Comparison

Today3 vs Arctic Habit

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

Head to head
About

Today3

Features
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Today3 is a restrained, focused to-do app. Instead of encouraging you to fill every minute, it helps you choose the few tasks that truly matter today and finish them one at a time. • Keep Today to three tasks: reduce choices and focus on what matters now. • Leave the rest in Later: capture ideas without interrupting your current work. • Review your day: organize completed, deferred, and tomorrow’s tasks. • Gentle reminders: receive calm prompts at fixed times without repeated nagging. • Task details and photo attachments: add notes and images without making the home screen heavy. • Ambient awareness: weather, light, and time subtly shape the interface. Today3 has no ads and does not track you across apps. Your tasks and images support your own list experience and can sync across your devices with iCloud.

About

Arctic Habit

Enhance focus and productivity with a unique timer that rewards your concentration by growing a virtual Arctic habitat. Rescue animals and decorate your island as you complete study, reading, or deep work sessions. Track your habits and gain insights into your focus patterns.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus timer with animal rewards
  • Customizable Arctic island habitat
  • Session tagging for study, reading, and more
  • Streak tracking and habit analytics
  • Deep Focus mode to block other apps
  • Focus sounds (rain, waves, lo-fi)
  • To-do list integration with Pro
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Focus and rescue your Arctic friends. Turn study, reading and deep work into a growing island of penguins, seals and orcas. MAKE FOCUS FEEL REWARDING • Set a session from 10 to 180 minutes. As you focus, the ice melts; completing the session frees your chosen animal or decoration. • Place your rewards on your own ice island. Watch penguins huddle, seals greet one another at the water's edge and orcas swim and dive. • Shape the snow and ocean with Focus Ice earned from completed sessions. Day and night follow your device's clock. UNDERSTAND YOUR HABITS • Tag sessions for study, reading, languages or exercise. • Follow your streak, compare day, week, month and year charts, and revisit your session history. • Turn on Deep Focus to lock other apps during a session. Screen Time permission is required; essential system apps remain available. • Choose focus sounds such as rain, waves, white noise, lo-fi and piano. GO FURTHER WITH ARCTIC PRO • Analyze time by tag, see your six-month focus grid and discover your golden hours. • Organize To-Dos under your tags and start a focus session for a task. Create unlimited tags. • Save Deep Focus presets of the apps you allow for study and work. • Enjoy an aurora over your island and double a completed session's Focus Ice without ads. • Unlock the orca after your first paid subscription purchase, rather than during the free trial. The focus timer, core island progression, streaks and focus charts are available free. Free users can optionally watch a rewarded ad after a session to double that session's Focus Ice; ads never interrupt an active focus session. Pro offers monthly and yearly auto-renewable plans. Eligible new subscribers receive a 7-day free trial. Prices, eligibility and renewal details appear before purchase. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app. Focus history and your island stay on this device. Sign in with Apple, Google or a one-time email code. Delete your account from Settings. Build a habit. Grow a habitat. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://policy.go2gym365.com/arctichabit/en/privacy

Screenshots

Today34 screens
Arctic Habit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Today3 at none against Arctic Habit's 4. Today3 also leads on ads (none vs shown). Arctic Habit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Arctic Habit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Today3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Today3 ships an update every 11 days, Arctic Habit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Today3 versus Arctic Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToday3Arctic Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer冰洋 王jeonghwan lee

In-app purchases

None

Today3

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Arctic Habit

Subscriptions3
  • Arctic Pro Weekly7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Arctic Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Arctic Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Arctic Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Today3 free?
Today3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arctic Habit free?
Arctic Habit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Today3 or Arctic Habit have ads?
Arctic Habit shows ads; Today3 does not.
Which is updated more often, Today3 or Arctic Habit?
Today3 ships an update every 11 days, and Arctic Habit every 2 days. Most recently, Today3 was updated on October 31, 2026 and Arctic Habit on October 29, 2026.

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