GoalBar vs PaperDue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoalBar
This app offers a visual way to track personal goals without pressure or guilt. It supports metric, binary, and manual goal types with customizable organization and reminders. View progress with beautiful charts and share achievements easily.
- Visual progress rings and bars
- Customizable categories and colors
- Optional deadlines and reminders
- Home screen widgets
- Progress sharing for social media
- Monthly review feature
- Light and dark mode
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Track your goals with clarity, not pressure. GoalBar is a simple, visual goal tracker that helps you see your progress at a glance. No streaks to maintain. No guilt when you miss a day. Just clarity on what matters to you. THREE WAYS TO TRACK - Metric Goals: Track numbers toward a target (save $10K, read 24 books, run 100 miles) - Binary Goals: Simple yes/no completion (launch the app, get certified, buy a house) - Manual Goals: Set your own progress level for subjective goals (improve my health, learn guitar) FEATURES - Beautiful progress rings and bars that fill as you get closer to your goals - Organize goals with customizable categories and colors - Set optional deadlines and reminders - Home screen widgets to see your progress at a glance - Share your progress as beautiful images for social media - Monthly reviews to reflect on your progress - Light and dark mode - Available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese GoalBar is currently completely free. No paywalls, no subscriptions, no limits. Whether you're tracking revenue targets, fitness goals, reading challenges, or personal milestones — GoalBar gives you a calm space to see how far you've come. Download now and start tracking what matters.
PaperDue
Never miss a crucial submission deadline for AI research conferences. This app provides live countdowns, smart notifications, and conference rankings to help academics stay organized and focused on their work.
- Live countdown tracker for hundreds of conferences
- Smart reminder notifications
- CORE & CCF conference rankings
- Dynamic Island countdown ticker
- Home & Lock Screen widgets
- Timeline & calendar view
- Multi-timezone support
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PAPERDUE — NEVER MISS A SUBMISSION DEADLINE Your next breakthrough paper deserves a shot. Don't let it miss the deadline. PaperDue is the essential deadline tracker built for AI researchers, PhD students, and academics who live and breathe conference submissions. Track CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, ECCV, and hundreds more — all in one beautiful, distraction-free app. ———————————————————— WHY RESEARCHERS CHOOSE PAPERDUE ———————————————————— Conference season is brutal. You're juggling abstract deadlines, full-paper windows, rebuttal periods, and camera-ready dates — across dozens of venues simultaneously. Missing a deadline doesn't just mean disappointment; it means waiting another year. PaperDue keeps every critical date front and center, so you can focus on the science. —————— FEATURES —————— - LIVE COUNTDOWN TRACKER — Browse hundreds of AI, CV, NLP, and ML conferences sorted by urgency. Real-time day countdowns, second-precise timers for your followed venues. - SMART NOTIFICATIONS — Custom reminder alerts at 14, 7, 3 days or the day of — configured independently for abstract and full-paper deadlines. - CORE & CCF RANKINGS — Every conference tagged with its CORE (A*, A, B, C) and CCF (A, B, C) ranking. Filter instantly to surface only the venues that match your impact target. - DYNAMIC ISLAND COUNTDOWN — When a deadline enters the final 24 hours, a live ticker activates in the Dynamic Island. The most urgent alert on your phone. - HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS — Glance at your next deadline without opening the app. Multiple sizes with live countdown bars. - TIMELINE & CALENDAR — Visualize your full submission roadmap in a scrollable timeline or monthly calendar, with one-tap export to Apple Calendar. - MULTI-TIMEZONE SUPPORT — Local time, UTC, AoE, or any fixed offset. Essential for international submissions. ———————————— DESIGNED FOR FOCUS ———————————— No clutter. No social feed. No noise. The dark navy interface keeps your eyes comfortable during late-night writing sessions. —————————————— YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE —————————————— The researchers who get accepted aren't always the ones with the best ideas — they're the ones who submitted on time, without the last-minute panic. Download free. Upgrade when you're ready.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoalBar at none against PaperDue's 1. GoalBar also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). PaperDue's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. PaperDue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GoalBar asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GoalBar against 5.0 for PaperDue. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
GoalBar ships an update every 4 months, PaperDue weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoalBar | PaperDue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strivian LLC | 梓豪 朱 |
In-app purchases
GoalBar
No in-app purchases
PaperDue
- PaperDue Pro$1.99









