Goals vs Challenges

Both Goals and Challenges help you build habits and track progress — but they serve different purposes. Use this page to understand which one fits your situation.

Goals are personal and self-paced — only you own them. Challenges are shared and time-boxed — you and your partner take them on together.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Ownership

A Goal belongs entirely to you — it is stored with your userId and is never surfaced to your partner. A Challenge is created by one partner but immediately shared: both partners appear as challengeParticipants and the Challenge shows up in both partners' views.

Time-boxing

Goals are open-ended — there is no deadline unless you add one to an individual Task. You can work on a Goal for a week or a year. Challenges are always time-boxed: you set a startDate and an endDate when creating the Challenge, and both partners work within that window.

Task Visibility

Goal Tasks are private. Only you can see them, create them, and mark them complete. Your partner has no visibility into your Goal Tasks.

Challenge Tasks are shared. Both partners complete the same set of tasks independently — each partner's completion is recorded separately — and each partner can see how many tasks the other has completed.

Partner Relationship

You do not need a Partner to create or work on Goals. Goals are a solo feature. Challenges, on the other hand, are the primary shared feature between partners. You must have an active Partner to create a Challenge, and the Challenge will appear in both your view and your partner's view.

When to Use Each