Plachieve vs DutyCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plachieve
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Plachieve is a planning app that helps you turn goals into daily actions. Whether you are studying for exams, working on a personal project, building habits, or managing your work schedule, Plachieve helps you connect long-term goals with what you actually do today. Use a clock-style schedule to see your day at a glance, create reusable templates for repeated plans, and add tasks quickly with simple interactions. Plachieve is designed for people who want to stop leaving plans as vague ideas and start turning them into real daily actions. Recommended for people who want to: - Manage study plans or exam preparation - Turn goals into daily schedules - Organize tasks, habits, and personal projects - See free time and busy time more clearly - Reduce the effort of entering repeated plans - Keep track of progress toward larger goals Main features: Goal management Create goals for studying, work, exams, habits, or personal projects, and track your progress over time. Checkpoints Break large goals into smaller milestones so you can see what to work on next. Calendar planning Manage daily tasks and schedules on a calendar. Clock-style schedule View your day in a visual, clock-style layout and understand your free time more easily. Templates Save frequently used plans and routines as templates, then reuse them when planning your day. Quick schedule creation Use templates and simple interactions to reduce the time spent entering repeated plans. Local-first design Your schedules, goals, and templates are mainly stored on your device. You can use the app without creating an account. Pro features Unlock additional features with a one-time Pro purchase. Plachieve is more than a calendar app. It is a tool for connecting goals, checkpoints, schedules, and templates so you can turn plans into action.
DutyCal
This app syncs your flight schedule from your crew portal to your iPhone Calendar and provides a printable monthly overview for your family. It offers weather updates, pre-departure alarms, and a pay estimate, all while prioritizing user privacy.
- Roster sync to iPhone Calendar
- Printable monthly overview sheet
- Weather updates for flights
- Pre-departure alarms
- Monthly pay estimate
- Logbook data import
- FAR 117 compliance tracking
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DutyCal pulls your roster from your crew portal and syncs it to iPhone Calendar. It also prints a clean monthly sheet so your family can see what's happening at a glance. For pilots and cabin crew who fly out at 4 a.m. and want their household to know the month ahead. No chat group. No screenshots. No explaining it again over breakfast. DutyCal Plus subscription required to sync your roster after a 3-day free trial. Cancel anytime. DutyCal currently supports crew at Peach (MM), StarFlyer (7G), and Avelo (XP). Additional airlines on the roadmap. Other portals will not sync. ROSTER, ON YOUR PHONE Log in once with your crew portal credentials. DutyCal fetches your duty schedule, reconciles changes across publishes, and writes every flight, standby, training day, and day off to a dedicated calendar on your iPhone. Flight rows read departure and arrival in each airport's own clock, with the Zulu window right on the row for a quick TAF and NOTAM crossref. Works offline once a roster is loaded. WEATHER ON YOUR FLYING DAYS A METAR line on every leg you fly, with the raw METAR and TAF one tap away, and up to two alternates per leg. THE FRIDGE SHEET A printable A4 landscape view, one row per day, color-coded for flight duty, airport standby, home standby, training, sick, and off. Stick it on the fridge. Your partner stops asking. Designed to be readable at arm's length. ALARMS THAT WAKE YOU Pre-departure alarms set themselves on every flight day and airport standby. They ring through Silent mode and Focus, the way the iOS Clock app does, and stop only when you dismiss them. You choose your at-base lead time. No accidental snooze. A MONTHLY PAY ESTIMATE A running pre-tax estimate of the month so far, built from your duty hours, sectors, and credit. Past months compared against your original published roster. Avelo crews see their paychecks the way they land, on the 7th and the 22nd. No payslip data leaves the phone. THE LOGBOOK, READY TO COPY Peach and StarFlyer flight crew can import their company records and print JCAB pages, fifteen rows each, ready to copy into the paper logbook. The paper book stays the official record. FOR AVELO CREWS FAR 117 at a glance, worked out from the roster on your phone, with a quiet watch that warns you the evening before a tight duty. Station Operations: type any station and read its whole day, departures and arrivals with aircraft, crew, pax, fuel and movement notes, straight from the portal. And a heads-up when your next leg is a different aircraft. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your login is stored in iOS Keychain, locked to your device. No account creation. No DutyCal servers. No analytics. No third-party trackers. Face ID protects the app on launch. BUILT BILINGUAL Full English and Japanese throughout, including the fridge sheet. Switch languages without restarting. WHAT IT COSTS 3-day free trial on both plans, then DutyCal Plus subscription required to continue. - Monthly: ¥550/month - Yearly: ¥5,000/year Prices are shown in your local currency at checkout. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription anytime in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. No ads. No data sold. DutyCal is built for crew. Try it free for 3 days and see your next month in one view. Privacy Policy: https://dutycal.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://dutycal.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DutyCal at none against Plachieve's shown. DutyCal also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). Plachieve's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Plachieve sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DutyCal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Plachieve ships an update every 9 days, DutyCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plachieve | DutyCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kodai Kitaura | Rushabh Soni |
In-app purchases
Plachieve
- Plachieve Pro$3.99
DutyCal
- DutyCal Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- DutyCal Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year









