Desktop Journey vs arc.app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Desktop Journey
Transform your phone into a useful desk companion. It displays your calendar and reminders at a glance, and features a gamified element where you complete small tasks to defeat enemies during your workday. An optional subscription unlocks weather information.
- At-a-glance calendar and reminders
- Time and date display
- Gamified task completion
- Customizable tasks
- Optional weather display
- Ad-free experience
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The perfect app to run while your phone is in its charging stand at your desk! Aside from an optional subscription to additionally show the current temperature and weather (to help cover the app author's cost of access to a weather API), Desktop Journey is completely free, and ad-free! Make your phone's screen useful while you're working on other things by having it show a dashboard of at-a-glance views of the current time and date, and current and upcoming items from your iOS calendar and reminders. At the bottom of the screen, a hero accompanies you, walking along through various biomes as you journey through your own work day. A few times a day, an enemy character will confront the hero. You can defeat the enemy by doing a task, from a set that you customize, such as doing a few push-ups, standing up and stretching, or tidying your workspace. Or, just skip the encounter if it's not a convenient time. Enjoy your Desktop Journey!
arc.app
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Designed to be the perfect mobile application companion to the Arcstone Operations Platform, arc.ops(TM), the arc.app(TM) is dedicated to putting real-time visibility, control and optimization power of Arcstone's solutions onto the mobile devices of management, engineers and factory floor personnel. Designed with quick dashboards and KPI monitoring to a full fledged Mobile Workstation Control system for production floor operations, this arc.app provides rapid notification and real-time production operations and helps factory floor personnel easily and quickly track work and perform workflows. This makes the arc.app a must have for rapid work flow monitoring to ensure higher productivity and quality across manual and automated manufacturing operations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: arc.app at none against Desktop Journey's 1. arc.app also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Desktop Journey's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Desktop Journey sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. arc.app asks for nothing beyond the download.
Desktop Journey ships an update every 8 days, arc.app every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Desktop Journey | arc.app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Schneider | Arcstone Pte. Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Desktop Journey
- Full Unlock1 Month trial$0.991 Month
arc.app
No in-app purchases









