Goal Tracker vs Wakemark Tasks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goal Tracker
This app helps you turn your aspirations into achievements by organizing your life and bucket list. It offers flexible goal setting, progress tracking with motivational animations, and visual organization through color-coding and life area filters.
- Flexible goal definition
- Powerful goal constructor with task blocks
- Wheel of Life areas for life balance insights
- Color-coding for visual organization
- Focus tab for next steps
- Unobtrusive, configurable reminders
- Animated motivational characters
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Dream. Plan. Achieve. With animated motivational characters! From daydreams to accomplished goals, Ambitionist is your partner in turning your bucket list into a checklist of success. Choose Ambitionist if you: • would like to give the sense and direction to your life's routines • are motivated by monitoring and acknowledging your accomplishments • find joy in setting Birthday resolutions • have a passion for setting New Year resolutions and enjoy reflecting on your achievements as the year unfolds • are eager understand your life's broader purpose FEATURES • Flexible goal definition ◦ You can define as little as just the name ◦ Or you can go deeper and create a detailed plan, set a deadline, etc • Powerful goal constructor – break down your goals using different building blocks. Currently, 3 types of blocks are supported: ◦ a checkbox task ◦ a numeric task ◦ and pure text block • The Wheel of life areas ◦ allows you to filter your goals and achievements according to the sphere of your life ◦ gives you insights into life balance • Color-coding ◦ You set a color for each life area ◦ Your goals and achievements inherit the color so you can visually distinguish them • A focus tab – allows you to concentrate on your next steps • Dedicated widgets for goals in focus • Unobtrusive reminders, which you can configure yourself as you want • Beautiful animations – achieve personal goals with fun! PREMIUM FEATURES • Unlimited number of life goals (you can have up to 3 in the free version) SUBSCRIPTION • Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes account once you confirm your purchase • Subscription will automatically renew, and payment will be charged to your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period • Our Premium Subscription plans are: ◦ 1-month Subscription ◦ 1-year Subscription ◦ Lifetime premium • For every currency, the price corresponds to the same price tier on the App Store Pricing Matrix Terms of Use: https://ambitionist.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://ambitionist.app/privacy GET IN TOUCH Should you have any issues, propositions, or just ideas – please share them with us. contact@ambitionist.app
Wakemark Tasks
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Most to-do apps treat every task the same until you manually sort them. Wakemark does the opposite: it shows you what actually threatens your deadline, and lets everything else fade into the background. Every task you add gets a slack number, literally, how many days of buffer it has before it starts putting your deadline at risk. No manual prioritizing, no drag-to-reorder guesswork. Tap "Why?" on any task and see the exact math behind it, not a black-box score. DESIGNED FOR DEADLINE-CRITICAL WORK Wakemark isn't a general habit tracker or a team project board. It's built for the specific shape of work where a real date is coming: client deliverables, launches, submissions, filings. See your project as a simple list or a lightweight board, switch anytime, both are just two views of the same underlying critical path. SWIPE TO DONE, AND FEEL IT Setting a task's status is a single, satisfying swipe, no menus, no taps through a picker. Finishing the last task standing between you and your deadline is the biggest moment in the app, and it's built to feel like one. BREAK WORK DOWN WITHOUT LOSING THE BIG PICTURE Every task can carry its own simple checklist. Group related tasks into sections within a project, or group whole projects together when you're juggling several for the same client. Nothing here changes how urgency is calculated, organization is just a lens on the same honest numbers underneath. SEE HOW YOU'RE ACTUALLY PACING A burndown chart shows your real progress against an ideal pace, no red flags, no guilt, just the honest shape of where you stand. Wakemark also learns, entirely on your device, how your own estimates tend to compare to reality over time, and uses that to make future suggestions sharper. ON-DEVICE AI THAT SHOWS ITS WORK Describe a project in plain language and get a suggested task breakdown. Type a messy note and have it turned into a structured task. Ask "why" a task is urgent and get a real explanation grounded in your actual numbers, not a guess. Every suggestion is yours to accept, edit, or ignore, nothing is ever applied without you. A WIDGET, NOT A NOTIFICATION Wakemark never pings you. Add a home screen widget to see what's most urgent when you glance at your phone, on your schedule, not the app's. BUILT DIFFERENTLY, ON PURPOSE Wakemark is part of My Honest Apps, a personal promise, not a corporate policy. No accounts. No ads. No analytics SDKs. No data collection of any kind. Everything lives on your device; if you want it synced across your own devices, that's an opt-in choice using your own private iCloud, never anything else. The only way Wakemark makes money is an entirely optional tip jar. Nothing is ever locked behind it. If that sounds like the kind of app you wish more of your apps were, you'll feel at home here.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Goal Tracker at 14.0 against Wakemark Tasks's 26.0. 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. Goal Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Wakemark Tasks sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goal Tracker | Wakemark Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Novoseltsev | Bob Joziasse |
In-app purchases
Goal Tracker
- Pay Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pay Yearly$9.991 Year
- Pay Yearly1 Year trial$19.991 Year
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- Pay Yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
Wakemark Tasks
- A Coffee$1.99
- A Lunch$3.99
- A Thank You$8.99
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