Arc vs Winter Arc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arc
Track daily routines and build habits with customizable challenges. Integrates with Apple Health for automatic task completion. Offers a free starter challenge and optional Pro features for advanced tracking.
- Customizable challenge lengths (21-90 days)
- Apple Health auto-tracking integration
- Strict mode for missed days
- Finisher card with completion details
- Home and lock screen widgets
- No account required for privacy
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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/
Winter Arc
This app helps you build consistency by setting defined start and end dates for your goals. Track daily habits across chosen pillars and visualize your progress with a unique heat map. It offers flexible rules for missed days and private, offline operation.
- Set custom start and end dates for challenges
- Define 3-5 pillars with daily habits
- Binary daily check-offs (done or not done)
- Flexible rules for missed days (streaks, consistency score, grace days)
- Visual progress heat map
- Optional before/after photos
- Home screen widget
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Winter Arc: Habit Tracker turns the last stretch of the year into one finite challenge. Pick a hard start and a hard end. Choose three to five pillars — the areas you actually want to move — and put a few daily non-negotiables under each. Then show up. Every day is binary: done, or not. Ninety days later you come out the other side, carrying momentum into January instead of writing resolutions from a cold stop. HOW IT WORKS • Set your dates. Ninety days by default, or any span you choose. • Choose 3–5 pillars, with one to three habits under each. • Check them off daily. No half marks, no partial credit. • Watch the arc fill in. CHOOSE YOUR RULES People don't all fail the same way, so you decide what a missed day costs. • Streaks — consecutive days where you completed everything. Simple and strict. • Consistency Score — the percentage of habit-days you completed against a target you set. Forgiving of the occasional miss. • Grace Days — a fixed budget of missed days. Spend them all and the arc is failed. You set the budget. SEE THE WHOLE ARC • A heat map of every day, so the whole arc is one picture. • Your consistency score, longest streaks, and a breakdown by pillar. • Tap any past day to see exactly what happened. • Weekly reflections, and a closing reflection when the arc ends. WHEN YOU MISS A DAY Missing a day isn't a crisis and the app doesn't treat it like one. You get one quiet note, the reason you started, and a clean slate. Run out of grace days and you choose what happens next: keep going with the arc marked failed, or restart with the same setup. BEFORE AND AFTER Add a photo at the start and another at the end, and see them side by side. Both stay on your device. Entirely optional. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget shows the day you're on and how many habits are left, and updates as you check them off. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no advertising, and no third-party code of any kind. The app has no networking at all, so nothing can leave your phone even by accident. Everything lives in the app's own storage, and Reset app data erases all of it. Winter passes either way. Finish the year strong.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Winter Arc at none against Arc's 3. Winter Arc also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Winter Arc asks for nothing beyond the download.
Arc ships an update every 9 days, Winter Arc every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Arc | Winter Arc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 岚烜 吴 | Vipin Pahwa |
In-app purchases
Arc
- Arc Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Arc Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Arc Pro$29.99
Winter Arc
No in-app purchases







