Alisa Assistant vs DOTHING
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alisa Assistant
This AI assistant manages your email, calls, and calendar by preparing replies, answering calls, and organizing your day. It provides a unified view of your schedule, packages, and contacts, with drafts ready for your review before sending.
- AI-powered email drafting and review
- Automated call answering and transcription
- Calendar event management and scheduling
- Package tracking with arrival alerts
- Unified contact information with communication history
- Cross-platform mobile and web access
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ALISA (formerly ARIA) is an AI assistant for your email, calls and calendar. It prepares replies, answers your calls, follows up for you and shows what needs your decision, all in one calm place on mobile and web. You review before anything goes out. ASK ALISA, ANYWHERE • Tap the assistant button on any page to ask about it. ALISA already knows which email, call, event, package or contact you're looking at, and suggests questions to try • Press and hold to ask out loud, then pull the answer up to carry on in Chat • Today's Agenda opens as a small bar that keeps reading while you use the app, and you can ask about it • Ask ALISA to keep checking on something, or to remind you when you choose. Nothing starts until you tap Start YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • Home shows only what has something in it and fits on one screen • Search emails, calls, contacts and events from one place • Daily and weekly briefs, and an Agenda that explains what matters and the next decision • Packages followed from your shipping emails, with arrivals on your Agenda and optional alerts. No carrier sign-ins • One-tap Join for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and more, including links built from meeting IDs and dial-in numbers EMAIL READY FOR YOUR REVIEW • Choose which emails ALISA handles: only emails you label, all new emails, only people you choose, or your own list • ALISA reads the whole conversation before preparing a reply, so it skips mail that needs none • Review and edit each draft, then send with a few seconds to Undo • Schedule replies and new emails for a date and time • Save emails you send again and again as templates, with attachments and fill-ins • Ask ALISA to write a new email from a sentence, or change what you already wrote • Confirmation emails with an event can go on your calendar, with Undo (Standard and Pro) CALLS THAT KEEP CONTEXT AND FOLLOW UP • Set up your own ALISA number from Calls. ALISA answers, and offers real open times, never made-up ones • Read call transcripts, summaries and suggested follow-ups • Every call ALISA can't answer shows up in Missed, with the reason • Where enabled and consented, privately play retained recordings CONTACTS WITH MEMORY • Bring together authorized communication history, commitments, projects, preferences and notes for each contact • Use that context when preparing calls and emails, and review next actions before anything is sent YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR SCREEN • Use ALISA in English or Spanish. Your screens, Agenda, Chat replies and notifications follow your choice, and translations are made by AI, so some wording may be off • Tablets and foldable phones get a side rail and two columns • A web app built for large screens, with an Ask ALISA panel that knows what's open MADE FOR EVERYONE • ALISA Sans, ALISA's own typeface, with a Large cut for low vision • Contrast checked in light and dark, text that flows at large sizes, screen reader support, and Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast • Secure biometric sign-in on supported devices DESIGNED FOR CONTROL AND TRUST ALISA follows an approval-first approach. Drafts, scheduling decisions and destructive actions include review or confirmation steps where appropriate. Recording features are available only when enabled and consent requirements are met. Permissions support the features you choose, including microphone access for voice and optional photo access for your profile. SUBSCRIPTIONS ALISA offers Basic, Standard and Pro plans, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ALISA Terms: https://alisaassistant.com/alisa/legal/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://alisaassistant.com/alisa/legal/privacy-policy
DOTHING
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Managing tasks isn't doing tasks. Most to-do apps ask you to build a system first. Projects, tags, folders, priorities, filters. You spend Sunday setting it up and abandon it by Thursday. DOTHING has none of that. You add a task. It shows up on the day it's due. You tap it done. Say it or type it Hold the + button and talk. "Call Mom tomorrow at 6" becomes a task, dated, without you touching a date picker. Transcription happens on your iPhone. Block what pulls you away Choose the apps that distract you, then press and hold to block them while you work on a task. A timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island keeps you company until it's done. Do it together Share a task with anyone. Everyone sees the same steps and every change as it happens. Joining is free. Everything a task needs Subtasks to break it into steps. Notes, links, photos, files and drawings. Repeats for the things that come back. Reminders that arrive on time. Just ask Siri "Add a task in DOTHING." "What's on today in DOTHING?" "What's coming up in DOTHING?" Your tasks show up when you search your iPhone, too. Everywhere you already look Widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. StandBy on your nightstand. Yours alone No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Your tasks sync through your own iCloud and go nowhere else, unless you share them. Free, with Pro when you need more DOTHING is free for up to 5 tasks at a time, each with up to 3 subtasks. Finish one and its place opens up. Tasks shared with you don't count. DOTHING Pro removes every limit: monthly, yearly with the first week free, or once for life. Yearly and Lifetime also come as Family plans for up to 6 people through Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel them anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://premgurusamy.github.io/dothing/ Privacy Policy: https://premgurusamy.github.io/dothing/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Alisa Assistant at weekly against DOTHING's every 2 months. Alisa Assistant also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Alisa Assistant sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and DOTHING sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alisa Assistant ships an update weekly, DOTHING every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alisa Assistant | DOTHING |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Madd Technologies LLC | Prem Gurusamy |
In-app purchases
Alisa Assistant
- Basic Monthly$5.991 Month
- Standard Monthly$16.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$39.991 Month
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- Basic Yearly$54.991 Year
- Standard Yearly$159.991 Year
- Pro Yearly$399.991 Year
DOTHING
- Lifetime Access$49.99









