Dots vs Trax
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 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/
Trax
Organize your job search by logging applications, networking outreach, and setting goals. Use smart scanning to pre-fill job details and monitor your progress with a clear dashboard. Designed for students and recent graduates seeking internships or full-time roles.
- Log job applications
- Track networking outreach
- Set and monitor job search goals
- Smart scan job postings
- Progress dashboard
- Offline data storage
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Trax keeps your job search organized so nothing slips through the cracks. Log every application in seconds — company, role, date, and status all in one place. Track your cold emails and networking outreach separately, so you always know who to follow up with and when. Set a goal and let Trax keep you on pace. Tell it how many applications you want to send and at what rate, and it will calculate your finish date and nudge you when you fall behind. SMART SCAN Use your camera or photo library to scan a job posting or offer letter. Trax reads the text and pre-fills the details for you — no more typing the same fields over and over. DASHBOARD See your progress at a glance — applications sent, emails logged, and how you're tracking against your goal. BUILT FOR JOB SEEKERS Whether you're a student hunting for your first internship or a grad going after full-time roles, Trax is designed to keep you moving. TRAX PRO Unlock unlimited Smart Scans with Trax Pro. Free users get 15 scans to start. • $1.99 / month • $12.00 / year • $15.00 lifetime All your data stays on your device — nothing is sent to a server.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trax at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is ratings volume (216 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Trax asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dots against 5.0 for Trax. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 216 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Dots | Trax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (216 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 216 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Juyong Bak | MATTHEW LEE HANCOCK |
Customer experience
Dots
Trax
In-app purchases
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
Trax
No in-app purchases









