Comparison

One Dot vs Mindrop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

One Dot

Visualize your life, habits, and events on your lock screen with auto-updating calendar wallpapers. Track your progress, journal entries, and upcoming events without opening an app. Customize your look with various themes, shapes, and backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Auto-updating lock screen wallpapers
  • Visual life grid calendar
  • Habit streak tracking
  • Journal visualization
  • Countdown and agenda display
  • Customizable widgets
  • Multiple themes and shapes
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Turn passing time into something you can see whenever you pick up your iPhone. One Dot creates customizable, auto-updating Lock Screen wallpapers and widgets for your year, habits, journal, agenda, reminders, steps, and goals. PLAN YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY • See Apple Calendar events in Daily, Week Card, Week + Today, circular Sectograph, vertical Timeline, or Monthly layouts • Turn Apple Reminders lists into Daily, Minimal, Week + Today, or four-list Matrix wallpapers • Keep the right note close by showing any journal text as a Live Activity on your Lock Screen SEE PROGRESS AT A GLANCE • View your life in weeks or your year as 365 dots • Track habits, streaks, journal entries, and moods • Follow countdowns, Apple Health steps, or revenue from Stripe and RevenueCat • Add interactive Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets 16 VISUAL MODES Life, Year, Season, Quarter, Month, Week, Countdown, Agenda, To-Do, Notes, Journal, Mood, Habits, Steps, Revenue, and Astro. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from a wide range of themes, dot shapes, colors, and layouts. Adjust size, spacing, placement, opacity, labels, stats, and backgrounds. Use a solid color, gradient, preset, or your own photo. Save multiple wallpaper setups for different parts of your life. AUTOMATIC DAILY REFRESH Set up the included Shortcuts automation once and your wallpaper can update each day, keeping your progress, calendar, and reminders current. BUILT FOR PRIVACY One Dot requires no account or proprietary cloud sync. Personal content is processed on your device, and optional integrations are accessed only with your permission. Limited product analytics and diagnostics help improve the app. START FREE The free version includes Life, Year, Journal, and Habits modes, plus core customization. One Dot Premium unlocks all 16 modes, more themes and shapes, advanced widgets, multiple wallpaper slots, and full customization. Make every day visible with One Dot. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mindrop

Features
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Spill is a fast, private voice notes app for the thoughts you do not want to lose. Open Spill, tap the widget, or use a quick trigger and start speaking. No folders first. No category picker. No typing. Just say the idea, task, reminder or note while it is still fresh, then let Spill organise it later. Designed for quick brain dumps, Spill turns short voice captures into useful, searchable notes. Your speech is transcribed on device, then sorted into Ideas, Tasks, Reminders or Notes. Spill can also create a clear title, generate a short summary and detect useful dates or times from what you said. What you can use Spill for: • Capture ideas before they disappear • Dictate quick notes while walking, commuting or working • Save tasks without opening a full to-do app • Create reminders from natural speech • Keep a searchable library of past thoughts • Review recent captures from your Home screen • Filter your library by Ideas, Tasks, Reminders and Notes Private by design Spill is built for people who want speed without giving up privacy. Transcription happens locally on your iPhone, your data is stored on device, and there is no account, no backend, no cloud AI processing and no subscription. Original audio is deleted by default once transcribed, unless you choose otherwise in settings. Say it now. Sort it later. Spill is for anyone who thinks faster than they type: makers, students, writers, busy parents, freelancers, founders and anyone who needs a lightweight place to capture thoughts quickly. Download Spill and turn fleeting speech into organised, private notes.

Screenshots

One Dot4 screens
Mindrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mindrop at none against One Dot's 3. One Dot's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. One Dot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Mindrop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

One Dot ships an update every 2 weeks, Mindrop every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
One Dot versus Mindrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOne DotMindrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniil KartsevPawel Komorkiewicz

In-app purchases

3 purchases

One Dot

Subscriptions2
  • One Dot Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • One Dot Premium Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • One Dot Premium Lifetime$24.99
None

Mindrop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is One Dot free?
One Dot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mindrop free?
Mindrop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do One Dot or Mindrop have ads?
Neither One Dot nor Mindrop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, One Dot or Mindrop?
One Dot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Mindrop every 9 days. Most recently, One Dot was updated on October 13, 2026 and Mindrop on October 1, 2026.

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