Comparison

Obius vs Moori

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Moori

Features
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Moori is a home for the small stuff: a passing idea, a photo, an audio clip, a to-do. Write it down the moment it comes to you, without deciding where it goes first. Everything lands on your timeline, you organise it into themes when you have time, and you can always find it again. Capture • Open and type, and add photos, videos and files as you go • Every note lands on a timeline grouped by day. Pin or favourite the ones you come back to • Filter by date with the calendar, or search the full text and theme properties • Set reminders: in an hour, tonight, tomorrow morning, or any time you choose Organise with themes • A note can belong to several themes, and themes can be grouped • Add properties to a theme (text, number, link, date or checkbox), then filter notes by them • New notes written inside a theme are added to it automatically Every format, one note • Add photos, videos, audio, PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Markdown files to any note • Preview and play attachments right in the note, or open them full screen and swipe between them. Videos play full screen too • The Files tab sorts every attachment into images, videos, audio and documents. Tap one to jump back to its note • Appended notes: add your own thoughts after the original without changing it Clippings • Copy a share link and come back to Moori. It offers to clip the post with its source • Clippings are grouped by source and stay in step with your themes Related notes • On devices that support Apple Intelligence, Moori finds notes related to the one you are reading and explains why • Suggestions are just suggestions: you decide what to link • Everything runs on your device. Your notes are never uploaded Sync and privacy • No account needed. Your notes live on your devices and in your own iCloud • iPhone, iPad and Mac stay in sync, and pull to refresh syncs right away. Sync on Wi‑Fi only, or turn sync off entirely • Hide private notes behind Face ID or Touch ID • Deleted notes go to the trash first, so you can restore them More • Write in Markdown, import a folder of Markdown files, and export your notes as Markdown • Built for iPad and iPhone Duo: unfolded, content splits across the two halves and stays off the fold • Customise the tab bar: show or hide Favourites, Themes and Files • Statistics: how many notes and attachments you have, and how much space they take • Dark mode • A Moori Handbook note with screenshots greets you on first launch • Moori is on Mac too: open the same iCloud library with a full Markdown editor and web clipping

Screenshots

Obius4 screens
Moori4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moori at none against Obius's 4. Obius's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Moori asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obius ships an update weekly, Moori every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Obius versus Moori: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObiusMoori
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAED LLCHejia CHEN

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99
None

Moori

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moori free?
Moori is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Obius or Moori have ads?
Neither Obius nor Moori shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obius or Moori?
Obius ships an update weekly, and Moori every 2 months. Most recently, Obius was updated on October 31, 2026 and Moori on October 31, 2026.

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