Comparison

FitTrace Sync vs Dotnote

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

Head to head
About

FitTrace Sync

This app helps you understand your DEXA body composition results. It offers AI-powered recommendations and connects you with human wellness professionals for personalized guidance. View detailed reports, integrate with Apple Health, and track over 200 variables.

Highlights
  • DEXA body composition insights
  • AI Assistant for personalized recommendations
  • Connect with Human Assistants
  • Electronic scan transfer or manual entry
  • Formatted reports with Apple Health integration
  • Compare scans with athletes
  • Track over 200 DEXA variables
Features
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DEXA BODY COMPOSITION ANALYSIS A DEXA scan reveals your current body composition. FitTrace Sync provides insights beyond the raw numbers. UNDERSTAND YOUR RESULTS FitTrace Sync provides detailed DEXA analysis and insights. - See what your DEXA scan reveals about your health, fitness, and athletic performance. - Interactively track your body composition changes over time. - Compare your measurements with people of the same age. - Observe relationships between activity, nutrition and your DEXA body composition. - Compare body composition with athletes in over a dozen sports. - Printer-friendly reports are built in and may be printed directly from the app. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS The AI Assistant uses your DEXA measurements to provide personalized guidance. You can also connect with a Human Assistant, such as a fitness or wellness professional, for individualized guidance. DEXA SCAN ACQUISITION Participating DEXA facilities deliver scans directly to your FitTrace account. Your DEXA scan data and images are securely transferred within minutes of your scan. Your prior scans may also be transferred. Ask your scanning facility whether it supports FitTrace. You can also enter measurements from printed DEXA body composition reports through an in-app purchase. Step-by-step instructions are provided in the app. CONNECT WITH APPLE HEALTH FitTrace Sync can also transfer DEXA measurements to Apple Health, including weight, body fat percentage, lean mass, and BMI. NOTE: FitTrace uses DEXA total mass as weight and for BMI calculations. Apple Health's lean body mass measurement corresponds to fat-free mass in FitTrace. Connect your DEXA measurements with Apple Health data to explore relationships between your habits and changes in body fat, lean mass, visceral fat, and other measurements. Observe how activity and nutrition correlate with your body composition. PREMIUM FEATURES Unlock additional insights and capabilities with a subscription: - Receive personalized guidance from the AI Assistant. - Explore relationships between Apple Health activity and nutrition data and DEXA body composition. - Track more than 200 DEXA-related measurements. - Compare your body composition with athletes across more than a dozen sports. - Share your scans with trainers, nutritionists, physicians, and other professionals. - View shared scans and add notes. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER FitTrace Sync is intended for informational, fitness, and general wellness purposes. It helps users understand and track their DEXA body composition measurements. FitTrace does not diagnose medical conditions or provide medical advice or treatment recommendations. Its insights are not a substitute for evaluation by a qualified healthcare professional. IN-APP PURCHASES Manual Scan Entry: $9.99 USD SUBSCRIPTIONS Monthly: $12.99 USD Annually: $34.99 USD LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.fittrace.com/privacy-policy/

About

Dotnote

Quickly log your daily mood and identify patterns in your well-being. This low-friction check-in helps you understand what makes your days good or bad, offering insights without complicated journaling.

Highlights
  • Fast daily rating
  • Log wins and improvements
  • Year view and trend analysis
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • No account required
  • Local data storage
Features
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You know something needs to change. Maybe it is your habits, your focus, your energy, or the way your days keep slipping by unexamined. Dotnote turns that feeling into a signal. In about 10 seconds a day, you can: - rate your day from 1 to 5 - capture one win or one thing to improve - add a short reflection if you want - spot patterns over time After a few weeks, you stop guessing. You can see which days feel good, what helps, what throws you off, and when you are starting to drift. Dotnote is not a complicated journal, and it is not a bloated habit tracker. It is a low-friction daily check-in built to help you stay honest with yourself. WHO IT IS FOR You do not need to be struggling. Dotnote is useful for anyone who wants a clearer picture of their own life: the person trying to build consistency after a rough patch, the professional who feels productive but cannot tell whether that actually maps to good days, the parent who wants to stay self-aware without adding another task to the pile. If you have ever finished a week and had no real sense of how it went, this is the tool that fixes that. HOW IT WORKS Each day you get one prompt: how was today, from 1 to 5. That single number is enough to start building a picture. Then you can add a win (something that went well, however small) or something to improve (a pattern you noticed, something you want to adjust). That is the whole loop. Thirty seconds on a good day, ten seconds when you are in a rush. The optional reflection field is there when you need to write something longer, but it is never required. Dotnote does not ask you to fill in five sections before you can close the app. THE YEAR VIEW The year view is where the data becomes useful. Every day of the year is represented as a single dot, colored by your rating. At a glance you can see your actual rhythm: the stretches where things were consistently good, the weeks that were rough, the patterns that repeat without you realizing. Most people are surprised by what they find. The data is honest even when memory is not. From the year view you can also scroll through individual days, spot correlations you had not noticed, and get a grounded sense of how your year is actually going rather than how you imagine it is going. WIDGETS Dotnote includes home screen and lock screen widgets so the check-in stays in reach without opening the app. A tap from a widget goes directly to today's entry. Nothing is buried. The friction is as low as it gets. PRIVACY AND NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Your data lives on your device. There is no Dotnote account, no sign-up, no cloud sync to a third-party server. Everything stays local by default. If you use iCloud, your data can sync across your own devices, but it does not go anywhere else. Features: - Fast daily rating - Wins and improvements - Year view and trends - Widgets for quick check-ins - No separate Dotnote account required Privacy Policy: https://dotnote.app/privacy/

Screenshots

FitTrace Sync4 screens
Dotnote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dotnote at 100% against FitTrace Sync's 25%. Dotnote also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). FitTrace Sync's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. FitTrace Sync sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Dotnote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dotnote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FitTrace Sync has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of FitTrace Sync's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dotnote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FitTrace Sync ships an update every 6 weeks, Dotnote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
FitTrace Sync versus Dotnote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitTrace SyncDotnote
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFitTraceadapting.tech sp. z o.o.

Customer experience

FitTrace Sync

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Dotnote

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

FitTrace Sync

Subscriptions4
  • FitTrace Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
  • FitTrace Monhtly Subscription$12.991 Month
  • FitTrace Annual Subscription$24.991 Year
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  • FitTrace Annual Subscription$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Manual Scan Entry$9.99
2 purchases

Dotnote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is FitTrace Sync free?
FitTrace Sync is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotnote free?
Dotnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FitTrace Sync or Dotnote?
Dotnote is rated higher. FitTrace Sync averages 3.3 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Dotnote averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do FitTrace Sync or Dotnote have ads?
Neither FitTrace Sync nor Dotnote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FitTrace Sync or Dotnote?
FitTrace Sync ships an update every 6 weeks, and Dotnote every 9 days. Most recently, FitTrace Sync was updated on September 30, 2026 and Dotnote on October 1, 2026.

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