Comparison

Simple Log vs GoShed

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

Head to head
About

Simple Log

This app allows you to easily track and record daily moments, habits, and routines. Document reflections, manage business logs, or keep a hobby journal with features like templates, image/audio attachments, and cloud backup.

Highlights
  • Template-based entries
  • Image and audio attachments
  • Date, time, and location stamping
  • Search and filter functionality
  • Cloud backup and sync
  • CSV export
  • Full API access
Features
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Simple Log is a journal, diary, and log service that lets you track and record moments, habits, and routines throughout your day — quickly and easily. ============= Use it to build habits, document reflections, as a work or business log, or a hobby journal. Anytime you want to document something for later reference, Simple Log is the right tool! New Entries: Adding a new entry is a snap with the template feature. Create templates for common entry types and add them with just a few taps. For example, keeping track of exercise days or appointments. A set template helps you to create a new entry using a set form so that each entry is consistent. Images and Audio: Attach images or record audio and attach to entries with ease. Each entry is automatically stamped with the date, time, and location. Search and Filter: Filters allow you to configure fast searches, so you can recall specific entries quickly and easily. The entries can be charted and exported as CSV. Mobile and web connection: Share and access data quickly between a website or mobile app. Everything backed up safely to the cloud. You can lose your phone, but not your data! FOR YOUR LIFE * Personal: Record your daily thoughts, ideas, and reflections. * Track habits for self-improvement and growth. * Business: Log purchases, mileage, and spending with handy time stamp and location data. FOR YOUR BUSINESS * Organize Projects: Organize research, information about tasks, assignments, and to-do lists. * Research: Store and organize sources for term papers, blogs, writing projects, and more. Save links and websites you want to visit later. * The entries can be charted and exported as CSV. FOR YOUR HEALTH * Exercise: Track your workouts and fitness progress. * Record eating habits, healthy recipes, exercise techniques. FOR YOUR HOBBIES * Travel log: record destinations, hotel information, tickets, and quickly recall coordinates with the location entry tracker. * Log amateur radio ham contacts. SimpleLog has a full API. Use the API and webhooks to add entries from external applications. SimpleLog is a free service with advanced features for members. MORE FEATURES: * All entries are stored safely in the cloud. * Searchable entries using hashtags. * Quick entries with form templates-based entries. * Image attachments. * Audio attachments. * Themes. * Full API access. See our Terms of Service: https://simplelog3.com/help/terms See our Privacy Policy: https://simplelog3.com/help/privacy

About

GoShed

This app helps you declutter your home by identifying items and suggesting actions like selling, donating, or gifting. It organizes your decisions and finds local donation centers to help you make progress.

Highlights
  • Item identification and value estimation
  • Action recommendations (sell, donate, gift, keep, curb)
  • Organized digital 'Shed' for decisions
  • Find local donation centers and pickup services
  • Collaborative shedding with family
  • Track progress on decluttering goals
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You know that pile — the one in the corner, the closet, the garage. The stuff you’ve been meaning to deal with for years. GoShed helps you finally move it forward. Photograph almost anything — furniture, clothes, collectibles, housewares, inherited items, or everyday clutter — and get a clear next step: sell, donate, gift, keep, or curb it. GoShed also helps you act by finding donation centers, thrift stores, and pickup services nearby, so good intentions become real progress. How it works: Photograph an item. GoShed identifies what it is, estimates value when relevant, and recommends the best next action — with reasoning included. One tap organizes it into your Shed: Sell Donate Gift Keep Curb Cleared Your Shed keeps every decision organized, making it easier to move forward instead of putting things off. Donate smarter: Find donation centers, thrift stores, veteran pickup services, and practical local options tailored to what you actually have. Share your Shed: Collaborate with family when clearing estates, downsizing parents, or tackling shared household clutter. Whether it’s one lamp, one closet, or an entire lifetime of stuff: GoShed helps you let it go. Beautifully. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://goshed.app/privacy

Screenshots

Simple Log4 screens
GoShed4 screens

Verdict

The call

Simple Log and GoShed are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Simple Log sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.49 per month and GoShed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 — 5.0 for Simple Log against 5.0 for GoShed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Simple Log versus GoShed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple LogGoShed
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoki Creative LLCThriftShopper Inc.

Customer experience

Simple Log

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GoShed

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Log

Subscriptions1
  • SimpleLog3 Monthly$3.491 Month
2 purchases

GoShed

Subscriptions2
  • GoShed Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • GoShed Pro Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Simple Log free?
Simple Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoShed free?
GoShed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Log or GoShed?
Simple Log and GoShed are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Log or GoShed have ads?
Neither Simple Log nor GoShed shows ads.

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