# Dot Journal: Planner — Tasks, habits, moods. Private.

> Tasks, habits, moods. Private. (iPhone/iPad app by Hong Chi Law.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dot-journal-planner/id6756923564 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hong Chi Law](https://appshunter.io/developer/1862209199)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 50 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-01-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-28

## What is Dot Journal?

Dot Journal is a planner for people who run their days on lists. Tasks, events, habits, moods and notes live in one calm, text-first journal. It is quick to add to, easy to rearrange, and kept on your iPhone.

PLAN THE WHOLE YEAR, ONE DRAG AT A TIME
• Day, Week, Month and Year views. Swipe between them; the next page is already there.
• Drag a task to another day, another week or the Inbox. Drag across the edge of the screen to turn the page.
• Plan months ahead on the Year view's planning board.
• Each week and month has its own Inbox for things without a day yet.

ADD ANYTHING IN ONE LINE
• Type "Ship deck fri 3pm !!! #urgent @Work". The date, time, priority, tag and list fill themselves in.
• One quick entry sheet for tasks, events, notes and moods, from any view.
• Close it by accident and what you typed is still there.

SEE ONLY WHAT MATTERS
• Lists and tags for every project and context.
• Set a lens such as "@Work #urgent" and every view shows only those entries.
• Save the lenses you use most. They sit in the side menu, one tap away.
• Search understands #tags and @lists.

TIME YOUR WORK
• Start a timer right on the task row. Pause, resume, and see it running from any view.
• The time you spend is recorded on the task.

KNOW HOW YOUR WEEK WENT
• Insights shows how many tasks you finished, a completion trend and a heatmap of your busiest days.
• See how much time you spent, for everything or for one lens.

HABITS AND MOODS
• Track habits with streaks and a recent-days strip.
• Log how you feel in two taps and see it next to what you got done.

ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN
• Apple Watch app with complications: check off tasks and add new ones.
• Home Screen widgets for today's list.
• Share extension: send text or links from any app into your journal.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your journal lives on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking.
• Optional iCloud sync goes through your own iCloud account, built on Apple's sync engine.
• Dot Journal collects no data.

FREE AND PREMIUM
Dot Journal is free to use, with up to 5 new tasks a day, 3 lists, 5 tags and 1 saved lens. Premium removes every limit and adds iCloud sync:
• Monthly or yearly, each with a 1-week free trial
• Or a one-time purchase, yours for life

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings.

Terms: https://dot.raycar.net/terms.html
Privacy: https://dot.raycar.net/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dot Journal Pro Monthly | $0.99 | per month |
| Dot Journal Pro Yearly | $4.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dot Journal Pro Lifetime | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Dot Journal safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Dot Journal.

## Is Dot Journal legit?

Dot Journal: Planner has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dot Journal is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.2 — 2026-10-27

Small improvements and fixes. Links from App Store events now open straight to the right view, such as the Year planning board.

Enjoying Dot Journal? A rating or a short review helps other people find it. Thank you.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-10-26

A small update to make 2.0 feel right in every theme.

• The keyboard now matches your theme: light in Light, dark in Dark, and it follows your iPhone when the theme is set to System. Date pickers, alerts and the share sheet follow it too.
• New in Settings → About: rate Dot Journal on the App Store, or share it with a friend.
• Behind-the-scenes tidying for a lighter, faster app.

Enjoying Dot Journal? A rating or a short review helps other people find it. Thank you.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-10-24

Dot Journal 2.0 is rebuilt from the ground up.

NEW
• Redesigned Day, Week, Month and Year views. Swipe between them; titles show where you are.
• Drag and drop planning: drag tasks to another day, week, month or the Inbox, and turn the page by dragging to the edge.
• A planning board in Year view to plan months ahead.
• Quick entry reads what you type: dates, times, !priority, #tags and @lists fill themselves in.
• A new task detail with a progress ring, subtasks, time spent and a Move to bar.
• Task timer: start, pause and resume right on the task row.
• Lenses: show only one list or a set of tags in every view and in Insights. Save your favourite lenses to the side menu.
• Tags on notes, tag pages, and a page for each list.
• Insights with a real heatmap, a completion trend and time spent.
• iCloud sync rebuilt on Apple's sync engine, and it asks what to do with your journal when you turn it on or off.

IMPROVED
• Premium costs less, and you can try it free for a week.
• Clearer text sizes, a new view switcher, and calmer lines throughout.
• iPad: quick entry opens as a card in the middle of the screen.
• Rebuilt for iOS 26 and iOS 27.

FIXED
• Dot Journal no longer crashes when it wakes in the background, for example when your Watch sends something while the app is closed.
• iCloud restores journals with more than 100 entries completely, and deletes and unticks now reach your other devices.
• Tasks you create on your Watch keep the day and time you chose.
• Repeating tasks, the free daily limit and adding tasks in Week, Month or Year view all land on the right day.
• Many more fixes. Thank you for every report.

Everything stays on your device by default. No new data is collected.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-16

**Fixed**

- Dot Journal no longer crashes when it wakes up in the background, such as
  when your Apple Watch sends something over while the app is closed. Your
  journal moves to a safer place inside the app the first time you open this
  version. Nothing is lost.
- Tapping a date in Week or Month view opens that day again, and tapping a
  month in Year view opens that month. Both used to jump to today.
- Tasks you create on your Apple Watch keep the day and time you chose. They
  could previously arrive on your iPhone dated today, with the time lost.
- Repeating tasks no longer create an entry dated before the series starts.
- The free daily task limit now counts the day you are adding the task to,
  not today.
- Google Tasks sync no longer creates the same task twice after a dropped
  connection, and syncs that used to get stuck now recover on their own.
- iCloud sync now saves each batch of changes all at once, so a sync that is
  interrupted can no longer leave some changes applied and others missing.
- Dot Journal now fully supports iOS 26 and iOS 27.

**Worth knowing**

- If your Watch has been away from your iPhone since before midnight, your
  watch face complications may show nothing until the next sync. They used to
  show yesterday's list as if it were today's. Opening Dot Journal on your
  iPhone refreshes them.
- Watch data can occasionally need one extra open-and-close of the app to
  catch up. This is rare and sorts itself out on the next sync.

### 1.4.2 — 2026-07-09

- Fix a crash issue when app runs in background

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