Comparison

Dot Vibe vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

Dot Vibe

Capture thoughts quickly in a private, offline journal organized into swipeable timelines. Keep personal, work, and creative ideas separate with a simple, distraction-free interface. Everything is stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Multiple timelines for life organization
  • Swipeable timeline navigation
  • Fast, lightweight writing
  • Local-only storage
  • Distraction-free design
  • Quick note capture
Features
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Dot Vibe is a private timeline notes app for thoughts you want to capture fast. Write quick notes, journal entries, reminders, ideas, and personal updates in swipeable timelines that help you keep different parts of life separate. Use one timeline for personal thoughts, another for work notes, another for creative ideas, travel plans, saved text, or daily reflection. Everything stays simple, fast, and easy to browse. Everything is stored locally on your device. No account. No cloud. No distractions. Just open Dot Vibe and write. Why people use Dot Vibe • Keep private notes offline • Capture ideas before they disappear • Journal in short entries instead of long pages • Save reusable text snippets to copy later • Separate personal, work, and creative thinking into different timelines Features • Multiple timelines for different parts of life • Swipe between timelines • Fast, lightweight writing experience • Copy any vibe instantly • Local-only storage on your device • Clean, distraction-free design Great for • quick notes • private journaling • daily logs • thought capture • reminders • mind dumps • saving captions, messages, or reusable text • personal, work, creative, and travel planning Dot Vibe feels like a private social feed for your own mind, without posting, accounts, pressure, or noise. If you want an offline notes app, a simple private journal, or a fast place to keep thoughts organized in timelines, Dot Vibe gives your words a quiet home.

About

Tally

This app helps you understand where your time goes by gently prompting you to log activities throughout the day. It provides visual breakdowns of your time, allowing you to identify patterns and achieve a better balance between productivity and rest.

Highlights
  • Gentle daily prompts for logging
  • Quick-log from notifications
  • Customizable categories with icons
  • Visual daily timeline
  • Balance bars for productivity and rest
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights
  • Offline functionality
Features
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You know the feeling. It's 9 PM and you're wondering where the day went. You were busy — but doing what, exactly? Tally answers that question. Not with timers or complicated tracking. Just a gentle nudge throughout the day: "What did you just do?" Tap a category and you're done. Three seconds, tops. Do this for a few days and something shifts. You stop guessing and start seeing. The afternoon you thought was productive? Mostly phone. The evening you felt was wasted? Actually a solid mix of cooking and reading. Tally doesn't judge. It just shows you the picture. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE Your daily timeline is a visual map of how your hours were spent, color-coded by category. At a glance, you see the shape of your day — what you did, and what slipped by unlogged. LOG WITHOUT THINKING - A gentle nudge at the interval you choose - Quick-log directly from the notification — no need to open the app - Pick from your most-used categories with a single tap - Only active during your waking hours — you set the schedule CATEGORIES THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Tally comes with 10 default categories: Work, Rest, Exercise, Social Media, Reading, Commute, Cooking, Entertainment, Social, and Other. Add your own — unlimited, with custom icons and colors. Your categories should reflect how you actually spend time, not how you wish you did. BALANCE, NOT JUST DATA Tally tracks four dimensions of a well-spent day through balance bars: - Create: time spent on focused, productive work - Recharge: rest, exercise, cooking — recovery that actually counts - Focus: your day minus the distractions - Awareness: how much of your day you've accounted for Each bar has a personal target. When all four close, you've had a balanced day — by your own definition, not anyone else's. SEE THE PATTERNS The Insights tab breaks down your time across four views: - Daily: where today's hours went, charted by category - Weekly: seven days side by side — spot the rhythm of your week - Monthly: trends that only emerge over longer stretches - Yearly: the full picture of how your time adds up No scores designed to guilt you. Just clean data about your own life. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY - iCloud sync keeps your data across all your devices - Dark mode that follows your system setting - Works offline — your data is local first, always - No account required. No sign-up. No analytics tracking you. Tally is completely free. Every feature, every insight, every category — no paywalls, no limits, no "upgrade to unlock" screens. WHAT TALLY IS NOT Tally is not a Pomodoro tool. There are no work/break cycles. Tally is not a billing tracker. There are no projects or clients. Tally is a mirror. It shows you where your time goes. What you do with that information is entirely up to you. Terms of Use: https://www.theblackholecompany.com/termsConditions.html

Screenshots

Dot Vibe4 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dot Vibe at none against Tally's 5. Dot Vibe also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Tally's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Tally sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Dot Vibe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dot Vibe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tally has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dot Vibe ships an update every 4 days, Tally every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dot Vibe versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDot VibeTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoah SmithYoussef Ismaili

In-app purchases

None

Dot Vibe

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Tally

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Generous Tip$9.99
  • Crazy Tip$49.99

Questions

Is Dot Vibe free?
Dot Vibe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dot Vibe or Tally?
Dot Vibe is rated higher. Dot Vibe averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tally averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Dot Vibe or Tally have ads?
Neither Dot Vibe nor Tally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dot Vibe or Tally?
Dot Vibe ships an update every 4 days, and Tally every 6 weeks. Most recently, Dot Vibe was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tally on October 31, 2026.

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