One Dot vs MagoCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
MagoCast
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Stop squinting at the far end of the boardroom. MagoCast Viewer puts the meeting room's display on the device already in front of you. Whatever the room is showing — the video call, the presentation being shared, the document under discussion — appears on your iPhone or iPad in real time, at arm's length, readable from any seat at the table. It is the companion app for MagoCast Desktop, the broadcast system that runs on the room's computer. The room broadcasts; everyone in it watches on their own screen. JOINING TAKES NO SETUP Open the app and it finds the broadcast by itself. MagoCast Viewer discovers the room's system on the local network and lists it — one tap and you are watching. If your network blocks discovery, two fallbacks are always available: • PIN — type the code the room's display is showing • QR code — scan the code on the room's display with the camera Once you have joined a room, the app remembers it. Next time you walk in, you are one tap from the stream — even if the room's computer has changed IP address in the meantime. BUILT FOR PEOPLE SITTING AT A TABLE • Real-time playback over WebRTC, so what you see keeps pace with the conversation • Your screen stays awake while you watch — no blackouts mid-discussion • Tap once for the controls — leave or rotate — then they fade away and leave the screen clean • Rotate to landscape for the full width of the shared screen • On iPad, run it in Split View or Slide Over next to your notes IT STAYS IN THE ROOM All traffic runs across your local network. The video and audio never travel to a cloud service, and the stream is carried over WebRTC's encrypted transport. There is no account to create, no sign-in, nothing to configure. MagoCast Viewer collects no personal data and contains no analytics or tracking — the only thing stored on your device is the address of the last room you watched, so you do not have to pick it again. Sending the session out to the world stays a deliberate act: the room's MagoCast Desktop can relay a live stream to services such as YouTube Live or Twitch, but only when an administrator has explicitly enabled and configured that feature. WHERE IT FITS • Boardrooms and meeting rooms where the display is too far away to read • Long tables where half the room sees the screen at an angle • Training rooms, briefing rooms, and huddle spaces • Any room where people would rather follow along on their own device WHAT YOU NEED MagoCast Viewer is a viewer. It requires a computer in the room running MagoCast Desktop, with your device on the same local network. It does not broadcast your own screen, and it will not find anything on a network where no MagoCast broadcast is running. If you would rather not install anything, the same broadcast can be watched in a web browser. The app exists for the things a browser tab cannot do: it remembers the room, reconnects on its own, keeps the screen awake, and picks the session back up when you return to it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MagoCast at none against One Dot's 3. 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
Both are free to download. One Dot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. MagoCast asks for nothing beyond the download.
One Dot ships an update every 2 weeks, MagoCast monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | One Dot | MagoCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniil Kartsev | Re Mago Ltd |
In-app purchases
One Dot
- One Dot Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- One Dot Premium Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- One Dot Premium Lifetime$24.99
MagoCast
No in-app purchases









