Comparison

Time Blocking Planner vs Photo To PDF

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Time Blocking Planner

Organize your day with a minimalistic planner that helps you manage tasks, boost productivity, and optimize your schedule. Features include time blocking, task prioritization, and smart reminders to keep you focused and efficient.

Highlights
  • Time blocking and schedule visualization
  • Task management and prioritization
  • Smart calendar sync
  • Color coding and organization
  • Quick task creation and editing
  • Widgets and quick access
  • Recurring task automation
Features
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Arcush is a powerful, minimalistic daily planner app designed to help you organize tasks, boost productivity, manage schedules, and optimize time management. Whether you're planning work, personal errands, or long-term goals, Arcush provides the tools to stay focused, structured, and efficient. Key Features: - Time Blocking & Schedule Visualization – Structure your day, allocate time slots for meetings, tasks, and free time, and gain a clear overview of your agenda. - Task Management & Prioritization – Use the Inbox to jot down ideas, add activities, and organize tasks effectively. - Inbox Zero – Clear unnecessary tasks, focus on priorities and reduce mental clutter. - Smart Calendar Sync* – Integrate work and personal calendars for a unified planning experience. - Time Blocking* – Mark dedicated slots for deep work or important errands, and signal your availability to others. - Color Coding & Organization* – Categorize and highlight tasks with colors to streamline scheduling. - Quick Task Creation & Editing – Add tasks with minimal effort using an intuitive interface and a single-screen setup. - Widgets & Quick Access – Create tasks instantly from your home screen without opening the app. - Notifications & Smart Reminders – Get timely alerts for upcoming and overdue tasks, ensuring you never miss a plan. - Recurring Task Automation* – Set up daily, weekly, and monthly tasks with flexible repeat options. Arcush is designed for task management, time blocking, productivity tracking, goal setting, and daily planning. Whether you're managing work schedules, personal routines, meetings, deadlines, or habits, Arcush helps you stay organized and focused. Boost efficiency with smart reminders, calendar integration, quick task entry, intuitive scheduling, and flexible recurring task options. With a clean and minimalist planner interface, Arcush simplifies your workflow while keeping your day structured.- Automate recurring tasks with daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling options. Arcush is free to download and use, with premium features (marked *) available through Arcush Pro, offered as a monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription. Terms of Use – https://www.arcush.com/terms

About

Photo To PDF

Features
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Photo To PDF turns the photos and paper around you into clean, shareable PDFs. Point the camera at a receipt, a contract or an ID card, or pick images you already have, and you get a properly cropped, properly sized document in seconds. It all happens on your iPhone or iPad, offline. SCAN ANYTHING • Auto edge detection finds the page and crops it for you • Auto-enhance fixes lighting and contrast on every capture • Color, grayscale and black & white modes • Flash, grid overlay, HDR, stabilization and a capture timer • ID Card mode lays the front and back of a card onto one page • Capture one page or a whole stack in a single session PHOTOS INTO ONE PDF • Pick any number of photos from your library and merge them into one document • Import an existing PDF to add its pages or keep it in your library • JPG, PNG and HEIC in, PDF out EDIT BEFORE YOU EXPORT • Crop and rotate any page • Drag pages into the order you want • Add or remove pages at any time • Rename a document and give it a color READ THE TEXT OFF A PAGE • On-device text recognition pulls the words out of any scan • Copy the text, or share it straight from the sheet • Nothing is sent anywhere to do it SIGN WITH YOUR OWN SIGNATURE • Draw your signature once, in the color you want • Drop that same signature onto any page, then size and place it • Saved signatures stay on the device KEEP IT ORGANIZED • Folders, plus Recents, Favorites and Imported filters • Search by name, or say what you are looking for with voice search • History shows what you created and when • A storage screen shows exactly what the app is using WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS • Home Screen widgets: Documents, Document Previews, Quick Actions and Document Count • Lock Screen widgets and Control Center buttons • Siri and Shortcuts: scan, import, search and open your latest scan by voice • Save to Photo To PDF from any app's share sheet PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your documents stay on this device. Nothing you scan, and no text read from it, is ever uploaded • Optional 4-digit passcode with Face ID or Touch ID • Auto-lock immediately, or after 1, 5 or 15 minutes • Works with no internet connection at all THIRTEEN LANGUAGES English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. FREE AND PRO Free gives you three PDFs a day at Low or Standard quality, plus the scanner, the page editor, text recognition, folders, search, Quick Actions, the Control Center buttons, and creating signatures. Pro adds: • Unlimited PDF creation, with no daily limit • High (300 DPI) and Ultra HD (600 DPI) page quality • Export and share your PDFs • Placing a signature on a page • Password Protection with Face ID • The Documents and Document Previews widgets • Priority support Pro is available as a weekly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage your subscription, or turn off auto-renew, in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/ptp-termofuse/home Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/ptp-privacypolicy/home Questions, or something not working? Settings → Contact Support writes to us directly.

Screenshots

Time Blocking Planner4 screens
Photo To PDF4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Time Blocking Planner at none against Photo To PDF's shown. Time Blocking Planner also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time Blocking Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Photo To PDF sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Time Blocking Planner versus Photo To PDF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime Blocking PlannerPhoto To PDF
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (258 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings258 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVolodymyr DudchakBhavik Gevariya

Bugs and requests

Time Blocking Planner

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Widget not functioning properly
  • Time blocks overlapping incorrectly

Requested features

6 requests
  • AI-powered task planning
  • Drag-and-drop task rescheduling
  • Hyperscheduling capabilities
  • iPad and Apple Watch support
  • Recurring tasks with flexible scheduling
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  • Subtasks and project management features

Photo To PDF

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Time Blocking Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Arcush Pro Lifetime$29.99
3 purchases

Photo To PDF

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Time Blocking Planner free?
Time Blocking Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo To PDF free?
Photo To PDF is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Time Blocking Planner or Photo To PDF have ads?
Photo To PDF shows ads; Time Blocking Planner does not.

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