Comparison

Obedience vs Hitoiro

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

Head to head
About

Obedience

This app helps couples in BDSM dynamics track daily and weekly habits, with one partner managing rewards and punishments. It facilitates real-time updates and communication between partners, supporting multiple participants.

Highlights
  • Customizable daily/weekly habits and tasks
  • Define own punishments and rewards
  • Track rules and assign points
  • Live chat with partner
  • Real-time sharing and multiple partner support
  • Stats and graphs for habit tracking
Features
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Obedience is a kinky habit tracker for couples in a BDSM dynamic. Whether you've been practising kink for a long time, or you're new to the scene, Obedience will help you and your partner(s) track daily and weekly habits, and puts the dominant in charge of rewards and punishments. Couples can connect their phones, which enables one to update their habit status and spend their rewarded coins, and the other to see these real time updates and set up a reward and punishment system. Features: -Add your own daily or weekly habits and tasks -Add your own punishments and rewards -Keep track of your rules -Live chat with partner -Assign rewards and/or punishments to your tasks and habits. -Give punishments and rewards automatically or manually -Give submissive points that they can spend on rewards -Real time sharing between dominant and submissive -Supports multiple partners -See stats and graphs about your habits -Set reminder/alarm notifications (coming soon!) ----------------------------------------- This app contains auto-renewable subscriptions. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Privacy policy: https://obedienceapp.com/privacy-policy Terms and conditions: https://obedienceapp.com/terms-of-service

About

Hitoiro

Discover a new traditional Japanese color daily by mixing pigments. Dye a monthly creature with your creations and track your progress. Enjoy a mindful, offline experience with optional Pro features for expanded creativity.

Highlights
  • Daily traditional Japanese color discovery
  • Pigment mixing for custom colors
  • Dye a monthly creature with your colors
  • Offline daily ritual
  • Mindful color mixing in Zen mode
  • Color journal and results tracking
Features
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Choose from five pigments to mix and match a traditional Japanese color each day. Hitoiro is a hands-on color craft that takes just a few minutes. Make a color, see how closely it matches, and slowly dye the creature of the month. No art or paint experience is needed. YOUR COLOR OF THE DAY A color tied to Japan's seasonal almanac and 72 microseasons arrives each morning. Read its name and story, choose pigments from the palette, drop them into a dish, and stir with your finger. Before your brushstroke, you can add more pigment and stir again to adjust the color, or use Rinse the dish to start the mix over. Compare your paint with the target by eye. When you're ready, lay down one brushstroke and let it dry to see your matching score. You get one scored result per day. ONE MONTH, ONE CREATURE Every color you make dyes one part of the month's creature. The colors build with the season until a one-of-a-kind creature comes to rest on your folding screen. Your Book keeps each day's color sample and result. Days you miss remain blank—because the blank space is part of your month too. MIX FREELY IN ZEN Explore subtractive color mixing without scores or goals. It is a quiet place for mindful play with color, like a short meditation. A MINDFUL DAILY HABIT • The daily experience, records, monthly creature, and sharing are free • No account required • The daily ritual works offline; only purchases and restores need a connection • At most one notification a day • A traditional color connected to Japanese culture and its seasonal almanac, every day The Paint Box (Pro) expands your Zen palette from 5 to 23 pigments and adds three papers with different textures and bleeding effects. In the Book, decorate monthly pages with three scroll cloths and personalize the yearly folding screen with three additional papers. Yearly and lifetime purchases unlock the same materials. The daily color match stays free, with the same one scored result per day. Pro is for making your tools and Book your own. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Obedience4 screens
Hitoiro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Obedience at 3K against Hitoiro's 8. Obedience also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Hitoiro's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Obedience sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Hitoiro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Obedience against 4.6 for Hitoiro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obedience has 3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Obedience's written reviews are positive against 91% of Hitoiro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obedience ships an update every 9 days, Hitoiro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Obedience versus Hitoiro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObedienceHitoiro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3K ratings) — better4.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews75.4% of reviews91.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB25 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperObedience B.V.Kodai Aoyama

Customer experience

Obedience

All ratings2,978 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive75.4%
Neutral11.3%
Negative13.3%

Hitoiro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Obedience

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Tasks not tracking or resetting properly
  • Points not updating accurately
  • Messaging and notification issues
  • Losing data when switching between partners
  • Compatibility problems with older devices

Requested features

9 requests
  • Ability to add more than 5 habits on free version
  • Option to pause tasks and habits
  • Ability to request approval for completed tasks
  • Customizable color themes
  • Separate section for one-time tasks
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  • Suggestions for limits, rules, punishments, and rewards
  • Calendar view and progress tracking
  • Dedicated journal feature
  • Ability to add photos and media to tasks

Hitoiro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Obedience

Subscriptions9
  • Obedience Pro 1 Month$6.991 Month
  • Obedience Pro 3 Months$14.993 Months
  • Yearly$14.991 Year
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  • Obedience Pro 6 Months$19.996 Months
  • Yearly1 Year trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Hitoiro

Subscriptions1
  • Materials Box Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Materials Box Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Obedience free?
Obedience is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hitoiro free?
Hitoiro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Obedience or Hitoiro?
Obedience is rated higher. Obedience averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3K ratings, while Hitoiro averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Obedience or Hitoiro have ads?
Neither Obedience nor Hitoiro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obedience or Hitoiro?
Obedience ships an update every 9 days, and Hitoiro every 4 days. Most recently, Obedience was updated on November 7, 2026 and Hitoiro on October 31, 2026.

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