Comparison

Arc vs Caffeine Pulse

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

Head to head
About

Arc

Features
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Most challenge apps ask you to pay before you've finished week one. Arc doesn't. The 30 Day Reset isn't a trial version. It's the whole thing, all thirty days, free, and it stays free. Pick a challenge, tick your tasks, watch a row of empty boxes fill in one a day. That's the app. No feed, no friends list, no leaderboard, and nothing in here calls you champ. FIVE WAYS TO START 30 Day Reset. Three habits you choose yourself. Free. 66 Day Habit Builder. Three to five habits, and sixty-six days because that's the number the research keeps landing on. 75 Day Classic. Two workouts, a diet, water, reading, a daily photo. 75 Day Gentle. Same seventy-five days with one workout and a bit of air. Custom. Your rules, 21 to 90 days. APPLE HEALTH DOES THE BORING PART Switch on auto-tracking for a task and Arc reads your steps, exercise minutes, outdoor workouts, water and mindful minutes, then ticks it off without being asked. It only ever reads. Nothing gets written back to Health, and none of it leaves your phone. Don't want to grant that? Those tasks stay manual and the rest of the app doesn't care. SEASONS Shared start dates run through the year: Fall Lock-In, Winter Arc, New Year Arc, Spring Reset, Summer Arc. Begin on one and its stamp goes on your finisher card. Starting tomorrow instead is also a perfectly good plan. STRICT MODE, OFF BY DEFAULT Turn it on and a missed day sends you back to Day 1. You get one grace day for the whole run, and once it's gone it's gone. The card at the end looks the same either way. THE FINISHER CARD Reach the end and Arc prints you a card: day count, completion rate, longest streak, and the sentence you wrote on day one about why you started. Square, story, or wide. Save it to Photos or send it straight out. Widgets put the day count and what's left on your home screen and lock screen. The medium one lets you tick things off without opening the app. WHAT ARC WON'T DO No account, so there is no email and no password to lose. Your data sits on your phone and in your own iCloud, and I can't see any of it. No ads. Progress photos stay in Arc on your phone. Nobody checks them, nobody looks at them. FREE, PERMANENTLY The 30 Day Reset in full. One custom challenge. The small widget. Your finished history. Apple Health auto-tracking. ARC PRO Every template, unlimited custom challenges, several running at once, all the widget sizes including the interactive one, and the finisher card in all three shapes. Pay by the month or the year, or buy it once and it's yours. Arc syncs through your own iCloud, so a new phone picks up where the old one stopped. Turn iCloud off and everything still works on the device. Privacy: https://arc.wuyuxai.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Caffeine Pulse

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Caffeine Pulse records every dose you drink and works out how much of it is still in your body right now, how it will fall through the rest of the day, and what it will do to your sleep. NOT A CUP COUNTER Most apps in this category count cups. The same 100 mg at 09:00 and at 21:00 are not the same thing, because what decides your sleep is not the total โ€” it is the curve. Caffeine Pulse follows the curve. WHAT IS STILL IN YOU A live figure, not a daily sum. Log a coffee and watch the level rise, then fall at its own rate through the afternoon and evening. YOUR CUT-OFF TIME The app tells you the hour after which a dose will still be with you at bedtime โ€” and it tells you why, with the numbers. A REAL SOURCE LIST Espresso, filter, instant, tea, matcha, cola, energy drinks and more, each with its own caffeine content rather than one generic value. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN The widget shows the current load and adds a drink in one tap; the Apple Watch complication keeps the figure in view. Works offline. Data stays on your device โ€” no account, no server. Terms of Use: https://moberium.com/en/legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://moberium.com/en/legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

Arc4 screens
Caffeine Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Arc at none against Caffeine Pulse's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Arc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Caffeine Pulse sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Arc versus Caffeine Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArcCaffeine Pulse
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB68 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerๅฒš็ƒœ ๅดEGEROBOT OTOMASYON MUHENDISLIK PROJE DANISMANLIK SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Arc

One-time1
  • Arc Pro$6.99
10 purchases

Caffeine Pulse

Subscriptions4
  • CaffeinePulse Gold Monthly$2.491 Month
  • CaffeinePulse Plus 3 Months$3.493 Months
  • CaffeinePulse Plus 6 Months$5.996 Months
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  • CaffeinePulse Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time6
  • Buy us a coffee$4.99
  • Buy us a cake$9.99
  • CaffeinePulse Plus Lifetime$19.99
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  • Buy us a meal$19.99
  • CaffeinePulse Premium Lifetime$49.99
  • Treat us to a feast$49.99

Questions

Is Arc free?
Arc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caffeine Pulse free?
Caffeine Pulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Arc or Caffeine Pulse have ads?
Caffeine Pulse shows ads; Arc does not.

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