Payoff Dots vs Savebar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Payoff Dots
Visualize and track your debt repayment progress with a unique dot-filling system. Monitor multiple debts, record payments, and see your balances decrease over time. Archive debts and use discreet widgets for a clear overview.
- Visual payoff dots for each debt
- Progress tracking for individual and overall debts
- Quick balance updates
- Archive completed or paused debts
- Discreet widgets without dollar amounts
- Private iCloud sync
- Light and dark appearance modes
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Payoff Dots makes paying down debt feel visible and achievable. Add your balances, record updates, and watch each payment fill your payoff dots. The dashboard brings every active debt together while individual pages show exactly how far each balance has moved. FEATURES • Visual payoff dots for every debt • $100 dots for balances up to $25,000 and $1,000 dots above that • Overall and individual progress tracking • Quick balance check-ins • Archive completed or paused debts without deleting them • Discreet widgets that never show dollar amounts • Small, medium, and large widget layouts • Light and dark appearances designed for iPhone and iPad • Private iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad • No separate Payoff Dots account required FREE AND PRO The free version supports up to two active debts. Payoff Dots Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited active debts. There is no subscription and no advertising. PRIVACY Your debt information is stored on your devices and in your private iCloud database for syncing. Waypoint Labs LLC does not operate a separate debt-data server. Payoff Dots does not include advertising, third-party analytics, or tracking. Payoff Dots is a tracking tool and does not provide financial, lending, tax, or investment advice.
Savebar
Visually track your savings progress directly on your Home and Lock Screens. Easily add funds with customizable buttons and see your goals come to life. This app offers a private and ad-free experience for managing your financial aspirations.
- Home Screen widgets for progress tracking
- Lock Screen widgets for quick updates
- Tap-to-add amount buttons
- Add photos and product links for goals
- Edit or delete deposit history
- Goal-specific currency options (Pro)
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Savebar puts your savings progress where you'll see it every day — on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set aside some money, tap an amount button like +$10 on the widget, and watch the bar move. No bank connection, no account, no subscription. You add what you've saved yourself; your goals and amounts stay on your iPhone. FREE • Small widget: one goal, its progress bar and percentage, and a button that adds your set amount without opening the app • Add a photo of what you're saving for — the Small widget shows it big • Paste a product link and the photo and name fill in for you • Save something from a shop page in Safari — or with the Share button — as a goal, with its photo, name and price • One goal — name, target amount and optional date • In the app, type any amount or tap one you use often • Every deposit is kept in a history you can edit or delete • With a date: how many days are left and how much to set aside per day • Your device's currency by default, changeable in Settings • A different currency for each goal • No ads SAVEBAR PRO — one-time purchase, no subscription • Unlimited goals: save for several things at once • Medium and Large widgets: several goals at once, with days left and per-day amounts, and up to two amount buttons for each • Lock Screen widgets: a ring with your percentage, what's left to go, and a one-line view • Apple Watch: add to a goal from your wrist with the same amount buttons, plus watch face complications PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Amounts, goal names and photos are never sent to us. Only when you enter a product link does the app load that store page directly. Anonymous usage events (like "a widget + was tapped") help improve the app; you can turn them off in Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Savebar at every 2 days against Payoff Dots's every 2 weeks. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Payoff Dots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Savebar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Payoff Dots ships an update every 2 weeks, Savebar every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Payoff Dots | Savebar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waypoint Labs LLC UT | Minari Taniguchi |
Customer experience
Payoff Dots
Savebar
In-app purchases
Payoff Dots
- Payoff Dots Pro$9.99
Savebar
- Savebar Pro$4.99









