GoodTalk vs Self
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoodTalk
This app provides inspiring audio quotes to guide your self-improvement journey. Explore topics like motivation, spirituality, and personal growth to live a more purpose-driven life. It's a constant companion for anyone seeking to become more.
- Inspiring audio quotes
- Self-improvement guidance
- Topics: Spirituality, Motivation, Growth
- Purpose-driven living
- Constant companion
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The journey to becoming more can be challenging. Sometimes, it shakes you to your core, leaves you emotionally fragile, and frankly, it can cost you everything. Our own personal growth doesn’t always happen all by itself. We all need a little help sometimes. GoodTalk is a constant companion on your journey of self-improvement. It is your daily source for curated, high-impact wisdom from the world’s greatest coaches and thought leaders. We believe in delivering content that inspires, in a way that inspires, so that you live inspired! EVERY FORMAT. ONE FEED. We've beautifully unified voice messages, video shorts, coach replies, and text quotes into a single, elegant scroll. Whether you have two minutes or two hours, GoodTalk provides the perfect format to fit your life and move you forward. LEARN FROM LEGENDS. Follow icons like Les Brown, Angelo The Motivator, and hundreds of world-class coaches. Access their most powerful audio quotes, exclusive video shorts, and trending albums—all curated to empower you to lead a more purpose-driven, focused, and inspired life. YOUR PATH, YOUR TERMS. Your journey is unique. Tell us what matters most, and we’ll match you with coaches and content that speak directly to where you are right now. Choose from a wide range of topics to personalize your feed: Affirmation & Inspiration Overcoming Obstacles & Motivation Personal Growth & Wisdom Spirituality & Philosophy Work & Productivity Relationships & Spoken Word Meditation & Calm Down Faith & Sports & Fitness WISDOM IN YOUR POCKET. Save the words that stop you mid-scroll. Build a collection of pure, minimalist quotes you can return to any time for a quick dose of perspective, courage, and motivation. What will you discover today? Don't wake up one day with the burning question: “What else could I have been?” Join GoodTalk and start your journey to becoming the person you were meant to be. Download GoodTalk today.
Self
This app guides users through self-improvement techniques like journaling, affirmations, and physical exercise. It aims to foster self-awareness and personal growth through various strategies. Access to all content requires a subscription.
- Journaling for pattern discovery
- Daily affirmations for focus
- Physical exercise guidance
- Reading recommendations
- Encourages trying new things
- Promotes self-awareness
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Self-improvement is the improvement of one’s knowledge, status, or character by one’s own efforts. It’s the quest to make ourselves better in any and every facet of life. Self-improvement involves awareness, new learnings, discoveries about who we are and what makes us unique, and many insights and moments in which we see life and situations clearly. Self-improvement strategies: - Reading: books are great companions in our self-development journey, no matter what we want to improve. - Journaling: keeping a journal with regularity lets us discover patterns and recurring ideas. - Affirmations: daily affirmations let us deliberately focus on what we care about and bring more of it into our days. - Physical exercise: the body is an excellent source of information, and it constantly signals us what it needs. - Choose your words: what we say and how we say it is the first step to understanding ourselves better! - Do something for the first time: get out of your comfort zone and try out something new. Self-improvement almost always starts with self-awareness and the ability to transform your habits. The process of continual development connects us deeply to our essence. The people that choose self-improvement have powerful energy. They develop life principles, which provide a solid ground to stand on when hard days come. SUBSCRIPTIONS: -Your subscription will grant you unlimited access to all content for the duration of your subscription. -Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase -Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period -Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal -Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase -Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable -By using this app, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/paulvi-app-bible/ and https://sites.google.com/view/paulvi-app-terms-conditions/ *Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent subscription price in $USD.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: GoodTalk at none against Self's shown. GoodTalk also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. GoodTalk sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Self sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GoodTalk against 5.0 for Self. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
GoodTalk ships an update fortnightly, Self every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoodTalk | Self |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | GOODTALK MEDIA, LLC | Pavel Vinnik |
Customer experience
GoodTalk
Self
In-app purchases
GoodTalk
- Goodtalkcoach Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Goodtalk yearly7 Days trial$41.991 Year
- 1 token for question$0.99
- 5 tokens for question$3.99
- 15 tokens for question$9.99
Self
- 1 Month Subscription$6.991 Month
- 1 Year Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Self-improvement$29.99









