Goalo vs HelloNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goalo
This app helps you manage your to-do lists by focusing on one task at a time. It blurs out other tasks to minimize distractions and reduce anxiety, allowing you to concentrate on what's most important. An astronaut-themed narrative adds an engaging element to the goal-setting process.
- Task prioritization
- Distraction blocking
- Single-task focus
- Visual task fading
- Goal planning
- Astronaut story integration
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Goalo is a unique task management app that helps you block out distractions and focus on your top priorities. If your work and life are full of to-do tasks and you want to focus on them one by one, then Goalo is the right choice for you. --------------------- Goalo’s story setting: Laika is an astronaut, After a series of accidents, his spacecraft crash-landed on the planet code-named C511HU, He lost contact with the space agency, Fortunately, he was not injured. Unfortunately, before him are life and death issues. He told himself that he could not sit still, he needed oxygen, water, food, and he needed to tell his family that he was still alive... Laika sorted out all to-do tasks through Goalo and prioritized them. Goalo will automatically display the first task clearly, and other tasks will gradually fade out of view and become blurred, so that Laika can concentrate on completing the first task in front of him. After solving the first problem, the second problem will become the first, and so on, until all tasks are completed. Laika clearly knows that even in the face of the vast sea of stars, he has only one goal: Back to EarthGoalo is a unique to-do list tool. Every day you make a lot of to-do lists, and then you hit them one by one according to your priorities. But do you find that most of them don't need your attention at the moment, but they are showing up in your to-do list, and every time you check the list you get distracted and even frustrated because you feel that there are too many tasks to finish. In fact, the first task you need to focus on is the first one, the other tasks should fade out of your view and don't need to be seen at this moment, so that you can reduce the visual burden and mental anxiety, and better complete the task at hand. That's what Goalo is designed to do, to help you block out distractions and focus on your primary task. To make Goalo even more interesting, we added astronaut stories that fit well with the original design. Laika is an astronaut, After a series of accidents, his spacecraft crash-landed on the planet code-named C511HU, He lost contact with the space agency, Fortunately, he was not injured. Unfortunately, before him are life and death issues. He told himself that he could not sit still, he needed oxygen, water, food, and he needed to tell his family that he was still alive... Laika sorted out all to-do tasks through Goalo and prioritized them. Goalo will automatically display the first task clearly, and other tasks will gradually fade out of view and become blurred, so that Laika can concentrate on completing the first task in front of him. After solving the first problem, the second problem will become the first, and so on, until all tasks are completed. Laika clearly knows that even in the face of the vast sea of stars, he has only one goal: Back to Earth. ----------- Contact us: fb@ideatiny.com WeChat: 123511223
HelloNotes
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HelloNotes is a fast, private, local-first Markdown knowledge base for iPhone and iPad. Your notes are plain .md files in a folder you choose — no account, no lock-in, no cloud required. WRITE IN LIVE MARKDOWN • A native editor with live styling — headings, bold, lists, tables and syntax-highlighted code • LaTeX math ($…$ and $$…$$) and Mermaid diagrams rendered inline • Obsidian-style callouts, hidden comments, and a clean editor that tucks YAML front matter into an editable Properties panel CONNECT YOUR IDEAS • [[Wiki-links]] with autocomplete, including links straight to a heading • Backlinks and unlinked mentions, with one-click linking • #tags (nested) with autocomplete, and a Tags view of every tag in the collection • Note transclusion — embed a whole note or a single section • A mind map of the links across your whole vault, and a graph of each note's links in and out FIND ANYTHING • Full-text search and "Open Quickly" across notes and headings • Bookmarks, daily notes and templates AI ON YOUR DEVICE, OR ON PRIVATE CLOUD COMPUTE • Summarise a note, suggest tags and links, and rewrite a passage — with Apple Foundation Models, powered by Apple Intelligence • An Assistant that answers from your own notes and shows the notes it read, and can look things up on the web — experimental, and it doesn't change your notes • Run Apple's model on your device, Local (Apple), or choose Cloud (Apple), Apple's server model on Private Cloud Compute: what it is sent isn't stored, and isn't accessible to Apple. Its answers and suggestions say which model made them • Or download an open model and run it on your device with MLX There are no third-party AI services and no API keys. VERSION HISTORY WITH GIT • Built-in Git: initialise a repo, browse a note's history and restore earlier versions EXPORT & MORE • Export to HTML or PDF • Full light and dark support Your files stay yours — readable in any editor, syncable with any tool. HelloNotes just makes them a joy to think in. SUPPORTING HELLONOTES (OPTIONAL) HelloNotes is free, and every feature is included for everyone. Two entirely optional purchases live in Settings > Support. Backing HelloNotes adds one thing — the ability to send a support request from inside the app — and nothing else: • Champion — a one-off contribution of A$50. You can give more than once; the app remembers how many times. • Commercial — an annual licence for using HelloNotes at work. A$50 per year, an auto-renewable subscription charged to your Apple Account on confirmation and renewing each year unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hellotham.com/hellonotes/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Goalo at 12.0 against HelloNotes's 27.0. 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. Goalo sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and HelloNotes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $30.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Goalo ships an update every 2 weeks, HelloNotes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goalo | HelloNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ideaTiny Co., Ltd. | Hello Tham Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
Goalo
- Advanced Detector$0.99
- Ordinary Detector$0.99
- Goalo Pro:Task focus$3.99
HelloNotes
- Commercial$30.001 Year
- Champion$30.00









