A Prince Labs product
See your life,
one dot at a time.
Dotly turns your wallpaper and home screen into a living calendar — the weeks you've lived, the ones ahead, and the moments you're counting toward. A quiet nudge to make today count.
- Free to start
- No account
- Works offline
Your life in weeks
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
— Seneca
The idea
A life is about
four thousand weeks.
- ~4,000
- weeks in a long life
- ~1,560
- already spent by age 30
- 1
- week you're living right now
We measure time in numbers that are too big to feel — years, decades, a whole life. So the days slip by unnoticed, and “later” quietly becomes “never.”
Dotly makes time visible. Every dot is a week. The bright ones are behind you. The rest are yours to spend — and there are fewer than you think.
It's not about anxiety. It's about attention. When you can see the whole grid, today stops feeling infinite and starts feeling precious.
Features
Everything you need to feel your time. Nothing you don't.
Your life, on your wallpaper
A live wallpaper that quietly renders your life as a grid of dots — behind your apps, always in view. No notifications, no noise. Just a calm, constant sense of where you are.
Your life in weeks
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
— Seneca
Count down to what matters
Birthdays, a trip, an anniversary, a deadline — pin the moments ahead and watch the days tick down. The relationship tracker even counts the days you've spent together.
A little wisdom, every day
A rotating line of Stoic reflection appears with your grid — Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and others on time and intention. Enough to pause you for a second. Never enough to nag.
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Widgets
Six ways to keep time on your home screen.
Mix and match. Every widget is resizable and themeable, so your home screen looks exactly the way you want it to.
See it in action
Set it up in under a minute.
Set your date
Enter your birthday once. Dotly maps your life into weeks and figures out exactly where today falls on the grid.
Choose your view
Pick a live wallpaper, add home-screen widgets, or both. Tune the grid density, colors, and what each dot represents.
Live with it
Every unlock, there it is — a quiet, honest picture of your time. No streaks to break, no guilt. Just perspective.
Screenshots
Designed down to the last dot.
Everything in Dotly
One small app. A lot of ways to see your time.
Live wallpaper
Your life grid, behind your apps
Dot grid
Weeks, days, or months
Progress ring
Year & life completion
Big number
Days ahead at a glance
Wide progress
A bar for your home screen
Event countdowns
Trips, birthdays, deadlines
Relationship tracker
Days spent together
Daily Stoic wisdom
A line to pause you
Color themes
Match your home screen
Custom grid styles
Compact to relaxed
Private & offline
No account, no tracking
Dotly Pro
No ads, unlimited events
Why Dotly
A wallpaper that respects you.
Calm by design
No streaks, no scores, no red badges. Dotly informs — it never pressures. Perspective, not another thing to maintain.
Private by default
Your birthday and events stay on your device. No account, no tracking, no data leaving your phone.
Works offline
It's just your time, rendered locally. Dotly runs completely offline — no connection required, ever.
Made to be lived with
Lightweight on battery, quiet in the background, and tuned to look right on any home screen you throw at it.
Design philosophy
Less counting down.
More living up.
We built Dotly around a single belief: you don't need another app demanding your attention. You need one that gives it back. So we stripped away everything loud and kept only what earns its place on your screen — a quiet grid, an honest number, a moment of pause.
FAQ
Good questions,
short answers.
Yes. Dotly is free to download and the core wallpaper and widgets are free to use. Dotly Pro — available as a one-time purchase or subscription through Google Play — removes ads and unlocks premium color themes, custom grid styles, and unlimited events.
Available on
Get Dotly for Android.
Free to download. Set your date, pick your view, and let your wallpaper do the rest.
- Free to start
- No account needed
- Works offline
iOS · coming later
Your life in weeks
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
— Seneca