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At a glance
| Goals AI | TickTick | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free forever — unlimited goals and intentions | Limited free tier |
| Paid | $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr | $2.99/mo or $35.99/yr |
| Calendar | Two-way sync, iOS and Android | Calendar view in-app |
| Helps you decide what matters | — | |
| Health data sync | Steps, sleep, exercise, mindfulness | — |
| Habits compound into goals | — | |
| Money-back guarantee | Free year after 6 months | — |
| Task management | Goals, not general tasks | Full featured |
| Pomodoro timer | — |
Free plan
Paid
Calendar
Helps you decide what matters
Health data sync
Habits compound into goals
Money-back guarantee
Task management
Pomodoro timer
Where TickTick is genuinely better
Value. $35.99/year for four tools that people routinely pay for separately is the strongest price-to-feature ratio here, and it undercuts Todoist Pro while doing more.
Habits in a task manager. Most task apps ignore habits entirely. TickTick treats them as first-class, which removes a whole second app for a lot of people.
One place. Fewer apps genuinely is better, and the calendar view plus pomodoro timer covers most of what a productivity stack needs.
The all-in-one trade-off
Doing four things means none of them is best in class. TickTick's habit tracking is less satisfying than Streaks, its task management less refined than Todoist, and its calendar is not going to replace a real one. Whether that matters depends on how much you care about any single one.
The more important limitation is the one it shares with everything else here: it gives you more places to record work, and no help deciding which work counts. A busier app is not a clearer week.
What Goals AI does instead
Goals AI is deliberately narrow, and narrow is the point. A short daily questionnaire, adapting to your goals and your previous answers, helps you name the single most important thing for today — then puts it on your calendar next to your meetings, via two-way sync on iOS and Android, and tracks whether you did it. Health goals sync from Apple Health, so movement, sleep and mindfulness update themselves.
It also happens to be free forever — unlimited goals, unlimited daily intentions, no card — where TickTick's free tier is capped and the good version is $35.99/year. And Pro carries a guarantee nobody else in this category will match: complete your daily goals for six months and the next year is free. We will take that bet on ourselves. TickTick will not.
Where TickTick genuinely wins: a pomodoro timer, and full general-purpose task management. If you need somewhere to put all ninety things, keep a task manager. Just do not confuse a longer list with a better week.
More apps rarely fixes a focus problem
Goals AI does the one thing the others skip: it decides with you what matters today, then puts it on your calendar. Free forever — unlimited goals and unlimited daily intentions, no card. Pro adds unlimited AI conversations and full history, with a 14-day trial.
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The My Best Day team shares insights on goal setting, productivity, and personal development.
