Comparison

Daypractice vs Dots

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

Head to head
About

Daypractice

This tool helps you focus on daily activities and track your time spent on them. Set personal goals, manage task lists for various activities, and visualize your progress with customizable graphs. It supports both time tracking and counting for different types of activities.

Highlights
  • Built-in focus timer
  • Set visual goals
  • Task lists for activities
  • Track time or count activities
  • Color-coded activities
  • Activity graphing
  • Manual time entry
Features
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Your most valuable resource is the attention you bring to each day. Daypractice is a tool that helps you focus on activities and track the time you spend on them. It can help you set personal goals and priorities, and find balance with your time. Daypractice Features: • Built-in focus timer. • Set visual goals for the week. • Keep task lists for different activities. • Activities can be anything: work, habits, exercise, meditation. Daypractice gives you some ideas to get started, but what you do is up to you. • Activities can track time or count. For example, you could keep track of number of cups of coffee, as well as how many hours you work. • Assign a different color to each activity. • Graph activities by day, week, month or year. • Easy manual entry of time or count on the main screen. • Stores your app data privately in iCloud. Synchronizes between your iOS devices. • No third-party service to sign up for. Daypractice is designed to help you get things done. But also, it’s about knowing when you’ve done enough, so that you can better enjoy the time when you’re not working.

About

Dots

This app acts as a personal memory aid for your relationships, helping you recall important details about people. It surfaces timely reminders to reach out, ensuring your follow-ups are thoughtful and specific, whether for personal connections or professional contacts.

Highlights
  • Remembers important personal and professional details
  • Surfaces optimal moments for outreach
  • Facilitates specific and thoughtful follow-ups
  • Works for both personal and professional connections
  • Focuses on details, not just generic engagement
Features
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You met Sam at the conference. She mentioned her daughter just started at the same college you attended. You meant to follow up with Sam in a month but never did. You didn't forget because you don't care. You forgot because memory doesn't scale the way relationships do. Dots is the memory for your relationships, both personal and professional. You add a dot when you learn something worth remembering. Dots surfaces it when it matters. What a dot looks like: Marcus collects Japanese whisky. Sarah went through a tough move last year. Priya prefers warm intros, and she likes knowing someone before the meeting. Small details. The difference between a generic check-in and a conversation that lands. What Dots does - Remembers the details you'd otherwise lose - Surfaces the right moment to reach out - Keeps follow-ups specific, never generic - Works for the people you love and the people you work with What Dots isn't A CRM. A pipeline tool. Dots doesn't score your relationships or remind you to "engage." It just helps you show up the way you already intend to. A dot is a detail, not a person. Add enough of them, and you'll never forget what matters.

Screenshots

Daypractice4 screens
Dots3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dots at none against Daypractice's 5. Dots also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Daypractice's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Daypractice sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Dots 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 Daypractice against 5.0 for Dots. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daypractice ships an update monthly, Dots every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Daypractice versus Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaypracticeDots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMidnight MartianDaniel Catinella

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Daypractice

One-time5
  • PremiumFree
  • 1-Month Optional Patronage$0.99
  • 3-Month Optional Patronage$2.99
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  • 6-Month Optional Patronage$4.99
  • 12-Month Optional Patronage$9.99
None

Dots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daypractice free?
Daypractice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daypractice or Dots?
Daypractice and Dots are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Daypractice or Dots have ads?
Neither Daypractice nor Dots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daypractice or Dots?
Daypractice ships an update monthly, and Dots every 2 days. Most recently, Daypractice was updated on September 16, 2026 and Dots on September 8, 2026.

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