Comparison

Dots vs Order

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

Order

Features
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Order — Make fewer choices, make right ones. A rational decision-making subtraction tool. Not another todo list. Not another tracker. Not another streak-counter. Order helps you: • Lock in life pillars with weighted percentages • Force a single North Star goal per season • Force ranked priorities every day — no ties allowed • Audit decision entropy to expose when you're drifting • Record what you ABANDON, with opportunity cost • Generate a quarterly "earnings report" of your time No gamification. No streaks. No social feeds. No nudges. No ads. No cloud. All data lives on your device. For: senior professionals, long-term exam takers, mid-life planners, anyone tired of being busy without being focused. All features are fully free in this version: life pillars, seasonal goals, daily ranking, abandon list, time audit, AI coach, PDF report. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No login. Fully offline.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Order4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Order at none against Dots's 3. On price, ads, device support 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. Order asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Dots versus Order: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsOrder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (238 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews98.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings238 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB1 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperJuyong BakYANG SHEN

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

Order

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Order free?
Order is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dots or Order have ads?
Neither Dots nor Order shows ads.

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