BrainJar AI vs Dotty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrainJar AI
Capture thoughts, tasks, reminders, and ideas instantly. This app organizes your notes and provides daily insights to boost your focus and momentum. Designed for busy individuals seeking clarity and productivity.
- Quick thought capture
- Smart organization
- Reminders and upcoming items
- Daily insights
- Personal productivity tools
- Distraction-free design
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BrainJar helps you capture thoughts, tasks, reminders, and ideas the moment they happen. Whether it’s something to remember later, a task you need to do, or an idea you don’t want to lose, BrainJar organizes it for you in one simple place. Features include: • Quick thought capture • Smart organization • Reminders and upcoming items • Daily insights • Personal productivity tools • Clean and distraction-free design BrainJar is built for busy minds who want clarity, focus, and momentum every day. Privacy Policy: https://www.brainjarapp.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dotty
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A private notebook where everyone you know gets a page, including you. Contact apps store phone numbers. Dotty stores the things you would never put in a contact card: that she hates surprise calls, that his sister is called Ada, that his dad had surgery and you should ask. Everything is encrypted on your device. You do not need an account, and nothing leaves your phone unless you decide it should. EVERY PAGE IS YOURS TO SHAPE • Notes, lists, checklists, custom fields, files and folders, mixed in whatever way that person needs • A page for a friend looks nothing like a page for a client, and both are right • You get a page too, for the things you want to remember about yourself THE MAP Your relationships are not folders. The map draws them as a network, so you can see how they actually sit. • People move closer as you stay in touch, and drift apart when you do not • Someone can be family, gym, and work at the same time. You create the circles. • Drifting shows who you have not spoken to in weeks, before it becomes months MOMENTS • Birthdays repeat every year on their own, pulled from the person’s page • Reminders repeat when you want them to, like a monthly call or a yearly anniversary • Plans stay on one calendar, with everyone on it • Notifications for events, birthdays, and reminders PRIVATE, EITHER WAY You choose where your people live: on this phone alone, or in an account that follows you. • On-device only means there is no account and no copy stored anywhere else • The database is encrypted with SQLCipher, using standard cryptography • The key stays in your Keychain, marked for this device, and is left out of every backup • Photos and attachments are excluded from backups too, so no readable copy reaches iCloud • Sign in with Apple or Google if you want to sync. There is no password to lose. • No analytics, no ad SDK, no data brokers. Nothing you write is sent to any AI model, and search runs on your device • Export everything as a single file whenever you like, and delete your account in the app, iPhone and iPad. Questions or ideas? Write to us. We read everything.
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Verdict
BrainJar AI and Dotty are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. BrainJar AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and Dotty sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | BrainJar AI | Dotty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Faiz Ansari | BASRI KEREM ALHAN |
In-app purchases
BrainJar AI
- BrainJar Pro$5.991 Month
Dotty
- Unlock all of Dotty$9.99









