One Echo vs Notely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
One Echo
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One Echo helps you see your year at a glance and count down to what matters. • Year progress — See how many days have passed and how many remain in the year with a simple, visual grid. • Special days — Add birthdays, trips, and milestones. Watch the countdown and progress for each. • Live wallpapers — Set a daily-updating year progress wallpaper on your home or lock screen. • Custom themes — Choose colors and dark/light style for your progress and wallpapers. • Daily motivation — Quiet reminders and a clear view of your year. Free includes a basic yearly live wallpaper. Unlock Pro for unlimited countdowns, custom themes, daily motivation alerts, unlimited live wallpapers, and access to all widgets. Subscription: One Echo Pro, comes with a 3-day free trial. Auto-renews until canceled via your Apple ID. Restore purchases anytime in Settings. Support: support@oneechoapp.com Website: https://oneechoapp.com Privacy Policy URL: https://oneechoapp.com/privacy Terms of Service (EULA): https://oneechoapp.com/terms
Notely
This app offers a private and flexible digital notebook for handwriting, typed notes, and PDF annotation. Convert handwriting to editable text, draw with precision tools, and organize your work with folders and backups. Keep ideas accessible without an account or internet connection.
- Handwriting to editable text conversion
- Precision drawing tools
- PDF annotation and markup
- Organized library with folders
- On-device search
- Portable backups
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Notely is a notebook for iPad and iPhone that feels like paper and keeps everything on your device. Write by hand, mark up PDFs, record a lecture while you take notes, then study from what you wrote. There's no account and no cloud. Your notes stay where you wrote them. New in 1.4 Notely has a hand-drawn look now, with drawn icons and handwritten headings. I also rebuilt the pencil from scratch. It picks up the grain of the paper and responds to pressure, and if you tilt Apple Pencil on its side it shades like a real one. Record the lecture with your notes Press record and keep writing. Notely transcribes on your device as you go and remembers when each stroke was written. Later, tap a line of ink and the audio jumps to what was being said at that moment. Tapping a line in the transcript works too. Transcription depends on on-device speech support for your language and device. If it isn't available, Notely still saves the audio. Study from your own notes Make flashcards yourself, or lay tape over part of a page and quiz yourself on what's underneath. Cards come back on a spaced review schedule, and you can turn on reminders for when they're due. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Notely can also draft cards from a note and answer questions about it, with a link back to the page each answer came from. You review every draft before it's saved. Handwriting that turns into text Tap the handwriting button and Notely turns your writing into typed text, on the device. Anything it can't read confidently stays as ink. Search also looks inside your handwriting, typed text and PDFs. Pages or open space Use Letter or A4 pages, or switch a note to an infinite canvas when you need room to think. There's always a blank page waiting at the end, and if you don't use it, it's left out when you export. Templates include Cornell notes, dot grid, lab reports, math and physics pages, and music staff. Import PDFs and write on them, or scan paper pages with the camera. Private by default Notely works offline, with no analytics and no ads. Lock any note with Face ID or a password. Locked notes are kept out of Spotlight search and the widget. A few more things - Export pages as PDF or PNG - Back up notes to a .vectora archive and restore them without overwriting anything - Bring notebooks over from Goodnotes or Notability (PDF exports work best; native import is experimental) - A home screen widget with recent notes and a New note button - Shortcuts actions to create a quick note or open recent notes - Folders, tags and smart collections Notely is made by one person. If something bugs you, the support page reaches me directly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notely at none against One Echo's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. One Echo sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Notely asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | One Echo | Notely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aparajit Tiwari | JUSTIN WEI SUN |
In-app purchases
One Echo
- One Echo Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
Notely
No in-app purchases









