Arcush vs Dainvo

Arcush is an iPhone daily planner built around time blocking. It organizes tasks, ideas, and a day schedule on a timeline, with a calendar view for hour-by-hour planning. The Inbox gives unlimited space for ideas and removes tasks that remain unscheduled. You can add and edit tasks, including recurring tasks with different frequencies. A widget starts task creation, while notifications cover upcoming or overdue tasks. Core task creation and schedule management are available on the Free plan at free. Arcush Pro adds calendar synchronization, calendar time blocking, color customization, and recurring tasks; the monthly plan is $3.99 a month. Pro syncs calendars added in iPhone settings and allows synchronized events to be edited, but cannot create new calendar events. Arcush supports iPhones running iOS 16 or later, not Android or other Apple devices.

Dainvo is a local-first planning workspace for calendars, tasks, projects, meetings, notes, and focused work. Its calendar offers day, week, month, year, and list views, plus weather and time zones. Calendar connections include Google, Outlook, Apple, CalDAV, and Dainvo calendars; task connections include Todoist, Microsoft To Do, Google Tasks, TickTick, monday.com, and Obsidian. Users can schedule tasks, group them into Buckets, and plan work sessions for Projects. Projects can contain ordered tasks, a deadline, one level of subprojects, notes, file links, and multiple calendar blocks. Meeting links support Google Meet, Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams. Connected calendar events and tasks sync with their providers, while Project Notes and local file links stay on the user’s computer. The encrypted local SQLite store uses a key protected by operating-system secure storage. Dainvo has a Free plan and Pro plans at $5 a month or $48 a year. Its Android, iPhone, and iPad apps are listed as Early Access.