Faro vs Goaltree

Faro is an iOS app for setting yearly goals and reflecting through journals and check-ins. Journal entries can be text, voice notes, or photos, and goals can have dated milestones with alerts for approaching or overdue dates. Guided weekly or monthly check-ins offer additional ways to record progress. AI reviews can turn journal entries and check-ins into a summary, themes, and a suggested next focus; Ask Faro lets users discuss habits, patterns, and goal progress using their journal entries as context. AI processing is off unless users explicitly consent, and consent can be withdrawn in Settings. Faro says it sends only relevant content for a requested AI feature and does not train AI models on journal content. The free plan allows up to three active goals, unlimited milestones, journals, check-ins, streaks and badges, and a Face ID lock. Pro costs $4.99 a month and adds Ask Faro, monthly, quarterly, and yearly AI reviews, smart reminders, a daily prompt, and unlimited goals. The service is licensed for personal, non-commercial reflection and journaling.

Goaltree uses AI to turn goals into milestones, targets, and concrete tasks, then selects five tasks for users to focus on each day. The selection weighs urgency, progress toward goals, and momentum; users can request more tasks after completing the ones shown. AI can replan when a task has been skipped three times, a milestone deadline is missed, or the user requests a revision, while keeping completed milestones intact. Goals can be viewed as a structured list, a drag-and-drop Kanban board, or a node graph, and grouped across Health, Career, Mind, Finance, Relationships, and Creative. Google Calendar can inform the daily task load. A Model Context Protocol server lets compatible AI assistants read goals, show today's tasks, and mark work complete; Goaltree says this connection uses OAuth. Goals can be shared by link, with editing access and live collaborator cursors and updates. The free plan includes three active goals and five AI goal-structuring uses per month. Pro costs $9.00 per month and adds unlimited goals and AI structuring and replanning, Google Calendar integration, native iOS and Android apps, and more. Teams costs $16.00 per user per month and is marked “Soon.”