Comparison

Arc vs HypoMe

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

Head to head
About

Arc

This app provides a structured and private way to practice exposure therapy for anxiety. It guides users through creating and following exposure ladders, logging attempts, and tracking progress. Advanced features offer deeper insights and therapist-ready summaries.

Highlights
  • Build and edit exposure ladders
  • Log and track anxiety attempts
  • Monitor anxiety levels and outcomes
  • View progress trends and milestones
  • Utilize practical support tools
  • Export and import data
Features
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Arc helps you practice exposure therapy in a structured, private, and repeatable way. Choose a pack, follow a clear ladder, and log one attempt at a time with a defined target behavior. Arc is built for process-first progress: show up, follow your plan, and build tolerance through repetition. Outcomes still matter, but consistency is the foundation. You’ll also get lightweight motivation through practice points and level progress, without turning your recovery into a game. What you can do: - Build and edit your exposure ladder - Start or log attempts with clear target behaviors - Track predicted, peak, and end anxiety - Log outcomes and notes after each attempt - View progress trends and milestones over time - Use practical support tools between attempts - Export and import your data (JSON) Pro features include adaptive next-step suggestions, deeper analytics, therapist-ready summaries, and enhanced progress insights. Your data stays local on your device by default. Terms of Use: https://gradualexposurehelp.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gradualexposurehelp.com/privacy/

About

HypoMe

This app helps you scientifically test personal hypotheses about your habits and their effects. It designs experiments, collects data, and provides statistical insights to reveal what truly works for you. Get clear, data-driven answers to your personal 'what if' questions.

Highlights
  • AI Experiment Designer
  • AI Results Interpreter
  • AI next-experiment suggestions
  • Apple Health integration
  • Baseline → intervention design
  • Real statistics
  • Confound tagging
Features
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Most tracking never ends. You log, and log, and one day you stop — no closer to knowing whether it worked. HypoMe is built the other way round: one question, a set number of days, an answer at the end. Does cutting caffeine after 2pm actually improve YOUR sleep? Describe the goal in plain English and the AI Experiment Designer turns it into a full experiment — intervention, outcome, baseline, run length. Record a few ordinary days as a baseline, then make the change and check in for about ten seconds a day. On the date you set, HypoMe compares baseline to change and tells you what happened in one sentence. You add your own takeaway beside the statistical one, and keep what worked as a practice with a reminder and a review date. The check-in streak tracks how consistently you logged — it is not the goal, and the run ends either way. You can run a full experiment without an account. An account adds sync across iPhone and the web, publishing, and Premium. DESIGNS THAT HOLD UP - Crossover (A/B/A) designs that test whether an effect really repeats (Premium). - Blinded runs — HypoMe seals which container is which until the end (Premium). - Two to five outcomes at once, and custom scales in your own units (Premium). - Confound tagging — flag travel, illness, or disrupted weeks so they don't muddy the data. - Apple Health — pick a HealthKit metric (sleep, steps, HRV, active calories) as your outcome. WHAT YOU GET AT THE END - A plain-English verdict: direction, magnitude, effect size, and trend, with Cohen's d and standard deviation behind it (Premium). - "Inconclusive" treated as a real result, with an explanation of why. - AI Results Interpreter (Premium) — phase-by-phase breakdown, confound patterns, adherence impact, what next. - A findings ledger where every completed run becomes something you know. - Publish the method behind a result so someone else can run it, or fork theirs. YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL - Sign in with email or Apple. No social graph, no public profile, no advertising. - Encrypted in transit. Data between your device and our servers travels over TLS. - Apple Health is read on-device with your explicit consent for the metrics you pick. Only the resulting outcome value for each experiment day is stored with your entries — never the raw Apple Health data as a separate payload. - Anonymous community contributions are opt-in. When enabled, only aggregate stats are added to the public community table — no user ID, no experiment ID, no intervention text, no hypothesis, no raw entries. Opt out or revoke past contributions anytime in Settings. - Export your experiments, entries, and settings anytime as JSON from Settings. - Full account deletion in Settings — permanently removes your account and associated data. - Read the full Privacy Policy at hypome.com/privacy. PREMIUM - $4.99/month or $29.99/year — first month free on annual. Cancel anytime in Settings. - Free tier: 1 experiment at a time, run all the way to a verdict; 3 AI designs/month. Nothing about finishing an experiment is paywalled. Built for people who want to know what actually works for them. No woo, no medical claims, no mystery. HypoMe is not medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional before changing medications or treatments. Terms of Use (EULA): https://hypome.com/terms

Screenshots

Arc4 screens
HypoMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Arc at every 3 days against HypoMe's every 2 weeks. HypoMe's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Arc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HypoMe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Arc against 5.0 for HypoMe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arc ships an update every 3 days, HypoMe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Arc versus HypoMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArcHypoMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB82 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZanaWorks LLCARTEM SUPRUN

Customer experience

Arc

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HypoMe

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Arc

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$14.99
2 purchases

HypoMe

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Arc free?
Arc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HypoMe free?
HypoMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Arc or HypoMe?
Arc and HypoMe are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Arc or HypoMe have ads?
Neither Arc nor HypoMe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arc or HypoMe?
Arc ships an update every 3 days, and HypoMe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Arc was updated on October 16, 2026 and HypoMe on October 15, 2026.

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