Marsh or ChatGPT
ChatGPT can do far more than Marsh. Marsh does one job, and it's the one a general assistant isn't built for: bringing your goal back up when you've gone quiet.
Who starts the conversation
Marsh is better here
- ChatGPT
- You do. It mostly waits for you to open it, and if you forget your goal the conversation forgets it with you.
- Marsh
- Marsh texts you once a day to ask how it's going.
What it can do
ChatGPT is better here
- ChatGPT
- Write code, read a spreadsheet, draft an essay, talk through almost anything.
- Marsh
- Keep you on the thing you said you'd do. That's the whole job.
Keeping count
Marsh is better here
- ChatGPT
- There's no built-in log. You'd keep the numbers yourself.
- Marsh
- Marsh logs what you tell it into trackers, each with a chart and a link.
What it remembers
About even
- ChatGPT
- It remembers some things across chats, and you can view or clear them in its settings.
- Marsh
- A short written profile you can read, edit or delete one line at a time.
Where it lives
Marsh is better here
- ChatGPT
- An app or a browser tab.
- Marsh
- Your Messages app, in the same list as your friends.
Price
About even
- ChatGPT
- A free tier, and about $20 a month for the paid one.
- Marsh
- The first week is free, and so is texting after it, up to a daily limit. The plan is $19.99 a month, or $119.99 a year.
Keep ChatGPT for everything else. Use Marsh if what you need is something that asks about your goal on the days you'd rather it didn't.
