Comparison

Dots vs Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)

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

Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)

This minimalistic habit tracker helps you build consistency by focusing on daily tasks. Visualize your progress with calendar views and weekly stats, and customize habits to fit your life. Stay motivated with visual feedback and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Minimalistic habit tracking
  • Daily task view
  • Progress visualization (calendars, stats)
  • Flexible weekly targets
  • Customizable habit appearance
  • Home screen widget support
Features
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Blossom Habit Tracker is a simple & minimalistic habit tracker designed to help you show up, one day at a time, and let your habits Blossom. Whether you're building a reading habit, a morning stretch, or a daily walk, Blossom keeps things simple: see what you need to do today, check it off, and watch yourself grow. DESIGNED FOR DAILY USE Blossom opens to Today tab, a clean view of exactly what's on your plate. A week strip shows your momentum at a glance, and a satisfying confetti celebration greets you when you've finished everything for the day. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Every habit gets its own colorful detail page with monthly calendar and weekly stats. The Year View shows 12 months of dots so you can see your consistency at a glance. The Calendar tab gives you a full picture of all your habits across any month or year. BUILT AROUND YOUR LIFE Set flexible weekly targets, not every habit needs to happen every single day. Blossom marks you "On track" when you've hit your goal for the week, so you never feel behind on a rest day. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from accent colors, icons or the emoji keyboard to give each habit its own identity. Supports dark mode, custom week start, and a home screen widget so your habits are always one glance away. WIDGET SUPPORT Add the Blossom widget to your home screen for a quick ring view or a list of today's top habits and check them off without ever opening the app. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO CLUTTER. Blossom is straightforward and honest. No ads, no paywalls, no unnecessary complexity, just a thoughtful tool for building the life you want. Start small. Stay consistent. Let yourself grow.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dots and Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 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 — 4.9 for Dots against 4.9 for Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 180 and 88 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Dots's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update weekly, Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dots versus Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsBlossom Habit Tracker (Fern)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (180 ratings)4.9 (88 ratings)
Positive reviews97.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings180 — better88
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakFrances Ling

Customer experience

Dots

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

Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)

All ratings88 ratings
Positive98.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews48 reviews
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
3 purchases

Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) free?
Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dots or Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)?
Dots and Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) are both rated 4.9 out of 5 on the App Store, from 180 and 88 ratings respectively.
Do Dots or Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) have ads?
Neither Dots nor Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern)?
Dots ships an update weekly, and Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) every 2 weeks. Most recently, Dots was updated on September 22, 2026 and Blossom Habit Tracker (Fern) on September 23, 2026.

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