Dots vs FieldStack
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/
FieldStack
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FieldStack turns large construction plan sets into a focused workspace built for the person holding the phone. Open the complete PDF, pull the sheets you need into one zoomable board, and add checks and notes without changing the original drawings. INFINITE REFERENCE CANVAS • Bring plan pages, images, PDFs, text notes, and editable sketches into one smooth visual workspace. • Arrange and group job context freely, then tap a plan page to reopen the original blueprint. • Pan and zoom around the canvas without changing source documents. BUILD A WORKING BOARD • Select one sheet or a group of related sheets from the full reader. • Arrange the board in one, two, or three columns. • Move between sheets while keeping the larger plan context in view. FIND AND RECORD FIELD CONTEXT • Search rooms, doors, labels, and other plan text. • Add Check or Note items at plan locations. • Track field-facing progress as Open, In Progress, Blocked, or Done. • Review the same saved entries from Board or Today. KEEP THE SOURCE CLEAN FieldStack stores boards, checks, notes, and Reference Boards as a separate private layer. Imported source PDFs are not overwritten or flattened by ordinary field work. The reviewed primary FieldStack interface supports English, French, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Existing customers choose whether to keep English or follow their iPhone language; new installs use the reviewed iPhone language automatically. FieldStack is designed as a personal field tool. It does not require an account, realtime team workspace, or subscription. Optional consumable tips support continued development and unlock nothing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://unshackledpursuit.com/fieldstack#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FieldStack at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. FieldStack asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dots ships an update weekly, FieldStack every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dots | FieldStack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (196 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 98.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juyong Bak | Dylan Russell |
In-app purchases
Dots
- Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Dots Pro — Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
- Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99
FieldStack
No in-app purchases









