Goals AI vs Streaks: One-Time Purchase or Daily Coaching?

At a glance

Where Streaks is genuinely better

The price model. Around $5.99, once, forever, across iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac and Vision Pro. In a category that has moved almost entirely to subscriptions, that deserves saying loudly. Over five years it costs less than two months of most alternatives.

Craft. It is one of the best-made apps on Apple platforms — widgets, complications, Health integration and Shortcuts all work exactly as they should.

The cap. Limiting you to about a dozen tasks stops the sprawl that kills most tracking habits. That constraint is doing real work, and it is the single best thing about the app.

Where it stops

Streaks is Apple only, so an Android phone or a shared setup rules it out. And it is purely a tracker: it records what you told it, with no planning, no reflection and no view on whether those twelve things are the right twelve.

For a lot of people that is completely fine — you know what you want to do, you just want to see the chain. If that genuinely describes you, buy Streaks; it is lovely. But it is worth being honest about how often it describes anyone. Most people who have abandoned a tracker did not lose track of their habits. They lost confidence that those were the right habits.

What Goals AI adds

Goals AI is aimed at the earlier question. A short daily questionnaire, adapting to your goals and your previous answers, helps you name the single most important thing for today — then tracks it. Health goals sync from Apple Health so movement, sleep and mindfulness update themselves.

It also runs on Android and the web, syncs two-way with your calendar so the intention sits beside your meetings, and costs nothing — unlimited goals and unlimited daily intentions on the free plan, permanently. Pro adds unlimited AI conversations and carries a free-year guarantee: complete your daily goals for six months and the next year is free. Where Streaks wins: it is the more beautiful object, and its twelve-task cap is a genuinely good idea. Where Goals AI wins: every platform, a calendar, health that updates itself, an opinion about what belongs on the list — and a $0 entry price against Streaks' $5.99. The wider comparison.