Weekender vs Dots Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weekender
This app provides a clear view of your upcoming weekends, highlighting free time for planning trips and events. It integrates with your existing calendars and allows for custom holiday and vacation day tracking. Focus solely on your weekend plans without weekday distractions.
- Weekend event overview
- Existing calendar integration
- Friday evening display option
- Custom holiday tracking
- Add/edit events within app
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Weekender is a calendar app that shows your upcoming weekends at a glance. Easily spot empty weekends early on so you can plan trips or events with friends and family, and make the most of your weekends :) * Seamlessly displays the events from your existing iOS calendars * Ability to choose which calendars to display * Option to also show Friday evenings with a user selectable cut-off time * In-app purchase to define your own Holidays and Vacation days that are shown along your weekends * Integration with Calendar allows you to add, modify or delete events from within Weekender This app is all about your weekends :) Big things happen on weekends, so why let yourself be distracted with workdays in your calendar! Visually see which weekends are long weekends. On first launch, Weekender will ask you for permission to access your calendar in order to display your weekend events.
Dots Tracker
Effortlessly track anything from mood to workouts to gain insights into your life. Seamlessly add data via the app, widgets, or shortcuts. Future updates will include on-device machine learning predictions to anticipate future patterns.
- Track mood, migraines, workouts, traffic, and more
- Add dots via app, widgets, or shortcuts
- Calendar view for pattern exploration
- On-device Machine Learning Predictions (future)
- Simple and adaptable interface
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Discover hidden patterns in your life by effortlessly tracking anything with Dots. Whether it's your mood, migraines, workouts, traffic, or even your plant's health, Dots provides a simple yet powerful tool for gaining insights. The strength of Dots lies in its simplicity and adaptability. Add dots seamlessly through our app, home screen widgets, or set up automated tracking with shortcuts. Explore your patterns more deeply in the calendar view. Simply tap or press & hold on a single Dot to unveil information about your habits and routines. Excitingly, our future updates will introduce on-device Machine Learning Predictions. This will empower you to anticipate future patterns based on your past dots, supercharging your ability to see patterns. Embrace the future of tracking with Dots.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dots Tracker at Free against Weekender's $0.99. Dots Tracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Weekender's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 67%) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Dots Tracker is free to download; Weekender costs $0.99 up front. Weekender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dots Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dots Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekender has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Weekender's written reviews are positive against 67% of Dots Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Weekender ships an update monthly, Dots Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weekender | Dots Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ganymed Stanek | Arnaud Gillard |
Customer experience
Weekender
Dots Tracker
In-app purchases
Weekender
- Holidays and Vacation Days$0.99
Dots Tracker
- Emojis$0.99









