oThings vs Firsts
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.
Firsts
This app helps you document and revisit significant "first times" in your life. It automatically organizes memories by age and allows you to add details like photos, locations, and tags. Review your life's chapters with visual charts and enjoy heartwarming moments through home screen widgets.
- Focus on 'first times' only
- Categorized by age
- Photo-based memory creation
- Insights and review charts
- Widget support
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The journey of life is woven together by countless “first times”: The first time you came into this world and felt the warmth of the sun. The first time you took tiny steps toward the unknown. The first time you rode a bike and felt the freedom of the wind. The first time you stood on stage and faced the courage of applause and attention. The first time you cooked, worked, fell in love, or traveled alone… Each “first time” is a unique and precious memory. This time, we’ve made “First Times” the theme, giving you a whole new way to document the chapters of your life! Features — Focus on First Times Only — Exclusively designed to record every significant “first time” in your life. Create a title, write detailed descriptions, categorize memories with tags, log the location, and even add photos to preserve those cherished moments. — Categorized by Age — Your “first times” are automatically organized by age, making it easy to revisit these priceless moments and see when they happened. Click on an age to expand and relive the story from that year. — Photo-Based Memory Creation — With photo access enabled, the app intelligently analyzes your library to rediscover “first times” based on cities you’ve visited, quickly generating location-based memory chapters. — Insights and Review — Swipe up from the bottom to access the review section. The app creates visual charts based on all your recorded “first times,” giving deeper meaning to every moment. — Widget Support — Enjoy randomly switching “first time” memories with a widget that lets you revisit heartwarming moments right from your home screen. Awaken Memories with “Firsts” Whether it’s tasting the sweetness of first love or setting off on a solo adventure, every “first time” is infused with the courage of exploration and the vibrancy of life. Start documenting now and let each “first time” become an eternal poem in your life story. More Features & Device Versions in Development We invite you to download and experience the app! Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Firsts at 100% against oThings's 50%. Firsts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). oThings's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. oThings sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Firsts sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.69 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Firsts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of oThings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Firsts's.
oThings ships an update every 10 days, Firsts fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | oThings | Firsts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kaiyu Lei | 杰滨 李 |
Customer experience
oThings
Firsts
In-app purchases
oThings
- Display Case$0.99
- Display Case Set$2.99
Firsts
- Monthly$0.691 Month
- Annually$5.991 Year
- Lifetime$12.99
- Lifetime Family$19.99









