Comparison

Visual Time vs Dotted

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

Head to head
About

Visual Time

Visualize your progress through the day, week, month, and year with a simple dotted line. Set daily intentions and countdowns to important events. Keep your sense of time tangible and focused across your devices.

Highlights
  • Day, week, month, year progress visualization
  • Daily intention setting
  • Custom countdowns
  • iCloud sync
  • Home screen widgets
  • Mac menu bar app
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Dotted Line shows you exactly where you are in time, right now, and helps you decide what to do with what’s left. How far through the day are you? The week? The month? The year? Most of us have a vague sense, but Dotted Line makes it concrete. A simple row of dots, a percentage, and suddenly time feels real. Watch your age unfold in real time. Set a daily intention, count down to what matters, and keep your sense of time visible across iPhone, iPad and Mac. WHAT YOU GET · Day, week, month, and year progress. · Live age counter: follow your progress toward your next birthday. · Daily intention: set your focus each morning. · Custom countdowns for trips, deadlines, launches, birthdays, and anything you’re looking forward to. · Share your progress, age, intentions, and countdowns as cards. · Optional iCloud sync for your intention, countdown, and birth date across iPhone, iPad and Mac. · Daily reminder to keep you grounded. · Clean, minimal design that stays out of your way. · Light, dark, or system theme. DOTTED LINE PREMIUM · Home Screen widgets · Lock Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad · Custom colors · Mac app and menu bar One-time purchase. No subscription. Ever.

About

Dotted

This app offers a private and calm space to track daily habits, tasks, and moods with a focus on gentle progress. It features a photo journal, shared rituals with a trusted person, and quiet reminders, all without intrusive notifications or data collection.

Highlights
  • Private habit tracking
  • Daily task list
  • Photo journal with mood logging
  • Shared rituals with one person
  • Gentle weekly/monthly/yearly reviews
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Quiet reminders and quiet hours
Features
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Dotted is a calm, private habit notebook. One small dot a day, paper-textured pages, and quiet progress — instead of charts, badges, and noise. Keep your habits in one place. Mark the day with a dot. Add a note. Log a mood. Then close the app. QUIET BY DEFAULT Soft terracotta and paper. No streaks shouting at you, no leaderboards, no accounts to create. Dotted does not collect your habits. ONE DOT A DAY Tap to mark the day. The grid fills slowly. The app never tells you to do more. DAILY TASKS A quiet to-do list lives next to today's dots. Add a small task, check it off, or carry it to tomorrow. You can also keep a shared task with the person in your Shared Ritual. PHOTO JOURNAL Every day gets its own journal page. Write freely or follow three gentle prompts, add up to 10 photos, and pick a mood. Search past entries and keep your favorite days close. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dotted has no accounts and no servers we own. Your habits, dots, notes, and moods stay on your device and sync only through your own iCloud. REVIEW AT YOUR PACE Browse the week, the month, or the year. See gentle stats — no shame, no graphs that pretend to know you. SHARED RITUALS Keep one small ritual together with someone you trust — like a daily walk, a stretch, or a check-in. Both tap a dot for the day; the ritual stays in sync between you. No public feed, no followers. You can leave at any time. QUIET REMINDERS & QUIET HOURS One gentle nudge if you want one. Set quiet hours to silence reminders at night. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep today's dots one glance away. GENTLE WEEKLY, MONTHLY, AND YEARLY REVIEWS Three quiet rooms to look back: the past week, the past month, the past year. Streaks, gentle stats, and a paper-textured year calendar. SHARE CARDS A quiet way to share a small win — turn a streak or a finished month into a paper-textured card you can save or send. MADE WITH CARE Dotted is built and maintained by Teddy App Labs. No advertising. We use product analytics and crash diagnostics to improve Dotted. ——— Dotted is free to download: three habits, the photo journal, mood and tasks are free. Optional Dotted Pro unlocks unlimited habits, reviews, share cards and more as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://dotted.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://dotted.day/terms

Screenshots

Visual Time4 screens
Dotted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Dotted at 5 against Visual Time's 3. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Visual Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dotted sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Visual Time against 5.0 for Dotted. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Time ships an update every 2 weeks, Dotted weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Visual Time versus Dotted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual TimeDotted
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikola NovakovicTeddy App Labs, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Time

One-time1
  • Dotted Time$1.99
3 purchases

Dotted

Subscriptions2
  • Dotted Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Dotted Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dotted Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Visual Time free?
Visual Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotted free?
Dotted is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Visual Time or Dotted?
Visual Time and Dotted are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Visual Time or Dotted have ads?
Neither Visual Time nor Dotted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Time or Dotted?
Visual Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and Dotted weekly. Most recently, Visual Time was updated on November 5, 2026 and Dotted on October 31, 2026.

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