Comparison

Spring vs Dotty

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

Head to head
About

Spring

Build better habits and break bad ones with a simple, privacy-focused tracker. Monitor your progress, stay accountable with streaks, and receive smart reminders to maintain consistency. Reflect on your journey with habit notes and gain insights into your patterns.

Highlights
  • Simple habit tracking
  • Abstinence counters
  • Streak tracking
  • Smart reminders
  • Habit notes
  • Progress insights
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Spring: Daily Habit Tracker Build better habits, break bad ones, and watch your streaks grow. Spring is a simple, privacy-focused habit tracker designed to help you stay consistent without the complexity. WHY SPRING? Unlike other habit apps that overwhelm you with features, Spring focuses on what actually works: tracking your progress, staying accountable, and celebrating your wins. CORE FEATURES Simple Habit Tracking Create daily habits and check them off with a tap. Morning routines, evening wind-downs, or anytime goals—organize habits by time of day. Abstinence Counters Breaking a bad habit? Track how long you've stayed strong with dedicated quit counters. See your progress in days, weeks, and beyond. Streak Tracking Stay motivated by building streaks. Visual progress keeps you accountable and helps turn actions into lasting habits. Smart Reminders Never forget a habit with customizable notifications. Get reminded at the right time to stay on track. Habit Notes Reflect on your journey by adding notes to your habit completions. Track context, mood, or anything that matters to you. Progress Insights View your habit history and see patterns over time. Understand when you're most consistent and where you can improve. iCloud Sync Your habits sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices. Start on iPhone, check off on iPad. PRIVACY FIRST Your habit data stays on your device. No third-party analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your personal growth is nobody's business but yours. SPRING+ PREMIUM Get unlimited habits and counters with Spring+. Free users can track up to 5 habits and 2 counters. • Monthly: $4.99/month • Yearly: $34.99/year ($2.92/month) Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://offmenu.design/spring/privacy

About

Dotty

Features
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A private notebook where everyone you know gets a page, including you. Contact apps store phone numbers. Dotty stores the things you would never put in a contact card: that she hates surprise calls, that his sister is called Ada, that his dad had surgery and you should ask. Everything is encrypted on your device. You do not need an account, and nothing leaves your phone unless you decide it should. EVERY PAGE IS YOURS TO SHAPE • Notes, lists, checklists, custom fields, files and folders, mixed in whatever way that person needs • A page for a friend looks nothing like a page for a client, and both are right • You get a page too, for the things you want to remember about yourself THE MAP Your relationships are not folders. The map draws them as a network, so you can see how they actually sit. • People move closer as you stay in touch, and drift apart when you do not • Someone can be family, gym, and work at the same time. You create the circles. • Drifting shows who you have not spoken to in weeks, before it becomes months MOMENTS • Birthdays repeat every year on their own, pulled from the person’s page • Reminders repeat when you want them to, like a monthly call or a yearly anniversary • Plans stay on one calendar, with everyone on it • Notifications for events, birthdays, and reminders PRIVATE, EITHER WAY You choose where your people live: on this phone alone, or in an account that follows you. • On-device only means there is no account and no copy stored anywhere else • The database is encrypted with SQLCipher, using standard cryptography • The key stays in your Keychain, marked for this device, and is left out of every backup • Photos and attachments are excluded from backups too, so no readable copy reaches iCloud • Sign in with Apple or Google if you want to sync. There is no password to lose. • No analytics, no ad SDK, no data brokers. Nothing you write is sent to any AI model, and search runs on your device • Export everything as a single file whenever you like, and delete your account in the app, iPhone and iPad. Questions or ideas? Write to us. We read everything.

Screenshots

Spring4 screens
Dotty4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dotty at 15.1 against Spring's 26.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spring sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Dotty sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Spring versus Dotty: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpringDotty
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHASE HUNTER,LEE HAMMONDSBASRI KEREM ALHAN

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spring

Subscriptions2
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$4.991 Month
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$34.991 Year
1 purchases

Dotty

One-time1
  • Unlock all of Dotty$9.99

Questions

Is Spring free?
Spring is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotty free?
Dotty is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spring or Dotty have ads?
Neither Spring nor Dotty shows ads.

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