Winter vs Winter Arc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Winter
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A chosen period. Habits kept. A recap at the end. Winter Arc guides you through your 30, 60 or 90-day discipline challenge: training, sleep, food, mindset. Not another loud fitness app — a calm, focused tool built to last all winter. START IN ONE MINUTE The "Classic Winter Arc" pack is ready to go: workouts, water, no alcohol, cold showers, reading, a steady bedtime… Keep it as is or pick from 26 preset habits. Everything stays editable: frequency, target, unit. A STREAK, BUT NOT ONLY Missing one day shouldn't wipe everything out. Winter Arc tracks your streak, but above all your consistency score. And every day, one freeze lets you pause a whole category when life gets in the way — a sore back won't break three streaks at once. FILL IN YOUR DAY IN 30 SECONDS Check it off, log a quantity, add a note. In the evening, a gentle reminder nudges you — only if your day isn't filled in yet. YOUR ARC AT A GLANCE Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your day, your arc day, your consistency, without opening the app. SHARE YOUR PROGRESS A sleek card, ready for your Instagram story in one tap: day, week or full-arc recap, on a dark background or on your own photo. AND ALSO • Day, week and arc gauges, with milestones at day 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 • Dated notes, gathered in your recap • Moodboard: photos and quotes that lift you up • Meal prep: weekly planner and an auto-generated shopping list • Full end-of-arc report, exportable as PDF YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account, no server. Everything is stored on your iPhone. The 30, 60 and 90-day marks are challenge milestones, not a scientific promise: everyone builds habits at their own pace. What matters is showing up.
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
Winter and Winter Arc are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Winter ships an update every 6 days, Winter Arc every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Winter | Winter Arc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eliot Steuve | Vipin Pahwa |
In-app purchases
Winter
No in-app purchases
Winter Arc
No in-app purchases






