Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Dots

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

Head to head
About

Habit Tracker

Build better habits and track your progress with a simple, ad-free tracker. Offers flexible scheduling, visual heatmaps, streak tracking, and personalized notes. Gain insights into your patterns with powerful analytics and reminders.

Highlights
  • Flexible habit scheduling
  • Visual heatmaps and streak tracking
  • Personalized habit notes (premium)
  • Insightful analytics charts (premium)
  • Smart reminders and notifications
  • Home screen widgets
  • Privacy-first, offline functionality
Features
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Habitwise - Simple Minimalistic Habit Tracker Build better habits and transform your daily routine with Habitwise, the ultimate habit tracker app. Track habits, build streaks, and monitor progress with powerful heatmaps, analytics, notes and reminders. As a top habit tracker, Habitwise helps with productivity, self-improvement, and without ads, logins, or internet required. Unlike rigid habit apps, Habitwise offers flexible scheduling for real life. Handle habits like drinking 6 glasses of water daily or gym sessions twice on Mondays and Fridays. FLEXIBLE HABIT TRACKING - Multiple Frequencies: Create habits with Daily, Weekly or Monthly frequencies - Multi-Instance Tracking: Add multiple instances per habit VISUAL PROGRESS WITH HEATMAPS & STREAK TRACKER Habits appear on the homescreen for the selected date, with a unified header showing task status, completion progress, and date timeline. Each habit tile features a heatmap grid for past completions. Swipe right to mark a habit complete, or left to mark it incomplete. Tap a habit to view habit details, streak info, check-in history, grid heatmap, and interactive calendar. Mark completions for any date, even retroactively, to build and maintain streaks. PERSONALIZED HABIT NOTES (PREMIUM) Enhance your habit tracking with optional notes for each day. While completing a habit for any day, add a personalized note to capture your thoughts, mood or reflections. This feature supports notes for every occurrence of daily, weekly, or monthly habits, aiding deeper self-insight and motivation. POWERFUL INSIGHTS & ANALYTICS FOR PRODUCTIVITY Dive into your patterns with 6 interactive charts: - Performance: Track daily success rate over weeks, months, or years with a smooth line chart showing completion ratios (free). - Year Overview: Visualize your year in grid or calendar view, highlighting daily completion rates with tappable details (premium). - Weekly Pulse: Check week-over-week improvements with a trend indicator over a 6-week line chart (premium). - Routine Rhythm: Identify power days via radar chart averaging weekday performance, with tappable info on best/worst days (premium). - Leaderboard: Rank strongest habits by completion rate, with details on completions, misses, and streaks (premium). - Streaks: Overview of current and best streaks per habit, highlighting active streaks (premium). SMART REMINDERS & NOTIFICATIONS Set multiple reminders per habit (1 for free users, 3 for premium users). HOME SCREEN WIDGETS FOR QUICK TRACKING Add homescreen widgets for single habit, or daily summary for overall status. PRIVACY-FIRST HABIT BUILDER No account or signup needed. No ads. Works offline. Your data stays on-device. Archive inactive habits and restore or delete as needed. FREE FOREVER FEATURES - Unlimited habits with daily frequency. - 1 reminder per habit. - Performance insight chart. - Heatmap visualizations and calendar with retroactive logging. - Streak tracking and check-in monitoring. - Light/dark mode. - Archive and restore habits. - No ads, no login, offline access. PREMIUM UPGRADES FOR ADVANCED USERS - Everything in Free tier - Weekly and monthly habit frequencies. - Up to 3 reminders per habit. - All 6 advanced insight charts for deeper analytics. - Home screen widgets for habit and daily status. - Import/export data backups via offline files. - Personalized habit notes for adding and viewing daily entries. - Everything in free, plus enhanced productivity and self-improvement tools (monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription). Perfect for fitness goals like gym, running, yoga, workouts; health habits like water intake, vitamins, medication; mindfulness like meditation, gratitude; learning like reading, studying; weekly or monthly planning. Inspired by Atomic Habits and Seinfeld method, Habitwise makes habit building simple and effective. Download the best habit tracker app now – your productivity app, wellness tracker, streak counter, and motivation tool in one.

About

Dots

This is a free habit tracker focused on simplicity and visual progress. It offers clean design and customizable home screen widgets to help users build consistency and stay motivated with their daily routines.

Highlights
  • Free habit tracking
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Visual progress tracking with dots
  • Clean and focused design
  • Weekly and monthly heatmaps
Features
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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 month 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/

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Dots at free against Habit Tracker's freemium. Dots also leads on ratings volume (180 vs 5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Habit Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Habit Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Habit Tracker against 4.9 for Dots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 180 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 98% of Dots's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Dots weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Habit Tracker versus Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerDots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.9 (180 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better97.9% of reviews
Number of ratings5180 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHrishikesh DeshkarJuyong Bak

Customer experience

Habit Tracker

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dots

All ratings180 ratings
Positive99.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive97.9%
Neutral2.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Habitwise Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Habitwise Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Habitwise Lifetime Premium$19.99
3 purchases

Dots

Subscriptions2
  • Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Dots Pro — Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Habit Tracker or Dots?
Habit Tracker is rated higher. Habit Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Dots averages 4.9 from 180 ratings.
Do Habit Tracker or Dots have ads?
Neither Habit Tracker nor Dots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habit Tracker or Dots?
Habit Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dots weekly. Most recently, Habit Tracker was updated on September 11, 2026 and Dots on September 22, 2026.

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