Comparison

Friendly Spaces vs Arucocca

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

Head to head
About

Friendly Spaces

Features
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Friendly Spaces helps families discover places that truly welcome babies and young children. Finding a café, restaurant or public venue that is comfortable with a baby or toddler can be difficult. Friendly Spaces makes it easy by highlighting locations that intentionally create a welcoming environment for families. Using the app, you can explore a growing network of verified family-friendly places across Switzerland. Features include: • Discover cafés, restaurants, shops and cultural venues that welcome families • Explore locations on an interactive map • Quickly see which places are suitable for babies and young children • Plan outings with confidence • Support businesses that are actively creating more inclusive public spaces for families Friendly Spaces works with participating businesses to certify locations that meet family-friendly criteria. Many locations offer thoughtful details such as space for strollers, play corners, or other amenities designed to make outings with young children easier. Whether you are meeting friends for coffee, looking for a relaxed lunch spot, or planning a day out with your child, Friendly Spaces helps you find places where families feel welcome.

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

Friendly Spaces3 screens
Arucocca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Friendly Spaces at none against Arucocca's 3. Friendly Spaces also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Arucocca's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price 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. Arucocca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Friendly Spaces asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Friendly Spaces ships an update every 3 months, Arucocca weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Friendly Spaces versus Arucocca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFriendly SpacesArucocca
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJazmine DeCaroSHIN SUGITANI

In-app purchases

None

Friendly Spaces

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 Friendly Spaces free?
Friendly Spaces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arucocca free?
Arucocca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Friendly Spaces or Arucocca have ads?
Neither Friendly Spaces nor Arucocca shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Friendly Spaces or Arucocca?
Friendly Spaces ships an update every 3 months, and Arucocca weekly. Most recently, Friendly Spaces was updated on October 19, 2026 and Arucocca on October 10, 2026.

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