Comparison

Countdate vs echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

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

Head to head
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Countdate

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Countdate is an app that helps you keep track of important dates. With Countdate, you can enter a date and the app will tell you exactly how many days are left until that date. It's a great tool for counting down to special occasions, deadlines, or anything else you need to remember. Countdate is easy to use and can be customized to meet your needs, making it a great choice for anyone who wants to keep track of upcoming events.

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echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

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echor is a quiet note-taking app for saving ideas that come to you and lines that stay with you—without organizing them, so you can encounter them again someday. Folders aren’t your thing. Keeping notes neatly organized never lasts. Still, when a phrase comes to mind or a sentence feels worth remembering, you want somewhere to leave it without letting it disappear. That’s what echor is for. Most note apps are designed to organize information or help you work more efficiently. But not every thought can be categorized right away. An idea before it becomes a story. A line that lingers after a book or film. Something someone said that you can’t quite forget. A feeling you don’t yet have a name for. A seed of an idea that may become something someday. echor is a place to quietly leave those small fragments, without deciding where they belong. ■ Capture a thought as soon as it appears Save short lines and ideas the moment they come to you. ・Seeds for stories and creative work ・Lines from books and novels ・Dialogue from films and comics ・Fragments of conversation ・Late-night thoughts, unease, and realizations ・Quotes and phrases you want to revisit No folders or categories required. Leave a thought just as it is, before you organize it. ■ Rediscover words from your past Three of your saved entries appear unexpectedly in speech bubbles. Something your past self wrote may reach you differently now. New ideas may emerge from the unexpected combination of words shown together. Notifications can also bring back something you saved before. Not to remind you of a task, but to help you encounter a forgotten thought again. ■ Look back on what you’ve collected All the words you’ve saved are always available in one list. Even without careful organization, they gradually accumulate over time. When something no longer needs to stay, you can let it go. ■ Keep longer thoughts in Notes When an idea or piece of writing is too long for a short entry, you can keep it in Notes. A place for fragments, and a place to think a little longer. Both can live in the same app. ■ Copy, share, back up, and restore Copy saved words as text or turn them into an image to share. Backup and restore are supported, so your words can move with you when you change devices. You don’t have to write every day like a diary. You don’t have to organize everything neatly like a notebook. It doesn’t have to be productive like a work memo. The words you keep may one day trace the outline of who you are. echor is for people who want a quiet place to keep ideas, reading notes, film notes, quotes, and fragments of conversation together. Available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Korean.

Screenshots

Countdate4 screens
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: echor|Idea Notes & Quotes at every 8 days against Countdate's every 6 months. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdate ships an update every 6 months, echor|Idea Notes & Quotes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Countdate versus echor|Idea Notes & Quotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdateechor|Idea Notes & Quotes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiangYu Kodannpen

In-app purchases

None

Countdate

No in-app purchases

None

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdate free?
Countdate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is echor|Idea Notes & Quotes free?
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Countdate or echor|Idea Notes & Quotes have ads?
Neither Countdate nor echor|Idea Notes & Quotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdate or echor|Idea Notes & Quotes?
Countdate ships an update every 6 months, and echor|Idea Notes & Quotes every 8 days. Most recently, Countdate was updated on October 16, 2026 and echor|Idea Notes & Quotes on October 11, 2026.

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