Anchor vs Yantra

Love your phone? Good. Anchor is a habit tracker and daily routine planner that makes your favorite apps the reward for following through. Complete your morning routine, then scroll TikTok guilt-free. Finish your workout, then game without shame. Stop fighting your phone — use it as daily motivation instead. Made for people with busy minds, ADHD brains, or anyone who knows the right move but can't quite start. ANCHORS GIVE YOU SOMEWHERE TO GO Reminders tell you what to do. Anchors give you a destination. There's a difference between "I should get dressed" and "I need to walk to my closet." One is a mental battle. The other is just movement. Place an anchor where the task happens — inside the closet, not on the nightstand. When your routine starts, you have somewhere to go. Walk there, tap, and the rest usually follows. HOW IT WORKS 1. Build a routine — organize your daily habits into a sequence for your morning, workout, bedtime, or any time you want to focus. 2. Place your anchors where tasks happen — small tags or printed codes you stick around your home. 3. Walk there to unlock — tap or scan your anchor, and your blocked apps unlock automatically. FOUR WAYS TO ANCHOR • Tap Anchors — small NFC tags you tap with your phone • QR Anchors — free printable codes you scan with the camera • Countdown Timer — minimum-duration tasks like meditation or reading • Photo Verification — snap a photo as proof for cleaning, cooking, or visual tasks BLOCK THE DISTRACTIONS YOU CHOOSE Pick exactly which apps stay locked behind your routine. TikTok, Instagram, games — whatever pulls you off track. Phone calls, messages, maps, and banking are never touched. Blocking uses your iPhone's built-in Screen Time, so it works system-wide and helps you manage your time without willpower battles. There's always an emergency override — you're an adult — it just takes a few taps so you have a moment to reconsider. SCHEDULE ROUTINES FOR ANY TIME OF DAY Set up morning routines, bedtime wind-downs, workout sequences, or focus sessions for any habit you want to build. Schedule each routine to start when you need it. Track your streaks and celebrate the days you showed up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The app is free. No account required. Your daily routines, habits, and completion data stay on your device. What you do with your time is your business. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone with iOS 17 or later • Tap anchors require iPhone 7 or newer (for NFC reading) • All core features work offline Some days are harder than others. Anchors don't judge — they just give you a place to go. That's often enough. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Yantra is your second brain — a private place to capture what matters, find it again later, and act on it. Now on iPhone and Apple Watch. Everything you save lives on your device. Capture, transcription, search, tasks and your calendar run on-device for free — no account, no subscription, no server in the middle. AI works with no key at all using on-device Apple Intelligence, or bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key for larger models. Then requests go straight from your device to the provider you chose. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Voice memos, transcribed on-device as you speak • Quick text notes and a daily journal • Photos, PDFs and scans — with on-device text recognition • Saved links, summarized for you • Meetings — long-form recording with speaker labels • Share anything into Yantra from any app APPLE WATCH • Tap to record a voice note, or dictate a quick text note, right from your wrist • Add the complication to start recording from your watch face • Notes land in Yantra on your iPhone, transcribed on-device YOUR DIGEST A short daily or weekly recap of what you saved, what's due, and older notes worth another look — on the Notes tab, as a widget, or as an optional notification. ASK YOUR NOTES Chat with everything you've saved. Yantra finds the most relevant notes on-device and answers with citations back to your own words. Ask in the app, or ask Siri. TASKS, BUILT IN • To-dos with due dates and priorities • Overdue, Today and Upcoming at a glance • Turn any note or meeting into tasks ALL OVER YOUR IPHONE • Find notes in Spotlight • Start recording from Control Center or the Action Button • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • A Live Activity while you record YOUR CHOICE OF AI • On-device Apple Intelligence — free, private, no key • Your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key — pay the provider directly, no markup • Optional Deepgram and Sarvam keys for speaker-labeled meetings and Hindi/Indic speech PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes and tasks stored only on your device • API keys kept in the secure Keychain • No tracking, no ads, no analytics • Export everything to one backup file, or to Markdown for Obsidian Your thoughts are yours. Yantra just helps you find them again — and get them done.