Comparison

Dots vs PrayingForYou

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

Head to head
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/

About

PrayingForYou

This app helps you remember and fulfill prayer commitments. Set custom reminders, track prayer counts with others, and keep your prayer life private and organized.

Highlights
  • Organize prayer commitments
  • Customizable reminders
  • Share prayers via link
  • Shared prayer count
  • Home screen widget
  • Offline and private
  • Data export/import
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When someone asks you to pray for them, do you remember? PrayingForYou helps you keep your word. Add a prayer, set a reminder, and never let a commitment slip by again. It's simple, private, and built for people who mean it when they say "I'll pray for you." KEEP YOUR PROMISES Add prayers in seconds with a title and optional description. Set reminders that fit your rhythm — daily, weekly, on specific days, or a custom schedule you define. PRAY TOGETHER, APART Share a prayer with someone by sending them a link. When they add it to their app, you'll both see a shared prayer count that grows each time either of you prays. No accounts, no social feeds, just a quiet connection. FLEXIBLE REMINDERS Choose from daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly, or yearly reminders. Need something more specific? Build a custom schedule, like every Monday and Thursday at 7am. Set an end date or let it run as long as you need. YOUR PRAYERS AT A GLANCE Add a home screen widget to see your upcoming prayers without opening the app. Reminders update throughout the day so you always know what's next. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All your prayers are stored on your device. Nothing is uploaded to a server. No account required. No tracking. Your prayer life is yours alone. EXPORT & IMPORT Moving to a new phone? Export all your data as a file and import it on your new device. Your prayers go where you go. FEATURES • Create and organize prayer commitments • Smart title formatting with proper title case • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom reminders • One-time reminders for specific moments • Share prayers via link — no account needed • Shared prayer count with the people you're praying with • Home screen widget with upcoming prayers • Dark mode support • Data export and import • Completely offline and private Built with prayer by Owen Whitaker.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PrayingForYou at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is ratings volume (219 vs 9) and device support. On price, rating, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PrayingForYou asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dots against 5.0 for PrayingForYou. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 219 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dots versus PrayingForYou: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsPrayingForYou
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (219 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings219 — better9
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakOWEN WHITAKER

In-app purchases

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
None

PrayingForYou

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PrayingForYou free?
PrayingForYou is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dots or PrayingForYou?
PrayingForYou is rated higher. Dots averages 4.9 out of 5 from 219 ratings, while PrayingForYou averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.

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