ARCO

Day Planner & Focus

Press kit — updated July 2026. Everything here is free to use.

One line

A day planner that blocks your distracting apps on a schedule — and wakes you up to start it.

The story

ARCO started with a problem its solo developer had himself: roughly six hours a day lost to his phone, and every app blocker he tried got disabled within a week. A 24/7 wall, it turns out, is a diet of zero food — you always break it.

So ARCO flips the model. It's a day planner first: you give every hour a job. During a focus block, your chosen apps simply don't open. The block ends, they come back — nothing to rebel against. It also wakes you with a real alarm built on iOS 26's AlarmKit (one of the first apps to use it), and shows an honest picture of where your time actually goes. Everything stays on device; no account required.

Key facts

• Name ARCO: Day Planner & Focus
• Category Productivity
• Platform iOS 26+ (iPhone)
• Price Free to start; Pro subscription
• Developer Solo indie developer
• Privacy On-device only, no account, no data collection
• Notable One of the first apps built on iOS 26 AlarmKit
• Released July 2026

What makes it different

Every other blocker is either a 24/7 wall people disable, or a timer they ignore. ARCO is the only one where the blocking is driven by a real daily plan and a real alarm — the schedule is the enforcement. "A blocker is a wall you walk around; ARCO gives the wall a schedule."

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Contact

Press & review copies (offer codes available on request): thinht7110@gmail.com