Comparison

GlobeJotter vs Dots

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GlobeJotter

This app helps you remember and rate places you visit, from restaurants and hotels to business meetings and personal outings. It allows you to add notes, photos, and even share your experiences with friends. Easily find nearby locations or create your own, and get directions using integrated map services.

Highlights
  • Rate restaurants, meals, and hotels
  • Document projects with notes and photos
  • Remember business meeting details
  • Save and search memories with hashtags
  • View places on a map or list
  • Integrated map and ride-sharing services
  • Export notes to PDF
Features
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Business and World Travelers! Flight Attendants! Fun Seekers! Contractors! Wedding Planners! Students! Folks who wine and dine! Everyone! Globejotter is for you! Rate your favorite restaurants, meals and hotels worldwide and remember what you liked/disliked about them. Document phases of a real estate development project with detailed notes and pictures. Remember business meeting topics, discussions, important people you met and where different events were held. Visit a museum for a class project and remember paintings, artists and important facts. Stray from your hotel in a foreign city and get back there in a pinch with integrated Waze, Google/Apple Maps or direct connect Ride Sharing services. Or just plain capture a crazy night out with friends and family. Globejotter is your personal assistant, scrap book, and life journal! GlobeJotter shows you the locations you visited nearest to your current location. Find new places near you or create your own places based upon location coordinates or address. High level reviews of places are often fraught with conflicting information and hyperbole. What should you do knowing 3 people had a great time and 2 an abysmal one? What does that mean to you? Should you visit there? Most places are not all good or all bad but have good and bad elements. GlobeJotter lets you rate these individually (or not at all) and gives you an overall rating based upon YOUR experiences. All memories are saved locally on your phone for you. You can share these with your friends if you choose to but your data is yours. FEATURES -Save your notes and photos with hashtags and easily search them! -Save the names of important people you were with or staff at your favorite location so you call recall them the next time you are there! You’ll be a hero! -View all your places in list or map format: hotels, bars, restaurants, theaters, museums, companies, etc -Want to know where you had that glass of wine before and if you liked it? View and search all your notes across all places. -Use expanded photo viewer to quickly search all photos related to a specific event/location. -Set a reminder when you want to try a place out next time you are there. -Export a PDF file of your notes -Export a GlobeJotter file to shared drive or email that a friend can import to their GlobeJotter -Remember your top rated places when you travel from city to city

About

Dots

This app acts as a personal memory aid for your relationships, helping you recall important details about people. It surfaces timely reminders to reach out, ensuring your follow-ups are thoughtful and specific, whether for personal connections or professional contacts.

Highlights
  • Remembers important personal and professional details
  • Surfaces optimal moments for outreach
  • Facilitates specific and thoughtful follow-ups
  • Works for both personal and professional connections
  • Focuses on details, not just generic engagement
Features
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You met Sam at the conference. She mentioned her daughter just started at the same college you attended. You meant to follow up with Sam in a month but never did. You didn't forget because you don't care. You forgot because memory doesn't scale the way relationships do. Dots is the memory for your relationships, both personal and professional. You add a dot when you learn something worth remembering. Dots surfaces it when it matters. What a dot looks like: Marcus collects Japanese whisky. Sarah went through a tough move last year. Priya prefers warm intros, and she likes knowing someone before the meeting. Small details. The difference between a generic check-in and a conversation that lands. What Dots does - Remembers the details you'd otherwise lose - Surfaces the right moment to reach out - Keeps follow-ups specific, never generic - Works for the people you love and the people you work with What Dots isn't A CRM. A pipeline tool. Dots doesn't score your relationships or remind you to "engage." It just helps you show up the way you already intend to. A dot is a detail, not a person. Add enough of them, and you'll never forget what matters.

Screenshots

GlobeJotter4 screens
Dots3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dots at every 4 days against GlobeJotter's every 25 months. GlobeJotter's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GlobeJotter against 5.0 for Dots. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GlobeJotter ships an update every 25 months, Dots every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
GlobeJotter versus Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlobeJotterDots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDaniel NewmanDaniel Catinella

Customer experience

GlobeJotter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dots

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GlobeJotter

No in-app purchases

None

Dots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GlobeJotter free?
GlobeJotter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GlobeJotter or Dots?
GlobeJotter and Dots are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do GlobeJotter or Dots have ads?
Neither GlobeJotter nor Dots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GlobeJotter or Dots?
GlobeJotter ships an update every 25 months, and Dots every 4 days. Most recently, GlobeJotter was updated on October 9, 2026 and Dots on October 9, 2026.

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