Comparison

Gola vs Squares

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

Head to head
About

Gola

This app helps you set and track various types of goals with customizable widgets and reminders. It offers AI-powered advice and personalized recommendations to accelerate your progress. Achieve your aspirations with interactive charts and motivational features.

Highlights
  • Seven goal types
  • Customizable widgets
  • AI-powered advice
  • Interactive charts
  • Reminders and notifications
  • Goal templates
Features
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Elevate your goal-setting game with Gola! Our app lets you create and track seven goal types, with customizable widgets and reminders to keep you on track. Plus, our AI provides expert advice to help you reach your goals faster. Download Gola now and take control of your success! ■ Pick one of 7 different goal types Whether you want to save up for a dream vacation, hit a fitness milestone, or learn a new skill, Gola has got you covered. SINGLE GOAL → This is the generic single-task goal (e.g., Learn a new skill) TASKS → You need to finish multiple goals to complete this. PROGRESS GOAL → A goal on which you will make progress as the year passes (e.g., Run 43KM) VALUE GOAL → Same as progress, but you need to give each input a title and date (e.g., Read 12 books) OPEN PROGRESS → This progress goal completes when the year is finished (e.g., Swim as much as possible) COUNTDOWN → Set a start and end date and let this goal count down till it’s completed (e.g., Don't drink alcohol for one month) STREAK → Track a streak of consecutive completions (e.g. Daily meditation) ■ Get help achieving your goals with the power of AI One of the best things about Gola is that it harnesses the power of AI to help you achieve your goals. With personalized recommendations and targeted support, the app can help you stay on track and make meaningful progress towards your goals. Whether you need a little extra motivation or some practical advice on getting started, Gola is the app for you. AI will also help you generate small, actionable tasks that you can do right now to make progress on any of your goals. ■ Interactive Widgets Widgets in Gola are now configurable and interactive! Before, you could only show a random goal. Now you can set it to a random goal OR configure it to a fixed goal, so you’ll never lose track of it. In summary, if you're looking for a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use goal-setting app, look no further than Gola. With a range of features and tools designed to help you achieve your goals, it's the perfect app for anyone looking to make meaningful progress and positive changes in their lives. So why wait? Download Gola today and start making your goals a reality! ■ More Features - Many available templates to help you challenge yourself - Interactive charts: See your progress in a clear manner with new charts - Create different types of goals - Get reminded via notifications whenever you want - Add icons or emojis to your goals for more joy - Use shortcuts or ask Siri to check in on your goals - See how far the year progresses as we go - Add widgets to your Home Screen & Lock Screen to see the year's progress, to open Gola quickly or to show a random goal - Select one of the many available themes to use the app in a color that you like. - Sort your goals by Creation Date or Last Updated - Hear fun little sounds as you make progress and create goals - Confetti when you complete a goal! - Accessible to everyone - Control if you like haptics or not - Have goals that you only want visible to your own eyes? Now you can set them up as private. And this is just the beginning... There are a lot of fun new features planned to be added really soon! The free version of Gola is free forever and ad-free. If you’re looking for the best way to track a few of your bigger goals, downloading this app is a great place to start. With an in-app subscription to Gola Pro or a one-time purchase, you’ll get the following things: unlimited goals, more types of goals, advanced settings, and access to all future features. Terms & Conditions: https://www.craft.do/s/IQv3Opu45bg39i Privacy policy: https://www.craft.do/s/g7sQraD8OQUEQx

About

Squares

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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gola at Free against Squares's $2.99. Gola also leads on device support and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3).

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

Gola is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. Gola sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Gola versus Squares: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolaSquares
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (158 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings158 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperModum B.V.Amaury Gau

Bugs and requests

Gola

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Widgets don't work
  • Sub-goal can't check in on the Apple Watch
  • Reset goal button doesn't work
  • Random suggestions for goals
  • Scrolling becomes sluggish and unresponsive
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  • Search only finds the first two goals
  • Progress gets deleted when editing a goal
  • Goals disappear and reappear as unerreached
  • Sync issues between iPhone and iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Goals keep changing on their own (title, icon, type)
  • Countdown goal end date not selecting the correct date
  • GPT integration never loads

Requested features

14 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Recurring goals
  • Habit tracking / task option for regular recurring tasks
  • Calendar view to assign goals for the day/week/month
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  • Log view to see progress on checked off items
  • Image attachments for goals
  • Scratch pad for time-stamped notes and ideas
  • Reminders for each goal set
  • Schedule the goal by certain days only
  • Apple Health integration
  • Drag and drop features for manual sorting when editing a goal
  • Sign-up features/account creation (especially using Apple Account)
  • Deadline features

Squares

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Gola

Subscriptions2
  • Gola Pro Quarter$2.993 Months
  • Gola Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Gola Pro$19.99
None

Squares

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gola free?
Gola is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Squares free?
Squares costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.

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