Comparison

But I Have a Plan vs ArcaNotes

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

Head to head
About

But I Have a Plan

This app guides users through a structured process to define life roles, set goals, and create actionable steps. It helps organize priorities and encourages regular reviews to ensure alignment with personal vision and values. The focus is on building a plan for the life you are actively living.

Highlights
  • Define key life roles
  • Write purpose statements
  • Create role-specific visions
  • Break goals into action steps
  • Organize tasks and priorities
  • Regular plan reviews
Features
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Stop drifting. Build your personal life plan. Most people are not lacking ambition. They have goals for their health, family, faith, work, finances, relationships, and personal growth. The problem is that those goals often live in different places, compete for attention, or disappear when life gets busy. But I Have a Plan helps you step back, clarify what matters most, and turn your vision into goals, steps, and weekly action. CREATE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE PLAN But I Have a Plan guides you through a structured life planning process so you can: • Define your key life roles • Write a purpose statement for each role • Create a vision for where you want each area to go • Be honest about your current reality • Turn your vision into meaningful goals • Break goals into action steps • Organize tasks and priorities • Review your plan so you stay aligned THIS IS PERSONAL LIFE PLANNING But I Have a Plan is not estate planning, insurance planning, or end-of-life planning. It is a guided app for planning the life you are actively living. Use it to clarify what matters, create a plan around your major life roles, and make decisions from a clearer picture of the life you are building. TURN VISION INTO ACTION A life plan should not be a document you create once and forget. But I Have a Plan helps you turn your plan into action through goals, steps, tasks, reminders, priorities, and regular reviews. So what matters most does not disappear when life gets busy. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Use But I Have a Plan to: • Get clarity across the major areas of your life • Stop keeping your goals scattered in your head • Connect your goals to a bigger vision • Break big intentions into practical action steps • Notice neglected areas before they stay neglected • Review your plan and adjust as life changes WHY IT MATTERS A goal list helps you remember what you want to do. A personal life plan helps you remember who you are trying to become. But I Have a Plan helps you create that plan and live from it one week at a time. Stop drifting. Start building your personal life plan today.

About

ArcaNotes

This app is designed for rapid note-taking with a focus on single ideas per note. It uses an AI-enhanced approach to help organize and retrieve information naturally through a feed-like interface. The app also encourages sharing knowledge by making it easy to follow and contribute to shared feeds.

Highlights
  • Rapid micro-note creation
  • AI-suggested topics
  • Natural feed-based review
  • Question-based note retrieval
  • Effortless knowledge sharing
  • Topic-based note organization
Features
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ArcaNotes is a different kind of note-taking app. It's designed for speed of entry ("micro-notes"), makes reviewing feel natural, streamlines sharing, and uses AI to help you organize and retrieve. ArcaNotes has a small mission and a big mission. The small mission is to make a great note-taking app that is fast, flexible, and aligned with how many of us work today. The bigger mission is for ArcaNotes to become your second brain, the place where you store all of your information. By making it effortless to retrieve, share, and review, your knowledge will be unlocked for you and others. How is ArcaNotes different? 1. It’s designed for rapid note-taking * Rather than taking long notes that cover several disparate topics, try using ArcaNotes to take “micro-notes” - short notes, each about one idea. * As soon as you have something you want to jot down, just enter it, and worry about organizing it (ie, assigning a topic) later. * The intention is for there to be nothing between your thought and the act of storing it - no friction. Capturing information is as simple as texting yourself. 2. Retrieval and review feel natural * Notes are displayed like a feed, similar to messaging apps. For many people, scrolling a feed is a more natural way to review and retrieve than clicking through nested folders. * Notes can be assigned one or more topics, and notes under that topic can be viewed, much like a channel. 3. It encourages you to share your knowledge * So much knowledge is trapped in our heads and apps. Often, we don’t share it because of the extra work required. * ArcaNotes aims to change that by making sharing and following feeds of other users’ notes easy. The intent is for a portion of your notes (the ones you want to share) to be opened up so others can quickly scan and review them. It’s a bit like how people routinely scan various message channels to catch up on other teams’ activities. 4. It leverages AI technology to help you be more productive * ArcaNotes suggests topics that best fit the content of your note, as you type. The goal is to help you work faster by doing some of the thinking about organizing for you. * Rather than searching by keyword, you can ask your notes a question. ArcaNotes will generate an answer based on the knowledge contained in your notes.

Screenshots

But I Have a Plan4 screens
ArcaNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArcaNotes at none against But I Have a Plan's 3. ArcaNotes also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. But I Have a Plan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ArcaNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for But I Have a Plan against 5.0 for ArcaNotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
But I Have a Plan versus ArcaNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBut I Have a PlanArcaNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZak MetzArcaNotes, LLC

Customer experience

But I Have a Plan

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcaNotes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

But I Have a Plan

Subscriptions3
  • Essentials$2.991 Month
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Annual$59.991 Year
None

ArcaNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is But I Have a Plan free?
But I Have a Plan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcaNotes free?
ArcaNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, But I Have a Plan or ArcaNotes?
But I Have a Plan and ArcaNotes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do But I Have a Plan or ArcaNotes have ads?
Neither But I Have a Plan nor ArcaNotes shows ads.

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