Comparison

Dots vs Habits

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

Habits

Build and track daily routines with customizable habit types, AI suggestions, and progress visualization. Stay motivated with widgets and reminders, and integrate with Apple Health for automatic tracking. Your data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Customizable habit types (daily, weekly, counter, timer)
  • AI-powered routine suggestions
  • Progress tracking (streaks, trends, milestones)
  • Widgets and reminders for motivation
  • Apple Health integration
  • Private data storage, no account required
Features
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Habits makes it easier to keep the promises you make to yourself. BUILD A ROUTINE THAT FITS • Create daily, weekly, counter, timer, and flexible habits • Use AI Suggestions to turn a goal into a realistic routine • Organize habits into groups and personalize your Today view SEE PROGRESS WITHOUT THE NOISE • Check off habits in a single tap • Follow streaks, trends, milestones, and weekly insights • Keep momentum with widgets, reminders, Live Activities, sounds, and haptics WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH • Automatically complete habits from steps, calories, distance, exercise minutes, sleep, and workouts • Habits reads Health data only when you choose to connect it; it never writes to Apple Health PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account required • Your data stays on your device and can sync privately with iCloud • Habits does not sell your data Free to download. Build a habit you can keep today. Terms of Use: https://habitsapp.co/terms

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Habits4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Dots at free against Habits's freemium. Dots also leads on ratings volume (224 vs 10). Habits's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 and Habits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. 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 5.0 for Habits. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 224 ratings behind it against 10, 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 Habits's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update every 5 days, Habits daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dots versus Habits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsHabits
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (224 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings224 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakPeak Development LLC

Customer experience

Dots

All ratings224 ratings
Positive99.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative0.0%

Habits

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 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

Habits

Subscriptions2
  • Habits Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Habits Premium Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Habits Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habits free?
Habits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dots or Habits?
Habits is rated higher. Dots averages 4.9 out of 5 from 224 ratings, while Habits averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Dots or Habits have ads?
Neither Dots nor Habits shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Habits?
Dots ships an update every 5 days, and Habits daily. Most recently, Dots was updated on October 24, 2026 and Habits on October 22, 2026.

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