oThings vs Dust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
oThings
This app helps you meticulously document and showcase your cherished possessions and memories. Organize items with multi-condition classification, tag filtering, and diverse display layouts. Share your favorite things with friends and record their value in various currencies.
- Tag filtering for memories
- Multi-condition classification
- Diverse screen layout options
- Record item value and currency
- Shareable item cards
- Map and chronological display
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Your life experience is unique, and your uniqueness is reflected in your loved things. These things may be your favorite collections or precious memories of events, but as time passes and things accumulate, the memories of these things may gradually fade away. oThings is an application designed specifically for your life memories, allowing you to focus on noting your loved things. Key Features - Love unique: Even things of the same type have their uniqueness. oThings offers tag filtering so you can flip through your memories as you please. - Love Meticulous: With multi-condition classification, you can manage your things more precisely and systematically. - Love Showcase: Enhance the diversity of screen layouts, offering you various ways to display and appreciate your loved things. - Love Perfect: The value of things is not only measured by money, but also by the depth of connection with your life experiences. oThings allows you to record information about things through various linking methods. - Love Share: Share the joy of your favorite things with your friends through the oThings shareable card. - Love Infinite: Explore the world to pursue what you love. oThings allows you to record amounts in different currency units and exchange rates without constraints. Additional Features - Love Batch: The love for loved things often cannot be satisfied with just one. oThings meets your need to record a large number of loved things at once. - Love Instant: Capture the precious moment by taking a photo as you add a new note. - Love Marker: Your notes are footprint markers of a wonderful life journey. oThings provides a map search and display function to mark the spatial coordinates of your memories. - Love Stamp: Your notes are timestamps of a wonderful life journey. oThings allows you to replay your memories in chronological order. Make oThings your exclusive note platform for loved things, where every loved thing leaves a unique mark. Download oThings now.
Dust
Organize your thoughts with a straightforward and user-friendly memo application. Create custom folders, set fonts, and secure your notes with a lock screen. Efficiently sort and search through your entries.
- Simple memo creation
- Customizable folders
- Font customization
- Lock screen security
- Memo sorting
- Search functionality
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Do you need a simple and easy-to-use memo app? Use the 'Dust' memo app for a lifetime for the price of a hot dog! Add your own folders to take notes! - Main Function 1. Simple memo function 2. Added various folder functions 3. Font setting and lock screen function 4. Added memo sorting and search function
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dust at 100% against oThings's 50%. Dust also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). oThings's advantage is price (Free vs $1.49) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 14 months). On 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
oThings is free to download; Dust costs $1.49 up front. oThings sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Dust asks for nothing beyond the download.
oThings ships an update every 10 days, Dust every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | oThings | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.49 |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #198 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kaiyu Lei | Yoonjik Cho |
Customer experience
oThings
Dust
In-app purchases
oThings
- Display Case$0.99
- Display Case Set$2.99
Dust
No in-app purchases
