Comparison

Dots vs Habit Dots

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 helps you build lasting routines by tracking daily habits with a clean, visual interface and motivating home screen widgets. Monitor your progress with heatmaps and yearly recaps, all within a distraction-free design.

Highlights
  • Simple habit tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Visual progress tracking
  • Clean and focused design
  • Gentle motivation
  • Stats and yearly recap
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 7 days 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

Habit Dots

Easily track daily routines and goals with a visual heatmap. Record achievements with a tap, customize habits with icons and colors, and review progress with streaks and calendars. No login required.

Highlights
  • One-tap habit recording
  • Visual progress heatmaps
  • Customizable habit icons and colors
  • Daily, weekly, and specific day goals
  • Notes and photo attachments
  • Streak tracking
  • No login required
Features
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A simple and easy-to-use habit tracking app. Record your daily achievements with dots and check your habit progress at a glance. Use it to track a wide range of routines and goals, such as exercise, studying, reading, stretching, journaling, waking up early, housework, and creative activities. Simply tap what you completed today, and visualize your weekly and monthly progress with dots and calendars. For each habit, you can set an icon, emoji, color, goal type, and notification time. You can manage not only habits you want to do every day, but also weekly goals and habits scheduled for specific days of the week. ● Main Features 【Easily Track Your Habits】 ・Create habits ・Record today’s achievement with one tap ・Record past dates ・Switch between daily, weekly, and monthly views ・Reorder habits ・Archive habits you no longer need 【Visualize Progress with Dots】 ・Display daily records as dots ・Check weekly progress easily ・View monthly records in a calendar layout ・Display a full year of progress with a yearly heatmap ・Switch years to review past records 【Customize Each Habit】 ・Set a habit name ・Choose an icon or emoji ・Set a color ・Choose from daily, weekly goal, or specific weekday goals ・Set a notification time for each habit ・Record habits even on non-scheduled days 【Add Notes and Photos】 ・Save notes for each record ・Add photos to your records ・Use the camera or choose from your photo library ・Look back on past records from recent entries 【Check Your Progress Clearly】 ・View your current streak ・View your longest streak ・Check this month’s record count ・Check your total record count ・Tap stats cards to see more details ・Review your progress in a simple way 【Clean and Simple Design】 ・Simple and easy-to-use layout ・Supports Light Mode and Dark Mode ・Organize habits clearly with custom colors ・A clean design that helps you keep going 【No Login Required】 ・Start using the app without creating an account ・Track your personal habits easily ・Supports data backup and restore Perfect for exercise, studying, reading, stretching, journaling, housework, and daily routine management. Visualize the days you kept going with dots, and build up small daily achievements with this simple habit tracking app.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Habit Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Habit Dots at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Habit Dots 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 Habit Dots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 232 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Dots's written reviews are positive against 100% of Habit Dots's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update every 5 days, Habit Dots monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Dots versus Habit Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsHabit Dots
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (232 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings232 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakMITSUKO MARGOT KUBOTA ONO

Customer experience

Dots

All ratings232 ratings
Positive99.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative0.0%

Habit Dots

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dots

Subscriptions2
  • Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Dots Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
None

Habit Dots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Dots free?
Habit Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dots or Habit Dots?
Habit Dots is rated higher. Dots averages 4.9 out of 5 from 232 ratings, while Habit Dots averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Dots or Habit Dots have ads?
Habit Dots shows ads; Dots does not.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Habit Dots?
Dots ships an update every 5 days, and Habit Dots monthly. Most recently, Dots was updated on November 5, 2026 and Habit Dots on October 31, 2026.

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