- Create routines
- Set reminders
- Build checklists
- Customize tablet settings
- Manage daily activities
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This is the app to manage your Goally kids Tablet. This app for is for parents and the rest of the kids team to make create routines, reminders, and checklists. Customize everything on a Goally kids tablet via this app. Goally help kids build life skills and help parents stop nagging their kids through daily activities. To purchase a Goally tablet go to getgoally.com.
OnFire Learning
Access course materials, take quizzes, and submit assignments on your mobile device. Track your progress, view grades, and communicate with others. Designed for seamless learning on the go.
- Take quizzes with result summaries
- View and submit assignments
- Browse lessons with progress tracking
- See learning objectives
- Track course grades and scores
- Switch between multiple user roles
- Faster and more reliable messaging
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Quizzes — Take quizzes directly in the app with smooth, reliable attempts. Students can view quiz result summaries, including percentage grades and attempt details when available, right in the quiz flow. Review screens are clearer, matching and choice answers are easier to read, and math content is fully supported. Assignments — View assignment details, submit work, and track submission status from your device. Assignment pages support richer content, improved table scrolling, better file handling, and more reliable draft saving. File attachments can be downloaded and opened directly from the app. Lessons — Browse lesson parts with media support, practice questions, and automatic progress tracking as you move through each part. Lesson and course progress handling is more reliable when returning to content and across different user roles. Learning Objectives — Lessons, assignments, and quizzes can display mapped learning objectives in the mobile experience when available. Next Activity — After finishing a lesson, submitting a quiz, or viewing an assignment, tap “Next Activity” to move straight to the next item in your course. Grades — View your course grade and per-activity score breakdown for assignments, quizzes, and peer reviews directly from the course experience. Multiple Roles — Users with more than one role can switch roles more easily in the app, and profile handling is more reliable for guardians, mentors, teachers, and admins. Messaging — Messaging is faster and more reliable, with improved keyboard handling, better thread behavior, cleaner compose and send flows, and sent messages appearing more consistently where you expect them. Organization Selection — Users with access to many organizations can now search and page through the organization list more easily during login. Improved Notifications — Push notifications are saved as messages so important updates are easier to find later. Bug Fixes & Stability — Fixes across course images, review displays, progress indicators, touch interactions, access handling, keyboard behavior, and overall reliability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OnFire Learning at 100% against Goally's 52%. OnFire Learning also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Goally's advantage is ratings volume (261 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OnFire Learning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Goally has 261 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Goally's written reviews are positive against 100% of OnFire Learning's.
Goally ships an update every 11 days, OnFire Learning fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goally | OnFire Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (261 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 261 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goally, Inc. | Synapse Education Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
Goally
OnFire Learning
Bugs and requests
Goally
Reported bugs
17 issues- Tablet doesn't automatically turn on when charging
- Missed launches due to charging issue
- Cannot launch after another launch starts
- Screen broken on arrival
- Cannot sign in
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- Setup screen freezes
- App crashes when editing routines
- Uploads pictures with 'file not found' error
- Loads to a blank screen
- App crashes repeatedly
- Setup prompt appears every time
- Routines disappear from parent app but stay on tablet
- Goally care team app doesn't work
- Web portal being shut down
- Notifications open app without direct link
- Cannot see child's activities without manual check
- Device is sluggish and slow to respond
Requested features
9 requests- Make app more seamless
- Improve routine creation ease
- Fix app crashes
- Ensure routines sync correctly between parent and child devices
- Improve device durability
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- Clarify app usage and setup instructions
- Make app more intuitive for new users
- Provide more specific notification details
- Keep web portal active
OnFire Learning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Goally
No in-app purchases
OnFire Learning
No in-app purchases









