Comparison

Goals vs Solid Focus Timer

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

Head to head
About

Goals

This app provides a simple, flexible, and visually motivating way to track habits and goals. It uses science-backed methods to help users grow at their own pace, focusing on well-being, personal development, career advancement, and financial security without added stress.

Highlights
  • Visual goal and habit tracking
  • Customizable with colors and photos
  • Science-backed habit-building methods
  • Progress tracking with streaks
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Calming design with light/dark modes
Features
Read full description

Most goal apps are lists. Goals is a coach. Meet the Growth Coach — a new kind of AI coach that doesn't just talk. It builds with you: share what you're working toward and the coach creates the goal, breaks it into steps, designs tiny habits around it, sets reminders, checks you in, and tracks your pace — all from conversation, always yours to confirm. And it coaches the way the best books do. The coach knows 16 research-backed methods and applies the right one to your situation: • Atomic Habits & Tiny Habits — start small, stay consistent • CBT thinking tools — for the thoughts that get in the way • Deep Work & Flow — protect and train your focus • Getting Things Done & SMART goals — get organized for real • Stoic practice, Self-compassion, Grit, The ONE Thing, and more READ THE METHOD, THEN PRACTICE IT The Practice Library is a shelf of beautiful, magazine-style guides — each method's key idea drawn as a real figure, its moving parts, golden lines from the authors, worked examples, and a "try this now" you can hand straight to your coach. TRACK WHAT MATTERS • Goals with progress, pace per day, and a projected finish • Habits with rings, streaks, and live routines you can run step by step • Your own life areas, colors, and photo backgrounds • A calendar of everything — including the days you worked with your coach PRIVATE BY DESIGN Coach conversations stay on your device. Your history shows how much you practiced — never what you said. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Fully localized in 17 languages. The coach speaks yours. Every account includes free coach messages. Start with what's on your mind — and build from there.

About

Solid Focus Timer

This app helps ambitious individuals break down large goals into actionable steps and focus on achieving them. It offers AI-powered suggestions, a focus timer with Lo-Fi radio, and a community ranking system to motivate users. Your data is encrypted and 100% private.

Highlights
  • Actionable step creation
  • AI-powered goal suggestions
  • Focus timer with Lo-Fi radio
  • Community ranking and competition
  • Idea vault for saving thoughts
  • Privacy-focused design
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No subscriptions - Buy once, keep forever If you're here, you're likely an ambitious person with big goals, the sort of goals that require dedication and hard work. Here's how Solid Focus Timer can help you achieve your goals: - Actionable steps Getting started is often thehardest part. But with Solid Focus Timer, turning those big goals into actionable steps becomes easy when you create a list of actionable steps you can work on to get closer to your goals. - AI suggestions Solid Focus Timer isn't just another goal app - it's a copilot for ambitious people. You'll find helpful content to make getting started with your goals easier. There's also an AI suggestions feature within Solid Focus Timer which offers new ideas for how to reach your goals and focus your efforts. - Focus timer Once you created a few steps to work on, you can start a focus timer and get to work. You can also put on some Lo-Fi radio while you work to help you focus. - Rank The more you focus, the more your rank in the community will increase and the closer you'll be to achieving your goals. You can check your rank among all users globally or nationally and you can also add your friends for a bit of personal competition. - Idea vault Got ideas you want to save for later? That is also easy. There's a dedicated section for ideas you're not ready for yet. - Privacy first Solid Focus Timer is designed with privacy in mind and your data is encrypted and 100% private Are you ready to start achieving your goals and focusing on your ambitions? Solid Focus Timer is a universal app available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS You can choose to unlock just this app or all 5 Solid Apps with one purchase Terms of service: http://solidapps.co/terms.html Privacy policy: http://solidapps.co/privacy.html

Screenshots

Goals4 screens
Solid Focus Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Solid Focus Timer at none against Goals's shown. Solid Focus Timer also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 65%). Goals's advantage is ratings volume (264 vs 16) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Goals sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Solid Focus Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Goals holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Goals has 264 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Goals's written reviews are positive against 78% of Solid Focus Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Goals ships an update every 9 days, Solid Focus Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Goals versus Solid Focus Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoalsSolid Focus Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (264 ratings) — better4.5 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings264 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB128 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTakeOnePiece LLCSolid Apps SRL

Customer experience

Goals

All ratings264 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral16.2%
Negative18.9%

Solid Focus Timer

All ratings16 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Goals

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Mindful Goals Monthly$3.991 Month
  • AI Coach — Basic$6.991 Month
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  • AI Coach — Premium$13.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • AI Coach — Basic7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • AI Coach — Premium7 Days trial$119.991 Year
One-time1
  • Life Time Access$39.99
2 purchases

Solid Focus Timer

One-time2
  • Unlock this app (lifetime)$4.99
  • Unlock ALL 10 Solid Apps (lifetime)$9.99

Questions

Is Goals free?
Goals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Solid Focus Timer free?
Solid Focus Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Goals or Solid Focus Timer?
Goals is rated higher. Goals averages 4.7 out of 5 from 264 ratings, while Solid Focus Timer averages 4.5 from 16 ratings.
Do Goals or Solid Focus Timer have ads?
Goals shows ads; Solid Focus Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Goals or Solid Focus Timer?
Goals ships an update every 9 days, and Solid Focus Timer every 2 weeks. Most recently, Goals was updated on September 18, 2026 and Solid Focus Timer on June 9, 2026.

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