Comparison

5Goals vs Jot

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

Head to head
About

5Goals

This app helps you identify and focus on your most important life aspirations. Inspired by a famous productivity rule, it guides you through selecting your top 5 goals from a larger list and discarding distractions. Organize your priorities with a clear, tab-based interface and receive daily reminders.

Highlights
  • Wishlist creation up to 25 items
  • Promote 5 wishes to top goals
  • Discard non-essential items
  • Tab-based interface for organization
  • iOS Home Screen widget
  • Cross-platform sync
  • Daily goal reminders
Features
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5Goals: Choose and Focus Inspired by Warren Buffett's famous 5/25 rule — the simplest way to find what truly matters in your life. Buffett once advised his pilot: write down 25 wishes, circle the top 5, and forget the rest. Those 5 become your life goals. Everything else is just a distraction. 5Goals turns this into 3 simple steps: STEP 1. Add your wishes — up to 25 things you want in life. STEP 2. Promote 5 wishes to your goals. STEP 3. Give up the rest and focus only on what matters. Organize everything with an intuitive tab-based interface — switch between Goals, Wishes, and Give-ups with a single tap. What's New in v2.0.0: - Completely rebuilt from the ground up - Bold Neo-Brutalism design - iOS Home Screen widget — see your top 5 goals at a glance - Sign in with Apple or Google to sync across your devices - Daily reminders — get notified of your goals at the time you choose - Smooth drag-and-drop reordering

About

Jot

This app offers a unique approach to task management and note-taking, focusing on daily clarity and task resolution. It uses a physics-based simulation for unfinished tasks and a markdown editor for notes, with a history feature to review past work.

Highlights
  • Swipe to complete or shelve tasks
  • Physics simulation for daily task pile
  • Full-screen markdown note editor
  • Task history and filtering
  • Daily task expiration philosophy
  • Export tasks as markdown
Features
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Jot. Swipe down to add tasks or notes. No menus, no nested folders, no project-management overhead. Just today's plan, focused and clear. — EVERY TASK HAS A FATE — Jot. doesn't believe in infinite backlogs. Swipe to complete a task. Hold to shelve it for another day. Rescue it from yesterday's pile if it still matters. Active, completed, shelved, rescued. Every task finds its resolution. — A PHYSICS PILE, EVERY MORNING — Unfinished tasks don't vanish quietly at midnight. They tumble into a letter-pile physics simulation overnight. Drag the pile to send letters flying. Pick up what still matters. Let the rest go. — DAILY NOTES — Pull down on the note page to open a full-screen markdown editor with a floating toolbar. Bold headers, bullet lists, numbered lists, code blocks — your thoughts, formatted the way you mean them. — HISTORY — Every resolved task is saved by date. Browse by week, month, year, or all time. Filter by completed, shelved, or uncompleted. Search by task name. Export any day's work as a clean markdown file. — THE PHILOSOPHY — Jot. is built on one idea: your to-do list should expire every morning. Yesterday's priorities are not today's. A fresh start, every day. Do more. Think less. Just Jot.

Screenshots

5Goals3 screens
Jot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 5Goals at fortnightly against Jot's every 4 months. 5Goals also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

5Goals ships an update fortnightly, Jot every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
5Goals versus Jot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter5GoalsJot
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeongmin YimJustin Cabral

Customer experience

5Goals

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Jot

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

5Goals

No in-app purchases

None

Jot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 5Goals free?
5Goals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jot free?
Jot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 5Goals or Jot have ads?
Neither 5Goals nor Jot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 5Goals or Jot?
5Goals ships an update fortnightly, and Jot every 4 months. Most recently, 5Goals was updated on October 7, 2026 and Jot on October 24, 2026.

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