Habit Dots vs Rubato
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habit Dots
Easily track daily routines and goals with a visual heatmap. Record achievements with a tap, customize habits with icons and colors, and review progress with streaks and calendars. No login required.
- One-tap habit recording
- Visual progress heatmaps
- Customizable habit icons and colors
- Daily, weekly, and specific day goals
- Notes and photo attachments
- Streak tracking
- No login required
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A simple and easy-to-use habit tracking app. Record your daily achievements with dots and check your habit progress at a glance. Use it to track a wide range of routines and goals, such as exercise, studying, reading, stretching, journaling, waking up early, housework, and creative activities. Simply tap what you completed today, and visualize your weekly and monthly progress with dots and calendars. For each habit, you can set an icon, emoji, color, goal type, and notification time. You can manage not only habits you want to do every day, but also weekly goals and habits scheduled for specific days of the week. ● Main Features 【Easily Track Your Habits】 ・Create habits ・Record today’s achievement with one tap ・Record past dates ・Switch between daily, weekly, and monthly views ・Reorder habits ・Archive habits you no longer need 【Visualize Progress with Dots】 ・Display daily records as dots ・Check weekly progress easily ・View monthly records in a calendar layout ・Display a full year of progress with a yearly heatmap ・Switch years to review past records 【Customize Each Habit】 ・Set a habit name ・Choose an icon or emoji ・Set a color ・Choose from daily, weekly goal, or specific weekday goals ・Set a notification time for each habit ・Record habits even on non-scheduled days 【Add Notes and Photos】 ・Save notes for each record ・Add photos to your records ・Use the camera or choose from your photo library ・Look back on past records from recent entries 【Check Your Progress Clearly】 ・View your current streak ・View your longest streak ・Check this month’s record count ・Check your total record count ・Tap stats cards to see more details ・Review your progress in a simple way 【Clean and Simple Design】 ・Simple and easy-to-use layout ・Supports Light Mode and Dark Mode ・Organize habits clearly with custom colors ・A clean design that helps you keep going 【No Login Required】 ・Start using the app without creating an account ・Track your personal habits easily ・Supports data backup and restore Perfect for exercise, studying, reading, stretching, journaling, housework, and daily routine management. Visualize the days you kept going with dots, and build up small daily achievements with this simple habit tracking app.
Rubato
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. • A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. • Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. • Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. • Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. • Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. • Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). • All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. • iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. • Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a ¥0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (¥2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Habit Dots at none against Rubato's 2. Habit Dots also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.5). Rubato's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs monthly). On price 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
Both are free to download. Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Habit Dots asks for nothing beyond the download.
Habit Dots ships an update monthly, Rubato daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Habit Dots | Rubato |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MITSUKO MARGOT KUBOTA ONO | Yujiro Yonetsu |
In-app purchases
Habit Dots
No in-app purchases
Rubato
- 14-Day TrialFree
- Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99









