Comparison

Goal Ahead vs Plan&Control

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

Head to head
About

Goal Ahead

Visually track your progress towards any measurable goal with a dynamic app icon and home screen widgets. Set targets for savings, fitness, or any other objective and stay motivated by seeing how far you've come and how much remains.

Highlights
  • Dynamic app icon reflects progress
  • Home screen widgets for quick tracking
  • Supports decimal goal values
  • Adjust progress up or down
  • Update goal details anytime
  • Repeat progress changes
Features
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This app is a progress indicator for your goals. App icon changes according to your progress! Widget for the app will help you to track progress. Want to save up for a large purchase? For example, a house, car or education. Or you want to achieve some other measurable goal. For example make 300 workouts in a year. This app will help you. You can always see how far you have gone and how much is left to your goal. Just set your goal and track progress. The progress indicator is a quiet reminder on your screen. Keep on striving toward your goal! Features: - Widgets - Apple Watch extension - Decimal goal value - You can increase and decrease progress - You can update your goal details - You can repeat progress changes

About

Plan&Control

This app gamifies your to-do lists and projects by linking them to a growing space base. Overdue tasks can negatively impact your base, while completing them helps it flourish. It offers various project types and visually engaging scenarios to boost motivation.

Highlights
  • Gamified task management
  • Space base visualization
  • Simple, advanced, and routine projects
  • Multiple space base scenarios
  • Task prioritization and color coding
  • iCloud sync and data export
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Plan&Control combines a modern planner/task management app with a bit of gaming fun. Whenever you create a simple to-do list, more advanced project or a routine you may link it to a space base - it will grow along your project. But beware! Tasks that are overdue degrade your base. Simple reminder or a complex project? Lacking motivation? Plan&Control has got you covered. MAIN FEATURES The app provides three different types of projects that you can use to organise and plan everything from simple chores to complex enterprises: • simple projects - for quick, uncomplicated task lists like grocery shopping • advanced - if you need a multilevel project structure with additional stages and subtasks • routines to track repeated activities - daily workouts for example. Each project type may be linked to a space base development to visualise your performance. There are 3 scenarios*: • distant outpost - build an outpost in a distant galaxy • orbital base - space base somewhere in the depths of the universe (available in paid version only) • mining colony - plants and industrial facilities extracting resources from one of the planets (available in paid version only) All scenarios use unique animated graphics accompanied by sound effects. The style resembles isometric view strategy games. --- Beside the fancy gaming experience Plan&Control offers the best features of task managers and to do lists. Each task may be assigned a priority level or a colour badge to help you organise things visually and mentally. Projects have deadlines and alerts. Routine activities additionally require frequency like daily, weekly, monthly etc. or even "every working day". You can store your data locally on a single device or sync it with others through iCloud. Additionally you can now exchange tasks with the Reminders app or export them to Calendar. Even the most tedious task may be fun. Go ahead - turn your gardening project into a space base! Questions? Feedback? Visit plancontrol.app * The free version is limited to single space base scenario.

Screenshots

Goal Ahead4 screens
Plan&Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plan&Control at 100% against Goal Ahead's 33%. Plan&Control also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.2). Goal Ahead's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). On ratings volume, ads and iOS requirement 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

Plan&Control is free to download; Goal Ahead costs $1.99 up front. Plan&Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Goal Ahead asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plan&Control holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Goal Ahead's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plan&Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Goal Ahead ships an update every 3 months, Plan&Control every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Goal Ahead versus Plan&Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoal AheadPlan&Control
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.2 (5 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB772 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFedor GuryanovDOMEDIA ADAM FALKOWSKI JAN DOMANSKI S C

Customer experience

Goal Ahead

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Plan&Control

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Goal Ahead

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Plan&Control

One-time1
  • Full unlimited version$7.99

Questions

Is Goal Ahead free?
Goal Ahead costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plan&Control free?
Plan&Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Goal Ahead or Plan&Control?
Plan&Control is rated higher. Goal Ahead averages 3.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Plan&Control averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Goal Ahead or Plan&Control have ads?
Neither Goal Ahead nor Plan&Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Goal Ahead or Plan&Control?
Goal Ahead ships an update every 3 months, and Plan&Control every 6 months. Most recently, Goal Ahead was updated on September 23, 2026 and Plan&Control on September 17, 2026.

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