Comparison

Dotly vs KeyFeed

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

Head to head
About

Dotly

Visualize your year with a beautiful dot grid, ring, or arc that fills up daily. Track important events with smart countdowns and build lasting habits with powerful daily tracking and insights. Personalize your experience with various styles, colors, and widgets.

Highlights
  • Visual year progress (grid, ring, arc)
  • Event countdowns with reminders
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Progress insights and streaks
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customization options
Features
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Dotly turns every day into visual progress. See your entire year as a beautiful dot grid, ring, or arc — and watch it fill up as each day passes. Track the events that matter most with smart countdowns, and build lasting habits with powerful daily tracking. YOUR YEAR, VISUALIZED Choose from 7 stunning progress styles: Classic Grid, Ring, Matrix, Month Blocks, Sleek Line, Segmented Arc, and Precision Text. Each one gives you a unique way to see how far you've come — and how much is ahead. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Create countdowns for birthdays, vacations, deadlines, or any date you're looking forward to. Pin your favorites, set reminders, and import events directly from your iPhone calendar. BUILD BETTER HABITS Add daily habits like drinking water, meditating, reading, or exercising. Set goals, track completions, and see your consistency grow over time. View your habits in four beautiful ways: list, cards, monthly calendar, or a GitHub-style heatmap. POWERFUL INSIGHTS Discover your streaks, completion rates, best day of the week, monthly trends, and more. Understand your patterns and stay motivated with data that actually helps. WIDGETS THAT INSPIRE Add beautiful widgets to your Home Screen — progress rings, habit heatmaps, event countdowns, and daily trackers. See your progress without even opening the app. MAKE IT YOURS Personalize with 13 accent colors, 5 icon shapes, 3 sizes, custom habit icons with emojis, and full light and dark mode support. Your app, your style. DOTLY PREMIUM Unlock everything with a single lifetime purchase — unlimited events, unlimited habits, all progress styles, signature colors, every widget, habit insights, calendar sync, smart reminders, and more. Pay once, keep forever. Download Dotly and start making every day count.

About

KeyFeed

Features
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Turn RSS and Atom feeds into a focused keyword monitor. KeyFeed watches the sources you choose and surfaces only matching topics—with context—so you can track news, research, brands, products, or competitors without living in a feed reader. QUIET KEYWORD ALERTS • Add a website, RSS, or Atom address • Create rules for words and phrases • See the surrounding sentence with matched terms highlighted • Receive local notifications without unread counts or app-icon badges LOCAL-FIRST AND UNDER YOUR CONTROL Your sources, rules, and match history stay on your device by default. KeyFeed contacts only the feeds you configure. It refreshes when opened and whenever iOS grants background refresh time. FREE • Monitor up to 3 feeds • Use up to 2 simple rules • Receive title-only local notifications • See today's match count in the small widget KEYFEED PRO — ONE-TIME LIFETIME UNLOCK • Monitor up to 30 feeds and create unlimited rules • Use AND, OR, NOT, parentheses, regex, exclusions, and per-source rules • Include source and context in alerts, set quiet hours, or bundle alerts into a daily digest • Merge similar stories across sources • Inspect feed health and control match-history retention • Save offline full-text snapshots • Import and export OPML, plus full JSON backup and restore • Send matches to a private webhook • Use detailed Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Choose alternate icons, colors, themes, and context typography KeyFeed Pro is an optional, non-consumable one-time purchase. No subscription. Privacy Policy: https://keyfeed.codemxm.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://keyfeed.codemxm.com/terms/

Screenshots

Dotly4 screens
KeyFeed4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dotly and KeyFeed 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dotly sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and KeyFeed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dotly versus KeyFeed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotlyKeyFeed
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperVANIA SALES DE MESQUITA德明 杨

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Dotly

One-time5
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Dotly Premium$1.99
  • Medium Coffee$2.99
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  • Large Coffee$4.99
  • Coffee Party$9.99
1 purchases

KeyFeed

One-time1
  • KeyFeed Pro Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Dotly free?
Dotly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KeyFeed free?
KeyFeed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dotly or KeyFeed have ads?
Neither Dotly nor KeyFeed shows ads.

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