Impulse DBT vs GOALed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impulse DBT
This app helps users track daily impulses for Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Users can easily record impulses, add details like emotions and notes, and generate weekly reports for their therapist.
- Record daily impulses
- Log emotions and skills
- Add personal notes
- Generate weekly reports
- Send reports to therapist
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Impulse DBT is an invaluable tool for those who need to keep track of daily impulses for Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Record any number of impulses just by tapping the screen. Later on, fill details such as emotions, skills and personal notes. Finally, send a weekly report to your therapist with ease!
GOALed
This app offers a user-friendly interface to implement Goal Attainment Scaling, a method for objectively measuring individual skills and behaviors. It helps evaluate the effectiveness of individual goals, groups of goals, and overall program outcomes. The application streamlines the process of writing, calculating, and interpreting goal attainment results.
- Objective skill and behavior measurement
- Evaluate goal and program effectiveness
- Efficient goal writing interface
- Automated calculation of results
- User-friendly interpretation of outcomes
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Developed in the 1960's, Goal Attainment Scaling provides a method to objectively measure individual skills and behaviors when standardized testing may not be fully informative. Goal Attainment Scaling can evaluate the effectiveness of an individual goal, group of goals and overall program effectiveness. This application was created in an effort to provide an efficient, user-friendly interface to write, calculate, and interpret goal attainment results.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GOALed at 4.3 against Impulse DBT's 3.6. Impulse DBT's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (73% vs 50%). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GOALed holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Impulse DBT has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Impulse DBT's written reviews are positive against 50% of GOALed's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Impulse DBT ships an update every 2 weeks, GOALed every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 28, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse DBT | GOALed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (19 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 4+ |
| Developer | Cogni | Kevin Gaffney |
Customer experience
Impulse DBT
GOALed
In-app purchases
Impulse DBT
No in-app purchases
GOALed
No in-app purchases
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