Comparison

easyAsPieDB Database App vs Recall

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

Head to head
About

easyAsPieDB Database App

This app allows you to create and manage custom databases for personal or business use without needing technical skills. It offers a wide range of data fields, powerful relationship building, and secure synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Completely customizable data fields
  • Offline functionality
  • Integrated encryption (iOS only)
  • Data synchronization across devices
  • Barcode scanning
  • User-defined formulas and calculations
  • Record relationships and composition
Features
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Catalog your movie or book collection. Track job costs, timesheets, and customer invoices. Log mileage, wine, coins, or anything else you care about - all in one endlessly customizable database that works the same way on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No coding required. WHAT PEOPLE BUILD WITH IT For home & collectors: • Movies, books, board games, or video games you own • Wine, coins, comics, vinyl, or any hobby collection • Recipes, a home inventory for insurance, a family contact book For small business & field work: • Job costing, timesheets, and mileage logs • Customer records, orders, invoices, and receipts • Equipment, tools, or inventory tracking with barcode scan Start from a template, or design your own in a few taps: name a field, pick its type, done. A REAL DATABASE, NOT A SPREADSHEET • 17 field types - Barcode scan, Number, Currency, Date, Distance/Mileage, Drawing/Signature, Duration, Email, Image, iOS Contact, Note, Password, Phone Number, Time, Text, URL, Yes/No • Choice lists, calculations, and text merges - build your own formulas, no code required • Link records together: one Customer with many Orders, one Book with many Authors • Multi-level Reports with subtotals and grouping; export to CSV or HTML; back up and restore anytime WORKS OFFLINE. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS. • Local-first - every record lives on your device, no account or cloud required to get started • Built on SQLite, the world's most widely deployed database engine • iOS device encryption keeps sensitive records private • iCloud sync keeps iPhone, iPad, and Mac in step, transferring only what's changed • Supports over 40 languages and regional formats for input and display TRY IT FREE FOR 14 DAYS Download and build your first database at no cost, on any of your Apple devices. No forced subscription: unlock unlimited storage and every feature for $2.99/month, or buy it once for $19.99 and never pay again. Add multi-device Cloud Sync for $0.99/month or $4.99 once. Cancel anytime - no long-term contract. TESTED SINCE 2013, FEEDBACK ALWAYS WANTED easyAsPieDB is made by a U.S. software company that's been building mobile apps since 2001, and was recognized with an Honorable Mention at the Samsung, The Linux Foundation, and Intel's Mobile World Congress App Challenge. We read and reply to support messages and App Store reviews ourselves - tell us what's missing and it may be in the next update. PRIVACY NOTE easyAsPieDB does not access, store or transmit any information from iOS apps such as Calendar, Reminders or Contacts. easyAsPieDB does request access to iOS Contacts, but only to allow you to select, if you so desire, a particular Contact from the iOS Contact list. In such case, only an anonymous, numeric identifier of a particular Contact is stored in easyAsPieDB, but the actual Contact information such as an address, a phone number, etc., is never accessed. TERMS OF USE https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Recall

This app helps you store and quickly find thousands of information snippets, including recipes, lists, and web links. It supports plain text, PDFs, and images, with comprehensive iCloud backups and drag-and-drop functionality on iPad.

Highlights
  • Store thousands of information snippets
  • Plain text format with PDF and image support
  • Comprehensive iCloud backups
  • Drag and drop support on iPad
  • Hierarchical tagging for organization
  • Advanced search with AND, OR, NOT operators
  • Siri Shortcut support
Features
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Recall-It Notes enables you to store thousands of snippets of information and quickly find what you need. For example, you can store recipes, gift lists, notes made while watching how-to videos or reading articles, keep annotated lists of web links, track major purchases, maintain checklists for activities like upgrading to a new phone, save frequently used keyboard shortcuts for your favorite apps, and much more. Recall-It is based on plain text, the most portable medium for your information. You can export your notes exactly as you entered or imported them so there is no lock-in as there can be with proprietary formats. Despite being plain text, your notes can include and display linked PDFs and images, e.g. photos or screenshots. Recall-It includes comprehensive back-up: by default, your entire database is backed up daily to your iCloud account, and you can manually archive everything, or any subset of your notes, any time. You can completely rebuild your database from any of the full back-ups. On iPad, drag and drop support lets you do things like create new notes by dragging text files from iCloud drive, drag images or selections from web pages, Apple Notes, email, iBooks, etc. and drop them to create new notes or append to existing ones. You can drag terms from the note you are looking at to the search field to find other possibly related notes. You can drag within the app to augment or copy notes, or drag a group of notes to iCloud drive to export them as text files. MAJOR FEATURES - Syncs via iCloud to all of your devices - Notes can be tagged to enable browsing or enhance search - You can apply multiple hierarchical tags to any note - Existing tags can be renamed or deleted for all associated notes - You can search based on AND, OR, NOT, and BEGINS-WITH - Searching for “word” automatically finds “words”, “worded”, “wording”, “wordy”, etc. (English only, and optional) - Search results are ordered showing best matches first - Search results can be filtered to include/not include notes with attachments - Search terms are highlighted within notes which auto-scroll to first occurrence - Repeat previous searches with a few taps - Launch the app and search via Siri command (Siri Shortcut support in iOS 12.) - One tap access to “favorite” or recently viewed notes - Easy formatting: bold headings, subheadings are automatically styled, or for greater flexibility, use Markdown heading syntax. - Handy in-note search function for continuing search within long notes - Auto-completion for easy entry of search terms/tags - Action Sheet support in Safari and other apps lets you save selections as new notes or append to any “favorite” note - Support for Slide Over, Split View, and 3D Touch on appropriate devices. - Automation via x-callback-url support; control Recall-It with the Workflow app - Easily insert images, checkboxes, bullets, current date and time into your notes. - Powerful batch editing for deleting, exporting, backing up, adding or removing tags from groups of notes - Comprehensive back-up and restore, including auto-backup (see above) - Extensive drag and drop support (see above) You may optionally choose to support development by purchasing a yearly, auto-renewing subscription ($4.99/year USD). Payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and renewals will be charged at the same price within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription if you have not turned off auto-renewal. You may turn off auto-renewal by going to your settings in the iTunes store, or directly from the app Settings pane where you purchased the subscription. For privacy policy and service terms see: http://www.microspell.com/recall-it/PrivacyPolicy.html

Screenshots

easyAsPieDB Database App4 screens
Recall4 screens

Verdict

The call

easyAsPieDB Database App and Recall both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Recall's written reviews are positive against 54% of easyAsPieDB Database App's. Recall also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). easyAsPieDB Database App's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 8). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. easyAsPieDB Database App sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Recall sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 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 — 4.6 for easyAsPieDB Database App against 4.5 for Recall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of easyAsPieDB Database App's written reviews are positive against 75% of Recall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
easyAsPieDB Database App versus Recall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereasyAsPieDB Database AppRecall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (25 ratings) — better4.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB60 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperR&F Consulting, Inc.Robert N Lucas

Customer experience

easyAsPieDB Database App

All ratings25 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral23.1%
Negative23.1%

Recall

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

easyAsPieDB Database App

Subscriptions4
  • Unlimited Cloud Sync Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • All App Features Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited Cloud Sync Annually$6.991 Year
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  • All App Features Annually$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • Biz Feature Pack$4.99
  • Unlimited Cloud Sync Lifetime$4.99
  • All App Features Lifetime$17.99
1 purchases

Recall

Subscriptions1
  • Subscription$4.991 Year

Questions

Is easyAsPieDB Database App free?
easyAsPieDB Database App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, easyAsPieDB Database App or Recall?
easyAsPieDB Database App is rated higher. easyAsPieDB Database App averages 4.6 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Recall averages 4.5 from 8 ratings.
Do easyAsPieDB Database App or Recall have ads?
Neither easyAsPieDB Database App nor Recall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, easyAsPieDB Database App or Recall?
easyAsPieDB Database App ships an update every 2 months, and Recall every 2 months. Most recently, easyAsPieDB Database App was updated on September 21, 2026 and Recall on September 28, 2026.

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