Winter Arc vs Eftly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Winter Arc
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Your winter arc starts the day you say it does. Lock in from October 1 to January 1 and arrive at New Year already transformed, or start any day and run your ninety from there. Most habit apps hand you a checklist and a number that resets. Winter Arc hands you a mountain, and you are on it. YOUR RULES Before day one you write your own rules. Three to seven of them, small enough to do on your worst day. Then you sign. Your rules can change whenever your life does: add one, drop one or reword one on any day, and the days you have already held stay exactly as you held them. WHO YOU ARE BECOMING Four stats, BODY, MIND, GRIND and IRON, drawn from the rules you actually wrote. Watch the shape change across ninety days. The most honest picture of a season you will get: you never chose the numbers, you chose the habits. EVERY DAY YOU SHOWED UP Tap the day number for your calendar: every day you held, every shield that covered you, every day still to come. Proof you can scroll. DAY 90 Add a progress photo whenever you want. They stay in a private vault on your phone, nowhere else. On the final day they play back as a summit montage, first day to last, beside everything you held and banked. THE MOUNTAIN Your home screen is a climb, not a list. Every day you hold your rules the climber moves up the face, past the treeline, onto the ridge, into the summit push. A streak counter is a number. A mountain is somewhere you have been. START ANY DAY Missed October 1? Nothing is lost. Pick your start date when you set up, today or any day ahead, and the app builds the same climb, the same camps and the same summit from there. A winter arc that starts on November 3 is still a winter arc. THE DAILY CHECK-IN The work is yours: the training, the pages, the early nights. Logging it is the quick part. Open the app, tick what you did, close it. Change your mind any time the same day; nothing is final until the day is. STREAK SHIELDS Miss a day and a shield goes instead of your arc. Your gear takes the hit and the climb continues. No red screen, no broken chain, no starting again from zero. Ninety days is long enough that you will miss one, and an app that ends your season over a single Tuesday is one you delete on the Wednesday. WEEKLY BOSSES Each camp opens a challenge built out of your own rules. Dawn raid, before 6am. Seven straight, no exceptions. Cold open, anywhere that is not home. Beat one and you bank a streak shield. Turn one down and nothing bad happens, because a challenge you cannot refuse is just a punishment. AURA AND RANKS Every rule you close banks aura, and aura carries you through five ranks: Basecamp, Treeline, Ridgeline, Summit push, Summited. Nothing is bought, nothing decays overnight, nothing is taken back after a bad week. EVERY WEEK CLOSES Seven days make a camp, and each one ends with a recap of what you actually did rather than what you meant to do. Hold every day and the camp is perfect, which banks you a shield. WRITE THE DAY DOWN A line a day, if you want one. A sentence from a book, a note about why it was hard, a photo from the gym. They collect into a private timeline you can scroll back through from day one. A REMINDER THAT KNOWS WHEN TO STOP One nudge at the hour you pick, an optional evening save if the day is still open, and nothing at all once your arc is done. It ends when the season ends. BUILT TO BE LOOKED AT Two themes: Summit, dark and cold and quiet, or Glow, warm and light. Home screen and lock screen widgets so today sits one glance away and one tap from done. PRIVATE No account, no sign up, no feed, no leaderboard, nobody to perform for. Your arc lives on your phone and in your own iCloud, so it survives a new phone and a reinstall. None of it comes to us. Every screen opens before you decide anything, and Pro starts with a free week. Terms of Use: https://winterarcchallenge.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://winterarcchallenge.app/privacy
Eftly
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Panic at 3 AM. A racing mind before a presentation. That knot in your chest on Sunday evening. Eftly is for exactly those moments: open the app, tap the SOS button, and a calm voice guides you through โ you're tapping along within two seconds. EFT tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a simple self-help method: while you name what's bothering you, you tap gently with your fingertips on nine acupressure points. Eftly guides every step โ the voice tells you what to say and where to tap, the animated figure shows the point, and soft haptics mark the rhythm. You just tap along. WHAT'S INSIDE โข 15 guided sessions of 3โ4 minutes across six areas: SOS, anxiety, sleep, stress, focus and cravings โข Panic SOS and Overwhelm SOS โ one tap from the home screen โข Sleep sessions for falling asleep, 3 AM wake-ups and pre-sleep worry โข Five languages โ English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish โ every session fully voiced, each language with its own calm, native voice โข Gentle tap-rhythm haptics, so you can follow with your eyes closed โข Audio keeps playing with the screen locked, with lock-screen controls โข Works fully offline, anywhere โข A quiet evening reminder, if you want one โ no streaks, no guilt PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your session history stays on your iPhone. The app only sends anonymous usage statistics โ and you can switch even that off in Settings. FREE, AND PLUS Five sessions are free forever: both SOS sessions plus one each for anxiety, sleep and stress. Eftly Plus unlocks all 15 sessions in all five languages: โฌ 39.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, or โฌ 8.99 a month (prices may vary by region). Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your account settings. A NOTE THAT MATTERS Eftly is a self-help tool, not medical or psychological care. Tapping may help you feel calmer, but it does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a professional โ the app links to international helplines. Privacy: https://eftly.app/privacy ยท Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Winter Arc and Eftly are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Winter Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Eftly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Winter Arc | Eftly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moonshot Media Limited | Monto Bleu BVBA |
In-app purchases
Winter Arc
- Winter Arc Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Winter Arc Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Winter Arc Lifetime$29.99
Eftly
- Eftly Plus โ Monthly$7.991 Month
- Eftly Plus โ Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year









