Goat Tasks vs TaskScratch

Goat Tasks turns good intentions into finished work. Instead of one more to-do list that grows faster than you can clear it, you get six focused tools — each built on published research into how people actually prioritize, follow through, and build habits that last. Everything you finish earns points and climbs a rank, so today's work is still visible tomorrow. EISENHOWER MATRIX Sort every task on two axes, urgency and importance, and see at a glance what to do first, what to schedule, what to delegate, and what to drop. Your brain over-weights whatever feels urgent and quietly neglects what actually matters. The matrix breaks that reflex and pushes important-but-not-urgent work back to the top — which is where real progress lives. DAILY ROUTINE CYCLE Design your ideal day hour by hour, then let it repeat. Anchoring a task to a specific time turns "I should" into an automatic "when it's 7am, I do this," so you spend willpower deciding once instead of every single time. Adjustable reminders keep the cue firing when you are busy, and a color slider makes the day your own. TASK TREE Break big projects into nested sub-tasks until the smallest step is something you can actually start in one sitting. Completion percentages roll up the tree automatically, so progress on a long project stays visible instead of disappearing into "someday." COUNT TRACKER Track any countable thing — reps, pages, minutes, glasses of water. The simple act of recording a behavior moves you toward the goal, and every tally is a small, visible win that keeps you going. DAILY REPORT Close the day with a short, honest reflection — rate each routine, and say what got in the way. Doing the work is not the same as learning from it, and a running record turns scattered days into a visible trajectory. HABIT INSIGHTS Then let Goat Tasks read your reports back to you. See whether you are trending up or slipping week over week, which day you are strongest, whether mornings really beat evenings, and exactly what each blocker costs you. THE CLIMB Everything you finish earns points and moves you up a ladder of eighteen ranks, from Pebble Kicker to The G.O.A.T. Show up daily and a streak multiplier builds. Go quiet and you slide back down — which is the point. Progress you can lose is progress worth protecting. BUILT ON RESEARCH, NOT VIBES Every tool ships with an in-app guide explaining why it works and what it does for you, with the studies cited. Zhu, Yang and Hsee on the mere-urgency effect. Gollwitzer on implementation intentions. Bandura and Schunk on proximal sub-goals. Harkin and colleagues on progress monitoring. Di Stefano and colleagues on reflection. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Plan on your Mac at your desk, check things off on your phone, review the day on your iPad. iCloud keeps everything in step automatically — no account to create, and your data stays with your Apple Account. FREE AND PREMIUM Every tool is free to use, including the Eisenhower Matrix visualization, the Daily Report, your habit insights and the full rank ladder. The free tier caps how much you can create: 2 priority tasks, 2 routines, 1 project and 1 counter, with a single level of sub-task nesting. Premium removes every limit — unlimited tasks, routines, projects and counters, and unlimited nested task trees. PRICING Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly, or as a one-time purchase that unlocks the app permanently. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. The one-time unlock does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/goat-tasks-privacy-policy/home Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

TaskScratch is a task manager built on a simple promise: you pay once, you own it forever. No subscription. No "Pro" upgrade that changes the deal. No bait-and-switch. The price you see is the price you pay, and it never expires. YOUR TASKS, YOUR DEVICES, YOUR DATA TaskScratch syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your personal iCloud account. Your tasks never touch our servers, because we don't have any. No account to create, no third-party cloud service, no data harvesting. Just your Apple ID and end-to-end encryption courtesy of iCloud. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Create collections for every part of your life: Personal, Work, Family, Travel. Each collection holds multiple lists, and each list holds tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks, and tags. Sort by priority, due date, name, newest, oldest, or drag to reorder manually. MARKDOWN NOTES ON EVERY TASK Add rich notes to any task with a formatting toolbar: bold, italic, headings, bullet lists, numbered lists, checklists, code blocks, and links. Preview your notes as beautifully rendered text, or expand to a full-screen editor for longer writing. Lists auto-continue as you type. EXPORT AND SHARE IN OPEN FORMATS Share any list or entire collection as plain text or Markdown. Send via iMessage, Mail, AirDrop, or any app on your device. Your data is never locked in. Export a grocery list to a friend or back up your entire project plan in a format any text editor can read. SCRATCHPAD: PRIVATE BY DESIGN A local-only notepad built for sensitive content. Passwords, credentials, private notes, code snippets, anything you need to jot down but never want in the cloud. Your scratchpad is stored only on your device. It does not sync to iCloud. It does not appear in backups. It does not leave your hands. BUILT FOR APPLE TaskScratch is a native SwiftUI app, not a web wrapper, not a cross-platform port. On Mac, it lives in your menu bar with quick access to today's tasks, hides to the background when you close the window, and comes back when you need it. On iPhone, it feels like it belongs. WHAT YOU GET - Collections, lists, tasks, subtasks, and tags - Markdown notes with toolbar and live preview - Seven sort options including priority, due date, and manual reorder - Show or hide completed tasks - Today view with overdue, due today, and this week - Search across everything: titles, notes, subtasks, and tags - iCloud sync across all your Apple devices - Share lists and collections as plain text or Markdown - Scratchpad that is local-only, never synced, never backed up - macOS menu bar app with today's tasks at a glance - Dark mode and Dynamic Type support - No ads, no analytics, no tracking NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO TRICKS. NO ASTERISKS. We believe software should be something you buy, not something you rent. TaskScratch will never move to a subscription model. Future updates are included. The app you buy today is the app you keep forever.