Atomic vs Dots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Atomic
Effortlessly build and sustain habits with a focus on personal growth. This app offers a minimalist design, dark mode, and clear visualizations to support your journey. Enjoy tailored insights and complete control over your data with a strong commitment to privacy.
- Habit building and tracking
- Goal setting
- Dark mode support
- Clear visualizations
- Tailored insights
- Privacy-focused design
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The effortless way to build and sustain your habits. Our app is designed for comfort with dark mode, clear visualizations, and tailored insights to support your personal growth. Atomic stands out with its minimalist design and unwavering commitment to your privacy. Your habits, your data, your control — with no compromises. Ready for a meaningful habit transformation? Try Atomic now.
Dots
This app helps you build lasting routines with a simple habit tracker and visually appealing home screen widgets. Monitor your progress with clear heatmaps and celebrate streaks with a clean, focused design.
- Simple habit tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Visual progress tracking
- Clean and focused design
- Gentle motivation
- Yearly recap and stats
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Dots. is a habit tracker and daily routine planner designed for simplicity, clarity, and consistency. Build better habits with a clean, simple tracker and beautifully designed home screen widgets that make your progress instantly visible. Turn small daily actions into lasting routines — a lightweight habit tracker and productivity widget, all in one simple app. [Why Dots?] • Simple Habit Tracker Start tracking your daily habits with an intuitive, distraction-free habit tracker built around ease of use. • Beautiful Home Screen Widgets Add a minimal widget to your Home Screen and track habits at a glance. Monthly and weekly heatmap widgets make progress clear and motivating. • Visual Habit Tracking Every action becomes a dot. Watch your streaks grow with a simple visual tracker that highlights consistency. • Clean & Focused Design A simple habit tracker with no clutter — just the tools you need to build better routines. • Gentle Motivation A calm, simple tracking experience designed to support long-term habits without pressure. • Stats & Yearly Recap Your whole year at a glance — a heatmap of every habit, monthly charts, your records, and a recap you can share. [Dots Pro] Dots lets you track 3 habits for free. Dots Pro lifts the limit — monthly, yearly with the first 7 days free, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled and can be managed or cancelled in the App Store at any time. Everything else stays free for everyone: widgets, the Apple Watch app, reminders, recaps, icons and colours. People who were already using Dots keep unlimited habits, for good. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dots at every 5 days against Atomic's every 2 weeks. Dots also leads on ratings volume (232 vs 34) and review sentiment (98% vs 90%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Atomic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Atomic against 4.9 for Dots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 232 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Atomic's written reviews are positive against 98% of Dots's.
Atomic ships an update every 2 weeks, Dots every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Atomic | Dots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (34 ratings) | 4.9 (232 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews | 98.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 232 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kanbon GmbH | Juyong Bak |
Customer experience
Atomic
Dots
In-app purchases
Atomic
- Atomic Pro$12.99
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
