Comparison

One Dot vs Bhullar

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

Bhullar

Visualize your time with a unique grid of dots that zoom from years to hours. See your progress and what lies ahead with a minimalist, ad-free interface. Perfect for a quick glance at your day or year.

Highlights
  • Zoomable time grid (years to hours)
  • Visual progress tracking
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Automatic leap year handling
  • Ad-free and no tracking
Features
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Bhullar is a telescope for time. One grid of dots, five zoom levels. Swipe the grid and the year becomes months, then weeks, then days; swipe again and you are looking at today, hour by hour, then minute by minute. The unit you are in glows. The units that have passed fill in. The rest wait quietly. That is the whole app, and that is the point. Dots you can open. Swiping is the zoom, which frees the tap to mean "this one". Tap any dot that has already happened and Bhullar tells you what that stretch of time held: where you were during it, and what you kept from it. The places come from Randhawa, our map app, whose map now draws itself; carry your phone and they fill in on their own. A dot still ahead of now says only "Not yet." New in 2.2: the widgets glow gold on the days and hours that hold a memory, the same way the grid in the app does. The composer can take a photo with the camera, not only pick one. And places are named through one shared cache, so a place is the same word in Bhullar and in Randhawa. Memories. Tap the plus button and write down what right now deserves to keep, with a photo if you like, from your library or the camera. Days that hold a memory glow gold in the grid, and when a memory's date comes around again it resurfaces under the grid: on this day. If you also use Randhawa, our map app, memories flow between the two: made in either, shown in both. Randhawa gives them a place; Bhullar gives them a time. • 12 months, 52-odd weeks, 365-odd days, 24-odd hours, 1,440-odd minutes • Swipe sideways to change scale; the app remembers where you left it • Tap any elapsed dot to open it: the places and the memories from that span • Three Home Screen widgets: Year in Dots, Day in Dots, and Dots at Any Scale, which you can set to months, weeks, days, or hours; gold where you kept a memory • Lock Screen widgets in every size • Updates itself: live while open, hourly for the day, at midnight for the year Honest timekeeping: • Leap years get 366 dots automatically • On clock-change days, the day truthfully shows 23 or 25 hours, and 1,380 or 1,500 minutes • Weeks follow your calendar settings Deliberately minimal: • No account to create. No sign-up. iCloud sync is optional and uses your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. • No tracking. No analytics. No ads. • The grid needs nothing: every dot is computed on your device from the date Glance, take it in, get on with your day.

Screenshots

One Dot4 screens
Bhullar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bhullar at 5.0 against One Dot's 4.5. Bhullar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). One Dot's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, ads, device support 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. One Dot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bhullar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bhullar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: One Dot has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

One Dot ships an update every 2 weeks, Bhullar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
One Dot versus Bhullar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOne DotBhullar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniil KartsevRandhawa Inc.

Customer experience

One Dot

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Bhullar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Bhullar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is One Dot free?
One Dot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bhullar free?
Bhullar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, One Dot or Bhullar?
Bhullar is rated higher. One Dot averages 4.5 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Bhullar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do One Dot or Bhullar have ads?
Neither One Dot nor Bhullar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, One Dot or Bhullar?
One Dot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bhullar weekly. Most recently, One Dot was updated on October 13, 2026 and Bhullar on October 23, 2026.

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