Arcush strips everything down to pure simplicity. Funtasking adds color with meaning. Both are beautiful - one is calm, one is aware.
Try Funtasking Free →| Feature | Arcush | Funtasking |
|---|---|---|
| Design Philosophy | Radical minimalism | Beautiful + meaningful colors |
| Daily Planner View | ✓ Clean task list | ✓ Tasks + Purpose Wheel |
| Life Balance Tracking | ✗ Just tasks | ✓ 8 life areas visualized |
| Color Usage | Monochrome (by design) | Colorful with purpose (each color = life area) |
| Gamification | ✗ None (anti-feature) | ✓ XP, levels, achievements |
| Calendar Sync | ✓ Basic integration | ✓ Google Calendar |
| Distractions | Intentionally zero | Purpose visualization (not distraction) |
| Focus Mode | ✓ Always in focus mode | ✓ Daily view is focused |
| Price | Free / $4.99/month Premium | Free |
| Best For | Minimalists who want zero visual noise | People who want minimal + aware |
Arcush is built on a philosophy of subtraction. Remove colors, remove gamification, remove anything that might pull your attention. What's left is pure task management in black and white.
It's a valid philosophy. Some people find color and visual feedback distracting. They want calm. They want silence. Arcush gives them that.
Funtasking takes a different view: not all visual information is distraction. The Purpose Wheel isn't there to entertain you - it's there to show you something you'd otherwise miss.
When your Health section is empty and your Career section is full, that's not visual noise. That's data about how you're living.
Arcush is genuinely minimal. Black text, white background, no colors, no badges, no numbers. If you want zero visual complexity, this is it.
Loads instantly, runs smoothly. No animations to wait for, no graphics to render. Just text and checkboxes.
No notifications pushing you, no streaks guilting you, no XP bars tempting you. Just your tasks, quietly waiting.
Type a task, hit enter, it's added. No categories to pick, no colors to assign. Friction removed.
See today's tasks in a clean list. No clutter from future days. Just what's relevant now.
Your data stays local. No account required, no cloud sync tracking. Quiet privacy.
If you're sensitive to visual stimulation or recovering from productivity app burnout, Arcush's calm approach is genuinely therapeutic.
Every task gets a color based on its life area. Purple for Career, green for Health, blue for Family. The colors aren't decoration - they're information.
See all 8 life areas in one visual. Which sections are full? Which are empty? You know instantly if you're balanced or lopsided.
An empty gray section is loud. Not with notifications - with absence. "You haven't done anything for Health in 3 days" is visible without being pushy.
Yes, you earn XP. But the real reward is a balanced wheel. The gamification serves the purpose, not the other way around.
See weekly/monthly views of how you spent your time across life areas. Patterns emerge that a monochrome task list can't show.
Purpose Wheel, colors, gamification - all free. Arcush locks some features behind Premium ($4.99/month), but Funtasking's core insight is free for everyone.
Arcush says: "Color is distraction. Remove it."
Funtasking says: "Random color is distraction. Meaningful color is information."
When you see a list of tasks in Arcush, they're all equal. Black text on white. Clean. Calm. But also... undifferentiated.
When you see a list in Funtasking, the colors tell a story. Ten purple tasks (Career) and zero green (Health)? That's a pattern worth noticing.
The question isn't "color or no color." It's "does the color mean something or is it just pretty?"
Arcush appeals to people burned out by aggressive productivity apps. The streaks, the notifications, the badges, the points - it's exhausting. Arcush removes all of it.
But here's what I've noticed: people also burn out from apps that don't warn them about imbalance.
You can use Arcush for six months, complete tons of tasks, keep a perfectly minimal task list... and realize you haven't exercised in a month because nothing in the app showed you that pattern.
Arcush prevents burnout from app complexity. Funtasking tries to prevent burnout from life imbalance. Different problems.
Week with Arcush:
Week with Funtasking:
Both weeks were productive. Only one week was balanced.
Arcush Premium ($4.99/month) adds:
Notice what's still not included: any awareness of life balance. Premium makes minimalism more flexible. It doesn't make it wiser.
Funtasking gives you the Purpose Wheel, gamification, and balance tracking free. Because we think seeing your life patterns shouldn't cost $60/year.
Honest take: Both apps are beautiful. Arcush is calm. Funtasking is aware. Pick based on whether your problem is "too much visual noise" or "not enough insight into how I'm living."
Try Funtasking free and see your daily planner with purpose-driven color.
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