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Dotly

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
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Your life in weeks

41% lived2,438 weeks left

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.

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Features

Everything you need to feel your time. Nothing you don't.

01

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.

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Your life in weeks

41% lived2,438 weeks left

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

— Seneca

02

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.

Countdown
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03

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.

Buddha

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

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Wide progress

See it in action

Set it up in under a minute.

01

Set your date

Enter your birthday once. Dotly maps your life into weeks and figures out exactly where today falls on the grid.

02

Choose your view

Pick a live wallpaper, add home-screen widgets, or both. Tune the grid density, colors, and what each dot represents.

03

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.

9:41

Your life in weeks

41% lived2,438 weeks left

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

— Seneca

Live wallpaper
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Wednesday, 11

September

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Countdown
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Today

You have power over your mind — not outside events.

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Home-screen widgets
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Customize

Make the grid yours

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Grid unit

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Customize
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Life · progress

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Life lived

You are here. Roughly 2,400 weeks remain.

Progress

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

9:41

Your life in weeks

41% lived2,438 weeks left

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

— Seneca

Make today count.

You have this week. Start seeing it.

A Prince Labs product