Comparison

Simple Days Until vs Arucocca

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

Head to head
About

Simple Days Until

Features
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A simple, beautiful iOS app that brings the passage of time to life. Who it's for: - See how many days are left in this year or this month - Know how close a deadline is, right on your Home Screen - Count down to a milestone birthday - Feel time intuitively without a heavy calendar app Features: Three event types - Deadline: set any custom date range - Period: Today / This Week / This Month / This Year (auto-updating) - Birthday: choose Next Birthday or Specific Age Home Screen Widgets Small, Medium, Large sizes. Keep your favorite events in sight. 10 Theme Colors Morning Forest, Charcoal and Ember, Deep Sea, Dusk Rose, and more. Personal Palette 36 icons and 13 colors to make each event your own. Week Start Choose any day Sunday through Saturday for This Week events. One-time Pro A single 0.49 USD purchase unlocks: - Unlimited events (free is limited to 4) - Modern color palette (8 extra event colors) - All theme colors (8 extra app themes) - All widget sizes - CSV and JSON export Not a subscription. Buy once, keep forever. Privacy All data stays on your device. No external servers other than Apple's purchase processing. No ads, no tracking. Already own the previous paid version? If you purchased version 1.0, Pro features are automatically unlocked at no extra cost.

About

Arucocca

This app offers a unique timeline-based approach to planning and journaling, focusing on upcoming events and personal feelings. It allows users to log their emotions before and after plans, creating a personal diary of experiences. Designed for those overwhelmed by traditional calendars, it provides a calm and focused way to manage life's events.

Highlights
  • Timeline view instead of calendar grid
  • Feeling stamps for plans
  • After-plan logging with notes and photos
  • Diary creation from logs
  • Gentle notifications
  • iCloud sync
  • Data export
Features
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Just one plan can weigh on you until the day arrives. A calendar packed with plans can leave you feeling like there's no room to breathe. Arucocca is a plan-and-journal app for people who would rather not manage life in a calendar grid. ■ A timeline, not a calendar grid Arucocca doesn't treat plans as blocks that fill a calendar grid. They appear as waypoints along a single timeline leading into the future. You mainly see today and what's coming up next. No need to carry every future plan at once — just pass through them one at a time. The space between plans isn't time taken from you. It's room that belongs to you. ■ Add how you feel about a plan When you create a plan, add how you honestly feel about it with a stamp: Excited / Ready / Neutral / Nervous / Gloomy No need to force positivity — pick what's true right now. You can change it as many times as you like. ■ When it's over, leave a quick log Pick a stamp for how it went, jot a quick note, or add photos. ■ Your logs become a diary The stamps, quick notes, and photos you save after plans build into a diary of those moments. “I was dreading it, but I'm glad I went.” Looking back, you can see how you felt before a plan and how it actually went. ■ Made for people who… ・Feel a single appointment can ruin the whole day before it starts ・Feel overwhelmed by month-view calendars ・Haven't been able to stick with planner apps ・Find long-form diaries hard to keep, but still want to save a quick note ・Want to keep the next plan in sight so it doesn't slip their mind ・Want to save how concerts, livestreams, and other anticipated events felt, along with photos ・Want a private place for how they feel before and after plans ■ Features ・A curved timeline flowing into the future ・Feeling stamps for upcoming plans (5 types) ・Custom feeling stamps made from photos you choose or take (1 set on Free) ・After-plan logs (stamp, note, photos) ・Plans without a time, all-day plans, multi-day plans ・Repeating plans (edit or skip a single occurrence) ・Gentle notifications (upcoming plans, an evening reminder to log) ・Light organizing with tags ・Collapse days to keep the view calm ・Import plans from Apple Calendar ・iCloud sync across devices ・Export all your data, photos included, for free ■ Arucocca Premium The essentials — creating plans, logging, looking back — are free. Premium unlocks: ・Look back at your full history beyond the free 60-day window ・See every day in Daily, including days without plans ・Save log photos with no app-side count limit (Free: up to 30) ・Change the footprints on your timeline (dog, cat, birdie) ・Exclusive themes (Mono White and Mono Black) ・Extra app icons ・No app-side limit on custom feeling stamp sets Free includes one custom feeling stamp set. Premium removes Arucocca's set-count limit; the number you can store still depends on available device and iCloud storage. Images used for feeling stamps do not count toward the free plan's 30-photo limit for logs. If Premium ends, the custom set currently in use on that device remains available. Other sets are not deleted: you can still view or permanently delete them, and they continue to appear in past plans and logs. Applying or editing extra sets stays locked until Premium is restored. Plans: ・Monthly (7-day free trial) ・Yearly (14-day free trial) ・Lifetime (one-time purchase) Prices are shown in the app. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in iOS Settings after purchase. Terms of Service: https://ojthon-dev.com/company/arucocca/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://ojthon-dev.com/company/arucocca/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Simple Days Until4 screens
Arucocca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Days Until at none against Arucocca's 3. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Arucocca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Simple Days Until asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Simple Days Until versus Arucocca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Days UntilArucocca
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developernaoya takamuraSHIN SUGITANI

In-app purchases

None

Simple Days Until

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Arucocca

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Simple Days Until free?
Simple Days Until is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arucocca free?
Arucocca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Days Until or Arucocca have ads?
Neither Simple Days Until nor Arucocca shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Days Until or Arucocca?
Simple Days Until ships an update weekly, and Arucocca weekly. Most recently, Simple Days Until was updated on September 9, 2026 and Arucocca on September 8, 2026.

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