CritiCal vs G
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CritiCal
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CritiCal is the professional theatre event tracker built for critics and serious theatregoers. Track every show, manage your reviews, handle invoicing, and grow your freelance career — all from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac TRACK EVERY SHOW Stay on top of your schedule with a powerful confirmation workflow — from Draft through to Confirmed. Attach poster images, manage venues with addresses and timezones, and organise events by genre with custom colours and icons. See all your venues on an interactive full-screen map with Apple Maps Look Around, and check weather forecasts for show nights. MANAGE YOUR REVIEWS Follow each review from Not Started through Submitted to Published. Rate shows with half-star precision, capture pull quotes, track word counts and store published URLs. CritiCal keeps your entire critical output organised and searchable. Premium subscribers: Get automatic notifications when your publication goes live with a review, and share your work with custom social-sharing images optimised for each platform. SMART FILTERING & SEARCH Filter events by date range, genre, publication, confirmation status, or review status. Save custom filters for quick access and see smart dashboard groupings by time period NOTES & TASKS Add free-form notes to any event. Set tasks with flexible due dates — a specific date and time, or relative to the show date. Get push notification reminders and track task completion at a glance WIDGETS & SIRI Glance at your next event, upcoming shows, or outstanding tasks right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Ask Siri conversational questions like "What's my next show?" or "Get directions to tonight's event." Build powerful automations with 25+ Shortcuts actions CROSS-PLATFORM SYNC Native experiences designed for each platform. An optimised iPad interface with extra room to work. A Mac interface with inspector panels and keyboard shortcuts. Seamless iCloud sync keeps everything up to date across all your devices NOTIFICATIONS & REMINDERS Timezone-aware daily event reminders, task due date alerts, and interactive notification actions keep you on schedule wherever you are FULLY ACCESSIBLE Full VoiceOver support throughout, audio graph descriptions on all chart types, Reduce Motion support, and accessible star rating controls PREMIUM FEATURES * Document attachments: store e-tickets, press releases, PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and images directly into any event. Preview with QuickLook and sync across devices via iCloud * Dive into your career data with interactive charts and visualisations. Monthly bar charts, year-over-year comparisons, genre breakdowns, rating heatmaps, most-visited venues, publication word counts and fees, and a venue map — all with full VoiceOver audio graph support * Generate professional invoices directly from your review data. Bundle multiple reviews into a single invoice, support multiple currencies with historical snapshots, add VAT, and track invoice status from Draft to Paid with overdue indicators * Location-based reminders notify you when you arrive at or leave a venue with geofenced reminders on iOS PRIVACY FIRST All your data is stored locally on your device and synced via iCloud. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party advertising, no data sharing. By using this app, you agree to Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
G
Measure real-time G-forces on three axes with a precision crosshair display. Track peak G, acceleration history, and impact forces. Ideal for car performance, roller coasters, aviation, and physics experiments.
- 3-axis G-force tracking
- Precision crosshair display
- Peak G detection
- Real-time chart recording
- G-force level guide
- Adjustable sensitivity
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G-Force Meter+ Accelerometer shows the G-force your phone feels right now on every axis, then turns each drive, ride or run into a result you can read: press Start, press Stop, and a session card shows the peak G, the average G and how hard you cornered, accelerated and braked. ▶ Live G-force on every axis • Total G on a round gauge with a moving dot for the direction of the force • Lateral (X), longitudinal (Y) and vertical (Z) values side by side • Min, average, max and peak while you record, plus peak chips for lateral, accel and brake • A scrolling chart of X, Y, Z and total G, or a sentence that explains the current G level ▶ Stop and see the session Press Stop and a Session result card appears: • Duration, peak G and average G • Peak lateral, peak accel and peak brake • A second-by-second G trend line (the first 10 minutes of a session) • With the Car activity selected, a plain-language reading of the drive, from Gentle to Very hard, based on the peak horizontal G Every finished session is saved to History automatically (the last 20). A session shorter than 2 seconds is not saved. If you switch apps mid-session, recording pauses in the background and the same session resumes when you return, and a session cut off when the system closes the app is recovered into History on the next launch. Share a result as text in one tap. ▶ History and personal bests Open History from the top of the Meter screen: personal bests, every session with its G trend, your race runs and rolling runs. Export sessions, runs or rolling intervals as CSV. A statistics report CSV unlocks for 24 hours after a short ad. ▶ G-G friction circle A dedicated tab plots lateral against longitudinal G as a trail inside rings at 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 G, with peak lateral, longitudinal and combined G, so you can see how much grip you used in corners and under braking. ▶ Race mode • 0-60 mph launch timing with raw and rollout times • 60-0 mph brake test with time, distance and speed shed, estimated from the motion sensors • Rolling intervals: 60-120 mph, 100-200 km/h, 30-50 mph or your own range • GPS cross-check with a GPS 0-60 time, a quarter mile time and trap speed. A good fix shows a GPS-verified badge, otherwise the result is labelled as a sensor estimate • Regen profile for electric cars: braking events sorted by their strength into likely regen (gentle) and likely friction (hard), with their maximum G ▶ Set up for your car • Dash or Holder mount, auto-level and Re-level now • Reference 1G (resting reads 1.00 G) or 0G (resting reads 0.00 G) • Display sensitivity from 0.5x to 2.0x for the live gauge; the result card always shows the true values • Activity presets for Car, Roller-coaster, Sport, Elevator and Aircraft explain what each G level means there • A Guide tab with 8 tips on mounting, reading each axis and typical G in daily life • The screen stays on while recording • Interface in 30 languages ▶ Good to know Readings come from the phone's motion sensor, so mount the phone firmly and level it before you record. Launch and braking times are estimates unless they carry the GPS-verified badge. Only drive-test where it is safe and legal. For drivers checking how smooth or hard they drive, track-day and drag-strip fans, roller-coaster riders, and students who want to see physics in numbers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: G at none against CritiCal's 2. G also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). CritiCal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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. CritiCal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. G asks for nothing beyond the download.
CritiCal ships an update weekly, G every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | CritiCal | G |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Scott Matthewman | Kyu-Hee Jang |
In-app purchases
CritiCal
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$59.991 Year
G
No in-app purchases









