Comparison

Dotie vs footnotes

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

Head to head
About

Dotie

Transform your photos into unique, die-cut stickers that can be displayed on your home screen. This app allows you to import or capture images, cut out subjects locally, and showcase them through customizable widgets. Enjoy offline functionality and optional AI features for enhanced personalization.

Highlights
  • Die-cut stickers from any photo
  • Home-screen widgets that shuffle captures
  • Decorative backdrops
  • Transparent widget look
  • Sticker boards
  • Map and calendar integration
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Dotie turns your everyday photos into cute die-cut stickers — and brings them to life on your home screen. Snap or import a photo and Dotie cuts out the subject right on your device, turning it into a sticker-style card. Your moments then rotate across beautiful home-screen widgets, so a little piece of your life is always with you. Make your home screen yours: - Die-cut stickers from any photo, processed locally on your device - Home-screen widgets that shuffle through your captures - A rich set of decorative backdrops to set the mood - A see-through “transparent” widget look that blends into your wallpaper - Sticker boards to show off a hand-picked set - A map that pins your stickers to the places you’ve been - A calendar that gathers your moments by day, week, and month - One-tap sharing of your sticker cards - Everything that matters works offline, no account required: capture, sticker cutout, save, widgets, map, and sharing. Dotie Pro unlocks more: every backdrop, custom colors and fonts, more widgets and refresh styles, batch import and export, and high-resolution exports. Optional AI (off by default) can suggest a title, a note, or a weekly/monthly recap when you turn it on — but it’s never required to capture, display, or share. Dotie Pro Subscription Dotie Pro is available as an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, with a one-time lifetime purchase also offered. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dotie.site/support/privacy.html

About

footnotes

Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.

Highlights
  • Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
  • Organize notes into different notebooks
  • Build a timeline of life's moments
  • Create shareable stories from moments
  • Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.

Screenshots

Dotie4 screens
footnotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: footnotes at none against Dotie's 7. footnotes also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (158 vs 1). Dotie's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dotie sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. footnotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dotie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 158 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dotie ships an update weekly, footnotes daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dotie versus footnotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotiefootnotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (158 ratings)
Positive reviews—97.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1158 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB26 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer钰青 刘Doppler HQ, Inc

Customer experience

Dotie

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

footnotes

All ratings158 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.6%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.7%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Dotie

Subscriptions5
  • Dotie Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Dotie Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Dotie Pro Quarterly2 variants$7.993 Months
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  • Dotie Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Dotie Pro Yearly1 Year trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dotie Pro Forever$29.99
None

footnotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dotie free?
Dotie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is footnotes free?
footnotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dotie or footnotes?
Dotie is rated higher. Dotie averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while footnotes averages 4.8 from 158 ratings.
Do Dotie or footnotes have ads?
Neither Dotie nor footnotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dotie or footnotes?
Dotie ships an update weekly, and footnotes daily. Most recently, Dotie was updated on October 1, 2026 and footnotes on October 15, 2026.

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