Winter Arc vs Three Things Gratitude
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 RULES Before day one you write your own rules. Three to seven of them, small enough to do on your worst day. 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. DAY 90 Add a progress photo whenever you want. They stay 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. 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 covers it and the climb continues. No red screen, no broken chain, no starting again from zero. WEEKLY BOSSES Each camp opens a challenge built from your own rules: one of them before 6am, seven days in a row, or done somewhere that is not home. Complete it and you bank a streak shield. Skip it and nothing changes. A challenge is an offer, never an obligation. AURA AND RANKS Every rule you close banks aura, and aura carries you through five ranks: Basecamp, Treeline, Ridgeline, Summit push, Summited. 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. 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 for eligible new subscribers, then renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use: https://winterarcchallenge.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://winterarcchallenge.app/privacy
Three Things Gratitude
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Gratitude Journal is the simplest way to practice a moment of gratitude every day. THREE THINGS, EVERY DAY No different question each day, no long forms. Every day you write the same 3 short things you're grateful for โ whatever they are, as brief as you like. NO STREAKS, NO PRESSURE There's deliberately no streak counter and nothing that makes you feel bad for skipping a day. This isn't a challenge โ it's a moment for you. YOUR HISTORY, ON A CALENDAR Revisit any past day from a monthly calendar โ a dot under every day you wrote something. Tap a day to read back what you noted. A SHAREABLE MONTHLY RECAP At the end of the month, a nice card gathers how many days you wrote and a few of your standout moments โ ready to share, or just to keep. It unlocks by watching a short, optional ad, never required to write or read your entries. DAILY REMINDER A gentle nudge at whatever time you choose, so writing becomes a small habit without you having to remember on your own. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Everything you write is stored locally on your iPhone. No account required. AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH The app automatically detects your device's language, and you can change it manually anytime from Settings. No gamification, no quizzes, no noise. Just three things, every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Three Things Gratitude at none against Winter Arc's 3. Winter Arc's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Winter Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Three Things Gratitude asks for nothing beyond the download.
Winter Arc ships an update every 5 days, Three Things Gratitude every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Winter Arc | Three Things Gratitude |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moonshot Media Limited | DAVID VILCHEZ SANCHEZ |
In-app purchases
Winter Arc
- Winter Arc Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Winter Arc Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Winter Arc Lifetime$34.99
Three Things Gratitude
No in-app purchases
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