Comparison

Dots vs MicroHabit

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

MicroHabit

This app helps you build consistent habits by focusing on your last 30 days of progress rather than a streak. Easily track daily actions, count progress, or time activities. It offers privacy by design, keeping all your data on your device.

Highlights
  • 30-day progress view
  • Customizable habits
  • Check off, count, or time actions
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
  • Home screen widgets and Siri integration
  • Pause or archive habits
Features
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Miss a day? Pick up with one small action. MicroHabit shows your last 30 days of progress instead of a streak to protect. Check off a habit, count pages read, or time a few minutes of movement. START SMALL, KEEP GOING Create your own habit or choose a ready-made small action. Pick the days that suit you and add a reminder when you want one. CHECK OFF, COUNT, OR TIME Mark a habit done, add to a count, or start and pause a timer from Today. Counts and timers record the actual amount, even after you reach your target. SEE PROGRESS BEYOND A STREAK Review your 30-day progress instead of protecting an unbroken streak. There is no streak counter to reset; your progress updates as the window moves. Review your week with Weekly Progress, or use Day Review to look back at a day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-in • No analytics, tracking, diagnostics, or crash reporting • Habit data stays on your device by default. You can export an unencrypted backup to a destination you choose. ACT WITH LESS FRICTION • Use Home Screen widgets and Siri or Shortcuts for quick actions CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN PACE Pause a habit when you need a break, or archive it and restore it later. Your recorded activity stays available. MicroHabit is free for up to six active habits, Weekly Progress, and Day Review for the last 30 days. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks unlimited active habits, your full history in Day Review and Activity, and CSV export. No subscription or trial.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
MicroHabit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Dots at 232 against MicroHabit's 2. Dots also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). 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 MicroHabit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 MicroHabit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 232 ratings behind it against 2, 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 MicroHabit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update every 5 days, MicroHabit every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dots versus MicroHabit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsMicroHabit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (232 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings232 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakVeloTract

Customer experience

Dots

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

MicroHabit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 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
1 purchases

MicroHabit

One-time1
  • MicroHabit Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MicroHabit free?
MicroHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dots or MicroHabit?
MicroHabit is rated higher. Dots averages 4.9 out of 5 from 232 ratings, while MicroHabit averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Dots or MicroHabit have ads?
Neither Dots nor MicroHabit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or MicroHabit?
Dots ships an update every 5 days, and MicroHabit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Dots was updated on November 5, 2026 and MicroHabit on November 5, 2026.

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