Comparison

grug vs TimeDots

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

Head to head
About

grug

Receive a daily dose of simple, profound wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges. This app offers straightforward truths and accompanying artwork to inspire personal growth and contentment. It focuses on mindfulness and taking small steps each day.

Highlights
  • Daily wisdom sharing
  • Accompanying artwork
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable themes
  • Light and dark modes
  • No login or tracking
Features
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grug know: big scary just many small rock wearing fur coat. every sunrise grug share one wisdom. help you break today rock into small piece. no fancy word. no complicated. just simple truth that work. **what grug do:** - share daily wisdom when sun rise - draw grug dream on wisdom - share with other grug - widget show wisdom on cave - grug work in light and dark cave or give grug shiny color grug not guru. grug just know: small step every day make mountain move. perfect never come. better start with broken stick today than wait for perfect stick tomorrow. wisdom come from real life. fear work love pain growth. grug speak simple but truth hit deep. like "fear just smoke. real but not solid.” and "wanting make poor. grateful make rich." each day different wisdom. truth waiting. grug help see: you already enough. just need pick up one small rock today. app simple like grug brain. open. read wisdom. maybe draw feeling. that all. no login. no cloud. no follow. just you and today truth. remember. tomorrow not here. only today real. grug help make today count. Terms of Service: https://ocho.so/terms Privacy Policy: https://ocho.so/privacy

About

TimeDots

Visualize your time with a unique dot-based calendar. Track days, months, years, or your entire life to gain perspective on progress and urgency. Customizable widgets and themes keep your important moments visible.

Highlights
  • Visual time representation with dots
  • Countdown tracking for events
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable themes and styles
  • Privacy-focused, on-device data
Features
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Time is the one thing you can't get back. TimeDots makes it impossible to ignore — turning your year, your months, and every countdown into a simple, beautiful grid of dots you'll actually want to look at. Watch the dots fill in, one day at a time. It's a quiet, daily nudge to make every day count. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • See your whole year as dots — and watch it fill up as the days pass • Count down to trips, birthdays, deadlines and launches with live progress • A calm, glanceable dashboard that feels premium every time you open it COUNTDOWNS THAT LIVE EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets in every size • Lock Screen widgets and complications • Live Activities + Dynamic Island — your countdown, right at the top of your screen • Apple Watch app with wrist complications MAKE IT YOURS • 24 gorgeous atmospheres, from Midnight to Aurora • Alternate app icons • Clean, distraction‑free design built for iOS MORE THAN A COUNTDOWN • "Life in Weeks" — a powerful view of your life, one week at a time • Recurring events that roll forward automatically • Beautiful share cards for your story • iCloud sync across your devices • Full Dynamic Type and accessibility support Free to download. Upgrade to Pro to unlock every theme, widget and feature. Stop letting the days blur together. Start making every dot count.

Screenshots

grug4 screens
TimeDots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: grug at none against TimeDots's 1. TimeDots's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TimeDots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. grug asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

grug ships an update weekly, TimeDots every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
grug versus TimeDots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergrugTimeDots
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.4K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOchoAdemola Mayowa Olatunji

Customer experience

grug

All ratings3,363 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews657 reviews
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.0%

TimeDots

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

grug

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TimeDots

One-time1
  • TimeDots Pro$2.99

Questions

Is grug free?
grug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimeDots free?
TimeDots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do grug or TimeDots have ads?
Neither grug nor TimeDots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, grug or TimeDots?
grug ships an update weekly, and TimeDots every 10 days. Most recently, grug was updated on October 24, 2026 and TimeDots on October 8, 2026.

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