Comparison

GoalWall vs FocusPiece

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

Head to head
About

GoalWall

Visualize your progress by building a "wall" of bricks, each representing a completed goal. This habit tracker gamifies personal growth with satisfying animations and a guilt-free approach to consistency. Customize themes and view your progress over time, all while keeping your data private on your device.

Highlights
  • Visualize habit completion with brick building
  • Satisfying animations and haptic feedback
  • Guilt-free approach to missed goals
  • Customizable themes
  • Offline data storage
  • Progress tracking across weeks
Features
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GoalWall turns your habits into something you can see. Build your life one brick at a time: finish a goal, lay a brick, and watch your week grow into a wall you're proud of. It's like a little game: - Drag a brick from the bottom of the screen and lay it on the day you completed a goal - Lay a brick and feel the buzz, with satisfying animations on every drop - No streaks, no guilt: building a life is a marathon. Miss a brick or two? Just keep building - Make it yours with customizable themes - Swipe between weeks to watch your progress stack up Private by design: - No sign-in - No server sync - All your data stays on your device, always Start building. One brick at a time.

About

FocusPiece

Features
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FocusPiece – Where Focus Becomes Art Concentration has become rare. FocusPiece makes it visible. Set the timer, put your phone down and sink into your work. While you stay focused, a hidden masterpiece emerges from the mist, piece by piece. At the end of every session you hold a fully revealed work of art that you have earned. No points. No aggressive streaks. No guilt. Just a calm, beautiful space for deep concentration. HOW IT WORKS • Choose your time: 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes of undisturbed focus. • Stay in the picture: as long as you remain in the app, the hidden painting sharpens with every minute. Leave, and the reveal gently pauses. • Collect masterpieces: every completed session unlocks a work and places it in your personal gallery. A GALLERY YOU EARN Your collection does not fill up by chance, but through real concentration. Every unlocked work carries the date, the length of your session and the story behind the original. Browse van Gogh's "Almond Blossom", Hokusai's "Great Wave", Monet's "Sunrise", Friedrich's "Wanderer" and many more classics of art history: public-domain masterpieces, curated for quiet moments. ON YOUR WRIST AS WELL With Apple Watch you start, pause and follow a session without reaching for your iPhone. On the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island your progress stays in view. DELIBERATELY MINIMAL FocusPiece was designed around a single principle: nothing that distracts. Warm paper white, a calm terracotta accent, clear typography. No loud notifications, no endless statistics, no mechanics designed to hook you. The app steps back so your focus and the art can step forward. FEATURES AT A GLANCE • Focus timer with a freely selectable duration • Progressive art reveal in real time, tied to your concentration • Apple Watch: start, pause and follow a session from your wrist • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Personal gallery with every unlocked work • Challenges that unlock further works • One overview in the gallery: focus time collected, rounds and works revealed • Detail views with title, artist, year and collection context • Set a work as your lock screen • Optional ambient sounds, such as rain • Gentle completion chime and subtle haptic feedback • "Soft start" for a calm beginning to every session • Light mode that lets the artworks shine • Works entirely without an account; your data stays on your device WHO IS IT FOR? For everyone who wants to work more deeply: students studying for finals, creatives in flow, developers and writers, anyone who works with the Pomodoro technique, and everyone looking for a more beautiful, quieter alternative to noisy productivity apps. Concentration is a gift you give yourself. FocusPiece turns it into something you can see.

Screenshots

GoalWall4 screens
FocusPiece4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoalWall at none against FocusPiece's 3. FocusPiece's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. FocusPiece sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. GoalWall asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GoalWall versus FocusPiece: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoalWallFocusPiece
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS1818.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBaurzhan AbenovChristoph Hesse

In-app purchases

None

GoalWall

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

FocusPiece

One-time3
  • Impressions$0.99
  • Nocturnes$0.99
  • Dutch Golden Age$0.99

Questions

Is GoalWall free?
GoalWall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FocusPiece free?
FocusPiece is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GoalWall or FocusPiece have ads?
Neither GoalWall nor FocusPiece shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoalWall or FocusPiece?
GoalWall ships an update fortnightly, and FocusPiece fortnightly. Most recently, GoalWall was updated on September 20, 2026 and FocusPiece on September 15, 2026.

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