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
- $19.99 a month, or $119.99 a year, after a 3-day trial. The first conversation is free.
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.
