Comparison

Dots vs Chekhov

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

Chekhov

This app helps you connect daily efforts to long-term ambitions by organizing projects, building habits, and tracking progress. It offers tools like a Pomodoro timer and productivity scores to keep you focused and motivated.

Highlights
  • Organize ambitions into projects, phases, and tasks
  • Track habits on custom cadences (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Log work with time tracking and custom progress units
  • Built-in Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions
  • Productivity scores and stats for clear progress visualization
  • Adapts to iPhone and iPad with cross-device syncing
Features
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Most productivity apps are built for today's to-do list. Chekhov is built for the long game — the book you're writing, the degree you're finishing, the business you're building. It connects your daily effort to your biggest ambitions, so you can see your progress adding up and keep going. PLAN BIG, WORK SMALL • Organise your ambitions into projects, broken into phases and tasks • Add subtasks and tags to keep even sprawling projects manageable • A "Today" view surfaces just what needs your attention right now BUILD HABITS THAT STICK • Track habits on the cadence that fits — daily, weekly, monthly, and more • Three ways to complete: a simple check-off, a quantity (pages written, kilometres run), or time spent • Streaks, totals, and a 90-day history grid show your consistency at a glance LOG THE WORK, SEE THE PROGRESS • Time-track work sessions and link them to your projects • Record custom units of progress — words drafted, problems solved, whatever you're measuring • Keep journal-style notes attached to each project, so context never gets lost STAY FOCUSED • A built-in Pomodoro timer structures your work into focused sessions • Start a session from anywhere and get notified when it's time to break KNOW WHERE YOU STAND • Get assessments for your tasks, projects, and habits — and advice on what deserves attention next • Productivity scores and stats turn scattered effort into a clear picture MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • A layout that adapts from phone to iPad, including split view and multitasking • Your data syncs across devices, so you can plan at your desk and check off on the go Five-year plans fail one ordinary day at a time. Chekhov makes the ordinary days count.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Chekhov4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chekhov at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is ratings volume (219 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Chekhov 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 Chekhov. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 219 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update weekly, Chekhov every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dots versus Chekhov: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsChekhov
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (219 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings219 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakDavid Michael

Customer experience

Dots

All ratings219 ratings
Positive99.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative0.0%

Chekhov

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Chekhov

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chekhov free?
Chekhov is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dots or Chekhov?
Chekhov is rated higher. Dots averages 4.9 out of 5 from 219 ratings, while Chekhov averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dots or Chekhov have ads?
Neither Dots nor Chekhov shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Chekhov?
Dots ships an update weekly, and Chekhov every 4 days. Most recently, Dots was updated on October 18, 2026 and Chekhov on October 20, 2026.

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