Winter Arc vs MonArc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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
MonArc
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MonArc t'aide à tenir tes habitudes tout l'hiver, avec d'autres personnes qui font la même chose. Tu choisis trois habitudes et leur rythme : tous les jours, ou quelques fois par semaine. Chaque jour, tu valides ce que tu as fait. Avec une photo, tu gagnes la totalité des points. Tout le monde est dans le même Winter Arc. Tes preuves photo apparaissent dans le fil, visibles par tous les participants. Les autres réagissent, commentent, et tu vois qui avance. Le classement de la semaine se fige chaque dimanche à 21h. Le lundi, une nouvelle semaine commence. Le classement de l'arc additionne tout depuis le premier jour. Dans MonArc : - Trois habitudes à ton rythme, quotidiennes ou quelques fois par semaine - Des preuves photo, visibles par tous les participants - Des réactions et des commentaires sous chaque preuve - Un classement de la semaine et un classement de tout l'arc - Des grades de Recrue à Légende, qui ne redescendent jamais - Des badges et une série de jours d'affilée - Un rappel le matin et un rappel avant le gel du dimanche - Le Winter Arc 2026, qui démarre le 1er octobre pour tout le monde Respect et sécurité Chaque preuve, chaque commentaire et chaque profil peuvent être signalés. Tu peux bloquer un utilisateur à tout moment. Les signalements sont examinés sous 24 heures. MonArc est réservé aux personnes de 16 ans et plus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MonArc at none against Winter Arc's 3. MonArc also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Winter Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. MonArc asks for nothing beyond the download.
Winter Arc ships an update every 5 days, MonArc weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Winter Arc | MonArc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Moonshot Media Limited | Anaelle Grambras |
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
MonArc
No in-app purchases









