Comparison

HomeschoolLog vs Dot Dash

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

Head to head
About

HomeschoolLog

Organize homeschool attendance, activities, and portfolios privately on your device. Track progress, generate reports, and access state-specific record-keeping information. Upgrade for advanced features like multiple students, detailed logs, and GPA calculation.

Highlights
  • Private, on-device record keeping
  • Attendance tracking and PDF generation
  • Activity logs with text and photos
  • Reading logs and instruction time tracking
  • Shareable reports and CSV exports
  • State reference directory
  • High school transcript with GPA calculation
Features
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Keep your homeschool attendance and daily activities organized in one private app. Start free with unlimited attendance, text activity logs, and a basic attendance PDF. Add photo portfolios, reading logs, hours tracking, and shareable reports with Pro. WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR FREE - Track 1 student and 1 school year with up to 8 subjects. - Mark school days and see attendance totals at a glance. - Keep unlimited text activity records by subject and learning setting. - Generate a basic attendance PDF to save, print, or share. - Read saved records, including archived originals, even after Pro expires. - Permanently delete a school year or a student and their records, including attached photos, without Pro. - Protect your records with Face ID and Touch ID app lock, with device-passcode fallback. - Set an evening reminder and reminders for confirmed filing dates, 14, 7, and 1 day before. YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE No account or sign-up. No ads or analytics. Keep your daily records offline, with no cloud sync. Photos and records stay on your device unless you choose to share an export. UPGRADE TO PRO TO UNLOCK - Multiple students - track every child in one app. - Record-summary PDFs for attendance, hours, photo portfolio, reading, quarterly, and annual records. - Photo portfolio organized by subject - work samples, projects, field trips. - Instruction-time tracking per activity, subject, and school year. - Reading log with title, author, pages, genre, dates, notes, and rating. - Multiple school years with read-only archiving. - High school transcript with automatic GPA calculation on a 4.0 scale. - Scrollable subject-hours bar charts and detailed totals. - Quarterly activity summaries with adjustable periods, recorded hours, and family narrative. - Unlimited custom subjects beyond the 8 free-tier defaults. - CSV record exports and shareable PDF summaries. - Home screen widget - school day counter and next deadline. STATE REFERENCE AND RECORD KEEPING Browse a free official-source directory for all 50 states and DC, with reviewed summaries for selected states. Confirm the filing dates that apply to your family. Reports are record summaries, not official government forms or certified evaluations. HomeschoolLog does not provide curriculum, issue credentials, or file with your district. Check current requirements with official sources before submitting records. Use device backups to protect your records against device loss. CSV and PDF exports are for reference and sharing; they are not restorable backups. PRO PURCHASE OPTIONS - Pro Annual: an auto-renewing yearly subscription. A 7-day introductory trial is available only to eligible subscribers. - Pro Lifetime: a one-time, non-consumable purchase with no auto-renewal. Both options unlock the same Pro features. Current local prices and eligible offers are shown in the app and confirmed by Apple. Existing monthly subscribers can still restore their access. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal to avoid the next charge. Buying Lifetime does not cancel an existing subscription; manage it through your Apple ID. Refund eligibility is determined by Apple and applicable law. SUPPORT captainlongevity@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/homeschoollog/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/homeschoollog/terms

About

Dot Dash

Features
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Every letter has a rhythm. Dot Dash helps you learn Morse code the way operators always have: by ear, by touch, by repetition. The practice surface is a brass telegraph key from the 1920s, drawn to work like the real thing. Tap it for a dot. Hold it for a dash. It clicks under your thumb, and on iPhones that support it you feel the rhythm as haptics too. A short walkthrough shows you dots and dashes the first time you open the app, and then you choose a tier and go: Easy, for listening. Ten common letters with their patterns always visible. Perfect for your first session. Medium, for learning. The full alphabet. Patterns fade as you tap, so your memory does the work. Hard, for remembering. Letters and numbers, by sound and feel alone. You are hearing the rhythm now. Three speed presets change the room between the marks inside each letter, so a new learner has time to think while every letter keeps its real shape. A full reference chart is one tap away, and tapping any letter plays its rhythm out loud. When a session ends you get a recap in plain English, plus a short quote from the history of telegraphy. Every quote is real, sourced, and public domain. Send a telegram. Pick one of a hundred short phrases, from GOOD MORNING to GOOSE ON THE LOOSE, and Dot Dash paints it in Morse above a brass key, ready to share or save. No typing, nothing stored. The Operator's Pack, if you want more. A one-time purchase adds callsign drills: hear a whole call sign at 5, 13 or 20 words per minute with true Farnsworth spacing, then key it back one letter at a time. It also adds four more app icons and seventeen more sounds for the key. Sixty percent of what is left after costs from every Operator's Pack is committed to CommunicationFIRST, a civil rights organization for people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood, and every tenth purchase commits the whole remainder. Quarterly receipts: sillydroose.com/donations/dotdash. No scores. No timers. No streaks. Nothing to keep up with. Just you and the pattern. Dot Dash works entirely offline and collects nothing. I built it because Morse is a small, beautiful skill, and learning it should feel like tapping out messages by lamplight, not grinding a curriculum. The practice is free, and it stays free. No ads. No data collected. Ever.

Screenshots

HomeschoolLog4 screens
Dot Dash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dot Dash at none against HomeschoolLog's 2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HomeschoolLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Dot Dash asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeschoolLog ships an update monthly, Dot Dash every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
HomeschoolLog versus Dot Dash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeschoolLogDot Dash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer慧慧 高Drew Douglass

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HomeschoolLog

Subscriptions2
  • HomeschoolLog Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • HomeschoolLog Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Dot Dash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeschoolLog free?
HomeschoolLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dot Dash free?
Dot Dash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HomeschoolLog or Dot Dash have ads?
Neither HomeschoolLog nor Dot Dash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeschoolLog or Dot Dash?
HomeschoolLog ships an update monthly, and Dot Dash every 5 weeks. Most recently, HomeschoolLog was updated on October 8, 2026 and Dot Dash on October 17, 2026.

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