Dance Jot vs danZING
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dance Jot
Easily track your dance scores, competition standings, awards, and adjudications. Log details for any dance style and category, then record your performance outcomes. Keep all your dance achievements organized in one place.
- Track dance scores
- Log competition standings
- Record awards and adjudications
- Add dances of any style
- Organize competition data
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Dance Jot makes it easier for dancers, parents, teachers, and studios to organize competition seasons and understand their results. TRACK DANCES AND RESULTS Keep dance details, competition entries, scores, placements, adjudications, special awards, and score-sheet photos together. IMPORT COMPETITION SCHEDULES Import supported web schedules, PDFs, scanned paper schedules, or schedule photos. Link your dances to schedule entries and follow the event throughout competition day. COMPETITION-DAY TOOLS View the event schedule, mark the current dance, estimate whether the competition is running ahead or behind, identify conflicts, and enter adjudications as awards are announced. AI CRITIQUE ASSISTANT Analyze audio from judge critique videos to organize repeated corrections, positive feedback, focus areas, and suggested training priorities. Critique information remains private unless you choose to share it. GOALS AND TRAINING Set private dance goals, track progress, record training time, and celebrate achievements. PRIVATE PERFORMANCE INSIGHTS Review score history, personal bests, adjudications, placements, style trends, competition trends, and season-over-season progress. BUILT FOR DIFFERENT DANCE ROLES • Dancers can manage their own dances, goals, training, scores, and competitions. • Parents can organize dances and results for their children. • Teachers can manage private dances and work with studios that grant access. • Studios can manage teams, dancers, teacher access, schedules, and competition results. Some AI and advanced competition tools require AI credits or a Dance Jot Plus subscription. Available features may vary by role. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dancejot.com/privacy
danZING
This app streamlines organization for dance competition teams. It offers features like a calendar, note-taking for corrections, and file management, all within a user-friendly interface designed by dancers.
- Competition team organization
- Calendar with multiple views
- Routine correction notes
- Music sync for corrections
- File organization by routine
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danZING is the ONLY dancer-made app for competition teams. No one likes the group chats, endless email chains, and constant search for corrections and files… With help from dancers, we've developed the solution- ONE dancer-made app that is user-friendly, minimalistic, and solves the problem. CALENDAR- Countdown, Checklist and Daily views for you to stay organized this comp szn! CORRECTIONS- easily take notes on routines AND sync corrections to your routine music FILES- organized by routine and choreography, rehearsal, or performance AND record videos and audio for easy review DIARIES- your dance life, documented. quotes, memories, ideas, and everything in between ONE studio, ONE app FREE for first 400 users until August 2026 INCOMING: Costume Dashboard; AI integrations - Prisha (16 y/o dancer behind danZING)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dance Jot at 5.0 against danZING's 4.3. Dance Jot also leads on ratings volume (36 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dance Jot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dance Jot has 36 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dance Jot ships an update every 5 days, danZING every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dance Jot | danZING |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (36 ratings) — better | 4.3 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Reinhart | SASIKUMAR VENUGOPAL |
Customer experience
Dance Jot
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In-app purchases
Dance Jot
No in-app purchases
danZING
No in-app purchases
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