Comparison

Zipgoals vs Phaseboard

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Goal setting with clear targets and deadlines
  • Milestone planning with nested sub-milestones
  • Rich text journal editor
  • Thought-provoking journal prompts
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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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.

About

Phaseboard

Features
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For the moments when products, prototypes, side projects, and late-night ideas are all alive at once. Phaseboard is a quiet, beautiful place to keep them, with each one's current stage, progress, and the one thing to do next. Every project breaks down the same way. From outermost to innermost: project, stage, task, subtask. Statuses roll up automatically as you check things off, so the dashboard always shows which projects deserve your time today. Projects now support deadlines, with a countdown on Home and on the project page. The Calendar page lists every deadline and task due date by month. Three new free widgets show the calendar and upcoming deadlines on the Home Screen. Two styles are available: Quiet, with soft lines and plenty of room, and Classic, the original engineering-manual look. Switch between them any time from the side menu. Phaseboard is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your projects sync privately through your own iCloud, with full offline support. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen views, and a Mac menu bar tile keep what you're working on always in sight. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://phaseboard.app/privacy Subscription and refund terms: https://phaseboard.app/terms

Screenshots

Zipgoals4 screens
Phaseboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zipgoals at none against Phaseboard's 3. Zipgoals also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Phaseboard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Phaseboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Zipgoals asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zipgoals ships an update every 14 months, Phaseboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Zipgoals versus Phaseboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZipgoalsPhaseboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlit Labs东堃 许

In-app purchases

None

Zipgoals

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Phaseboard

Subscriptions2
  • Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro · Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Zipgoals free?
Zipgoals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phaseboard free?
Phaseboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zipgoals or Phaseboard have ads?
Zipgoals shows ads; Phaseboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Zipgoals or Phaseboard?
Zipgoals ships an update every 14 months, and Phaseboard every 2 months. Most recently, Zipgoals was updated on October 24, 2026 and Phaseboard on October 25, 2026.

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