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Dotline: Year in Dots · out 17 November 2026

Dotline turns your year into a plate of dots, one for every day. Set a rule, like 8,000 steps, 30 minutes of exercise or 7 hours of sleep, and each day that meets it fills in by itself from Apple Health. There is nothing to type. On first launch your year so far is already there. Turn the dial to move through the days, with a soft click for each one, or scrub with the Digital Crown on Apple Watch. Up to five tracks, widgets and complications. No account, no analytics, and your data never leaves your iPhone and Apple Watch.

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Every image comes in English, Chinese and Japanese. Screenshots show sample data. Device frames are Apple’s product bezels.

About Dotline

Most habit trackers ask for a tap every day, and most people stop tapping after a few weeks. Dotline takes the tapping away.

Each track is one rule: at least 8,000 steps, 30 minutes of exercise, 7 hours of sleep, 20 minutes in daylight. Dotline reads Apple Health by itself, read-only, and every day that meets the rule fills in. Because it reads your Health history, the year is already filled in the first time you open it. For anything Health doesn’t know, like reading or practising an instrument, a “Log to Dotline” action works from Siri, Shortcuts automations, NFC tags or a button on the widget.

The whole year sits on one screen as a plate of dots, laid out like the speaker grille of a mid-century pocket radio. The interface is a flat instrument face: monochrome markings, one orange ring for today, nothing else. Below the grille, a dial turns through the year. Each day gives a soft click and a light haptic, and each new month a firmer one. Hold any dot to read that day, see quiet streaks (“12 in a row”) and look back at past years.

On Apple Watch, the whole year is on your wrist and the Digital Crown scrubs day by day. Complications and Lock Screen widgets keep today’s dot and the year count in view. On iPhone Duo, Dotline opens up into two columns: the year on one side, the dial on the other.

Dotline is private by design. There is no account, no server, no analytics and no third-party code. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

Dotline is free to download with two tracks. Dotline Plus is a one-time purchase that unlocks up to five tracks. There is no subscription.

Dotline is made by Chew Wen Kang, an independent developer (groundcontrolto). It is available in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文 and 日本語.

Design notes

The grille is inspired by the Braun T3 pocket radio (1958), the radio people often link to the first iPod. Each day is a perforation punched into the casing: 0.62 of the grid pitch, a shallow inner shadow, and a filled day sits flush like a plugged hole. The dial click is a synthesized 3.2 kHz tick with three slight variants, so it never sounds mechanical.

Dotline is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Braun.

Contact

[email protected]. Happy to send a TestFlight invite or a promo code.