Dots vs Clear Tangle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Free habit tracking
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Visual progress tracking with dots
- Clean and focused design
- Weekly and monthly heatmaps
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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/
Clear Tangle
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Clear Tangle is an AI second brain. Say it, snap it or type it, and Clear Tangle turns it into notes, tasks and a plan for your day. It brings in your email, Slack and meetings, and remembers the people and decisions behind them, so you don't have to. Capture anything - Record a voice note and get a transcript and summary - Snap a photo of notes, a whiteboard, a receipt or a document - Type a quick thought or attach a file before it slips away Ask anything you've saved - Get one answer from your captures, email, meetings, Slack and calendar - Answers show the sources they used Know what to do first - A plan for today, built from your tasks and calendar - Tasks pulled from your captures, with priorities, due dates and reminders - See your tasks as a list, a board or a calendar Email and Slack in one place - Gmail and Slack messages in one inbox, with what needs you first - Get a reply drafted for you, with the facts and sources it used. Edit it and send it from Gmail. Nothing goes out without you. It remembers what matters - Memories of people, preferences and decisions, learned from your captures - See how certain each memory is, and add, edit or delete any of them Keep every project moving - Tasks and captures grouped by project, sorted by what changed last - Share a project with your team Works with the apps you use - Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Telegram and Fathom from the app - Zoom, Otter, Fireflies and more connect from Clear Tangle on the web You stay in control - AI features ask for your consent first, and you can turn them off in settings For founders, researchers, students and anyone with more ideas than places to put them. Capture the thought. Let Clear Tangle untangle the rest. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cleartangle.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dots at weekly against Clear Tangle's monthly. Clear Tangle'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. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Clear Tangle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dots ships an update weekly, Clear Tangle monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dots | Clear Tangle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (216 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 98.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 216 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juyong Bak | Mahipal Jat |
In-app purchases
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
Clear Tangle
- Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Ultimate (Monthly)$24.991 Month









