Pendo Note vs Goalday
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pendo Note
This app helps you capture ideas, manage tasks, and organize events with smart features. It offers AI assistance for writing, learning, and translation, and syncs your data across devices using iCloud.
- AI writing and learning assistant
- Smart calendar event creation
- Recurring to-do list management
- Unified timeline for all entries
- Customizable tags for organization
- Contact info parsing for new contacts
- iCloud sync across devices
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Pendo brings your notes and calendar together in one place. Write notes, plan your day, and keep everything organized with a clean, intuitive timeline. Whether you're jotting down ideas, planning meetings, or keeping a journal — Pendo keeps it all in sync across your devices. Your data stays yours: export every note with its photos, location and weather into a single file, and import it back anytime — perfect for backups or moving to a new device.
Goalday
This app helps you organize your week with a combined planner, to-do list, and journal. Track tasks, schedule events on a weekly calendar, and log completed activities.
- Weekly planning calendar
- Integrated to-do lists
- Daily journaling
- Task progress tracking
- Bucket list inspiration
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►See your entire week at a glance ►Plan & Todo & Note in ONE app ►Lots of bucket lists & ideas for life Todo-Doing-Done List 【Todo】Todo lists, automatically tracks progress and completion time. Inspiration Center offers a variety of to do lists. 【Doing】Calendar(Week): the layout on the left is for weekly planning, from Monday to Sunday. You can freely enter tasks or drag them from the list on the right. The right-hand layout provides a preview of Todo list and can be easily switched. 【Done】Journal(Note): One page per day, equipped with a card feature, it automatically logs the tasks completed from the list on that day. Privacy：https://iwc9h6ijuc.feishu.cn/docx/Qg2XdUUVfoMYrYxLR3ecuxSJnic Term of Use：https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pendo Note at 844 against Goalday's 27. Pendo Note also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 72%) and device support (4 vs 2). 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. Pendo Note sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Goalday sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pendo Note holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pendo Note has 844 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pendo Note's written reviews are positive against 72% of Goalday's.
Pendo Note ships an update every 11 days, Goalday every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pendo Note | Goalday |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (844 ratings) — better | 4.6 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better | 71.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 844 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Lychee Isle Co., Ltd. | Yishisanji (ningbo) Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Pendo Note
Goalday
Bugs and requests
Pendo Note
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes and to-do items disappearing after updates
- Calendar events not syncing correctly
- Widget not displaying all information as expected
- Inability to add more than 3 images to a note
Requested features
4 requests- Add password protection or biometric lock
- Improve note-taking capabilities with more formatting options
- Integrate with more calendar/productivity apps
- Introduce a web/desktop version for better cross-platform experience
Goalday
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pendo Note
- A tikka$0.99
- A basket of buns$1.99
- A cup of Coffee$4.99
Goalday
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Annual$25.991 Year
- one dollar$0.99
- Lifetime$69.99
