Dots Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience98.1% of reviews
Neutral1.9% of reviews
Negative experience0.0% of reviews

~ Based on 54 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Dots Safe?

Dots: Habit Tracker Widget appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Dots is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 216 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

99.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 216 App Store ratings for Dots.

Is Dots Legit?

Dots: Habit Tracker Widget appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dots is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Beautiful and simple

Amazing - so gorgeous. Can’t wait for even more enhancements - would love to see more widget options and settings - I’d love to see a widget showing some of our cool stats - like how many perfect days we got, as I’m using it to keep track of a 75 Hard challenge. Keep up the great work! I’ve told so many friends and coworkers to download.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much! 🥹 More widget options and choosing how many dots you see are both on my list 📝 Stay tuned 🙏 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Great simple app

Good UI, simple inputs, allows you to track lots of habits

Only recommendation is adding a negative habit option i.e. habit you’re trying to break that automatically checks unless you uncheck it, because as such you have to wait to the next day to check add a successful completion to a habit

Response from developer

Thank you, that's a really thoughtful idea! 🙏 A habit you're breaking that counts as done unless you uncheck it would make "no smoking" or "no sugar" habits much nicer to track. It's on my list 📝 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

A staple app!

Dots checked all the boxes I was looking for in a habit tracker app. I wanted something that was no frills, privacy-focused, and easy to use with no learning curve. Thank you to the creator!

This is the best habit tracker out there.

These guys made exactly the tracker I was looking for. Simple, heat map and calendar widgets, plus a tracker for the home screen, and now reminders for those habits. You can customize the colors of each habit, they have even more widgets than I described if you need them, and it just works! No fuss, no ads, no weird annoyances. Been using it for a couple months now and they seem to add new features all the time, but without detracting from the simplicity that makes it so good.
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Response from developer

Wow, thank you for this! 🥹 Adding features without losing the simplicity is the balance I care about most, so it's really encouraging to hear it comes across. Thanks for sticking with Dots for months 🙏 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

I like it a lot—some suggestions

Been looking for an app like this. Unlimited habits for free is great.

It would be nice to see some
more updates in the future. I hope I'll be able to customize the frequency a bit more. Instead of only having a once per day/week/month option it would be nice to have an every other day/week/month or every other two days/weeks/months (etc.) choice. Would this be possible?

Another suggestion would be to add a color wheel for the task colors instead of limiting to the colors that are offered.

Thank you! You made a very amazing app.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much, this made my day! 🙏 "Every other day" and every-N-weeks frequencies are coming up more and more, and I'm seriously looking at them. The color wheel is noted too 🎨📝 I started building Dots for myself, and ideas like these are how it grows. — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Beautiful and simple

Amazing - so gorgeous. Can’t wait for even more enhancements - would love to see more widget options and settings that allow us to customize how many dots we see!

Response from developer

Thank you so much! 🥹 More widget options and choosing how many dots you see are both on my list 📝 Stay tuned 🙏 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Very useful for keeping track.

Amazing app! This app is so simple to use. I love that I can use it with widgets. The design is so aesthetically pleasing to me. One of the few apps I have actually integrated into my everyday life. I first started using it to keep track of the days I would do intermittent fasting. Now I use it to keep track of how many work outs I get in a month. I use it to keep track of when I water my plants and even how many books I read. Great app over all and I have never had any problems with it.
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Response from developer

This made me smile, thank you! 🥹 Fasting, workouts, watering plants, books: I love seeing all the ways you use Dots. I started building it for myself, and it's a huge encouragement that it's become part of your everyday 🌱📚🙏 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Great interface and simple to use but needs some flexibility

Edit: update is awesome, changed the rating to 5 stars - thank you!!!

This app has potential to be 5 stars for sure. Could the following features be added? 1) allow editing of the numbers of times the habit was done. If I accidentally tap the habit there is no way I could find to undo it.
2) allow an easy input for a number of times something was done. For example, if my goal is to read 100 pages of a book per week I need to tap the habit each time I read a page. If I read 50 pages today, it would be nice to manually type in 50.
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Response from developer

Thank you for writing this out so clearly — it's genuinely the most useful review I've had 🙏 Both of those are built and in the update I've just submitted: you'll be able to press and hold a habit to edit a day's count (so a stray tap is fixable), and type a number straight in instead of tapping fifty times. Thank you for nudging it 🎉 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Best habit app I’ve ever used

So far, this has been the best habit app I’ve ever used. I do wish there were a couple of features, though. I think it would be great if you could really customize when the habit is due like time of day or “every 5 days.” I also am hoping for an update that has different measurement units like cups for amount of water to drink per day or minutes for exercise.

I also wish there was a little row of a calendar for seven days of the week and then habits do that day popped up that day instead of all the habits being in one list that way you can see your habits day by day!
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Response from developer

Thank you so much! 🙏 You can already pick a reminder time for each habit (up to three a day now) 🔔 "Every 5 days," units like cups or minutes, and a week strip of what's due today are all great ideas, and I've noted every one 📝 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Free and effective

This is the only app I found that gives me an overview in a calendar across various habits to see what I missed on different days. No ads. No cost. That’s the best part.

Response from developer

Thank you! 🙏 The all-habits calendar is my own favourite view too — seeing the gaps is somehow more useful than seeing the wins. Free and ad-free it stays. — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Great interface and simple to use but needs some flexibility

This app has potential to be 5 stars for sure. Could the following features be added? 1) allow editing of the numbers of times the habit was done. If I accidentally tap the habit there is no way I could find to undo it.
2) allow an easy input for a number of times something was done. For example, if my goal is to read 100 pages of a book per week I need to tap the habit each time I read a page. If I read 50 pages today, it would be nice to manually type in 50.
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Response from developer

Thank you for writing this out so clearly — it's genuinely the most useful review I've had 🙏 Both of those are built and in the update I've just submitted: you'll be able to press and hold a habit to edit a day's count (so a stray tap is fixable), and type a number straight in instead of tapping fifty times. Thank you for nudging it 🎉 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Exactly what I wanted

I was looking for a habit app with a calendar view and widgets. I tried a couple of them on the App Store and hated them immediately. They usually ask 20 questions just to get started, and then I quickly realized they weren’t what I was looking for.

Finally, I found this app. Huge thanks to the developer!!! It’s straightforward, easy to use, and does exactly what I wanted without all the unnecessary stuff. 🙌
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Response from developer

This made my week 🥹 The no-onboarding-quiz thing is the one rule I keep coming back to — you should be tracking something within ten seconds of opening it. Thank you for giving Dots a try after the others! — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Good Review

Very Good App

Exceptional, no nonsense app

Sensational organisation app. The minimalism is absolutely perfect for people who actually want to track their habits without the faff. My ADHD makes organisation challenging and over the year I’ve tried countless apps that claim to help “neurodivergent people” or be “perfect for those who procrastinate.” They end up being made for quick cash grabs or having a wildly confusing interface that is overwhelming and challenging to navigate.

With Dots, you get exactly what you download. All your habits trackable in a range of formats (card, list, calendar form) so you can check them off in the one you prefer. You can also add the widget to your home screen so you can cross habits off during the day without having to open the app. There’s no paywall, no ads, and it’s beautifully minimalistic. Everything I needed I am so thankful that I found this.
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Simple Pretty Flexible and Shill-free

Thank you. Eager next for notification and donation options.

Response from developer

Thank you 🙏 That means a lot. Good news on the first one: per-habit reminders are already in — open a habit in the editor and flip on the reminder toggle to pick a time and days 🎉 A tip jar isn't there yet, but you're not the first to offer and I'm genuinely touched — noting it 📝 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

So far so good

Just set myself up with about 8 habits. I lose interest in things if they’re too complicated when I’m setting myself up for ease. This was pleasantly straight forward. Will use this for a while for my morning routine and see how it goes. Thank you for the simplicity!✨💖✨

Response from developer

This made my day 🥹 Keeping setup dead simple is the whole point of Dots, so hearing you got through 8 habits without friction is the best feedback I could ask for. Good luck with the morning routine ✨ — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Great app for tracking habits.

As a person who loves seeing the progress day by day, the dots are great and also aesthetically pleasing.

Simple & nice

Very simple looking and easy to use, no ads or unnecessary features

Response from developer

Thank you 🙏 No ads and no unnecessary features is a deliberate choice — and honestly it's reviews like this that keep me resisting the urge to pile more on 😄 — Dots dev 🌕🌟

Near perfect

Fantastic app. Visually slick, simple to use and free with no ad distractions etc..

Only missing feature would be to incorporate some sort of notes/comments section for your habits to help track progress.

Free and has widgets

Title explains why I like it. I have not found others that have both. One feature I would like to see is the calendar progress tracker, but instead of only 1 habit you could see up to 4 at once and have each habit take up 1/4 of the box. Or maybe the wider widget but make it so you have several habits stacked on top of each other (imagine a table with the date on the top and the habit on the side). What I am trying to say is I would like to be able to see the progress of multiple habits from my Home Screen without using multiple widgets. Great app.
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Response from developer

Thank you 🙏 Free + widgets is exactly the gap I built Dots for. One thing you may have missed: the Quick Habits widget already puts 4 habits in a single tile, each one tappable 🎉 But a multi-habit history grid — dates across the top, habits down the side — is a different thing, and a really good idea. Noting it 📝 — Dots dev 🌕🌟