Comparison

oThings vs Gallery Mate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Gallery Mate

Features
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Gallery Mate is a quiet companion for gallery and museum visits. Every exhibition can become a personal art journal—what you saw, how you felt, and the path you walked—saved securely in the cloud and ready to revisit anytime. Before your visit • Create a journal for any exhibition • Upload a poster to auto-detect the title, venue, dates, and curator • Plan your trip, add it to Calendar, and get reminders During your visit • Photograph artworks and add them instantly to this visit • Use AI OCR on wall labels to keep the artist, title, and description with each work • Capture notes in the moment—what you felt standing in front of the piece • Save related articles, podcasts, reviews, and further reading • Ask the built-in assistant questions grounded in your works, labels, links, and notes—not generic answers After your visit • Replay the whole visit on a timeline • Upload a floor plan, pin artworks, and reconstruct your route • Share a read-only link so friends can read your journal • Download an offline pack for unreliable venue Wi‑Fi Designed for people who love exhibitions The interface is inspired by a quiet gallery: generous space, restraint, and the artwork as the focus. Your journal, written by you Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. The app supports Chinese, English, and more. Cloud sync keeps your journals with you across devices. Gallery Mate helps you leave behind “I took so many photos, but I can’t remember that visit”—so every trip to see art is worth remembering. Some AI features may use credits. Capture, sync, and sharing require a network connection. Downloaded journals can be viewed offline.

Screenshots

oThings4 screens
Gallery Mate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Gallery Mate at every 2 days against oThings's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. oThings sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Gallery Mate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

oThings ships an update every 10 days, Gallery Mate every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
oThings versus Gallery Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteroThingsGallery Mate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaiyu Lei宇琪 潘

In-app purchases

2 purchases

oThings

One-time2
  • Display Case$0.99
  • Display Case Set$2.99
1 purchases

Gallery Mate

One-time1
  • Starter Credits$1.99

Questions

Is oThings free?
oThings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gallery Mate free?
Gallery Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do oThings or Gallery Mate have ads?
Neither oThings nor Gallery Mate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, oThings or Gallery Mate?
oThings ships an update every 10 days, and Gallery Mate every 2 days. Most recently, oThings was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gallery Mate on October 12, 2026.

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