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Dots: A Lifestyle Journal
Notice patterns over time
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Track habits, symptoms, and life events in seconds.
Discover patterns you didn’t know were there.
Notice the patterns in your life. One tap at a time.
Dots is a private, tap-based lifestyle journal that helps you track daily events and discover patterns over time.
Log things like mood, sleep, migraines, coffee, exercise, or social time in seconds. Watch trends and relationships emerge as your journal grows.
No long entries. No streak pressure. Just simple observations that build a clearer picture of your life.
Why Dots?
• Track your own events, from mood and sleep to coffee, exercise, or social time
• Flexible event types that adapt to real life
• Designed for reflection over days, weeks, and months
• Log moments in seconds — no long entries or tedious forms
How it works
• One tap adds a dot for the day
• Tap again to record another occurrence
• See all your events accumulate together in one calm, unified view
• Explore visual insights that reveal trends, rhythms, and changes over time
Insights, when you’re ready
As your journal grows, Dots offers visual insights to help you notice what’s happening beneath the surface:
• Trends and distributions across time
• Typical patterns and meaningful deviations
• Gaps, streaks, and gradual shifts
Some advanced insights and visualizations are available with a Premium upgrade. Core tracking and reflection tools are always available, and your data remains fully accessible at all times.
Dots is for you if you want to:
• Understand your life without turning it into a game
• Journal consistently without writing long entries
• Reflect on trends without being told what to optimize
• Build awareness and reduce anxiety
Built with care and respect
• Private by design
• iCloud sync, or not. It's up to you.
• Export all your data at any time, free
• Your data is yours. Period.
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Dots was originally created by an indie developer to understand frequent, persistent migraines. By gently tracking symptoms, stress, sleep, and daily habits (one dot at a time) clear patterns began to emerge.
Those patterns made it possible to identify triggers, avoid them, and regain balance.
Dots is built to offer that same kind of clarity to others. Whether you’re navigating health challenges, creative rhythms, productivity struggles, or simply trying to understand yourself better.
There are no diagnoses. No prescriptions. No games. Dots is just here to help you reflect and observe your life.
Dots doesn’t try to fix your life. It helps you notice it.
Dots: A Lifestyle Journal Terms of Use:
https://dotsjournal.app/terms
Privacy Policy:
https://dotsjournal.app/privacy
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Dots 1.2 expands the new Insights experience with deeper pattern discovery and smarter analysis.
New Insight Types
Dots can now surface new kinds of relationships in your journal:
• Event correlations: discover things that often occur together
• Leading and lagging patterns: see what tends to happen before or after other events
• Conditional averages: understand how one event affects another
These insights help reveal patterns that are easy to miss when looking at events individually.
Improved Event Tracking
• Added step and scale controls for more precise event measurements
• Better support for range and counter events in insights
Smarter Analysis
• Improved statistical models for more meaningful results
• Reduced noise in pattern detection
• Faster insight generation
Other Improvements
• Various visual refinements
• Performance improvements
• Resolves crash issues experienced by some new users
• Resolves sync issues experienced by some iCloud users
The developer, Stephen Craton, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Stephen Craton
- Size
- 15.3 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $4.99
- Annual $39.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stephen Craton
