iDea vs Ormem
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDea
This app offers a serene and uncluttered environment to capture, organize, and nurture your thoughts and inspirations. It prioritizes a natural, accessible, and distraction-free experience for saving everything from fleeting notions to future projects.
- Quick idea capture
- Organized thought management
- Track idea status
- Minimalist design
- Activity statistics
- Siri integration
- Gentle reminders
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iDea is a calm and minimal space designed to help you capture, organize, and develop your ideas naturally. Whether it’s a random thought, a future project, a creative inspiration, or something you simply don’t want to forget, iDea lets you save it instantly and keep everything organized without distractions. The app is built around a simple philosophy: ideas should feel lightweight, accessible, and never overwhelming. Features • Quickly capture ideas • Organize thoughts in a clean interface • Track active, completed, and archived ideas • Minimal and distraction-free design • Insights and activity statistics • Siri integration for fast idea capture • Gentle reminders designed to help without becoming intrusive • Designed for a natural and comfortable experience • Privacy-focused: your ideas stay on your device iDea is designed for creators, thinkers, developers, students, and anyone who constantly has ideas worth saving. No clutter. No complicated systems. Just your ideas.
Ormem
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Your thoughts never leave your phone, and you can always find them again. Ormem is a notes app you talk to yourself in. Dump any thought, typed or spoken, in about two seconds. No forms, no folders, no ceremony. Ormem quietly tidies it up, pulls out the to-dos, and files it by day, topic and place, so months later you can find it again just by describing what you remember. EFFORTLESS IN Capture in one tap, from the app, a home screen widget, or the lock screen. Type it, say it, or attach a photo. Capture works offline and never waits on anything. Your note is saved the instant you finish, before any processing starts. TRULY PRIVATE Everything runs on your iPhone. There is no account to create, no server to sign in to, and nothing is uploaded. Your notes are encrypted on the device. Turn on airplane mode and the app works exactly the same. We cannot read your notes, because we never receive them. ACTUALLY FINDABLE Search by describing what you remember, even when you cannot remember the words you originally used. Browse a timeline of your days, filter by place, or open a to-do list that fills itself from things you mentioned in passing. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS The cleanup is a suggestion, never a replacement. Your original text is always kept and always one tap away, so you can see exactly what Ormem changed and go back. The on-device model is small and it is not perfect. That is precisely why nothing it writes ever overwrites what you wrote. WHAT IS INSIDE - A day-by-day timeline of everything you captured, with optional recaps - To-dos pulled out automatically, with dates, editable, and exportable to Apple Reminders - Groups you make yourself, plus groups suggested by topic and by place - Ask a question about a note and get an answer grounded in that note - Lock screen and home screen widgets for one tap capture - Keyword, date, location, and meaning-based search across everything - Photos attached to a thought, kept as part of the note WHAT IT COSTS Nothing. Every feature above is free. No account, no subscription, no trial, and no upsell in this version. ABOUT YOUR DEVICE The writing and search intelligence uses Apple Intelligence and needs a compatible iPhone with Apple Intelligence switched on. On other iPhones, Ormem is still a fast, private, encrypted notes app with instant capture, the timeline, groups, widgets, and keyword, date and location search. The AI enrichments are the part that needs the newer chip. Privacy policy: https://ormem.app/privacy.html Questions: contact@ormem.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: iDea at 18.6 against Ormem's 26.5. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | iDea | Ormem |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bojan Pletikapa | Suyog Eleyadath |
In-app purchases
iDea
No in-app purchases
Ormem
No in-app purchases









