Comparison

Dots vs Hello

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

Head to head
About

Dots

This app acts as a personal memory aid for your relationships, helping you recall important details about people. It surfaces timely reminders to reach out, ensuring your follow-ups are thoughtful and specific, whether for personal connections or professional contacts.

Highlights
  • Remembers important personal and professional details
  • Surfaces optimal moments for outreach
  • Facilitates specific and thoughtful follow-ups
  • Works for both personal and professional connections
  • Focuses on details, not just generic engagement
Features
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You met Sam at the conference. She mentioned her daughter just started at the same college you attended. You meant to follow up with Sam in a month but never did. You didn't forget because you don't care. You forgot because memory doesn't scale the way relationships do. Dots is the memory for your relationships, both personal and professional. You add a dot when you learn something worth remembering. Dots surfaces it when it matters. What a dot looks like: Marcus collects Japanese whisky. Sarah went through a tough move last year. Priya prefers warm intros, and she likes knowing someone before the meeting. Small details. The difference between a generic check-in and a conversation that lands. What Dots does - Remembers the details you'd otherwise lose - Surfaces the right moment to reach out - Keeps follow-ups specific, never generic - Works for the people you love and the people you work with What Dots isn't A CRM. A pipeline tool. Dots doesn't score your relationships or remind you to "engage." It just helps you show up the way you already intend to. A dot is a detail, not a person. Add enough of them, and you'll never forget what matters.

About

Hello

Features
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MYNAH is a personal knowledge instrument — a second brain that has read everything you've read and remembers how you think about it. Save an article, a YouTube video, a podcast, a PDF, a newsletter, or a quick voice memo — or follow a feed and let new posts arrive on their own. MYNAH reads the full text of all of it, even transcribing videos and audio, then files it, tags it, and makes it recallable. Then just ask. Instead of searching, you have a conversation: MYNAH answers in your own accumulated context and shows you exactly which of your saved sources it drew from. No hallucinated "general knowledge" dressed up as insight — grounded answers, cited. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Save anything you read, watch, or hear — articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs, and newsletters, captured with a tap. Video and audio are transcribed, so you can chat with them like any article. • Follow feeds — subscribe to the writers and publications you love, and new posts arrive automatically. • Text a link to save — send anything to your MYNAH number; no app needed. • Record voice memos — your own takes, transcribed and searchable, attachable to what prompted them. • Ask across everything — "What have I saved about money, and what should I do differently?" — and get a synthesized answer with sources. • Browse your Library — auto-organized by category, filterable by type and topic. • Recall past conversations — your thinking, kept. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most read-it-later apps are where articles go to die. MYNAH is built to be used: the more you save, the sharper it gets, because every answer is grounded in your own reading — and it tells you which sources it used, so you can trust and follow up. Named after the birds in Aldous Huxley's Island that called out "Attention! Here and now!" — MYNAH's purpose is the same: to bring your own reading and thinking into focus. Private by design. Your library is yours.

Screenshots

Dots3 screens
Hello4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dots at every 4 days against Hello's every 2 weeks. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update every 4 days, Hello every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Dots versus Hello: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsHello
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB8 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperDaniel CatinellaBRIAN PATRICK VALLARIO

In-app purchases

None

Dots

No in-app purchases

None

Hello

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hello free?
Hello is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dots or Hello have ads?
Neither Dots nor Hello shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Hello?
Dots ships an update every 4 days, and Hello every 2 weeks. Most recently, Dots was updated on October 24, 2026 and Hello on October 6, 2026.

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