Comparison

Small Things 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
About

Small Things

This app encourages couples to deepen their connection through daily shared prompts and reflections. It offers unique visual timelines and memory-keeping features to celebrate your relationship's journey.

Highlights
  • Daily shared prompts
  • Unlock moments together
  • Growing memory garden
  • Constellation view
  • Time Capsules
  • Voice notes and exports
Features
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Small Things is a daily ritual for couples. Each day, both partners answer one small prompt or write one small thing they noticed, then unlock the moment together once both have written. Keep your shared history in rich views that make the relationship feel alive: - A growing garden of memories - A constellation view of the big picture - A book you can read through together - Time Capsules for future-you - Voice notes, favorites, and keepsake exports Built for gentle consistency instead of pressure, Small Things helps you stay close through tiny shared moments that add up over time. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

Features
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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

Small Things4 screens
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: echor|Idea Notes & Quotes at none against Small Things's 2. Small Things's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). 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. Small Things sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Small Things ships an update every 3 days, echor|Idea Notes & Quotes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Small Things versus echor|Idea Notes & Quotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmall Thingsechor|Idea Notes & Quotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInfiniteApps LLCdannpen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Small Things

Subscriptions2
  • Small Things Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Small Things Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Small Things free?
Small Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is echor|Idea Notes & Quotes free?
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Small Things or echor|Idea Notes & Quotes have ads?
Neither Small Things nor echor|Idea Notes & Quotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Small Things or echor|Idea Notes & Quotes?
Small Things ships an update every 3 days, and echor|Idea Notes & Quotes every 8 days. Most recently, Small Things was updated on October 1, 2026 and echor|Idea Notes & Quotes on October 11, 2026.

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