Comparison

GroceryBags vs Dots

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

Head to head
About

GroceryBags

This app reminds you to bring reusable grocery bags when you arrive at the store's parking lot. Never forget your bags again and avoid the hassle of buying new ones.

Highlights
  • Location-based reminders
  • Customizable for any grocery store
  • Audible reminders
  • Prevents forgetting reusable bags
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Set it for all of your grocery stores, and when you arrive in the parking lot it speaks "Don't forget your re-usable bags". Never again get all the way into the store before you realized you've left them in your vehicle.

About

Dots

This is a free habit tracker focused on simplicity and visual progress. It offers clean design and customizable home screen widgets to help users build consistency and stay motivated with their daily routines.

Highlights
  • Free habit tracking
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Visual progress tracking with dots
  • Clean and focused design
  • Weekly and monthly heatmaps
Features
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Dots. is a habit tracker and daily routine planner designed for simplicity, clarity, and consistency. Build better habits with a clean, simple tracker and beautifully designed home screen widgets that make your progress instantly visible. Turn small daily actions into lasting routines — a lightweight habit tracker and productivity widget, all in one simple app. [Why Dots?] • Simple Habit Tracker Start tracking your daily habits with an intuitive, distraction-free habit tracker built around ease of use. • Beautiful Home Screen Widgets Add a minimal widget to your Home Screen and track habits at a glance. Monthly and weekly heatmap widgets make progress clear and motivating. • Visual Habit Tracking Every action becomes a dot. Watch your streaks grow with a simple visual tracker that highlights consistency. • Clean & Focused Design A simple habit tracker with no clutter — just the tools you need to build better routines. • Gentle Motivation A calm, simple tracking experience designed to support long-term habits without pressure. • Stats & Yearly Recap Your whole year at a glance — a heatmap of every habit, monthly charts, your records, and a recap you can share. [Dots Pro] Dots lets you track 3 habits for free. Dots Pro lifts the limit — monthly, yearly with the first month free, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled and can be managed or cancelled in the App Store at any time. Everything else stays free for everyone: widgets, the Apple Watch app, reminders, recaps, icons and colours. People who were already using Dots keep unlimited habits, for good. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

GroceryBags4 screens
Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

GroceryBags and Dots both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 98% of Dots's written reviews are positive against 0% of GroceryBags's. Dots also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 months). GroceryBags's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, 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

Dots is free to download; GroceryBags costs $0.99 up front. Dots sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. GroceryBags asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GroceryBags against 4.9 for Dots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dots has 226 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of GroceryBags's written reviews are positive against 98% of Dots's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GroceryBags ships an update every 10 months, Dots every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
GroceryBags versus Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroceryBagsDots
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (226 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews98.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3226 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDark Mouse Software LLCJuyong Bak

Customer experience

GroceryBags

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Dots

All ratings224 ratings
Positive99.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GroceryBags

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Dots

Subscriptions2
  • Dots Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Dots Pro — Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dots Pro — Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is GroceryBags free?
GroceryBags costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GroceryBags or Dots?
GroceryBags is rated higher. GroceryBags averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Dots averages 4.9 from 226 ratings.
Do GroceryBags or Dots have ads?
Neither GroceryBags nor Dots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GroceryBags or Dots?
GroceryBags ships an update every 10 months, and Dots every 5 days. Most recently, GroceryBags was updated on October 7, 2026 and Dots on October 25, 2026.

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