Flow vs Dots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flow
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Meet Flowmate — your personal growth companion. Flowmate helps you build powerful habits and track your progress effortlessly. Whether you’re chasing fitness goals, improving productivity, or developing new routines, Flowmate keeps you accountable with smart reminders and visual insights. Key Features: • Smart Habit Tracking: Create habits and metrics that matter most to you, from workouts to meditation to personal projects. • Goal Progress & Stats: Track your improvement over time with clear visual charts and performance metrics. • Custom Reminders: Never miss a step. Flowmate sends timely push notifications to keep your goals on track. • Beautiful, Minimal Design: Focus on what matters — your growth. Subscription Features: Some features require a paid subscription, including: • AI-powered weekly insights and reports • Increased limits for habits, metrics, and goals Flowmate offers both free and subscription-based plans. Subscription details, pricing, and terms are clearly presented before purchase in the app. Flowmate isn’t just another tracker — it’s your accountability partner for building consistency, balance, and better habits every day. Start your flow today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dots
This app helps you build lasting routines by tracking daily habits with a clean, visual interface and motivating home screen widgets. Monitor your progress with heatmaps and yearly recaps, all within a distraction-free design.
- Simple habit tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Visual progress tracking
- Clean and focused design
- Gentle motivation
- Stats and yearly recap
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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 Flow's monthly. Flow's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Flow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month 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.
Flow ships an update monthly, Dots every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flow | Dots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (238 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 98.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 238 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adriano Gatto | Juyong Bak |
In-app purchases
Flow
- Basic$5.991 Month
- Pro$9.991 Month
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99









