Comparison

Principal Task vs Groupability

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

Head to head
About

Principal Task

This app helps you manage tasks by tracking your completion rate against new tasks created. It offers a unique 'Task Velocity' score to show if you're keeping up with your workload. Organize with folders, contexts, and priorities, with advanced features available through a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Task Velocity score
  • GTD-native structure
  • Due dates and repeating tasks
  • Markdown support
  • Kanban boards
  • Private templates
Features
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Track your Task Velocity — the ratio of tasks you complete against the ones you create, updated every day. See at a glance whether you're ahead or falling behind, not just what's on your list. Principal Task is a GTD-native task manager built for people who've outgrown to-do apps. Folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and unlimited nested subtasks — organized the way real work actually happens. TASK VELOCITY Your 30-day completed-vs-created ratio, shown as a simple multiplier. Free members see their current score. Premium unlocks the full history, filterable by folder, context, priority, and status. SYSTEM HEALTH A live verdict — Healthy, Strained, or Overloaded — so you know where things stand today, separate from where they're heading. BUILT FOR GTD Folders and sub-folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and stars. Subtasks nest as deep as you need, with independent completion — no forced parent-child status. KANBAN, HEATMAP, TEMPLATES See your work as a board. Watch your activity over time. Turn repeatable processes into templates you can apply in one tap. BUILT FOR AI ASSISTANTS Principal Task connects to AI assistants over MCP — read and write your tasks, subtasks, and folders directly from the assistant you already use. SHARE WITHOUT FRICTION Share a task list with a four-word link. No account required to view. You control how long it stays open. Free, no credit card. Premium is about $3/month or $24/year, and it doesn't limit how much you can do — it unlocks Task Velocity history, Kanban, the Activity Heatmap, and private templates. Principal Task. Software that gets out of the way. Terms of Use: https://principaltask.com/terms

About

Groupability

This app helps you build habits and achieve goals with friends or solo. Create accountability groups where friends must confirm your daily progress to earn points and celebrate achievements.

Highlights
  • Build habits and set goals
  • Create accountability groups
  • Friends confirm daily progress
  • Earn points for achievements
  • Track streaks
  • Solo use option
Features
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Build habits, set goals, and celebrate achievements with your best friend, significant other, parents, siblings, coworkers, classmates, or use it solo! Create Accountability Groups to track goals in groups with your friends. Here's the catch: Only your friends can mark your day as completed! That's right. In order to accomplish a day, all users in a group must indicate that you were locked in that day. Earn points for your group by completing days, reaching goals, and setting streaks.

Screenshots

Principal Task4 screens
Groupability3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Groupability at none against Principal Task's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Principal Task sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Groupability asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Principal Task against 5.0 for Groupability. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Principal Task versus Groupability: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrincipal TaskGroupability
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZechariah SchwenkSmartBookMe Inc

Customer experience

Principal Task

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

Groupability

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Principal Task

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
None

Groupability

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Principal Task free?
Principal Task is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Groupability free?
Groupability is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Principal Task or Groupability?
Principal Task and Groupability are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Principal Task or Groupability have ads?
Neither Principal Task nor Groupability shows ads.

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