Choiceworks vs Goally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Choiceworks
This app helps children develop independence and manage emotions through visual schedules, waiting skill practice, and feeling identification tools. It supports caregivers and educators in fostering positive behavior and emotional regulation at home and in school.
- Visual schedules for daily routines
- Tools for understanding and managing feelings
- Improve waiting and turn-taking skills
- Customizable with own images and audio
- Supports multiple user profiles
- Printable boards and PDF export
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Choiceworks is a visual support app that helps make the day easier to understand. It is designed for children, teens, adults, and families who benefit from visual structure, clear routines, and support with transitions, waiting, choices, and feelings. Families, caregivers, educators, and therapists can create customized visual boards using pictures, text, video, and recorded audio. Boards can be used at home, in therapy, during appointments, while traveling, or anywhere a visual plan helps. Choiceworks includes four board types: • Schedule boards show what is happening now and what comes next • Waiting boards make waiting more concrete with a visual timer and activity choices • Feelings boards support communication about emotions, choices, and next steps • Feelings Scale boards help show how big a feeling is and what can help at each level Features include: • Visual schedule, waiting, feelings, and Feelings Scale boards • Visual timers for schedules and waiting • Custom pictures, video, text, and recorded audio • Multiple profiles • Import and export of Choiceworks board files • Send a copy of a board by AirDrop, Files, or email • Optional iCloud Sync & Backup across your own devices signed into the same Apple ID • App menus, included board labels, included card text, and spoken card words in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese • VoiceOver support Choiceworks has no ads, no tracking, and no accounts to create. Your boards, photos, videos, and recordings stay on your device and in your own iCloud. One purchase includes everything. No subscriptions.
Goally
This app allows parents and caregivers to manage a child's tablet experience. Create custom routines, set reminders, and build checklists to help children develop life skills and reduce nagging during daily activities.
- Create routines
- Set reminders
- Build checklists
- Customize tablet settings
- Manage daily activities
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This is the app to manage your Goally kids Tablet. This app for is for parents and the rest of the kids team to make create routines, reminders, and checklists. Customize everything on a Goally kids tablet via this app. Goally help kids build life skills and help parents stop nagging their kids through daily activities. To purchase a Goally tablet go to getgoally.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Goally at Free against Choiceworks's $39.99. Goally also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Choiceworks's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and update cadence (daily vs every 11 days). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Goally is free to download; Choiceworks costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Choiceworks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 281 and 261 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Choiceworks's written reviews are positive against 52% of Goally's.
Choiceworks ships an update daily, Goally every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Choiceworks | Goally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (281 ratings) — better | 4.2 (261 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.4% of reviews — better | 51.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 281 — better | 261 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 395 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bee Visual, LLC | Goally, Inc. |
Customer experience
Choiceworks
Goally
User reviews
Choiceworks
From 281 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Customizable schedules
- 👍 Helpful for children with autism and ADHD
- 🎨 Ability to add own photos and voice recordings
- ⏱️ Useful timers and visual aids
- 📚 Includes social stories
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs with image library and customization
- 🔋 Drains device battery
- 🔍 Limited image selection
- 🔀 Difficulty rearranging schedule items
Goally
From 261 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Increased independence for children
- 👍 Great for organizing routines
- 💡 Innovative concept for ADHD/autism support
- 👨👩👧👦 Helpful for managing multiple children
- 🗣️ Excellent customer support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy app
- 🤔 Difficult setup process
- 💸 Expensive subscription/product
- 📱 Device durability concerns
- ❓ Unclear app functionality/setup
Bugs and requests
Choiceworks
Reported bugs
3 issues- Library won't load, preventing app usage
- Schedules reset when switching profiles
- Crashes after recent update
Requested features
5 requests- Sync schedules across devices
- Ability to add more than 7-8 steps in a schedule
- More diverse set of icons and images
- Customizable timer sounds
- Option to use recorded voice for schedule titles
Goally
Reported bugs
17 issues- Tablet doesn't automatically turn on when charging
- Missed launches due to charging issue
- Cannot launch after another launch starts
- Screen broken on arrival
- Cannot sign in
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- Setup screen freezes
- App crashes when editing routines
- Uploads pictures with 'file not found' error
- Loads to a blank screen
- App crashes repeatedly
- Setup prompt appears every time
- Routines disappear from parent app but stay on tablet
- Goally care team app doesn't work
- Web portal being shut down
- Notifications open app without direct link
- Cannot see child's activities without manual check
- Device is sluggish and slow to respond
Requested features
9 requests- Make app more seamless
- Improve routine creation ease
- Fix app crashes
- Ensure routines sync correctly between parent and child devices
- Improve device durability
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- Clarify app usage and setup instructions
- Make app more intuitive for new users
- Provide more specific notification details
- Keep web portal active
In-app purchases
Choiceworks
No in-app purchases
Goally
No in-app purchases









