Dots vs Mailboard AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Free habit tracking
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Visual progress tracking with dots
- Clean and focused design
- Weekly and monthly heatmaps
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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/
Mailboard AI
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Mailboard AI turns your busy inbox into a calm pinboard. An AI reads every incoming email, pins only the ones that truly matter as sticky notes, and quietly sets the rest aside — across all your accounts. WHY MAILBOARD AI - Email as a visual board, not an endless list. Important messages become sticky notes you can pin, group, colour-code and rearrange on a beautiful cork board. - An AI decides what deserves your attention. It separates important mail from promotional noise and writes a one-line summary for each note, so you glance at the board and instantly know your day. - All your accounts on one board. Connect Gmail, Outlook / Microsoft 365, Apple iCloud and almost any other (IMAP) provider — colour-coded so you always know which inbox a message came from. KEY FEATURES - AI sorting — every email is marked Important or Promotional, with a short note explaining why, in the same language as the email. - The smart board — important emails as sticky notes, newest first; pin the ones you're working on into a Focused area. - One-line AI summaries — know what an email is about before you open it. - AI-written replies — open a message, generate a professional draft, tweak it and send. Sending also marks it read. - Compose with AI — describe what you want to say and get a clean draft. - Thread summaries — condense a long back-and-forth email into the key points, the people involved, and a suggested reply, in one tap. - New-email alerts — get notified the moment an important email arrives, even when the app is closed, across your Apple devices. - To-do sticky notes — pin your own reminders right next to your mail. - Promotional filter — newsletters and noise kept neatly out of the way in a separate list. - Top senders & favourites — instantly focus on the people who matter most. - Whitelist & blacklist — always-important and always-promotional rules the AI respects; mute a sender in one tap. - Auto-refresh — checks your mail on a schedule you choose (every 1, 5 or 10 minutes), with a clear "last updated" status. - Usage charts — see how many emails were screened and your AI usage per day and month. YOUR AI, YOUR CHOICE - Managed AI plans — nothing to set up, it just works, with generous daily limits for email screenings and AI reply drafts. - Bring your own AI key for free — connect Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and more; you only pay your own provider. - Or use both — stay on a managed plan and let your own key take over automatically when the daily limit is reached or the plan expires, so the AI never stops. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Your inboxes and classification data are stored locally on your device. - Optional iCloud sync keeps your settings consistent across your Apple devices. - One-tap "Delete local data" wipes all configured inboxes and stored data. - Secure sign-in with Apple, Google or Microsoft. WORKS EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad, Mac — from a single app. Bring calm to your inbox. Connect your first inbox in seconds and let the board think for you. LEGAL Managed AI plans are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mailboardai.com/support/privacy/
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Verdict
Dots and Mailboard AI are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mailboard AI sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Dots | Mailboard AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (229 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 98.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 229 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Juyong Bak | ImageNotion (haftungsbeschraenkt) |
In-app purchases
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
Mailboard AI
- Mailboard AI Basic — Monthly$0.991 Month
- Mailboard AI Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Mailboard AI Ultimate — Yearly$3.991 Month
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- Mailboard AI Basic — Yearly$8.991 Year
- Mailboard AI Pro — Yearly$17.991 Year
- Mailboard AI Ultimate — Yearly$34.991 Year
- Unlock Unlimited Inboxes$1.99









