Goaly vs Pressly Speed Reader

It can be hard to make time for your goals, whether you want to read more books, learn a new language, or work out regularly. One day you get called into a last-minute meeting. The next day a friend is in town. Before you know it, your goals have been delayed and forgotten, even when they really matter to you. Goaly fixes this in the most literal way possible. Add a personal goal, like "run 3 times a week", and Goaly looks at your Google Calendar, finds the free slots, and schedules your goal as real calendar events. When a meeting takes over your slot, Goaly quietly finds your goal a new time instead of letting it vanish. MISSING GOOGLE CALENDAR GOALS? When Google removed the Goals feature from Google Calendar, a lot of people lost the easiest way to make time for personal goals. Goaly brings it back and makes it better. One reviewer put it simply: it perfectly replaced Google Goals. WHY IT WORKS A goal without a time slot is a wish. Habit apps that live in a list are easy to ignore, but your calendar is the one place you already look every day. Goaly turns your goals into appointments with yourself, right next to everything else in your week. Your calendar stops being a record of other people's demands on your time and starts making room for yours: exercise, reading, talking with mom, a little me time. WHAT YOU GET • Automatic scheduling that respects your existing Google Calendar • A smart algorithm that adjusts to you and schedules each goal at just the right time • One-tap check-ins: mark a goal done with "Did it" right from your calendar • Progress graphs, charts and notifications that show your consistency building • Recommended goals to get started in under a minute • Vacation mode for when life needs a pause WHO IT IS FOR People who keep meaning to exercise, read, meditate, study, or practice, and keep watching the week fill up before they get to it. If structure helps you follow through, whether that is ADHD or simply a busy life, Goaly does the structuring for you. Download Goaly and give your goals a place on the calendar. The app uses standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA). Link to Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Most speed reading apps give you a play button. Pressly gives you control. Pressly uses RSVP-style reading — one word at a time, fixed to a single focus point — so your eyes never move and your focus never breaks. But speed is not the goal. Comprehension is. BUILT AROUND MEANING, NOT JUST MOTION Text inside double quotation marks automatically italicizes during reading. Dialogue shifts. Quoted phrases stand apart. Spoken words separate from narration. You feel the change in tone without losing your place — a detail no other speed reader has. Smart pauses at punctuation and extra time for longer words give each sentence the rhythm it was written with. Optional context words keep surrounding text visible. ORP alignment anchors each word at its natural recognition point. When the same word appears back-to-back, it grows progressively — a subtle visual signal that keeps comprehension engaged at speed. YOU ARE ALWAYS IN CONTROL Hold to read. Release to pause. Lock playback with two fingers for hands-free reading. Tap forward or back to move word by word. Tap the top area to step back. Set your WPM, tune your pauses, choose a theme, adjust your font — then read. Tap the current word while reading to instantly look it up in your device's dictionary — without losing your place. YOUR FILES, YOUR LIBRARY Pressly is a reading tool, not an ebook store. Import your EPUB, PDF, and TXT files, or paste notes, articles, drafts, and copied text directly. Everything stays on your device. No account. No cloud. No subscription to a catalog. A built-in sample book is included — start reading immediately, no import needed. FEATURES • RSVP word display with ORP alignment • Automatic italic styling for dialogue and quoted text • Progressive visual emphasis on consecutive repeated words • Toggleable linked flashes for hyphens and em dashes • Smart pauses for punctuation and long words • Optional context words around the current word • Hold-to-read with two-finger playback lock • Word-by-word tap navigation • Tap the current word to look it up in your device's dictionary • EPUB, PDF, and TXT import • Paste any text as a readable book • Chapter-aware reading progress • Light and dark themes • Font style and weight options • Volume-button navigation • Fully on-device — no account, no cloud, no ads Pressly is made for readers who want more than autoplay. Read with pace. Stay with the meaning. Keep going.