GoalWall vs GladeFocus Screen Time Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoalWall
Visualize your progress by building a "wall" of bricks, each representing a completed goal. This gamified approach encourages consistent habit building without the pressure of streaks, offering a private and satisfying way to track your life's growth.
- Visualize goal completion with brick building
- Gamified progress tracking
- No streaks or guilt mechanics
- Customizable themes
- Private, on-device data storage
- Satisfying animations
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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.
GladeFocus Screen Time Control
This app helps you stay focused by blocking distracting apps and websites. Earn virtual currency by completing focus sessions to grow a personalized digital garden and compete on a global leaderboard. Achieve milestones and unlock special trees to enhance your virtual landscape.
- Fully locked app and website blocking
- Gamified focus sessions with Acorn rewards
- Grow and customize a digital garden
- Global and friend leaderboards
- Scheduled, recurring, and Pomodoro sessions
- Cross-device synchronization
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GladeFocus turns "I'll stop scrolling in a minute" into focus you can actually see grow. Start a session, and GladeFocus blocks your distracting apps and websites until your time is up. Every minute you stay focused earns Acorns and grows a garden that's entirely your own. Finish sessions, plant seeds, watch your trees mature, and climb the monthly leaderboard. Your focus is the only thing that grows it. FULLY LOCKED BLOCKING - Blocks distracting apps with no easy way to bypass - Blocks distracting websites in every browser, not just one - Blocking holds even if you try to wriggle out mid-session - Build blocklists once and reuse them for any session GROW YOUR GLADE - Every focused minute earns Acorns - Spend Acorns in the Seed Shop and plant your garden - Trees grow as you keep focusing, then harvest for more Acorns - Hit focus milestones to earn golden keepsake trees CLIMB THE LEADERBOARD - See how your focused time stacks up against the community - Monthly rankings that reset so there's always a fresh start - Compete with friends globally for rewards BUILT FOR REAL FOCUS - Schedule future sessions, recurring sessions, and pomodoro sessions - A session history so you can see your streaks and your slips - Your Glade: watch your focused time add up over the days - Clean, distraction-free design that gets out of your way SYNCS EVERYWHERE GladeFocus shares one account across iPhone, Mac, and Chrome. Your blocklists, sessions, garden, and history follow you across every device. GLADE PRO Upgrade to Glade Pro for unlimited blocklists and advanced session types (scheduled, recurring, and pomodoro). Pro is an auto-renewable subscription billed through your Apple ID. Everything else in the app, including all blocking and free session types, works without Pro. Sign in with Apple. No ads, no third-party tracking. Ready to actually get the thing done? Plant your focus. Start a session. Terms of Service: https://gladefocus.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoalWall at none against GladeFocus Screen Time Control's 3. GoalWall also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). GladeFocus Screen Time Control's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. GladeFocus Screen Time Control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month. GoalWall asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GoalWall against 5.0 for GladeFocus Screen Time Control. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
GoalWall ships an update fortnightly, GladeFocus Screen Time Control every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | GoalWall | GladeFocus Screen Time Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Baurzhan Abenov | WILLIAM LIU |
Customer experience
GoalWall
GladeFocus Screen Time Control
In-app purchases
GoalWall
No in-app purchases
GladeFocus Screen Time Control
- Pro Monthly$10.001 Month
- Glade Pro Yearly (Special Offer)$40.001 Year
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$60.001 Year
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