Comparison

Dayleaf vs Arca

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

Head to head
About

Dayleaf

This app offers a digital journaling experience that mimics a physical paper planner. It features multiple calendar views, customizable planners for different life areas, and quick entry options. Cloud backup and export capabilities ensure your notes are safe and accessible.

Highlights
  • Monthly, Weekly, and Day calendar views
  • Multiple color-coded planners
  • Quick entry and editing
  • Instant search functionality
  • Cloud backup and restore
  • Printable calendar views
  • Email export of entries
Features
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The warmth of a paper planner, the power of your iPhone. Write your days, stick stickers on your dates, and watch your life fill a beautiful calendar: journal, diary, goals, and planner in one quiet, ad-free app. Free to start; Pro is a one-time purchase or a subscription, your choice. Open it to a calendar, not a blank page: your entries, photos, and stickers live right inside the month, week, and day views, so every glance tells the story of your life. **New: Your Second Brain in an Agentic World** Switch on Headless Dayleaf and Meta Muse, Claude, Gemini or your own scripts can write the day's weather, your steps and sleep, or a summary of what you shipped into the right planner, labelled "via muse" so your words and theirs never blur, and read back what you wrote. Your whole journal also exports as Markdown files, one note per day, ready for Obsidian and any AI tool. Off by default; text only, never your photos or audio. **Switching from Day One?** Bring your entire journal home in minutes: every entry, photo, and voice recording. Choose your export in Settings → Import and Dayleaf does the rest, even for journals with a decade of memories. Free, forever. **Photos & Voice Notes** Attach photos to any entry and see them right on your calendar. Tap the mic to capture a voice note on the spot. Some days deserve to be heard, not typed. **Planner Stickers** Birthday, Pay day, Trip, Deadline, Date night… stick them on any date like a real paper planner, or design your own with your choice of icon and color. **Twenty Hand-Crafted Themes** Paper, Forest, Ocean, Lavender, Rosé, Ink & Gold, Sunset, Olive, Retro, Clay, Frost, Linen, Kraft, Pop: each tuned by hand with a light and a dark face, several with their own page construction. Your journal, your mood. **Set Goals. Reflect. Grow.** Daily, weekly, and monthly goals with a Notes & Reflection space to look back and write how it really went, just like the review pages of a great paper planner. **Private Diary with Lock. Your Year in Review.** App Lock (Pro) guards your diary with a 4-digit passcode; forgot it? A code sent to your email resets it. Year in Review (Pro) shows streaks, words written, busiest days and a globe lit by every city you've written from. Tag entries with your location, write your own reminder messages, and switch on a persistent reminder that nudges until you open the app. **Private. Backed Up. Always Yours.** One-tap backups to your own iCloud: entries, photos, voice notes, stickers, everything. No account required, no tracking, and your journal stays in your own Apple account. Restore anywhere, anytime. Key Features: - Day One import: entries, photos & audio, free forever - App Lock passcode, Year in Review, places globe, blog-post entries (Pro) - Headless Dayleaf: local API, `dayleaf` command line and MCP server (Mac); cloud access for Meta Muse and other agents - Markdown export: one note per day, ready for Obsidian and AI tools - Photo attachments with calendar thumbnails - On-the-spot voice notes - 20 planner stickers + design your own - 20 hand-crafted themes, each with light & dark - Per-planner icons, fonts, and text sizes - Daily, weekly, and monthly goals with reflection - Monthly, Weekly, and Day calendar views with zoom - Daily reminder at your chosen time - Instant search and a fast, beautiful Timeline - iCloud backup and restore: no account needed - Print your calendar; export by email (text/CSV) DAYLEAF EVERYWHERE Capture on Apple Watch: dictate an entry, record voice memos with automatic transcripts, tick off goals from your wrist, and add the watch-face complication. And with the Mac app, your whole journal is at home on your desktop too. Perfect for daily journaling, gratitude and mood tracking, habit reflection, work notes, reading lists, travel plans, and memory keeping. Your memories deserve a beautiful home. Start today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Arca

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Arca is a team task manager built for clarity without complexity. Whether you're running a project, managing a team, or just trying to keep track of what needs to get done, Arca gives you everything in one place, no more scattered spreadsheets, forgotten emails, or endless status meetings. ORGANIZE WORK YOUR WAY Break your workspace into folders and lists that match how your team actually works. Group tasks by phase, category, milestone, or team, then drill into exactly what matters without the noise. TASKS WITH FULL CONTEXT Every task in Arca is a complete record of the work: • Rich title and description • Status and priority (Urgent, High, Medium, Low) • Assignees, so ownership is always clear • Start date and due date • Labels and custom tags • Subtasks for breaking down complex work • Dependencies to track blockers • Comments, @mentions, reactions, and file attachments No more digging through Slack threads or email chains to find context. It's all on the task. MULTIPLE VIEWS FOR EVERY SITUATION One size doesn't fit all. Switch between views to get the perspective you need: • Table: spreadsheet-style grid for bulk updates and triage • Board: drag-and-drop kanban cards grouped by status, priority, or assignee • Calendar: tasks plotted by due date for deadline planning • Timeline: task bars across a time axis for scheduling and spotting overlaps Save any view with your filters and sorting intact, and return to it instantly. REAL-TIME COLLABORATION Your team stays aligned without constant check-ins: • Comment directly on tasks and @mention teammates • Get notified the moment something changes that affects you • React to updates with emoji reactions • Know who's responsible for what at a glance DASHBOARDS & INSIGHTS Stop manually tracking progress. Arca's dashboards surface the big picture, task completion rates, workload by assignee, tasks by status, so you always know if work is on track and where bottlenecks are forming. BUILT FOR TEAMS Arca is designed around shared workspaces with role-based access. Invite your team, assign work, and keep everyone moving in the same direction, without the overhead of complex project management tools. Whether you're a small team moving fast or a growing organization that needs structure, Arca scales with you. Download Arca and bring clarity to your team's work.

Screenshots

Dayleaf4 screens
Arca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arca at none against Dayleaf's 3. Arca also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Dayleaf's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence 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. Dayleaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Arca asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dayleaf ships an update weekly, Arca every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dayleaf versus Arca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayleafArca
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiMobiAppGRE Development Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dayleaf

Subscriptions2
  • Dayleaf Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Dayleaf Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dayleaf Pro$19.99
None

Arca

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dayleaf free?
Dayleaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arca free?
Arca is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dayleaf or Arca have ads?
Neither Dayleaf nor Arca shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dayleaf or Arca?
Dayleaf ships an update weekly, and Arca every 6 days. Most recently, Dayleaf was updated on November 5, 2026 and Arca on October 25, 2026.

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