Comparison

Dots vs BLOX

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

BLOX

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BLOX helps you stop doomscrolling by adding a physical step between you and distracting apps. Choose the apps and categories you want to block, create a focus mode, then tap your iPhone on a compatible NFC tag to begin. Once a session starts, BLOX applies your selected restrictions and activates a 30-minute deadlock. After the deadlock ends, tap the tag again to finish your session. FEATURES • Block selected apps and categories using Apple’s Screen Time controls • Create reusable focus modes • Schedule focused time • Track sessions, focused time, and streaks • Five emergency unblocks per month for genuine emergencies • Account-free experience • Focus information remains on your device BLOX requires an iPhone with NFC support and Screen Time authorization. A compatible NFC tag is required and sold separately. Take back your attention—one tap at a time.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
BLOX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BLOX at none against Dots's 3. Dots's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. BLOX asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dots versus BLOX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsBLOX
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (219 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews98.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings219 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuyong BakVigneshwaran Elangovan

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
None

BLOX

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BLOX free?
BLOX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dots or BLOX have ads?
Neither Dots nor BLOX shows ads.

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