Goalpad guide — set weekly hours per goal and fill them with a start/stop timer: your first goal in two taps, sessions across days, a timer that survives reloads, adding forgotten time, the week start day, past weeks, backup — no account, no ads

It started with “read for 4 hours a week”

Someone on Reddit's r/ProductivityApps was looking for an app where you can "set a certain amount of time per week for a task", for example "read for 4 hours a week", with a "timer that counts down but can track over multiple sessions".

Similar tools are mostly English only, built for team timesheets and billing, or daily habit checklists. Goalpad opens in a browser, has no account and does one thing: your own weekly time budget. Everything is saved in this browser on this device. The interface is in Korean, English, Japanese and German.

What Goalpad does

• Weekly hours per goal → "Read 4 h", "Exercise 3 h", set in hours and minutes, each with its own colour.
• Start and Stop → one big Start button on each goal card. While it runs, this session counts up and the week's remaining time counts down.
• Any days, many sessions → 30 minutes on Monday and an hour on Wednesday all add up on this week's progress bar.
• Going over → the end of the bar turns gold with "Target reached" and the extra time. No scolding.
• Past weeks → each finished week shows every goal's time against the target it had then, with its sessions.

Your first goal in two taps

• On first open you see starters such as "Read · 4 h a week" and "Exercise · 3 h a week". Tap one and it becomes your goal.
• Tap Start on the goal card and the timer runs. When you are done, tap Stop in the same place.
• Use New goal to set your own name, weekly time and colour, and Edit on a card to change them any time.
• A changed target counts from this week on. Past weeks keep the target they had.

The timer does not get lost

• Goalpad only stores when you started. So if you close the tab, reload or restart the phone, the time in between is all there when you open it again.
• Only one timer runs at a time. Tapping Start on another goal saves and stops the first one.
• The browser tab title shows the running time, so you can check it from another tab.
• Time that runs past midnight is split by day, so a session started on Sunday night counts the part after midnight in the next week.
• If you forget to stop for hours, the card says so. Stop it and fix the time, or throw that run away.

Adding and fixing forgotten time

• Tap Add time on a card, then enter the date, hours and minutes and a note if you like. Only today or earlier days can be picked.
• Every session under This week's sessions and Past weeks has Edit, to change its length, date or goal, or delete it.
• Right after a change or delete, Undo in the message at the bottom takes it back.

When the week starts, and past weeks

• The week starts fresh on Monday by default. Under Settings you can pick Sunday or any other day; changing it only regroups days, and no time is lost.
• When a new week begins, the bars empty by themselves and the old week moves to Past weeks. There is nothing to press.
• Archive a goal you no longer use: it leaves this week's list and keeps its history. Restore it under Settings.

Backup and changing phones

• Export JSON puts your goals, sessions and even a running timer into one file. On the new phone, Import JSON brings it back.
• Export CSV has one row per session — date, week start, goal, minutes, start time, note — and opens in Excel.
• Import and Delete everything always ask first, with an Export JSON first button in the same window.

What Goalpad does not do

• It is not a team timesheet, invoice or payroll tool. It is a notebook for you alone.
• It is not a Pomodoro timer, and there are no streaks, badges or scores.
• It does not watch which apps or sites you use. It only counts the time you start and stop yourself.
• No account, no sync and no ads on the tool. Your time is never uploaded.