Daily vs dots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily
This app helps you remember, track, and stay motivated to complete your daily tasks and resolutions. Monitor your progress with a history of your success over the last 50 days for each activity.
- Task tracking
- Resolution monitoring
- Daily motivation
- Success history
- Progress visualization
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Remember, track and motivate yourself to do your daily tasks. Keep track of your New Year's resolutions like a daily walk, blog or stop smoking. Check off the tasks you did and see what is left to do. The applications keeps a history of your success in the last 50 days for each task.
dots
A minimalist journal and year visualizer that helps you track time and stay motivated. Save one meaningful moment each day and visualize your year with home and lock screen widgets. Enjoy a zen experience with no notifications, ads, or account requirements.
- Daily memory saving
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Mac desktop support
- Ad-free experience
- No notifications
- No account required
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dots is a minimalist journal and year visualizer to track time and stay motivated features: • today’s memory – save one meaningful moment each day • widgets – add dots to the home and lock screen • mac support – keep perspective on your desktop • zen – no notifications, no ads, no account needed make every moment count, every day matters
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: dots at 83% against Daily's 22%. dots also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). Daily's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Daily costs $0.99 and dots $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
dots holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dots has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Daily's written reviews are positive against 83% of dots's.
Daily ships an update every 12 months, dots every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Daily | dots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | douglas santos |
Customer experience
Daily
dots
In-app purchases
Daily
No in-app purchases
dots
No in-app purchases
