Comparison

Ideafall vs GoalKeeper

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

Head to head
About

Ideafall

Capture, organize, and evaluate your creative thoughts. This app supports your entire ideation process, from initial brainstorming to strategic execution planning. Visualize ideas, analyze them objectively, and build roadmaps for bringing them to life.

Highlights
  • Capture ideas from web content
  • Visual brainstorming with 'spaces'
  • Objective idea evaluation with charts
  • Agile roadmap for execution planning
  • Share ideas and charts as images/PDFs
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Ideafall (formerly Ideabook) helps creative minds focus on their best ideas. From ideation and capturing of ideas to reviewing and decision making, Ideafall supports your entire creative process in a unique and practical way. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Easily capture all your ideas - wherever you are. Got inspired while reading something on the web? Simply select the relevant text and share it with Ideafall. Quickly add additional thoughts to existing ideas via Spotlight-enabled search. Collecting your ideas has never been easier. Never lose a good idea again. BRAINSTORM & IDEATE Sometimes you need a more visual setting for coming up with new ideas for a specific topic. Or you want to do a brainstorming session in a more organized way. This is where "spaces" come in: visually organize your ideas via idea cards, group related ideas together and help your brain to understand the big picture. EVALUATE. REVIEW. DECIDE Innovative people typically have too many ideas, rather than too few. But to be successful we have to focus on our best ideas. Ideafall helps you to rate ideas regarding up to 10 configurable criteria and analyze them using bubble charts. Improve your chances of success by evaluating ideas more objectively and thus, making more informed decisions. ROADMAP & EXECUTE The best ideas are not worth anything without a proper strategy on how to execute them. The agile roadmap enables you to schedule your ideas across four different horizons: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. The "roadmap" view is visualized as a Kanban board and supports drag & drop. Implement and track your ideas more efficiently with the help of a clear, agile execution strategy. FEATURES - Searchable tabular "Ideas" view with adjustable sort order - Clear drag & drop enabled "Spaces" view for spatially organizing ideas using idea cards - Unique "Bubbles" view for analyzing ideas using customizable bubble charts in four dimensions (x, y, bubble size and color) - Kanban-style, agile "Roadmap" with four horizons (Now, Next, Later, Someday) for planning an execution strategy using drag & drop - Global portfolio filter - Easy sharing of idea spaces and bubble charts as image or PDF documents - Clean and at the same time highly visual user experience - Built-in support for accessibility - Seamless syncing via iCloud Get Ideafall and focus your creativity!

About

GoalKeeper

Features
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Imagine a happy future five years from now Plan items you can do today for that future Don't worry about tomorrow and focus on what you can today -------------------------------- Features - Add CheckItems - Toggle CheckItems - Pin CheckItems (v1.1) - Delete CheckItems - List CheckItems of Today - List CheckItems of all time - Copy CheckItems from history - Delete all CheckItems (v1.3) - List CheckItems on widget - Toggle CheckItem on widget (v1.3) - Support Localization (v1.4) - Send Notification (v1.5) - Guide (v1.6) - Add Objective Area (v1.7) - Synchronization through iCloud(v1.8) - Add watch app(v1.9) - Add Milestone View(v1.10) - Add Statistic View(v1.13) - Add lockscreen widget(v1.15) - Add tab change on future plan(v1.15)

Screenshots

Ideafall4 screens
GoalKeeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GoalKeeper at Free against Ideafall's $29.99. GoalKeeper also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

GoalKeeper is free to download; Ideafall costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ideafall ships an update every 4 months, GoalKeeper every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ideafall versus GoalKeeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeafallGoalKeeper
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElemental Tools GmbHHeesung yang

In-app purchases

None

Ideafall

No in-app purchases

None

GoalKeeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ideafall free?
Ideafall costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoalKeeper free?
GoalKeeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ideafall or GoalKeeper have ads?
Neither Ideafall nor GoalKeeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ideafall or GoalKeeper?
Ideafall ships an update every 4 months, and GoalKeeper every 4 days. Most recently, Ideafall was updated on September 29, 2026 and GoalKeeper on October 25, 2026.

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