RoutineArc: Schedule Planner
Jason Fraser Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
RoutineArc: Schedule Planner is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Jason Fraser. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 27, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 56 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v2.11
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About RoutineArc: Schedule Planner
Your to-do list isn't a plan. RoutineArc turns it into one: tap Plan my day and what's due is fitted into the gaps between your events. No account, no tracking. ONE-TAP DAY PLAN One tap builds a day plan around your events, your work hours and what's due — ordinary arithmetic, not a guess, so it's instant. It honours what you said when you captured, like a hard stop or "this one before that one", and when the day can't hold everything it says how many tasks didn't fit. Export the plan to PDF, or take it one task at a time with On Deck. CAPTURE THE WAY YOU SPEAK Type or dictate — "dentist tomorrow at 3pm" — and RoutineArc turns it into tasks, events and notes with the date, time, place and priority filled in. Scan a photo or screenshot to pull its text into items. Share text, links and photos to RoutineArc, add from Control Center on iOS 18, or ask Siri (in English) what's next, to complete a task, or to add a task or event. BEAT TASK PARALYSIS Priorities P1–P4 on an Eisenhower matrix you can touch: drag a task into Do First, Schedule, Delegate or Eliminate. Subtasks, tags, recurrence and a weekly review. FOCUS WHEN IT COUNTS Pomodoro, countdown and stopwatch modes, focus and break lengths you set, and per-task sessions started straight from the list. Strict Mode fails a timer you walk away from. END EVERY DAY ALL CAUGHT UP Evening Review shows overdue tasks one at a time: roll it over, finish it or delete it. Keep It Honest flags anything you've pushed three times. A CALENDAR YOU CAN TOUCH Day and week views with drag to reschedule. Your Apple Calendar can show here too, never changed, and Plan my day works around it. HABITS, ROUTINES AND NOTES Daily habits with streaks, ready-made routines Plan my day makes room for, searchable notes, and insights into focus time and how long tasks take. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Five widgets: Day Overview, Home, Tasks, Priority Matrix, and Day Briefing. On iPhone, turn on Live Activity and the current block follows you to the Lock Screen and, where the iPhone has one, the Dynamic Island. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES With iCloud sync on, your tasks, events, notes and habits are the same on each of your devices, in your own private iCloud, and Handoff lets another device pick up the item you have open. ON-DEVICE AI With Apple Intelligence, understanding what you type, summarising a note, and suggesting subtasks run on the Neural Engine — nothing is sent to a server. Without it, a rules engine takes over. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no tracking. Everything the app itself sends goes through Apple. SEVEN DAYS, THEN YOURS TO KEEP Free for seven days — no sign-up, no card. Then RoutineArc turns read-only until you unlock it: everything stays readable, searchable, exportable and deletable, and you can still tick tasks off and defer them. Backing up and restoring by hand stay free for good. Unlock monthly, yearly or once for life; the automatic daily backup and iCloud sync come with monthly, yearly and the Unlimited lifetime unlock. Works fully offline, in Light and Dark Mode, with eight color palettes, adjustable text sizes and high contrast. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Unlimited — Monthly: billed per month, auto-renewing. Unlimited — Yearly: billed per year, auto-renewing. Essentials — Lifetime: one payment; capturing and editing forever, without the automatic daily backup or iCloud sync. Unlimited — Lifetime: a single payment that never renews. Unlimited — Upgrade: one payment that adds both to Essentials. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jasonf90.github.io/routinearc-site/privacy-policy.html
What’s new
Version 2.11 · Updated October 27, 2026
NEW IN 2.11 Lists for your tasks and calendars for your events, each in a color of its own, and a choice of which ones show on your day. Sync is quicker too. RoutineArc still has no account and no server of its own. LISTS • On Tasks, tap New list to make one, such as Groceries or Work, with a name and a color. The row of lists under the capture bar shows each one and how many of its tasks are open. • A task in no list is in the Inbox. Choose tasks and tap Move to put them in a list, or choose a list on the task's own page. • End what you type or say with a list, as in "buy milk to Groceries", and the task goes in it. Adding a task with Siri, in English, works the same way. • Edit lists renames, recolors and reorders them. Put a list away to keep its tasks out of the way. Deleting a list moves its tasks to the Inbox, with Undo. CALENDARS • On the Calendar tab, tap Calendars, the stacked squares, to make calendars such as Family or Gym. Your events show in their calendar's color on the Calendar tab, on Today and on the widgets. • The events you already had are in RoutineArc, the default calendar, which you can rename and give a color of its own. • Deleting a calendar moves its events to the default calendar, with Undo. • Events that overlap are drawn side by side in the Calendar's day and week views, not one over the other. LISTS AND CALENDARS ON YOUR DAY • Customize on Today has Lists and Calendars, and the Calendars screen has a circle beside each calendar. Turn one off and its tasks or events leave Today, the Calendar tab, Plan my day and the widgets. • While anything is off, Today and the Calendar tab say so, as in "Hiding Work", with Change beside it. • What you turn off still shows on the Tasks and Events tabs, and its reminders still ring. This choice is kept on this device, and iCloud sync does not carry it. THE TASKS TAB • Search is behind the magnifying glass in the header. Tap it to search, and again to close the search and show every task. ⌘F opens it too. • Filter and sort is one button, the funnel, with Show, Area and Sort by in one sheet. While a filter hides tasks, a chip says which, and tapping it shows them all again. • The capture bar and the row of lists scroll away with your tasks, so more tasks fit on the screen. PLAN MY DAY • When a task in your plan was due on an earlier day, the plan's warning names that day as well as the time. QUICKER SYNC • While RoutineArc is open, it asks iCloud to sync at full priority, and a change made with no connection goes as soon as the device is back online. • When iCloud asks RoutineArc to wait, Settings › Sync and backups says until when. ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES • Update RoutineArc on each of your devices. A device still on 2.10 or earlier stops syncing, and says why, once you make a list or a calendar or rename the default calendar. • A backup made with 2.11 restores only on 2.11 or later.
App privacy
The developer, Jason Fraser, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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