Zipgoals vs Second Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zipgoals
This app helps you achieve your ambitions by combining goal tracking, milestone planning, and journaling. Break down large goals into manageable steps, plan your progress, and reflect on your journey with a rich editor and thought-provoking prompts.
- Goal setting with clear targets and deadlines
- Milestone planning with nested sub-milestones
- Rich text journal editor
- Thought-provoking journal prompts
- Cross-device syncing
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Zipgoals — Goals, Milestones & Motivation Journal Turn your ambitions into achievements. Zipgoals is the goals app built for people who are serious about growth, combining powerful goal tracking, milestone planning, and deep journaling into one beautifully simple experience. Whether you're chasing a career milestone, working toward a personal breakthrough, or simply trying to understand yourself better, Zipgoals gives you the structure to move forward — one goal at a time. FEATURES GOALS Set meaningful goals with clear targets and deadlines. Break down big ambitions into manageable steps, track your progress, and stay focused on what matters most. Creating and completing goals in Zipgoals feels satisfying. MILESTONES Every big goal is made up of smaller wins. Milestones let you map out the stepping stones along the way, so you always know your next move. Check them off as you go and watch your progress build momentum. Even better, your milestones can contain milestones nested as deeply as you need. RICH JOURNAL EDITOR Write more than just words. Zipgoals' powerful block editor lets you format your thoughts exactly how you want whether you're doing a brain dump, writing a reflection, or mapping out your day. Bold ideas. Structure your thoughts. Journal the way that works for you. THOUGHT-PROVOKING PROMPTS Never stare at a blank page again. Zipgoals serves up carefully crafted journal prompts designed to spark deeper thinking, surface your goals, and help you understand what's driving you and what's holding you back. ALL YOUR DEVICES Your goals don't stop when you switch devices and neither does Zipgoals. Seamlessly synced across all your devices so your progress, journal, and milestones are always with you, wherever you are. Start your first goal today. Your future self will thank you.
Second Brain
This app provides pre-built, step-by-step task lists for common life admin activities, designed to reduce setup friction. It offers guided routines, gentle check-ins, and hands-free operation to support users with ADHD.
- Pre-built task library
- Step-by-step task guidance
- Customizable daily routines
- Gentle daily check-ins
- Hands-free voice mode
- Smart automatic task regeneration
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The first ADHD app that comes ready to use - no setup, no configuration, no building from scratch. Every productivity app expects you to design the system yourself. By the time you're done setting up, you've already lost momentum. Second Brain flips that. Open the app and you'll find a library of 20+ real-life tasks - paying bills, refilling prescriptions, scheduling appointments, doing laundry, filing taxes - each broken into small, clear steps you can follow one at a time. DAILY ROUTINES Install a Morning Routine, Evening Wind-Down, or Sunday Reset and get guided through your day one card at a time. Customize them or build your own. CHECK-INS Gentle prompts throughout the day. Feeling off track? Tap into a recovery flow and reset without judgment. HANDS-FREE MODE Tasks are read aloud as you go - perfect for mornings when your phone is across the room. SMART DEFAULTS Recurring tasks regenerate automatically. Tasks surface when they're due - not before. Your most recent task stays at the top. Less clutter, less thinking. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Your data stays on your device. Built for the ADHD brain that wants a second brain - without having to build one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Second Brain at none against Zipgoals's shown. Second Brain also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 14 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Zipgoals's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zipgoals against 5.0 for Second Brain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Zipgoals ships an update every 14 months, Second Brain every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zipgoals | Second Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blit Labs | Jikku Chacko |
In-app purchases
Zipgoals
No in-app purchases
Second Brain
No in-app purchases









