Obius vs Perch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Obius
This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.
- Visual workspace for notes and ideas
- Reusable content blocks (Loops)
- Color-coded sections by intent
- AI-powered content generation and search
- Version history and snapshots
- Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub
Perch
Capture your thoughts effortlessly by speaking them aloud. This app organizes your ideas into a visual map, distinguishing between urgent tasks and those that can wait. It intelligently resurfaces saved information when it's most relevant, helping you manage a busy mind.
- Brain dump thoughts out loud
- One-tap capture for voice, photo, text, links
- Visualizes thoughts on a live map
- Sorts tasks by urgency and relevance
- Intelligently resurfaces saved ideas
- No folders or tags required
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Too much in your head? Say it out loud. Open Perch and talk—in any order, half-finished, all over the place. When you’re finished, your thoughts become something you can look at. Brain dumps help make sense of what’s on your mind: recurring themes, things that feel tangled, and a small next move when there’s something worth trying. Some days bring a deeper reflection. Others are simply a moment worth keeping. The rest of life has a place too. Capture a thought, voice recording, photo, screenshot, drawing, or link. Save a video and get the gist. Add your own thoughts whenever something comes to mind. No folders. No tags. No system to set up and immediately abandon. Then, quietly, Perch brings things back. Saved notes resurface over time, and you can choose a date to bring something back yourself. With Perch Pro, related notes find connections, collections form automatically, and weekly recaps help you look back. • Talk it out with brain dumps. • Capture text, voice, photos, drawings, and links. • Keep your original words and recordings. • Find themes and useful next steps with Pro analysis. • Revisit saved thoughts through resurfacing. • Explore automatic collections, connections, and weekly recaps with Pro. Your first onboarding brain dump includes a full analysis. Continue capturing with Free, or choose Perch Pro for ongoing insights. Friendly by design—useful for anyone whose head runs faster than their notes app. Your notes are yours. Terms of Use: https://yourperch.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://yourperch.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Obius at 17.0 against Perch's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Perch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Obius against 5.0 for Perch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
Obius ships an update weekly, Perch every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Obius | Perch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAED LLC | Anthony Dragone |
Customer experience
Obius
Perch
In-app purchases
Obius
- Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
- Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Pro Annual$79.991 Year
- Power Pack$9.99
Perch
- Perch Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Perch Pro — Yearly$39.991 Year









