DOTS vs WIZE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DOTS
Visualize your finite time and protect it from distractions. Set daily app limits, schedule downtime, and track reclaimed hours to live more intentionally. Features include a life grid, focus mode, and weekly reflections.
- Life grid visualization
- Focus mode to block distractions
- Daily app time limits
- Scheduled downtime
- Weekly reflections
- Time reclaimed tracking
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You have one life. About 4,000 weeks, if you're lucky. DOTS shows you every single one - as a grid of dots - so the time you have stops being an abstraction and starts feeling real. Then it helps you protect it. THE LIFE GRID Each dot is one week of your life. See the weeks you've already lived, the one you're in right now, and the ones still ahead. It's a quiet, powerful reminder that your time is finite - and worth defending. FOCUS MODE Start a focus session and DOTS shields the apps that pull you away. No willpower battles, no endless scrolling. Just the space to do what actually matters to you. DAILY LIMITS Set a daily time budget for the apps that eat your hours. When you hit your limit, DOTS steps in with a calm reminder of the commitment you made to yourself not a guilt trip, just a nudge back to your intentions. MINDFUL BLOCKING Choose the apps and categories you want to manage. DOTS uses Apple's Screen Time technology to block them on your terms, for the time you decide. Everything is opt-in and fully in your control. WEEKLY REFLECTIONS Look back on how you spent your time, notice your patterns, and set intentions for the week ahead. Small, honest check-ins that compound into real change. BUILT FOR YOU, AND ONLY YOU DOTS manages your own device, for your own goals. It is not a parental-control or tracking app. Your usage data stays private - stored on your device and synced only to your personal iCloud. We don't collect it, sell it, or share it. WIND-DOWN The "just ten minutes" that becomes two hours, fixed. Set a bedtime window and a short allowance. You get your few minutes, a gentle heads-up as the time runs low, then your apps wind down until morning. Keep it and your sleep streak grows. SCHEDULED DOWNTIME Block the apps that pull you away on a schedule that fits your life - work hours, school, dinner, deep work. Set it once and it runs every day, on its own. PER-APP LIMITS Give each app its own daily budget instead of one shared timer. Keep essentials like Maps, your bank, and Messages always allowed, and get a heads-up a few minutes before a limit is reached. TIME WON BACK See the hours you reclaim from focus sessions and protected nights add up as a growing field of green dots. The cost of a screen is easy to feel - now the winnings are too. LIFE LIVED A ten-second daily check-in: did you actually use the time you saved the way you meant to? It builds a quiet record of the days you showed up for your own life, not just the time you saved. MILESTONES Count down to the dates that matter - a birthday, a goal, a someday - in weeks. Seal a letter to your future self that opens on the very day it arrives. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND WITH SIRI Follow your focus countdown live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and start or end a session hands-free with a Shortcut. WHY DOTS IS DIFFERENT Most screen-time apps treat the symptom. DOTS starts with the why: a clear, visceral picture of how precious your time is. Once you feel that, blocking an app stops feeling like a restriction and starts feeling like a choice - your choice. Privacy Policy: https://novarch.lol/dots-privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://novarch.lol/dots-terms Your life. Your time. Your choice. Download DOTS and start protecting the weeks you have left.
WIZE
This app helps you track your expenses and build better financial habits. It provides clear monthly breakdowns, budgeting tools, and educational content to understand your spending patterns and achieve your financial goals.
- Expense and income logging
- Spending category breakdown
- Receipt scanning
- Budget vs. actual tracking
- Financial habit building lessons
- AI-powered spending insights
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WIZE is a simple expense tracker that helps you see where your money actually goes. You log what you spend, WIZE turns it into clear monthly numbers, and short lessons and challenges help you build better habits over time. Everything you enter stays yours — WIZE never connects to your bank and never moves money. TRACK WHAT YOU SPEND • Add an expense or income entry in a few taps • Ten spending categories — food, transport, shopping, health, entertainment, bills, cafe, education, savings and other • Scan a paper receipt and let WIZE pull out the amount for you • Keep a searchable history of every receipt you've scanned • Works in your own currency SEE THE FULL PICTURE • Monthly breakdown of spending by category • Budget vs. actual, with what's left and how many days remain • Track several accounts side by side — cash, bank, savings, investment • A net worth view that adds up what you've entered • Group spending into projects when you're saving toward something specific BUILD BETTER HABITS • Short courses, articles and videos on everyday money skills • Weekly question to test what you've picked up • Challenges and rewards that keep you logging consistently • Plans to help you set a target and stick to it • WIZE AI — ask questions about your own logged spending in plain language BUILT FOR YOU • Full English and Arabic, including right-to-left layout • Dark and light themes • Optional Face ID lock on the app • Reminders so you don't forget to log • Shopping list with estimated costs, so you plan before you spend WHAT WIZE IS NOT WIZE is not a bank and not a financial service. It does not link to bank accounts, does not process payments or transfers, and does not give investment advice. It is a place to record your own numbers and learn from them. Questions or feedback: info@smartsidea.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WIZE at none against DOTS's 4. WIZE also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). 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
Both are free to download. DOTS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. WIZE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DOTS against 5.0 for WIZE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
DOTS ships an update every 8 days, WIZE every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DOTS | WIZE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Novarch LLC | Abdullah ALFulaij |
Customer experience
DOTS
WIZE
In-app purchases
DOTS
- Weekly Premium$1.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99
WIZE
No in-app purchases









