Comparison

Peoplebox vs Ideon

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

Head to head
About

Peoplebox

This app helps you remember the important people in your life by storing private notes and setting follow-up reminders. It offers smart organization, freshness indicators, and privacy features, keeping all your data on your device.

Highlights
  • Private notes timeline for contacts
  • Follow-up reminders
  • Smart tags for organization
  • Stale contact detection
  • Freshness indicators
  • Face ID app lock
  • CSV export
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Your contacts tell you who someone is. Peoplebox helps you remember the relationship — what matters, when to follow up, and who needs a check-in. Keep private notes on the people in your life, set follow-up reminders, and never lose touch with the ones who matter. Your relationship notes are stored locally on your iPhone. No account, cloud sync, or analytics. Calling, messaging, email, and exports use the system services or destinations you choose. KEY FEATURES - Private notes timeline for every contact, with optional interaction type (meeting, call, coffee, email, event) - Read-only access to your iOS Contacts so you can attach notes without changing your address book - Create contacts only in Peoplebox without Contacts permission. Names and optional phone, email, company and job title stay in Peoplebox; system contacts are never added or changed. - Smart tags to organize people by Client, Friend, Family, or any custom category you create - Follow-up reminders with multiple lead-time alerts (3 days, 1 day, day-of) - See each follow-up's contact, task, and due date, then tap to open the related person and follow-up - Start a message from a contact's page using the system message composer; choose a number and confirm sending yourself - Stale contact detection: get a gentle nudge when you haven't talked to someone in a while - Per-tag "haven't talked to" thresholds, so you can treat close family differently from acquaintances - Smart Groups that automatically surface favorites, overdue follow-ups, and contacts you have been neglecting - Freshness indicators at a glance: green for fresh, yellow, orange, red for long-silent - Home screen widgets showing your upcoming follow-ups - Face ID app lock for an extra layer of privacy - Readable CSV contact summaries with notes and follow-up history (not a restorable database backup) - No login, no account, no data collection PEOPLEBOX PRO Manage up to 20 contacts with private relationship records for free, counting Peoplebox-only contacts and system contacts with saved records together. Existing records remain editable if Pro expires. CSV export, Face ID / Touch ID app lock, home screen widgets, and all follow-up reminder intervals are available to everyone. Upgrade to Peoplebox Pro for unlimited contacts, custom tags and Smart Groups. - Annual: USD 14.99 per year (a 1-week free trial may be available to eligible subscribers, as confirmed by Apple) - Lifetime: USD 19.99 one-time purchase Prices may vary by region; the App Store shows your current localized price. Existing monthly subscriptions remain supported and can be managed in Apple Account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period at the stated price. Manage or cancel in Account Settings. A free trial, if offered, automatically converts to a paid subscription unless canceled at least 24 hours before it ends. Lifetime access is a one-time, non-consumable purchase and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/peoplebox/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/peoplebox/terms

About

Ideon

This app provides a private, scrollable feed to save and revisit ideas, links, files, and notes. Capture content manually or share from other apps, then organize with related notes and gentle reminders. It's designed for easily managing small but useful pieces of knowledge.

Highlights
  • Private feed for ideas, links, files, and notes
  • Share links and files from other apps
  • Manual posts with various media attachments
  • Searchable concept library
  • Gentle optional reminders for saved ideas
  • Local storage for manually captured content
Features
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Ideon is a private, scrollable feed for the ideas, links, files, concepts, terminology, and insights you want to keep. Capture an idea manually with text, photos, video, audio, or file attachments. Share links and supported files from other apps into Ideon, then keep everything in a simple personal feed you can revisit later. Ideon is built for the small pieces of knowledge that are too useful to lose: AI answers, articles, places, documents, diagrams, study notes, and real-life observations. Add related notes to older posts, connect follow-up thoughts, and let Ideon gently bring useful ideas back when they may be worth revisiting. There are no decks to organize, sessions to complete, or study streaks to protect. Pull to reshuffle, keep scrolling, search your library, and mark ideas as useful, fragile, or mastered to influence when they return. Features: • A private feed for ideas, links, files, and notes • Share links and supported files from other apps • Manual posts with text, camera, photos, video, audio, and file attachments • Related notes and comments for follow-up thinking • Searchable concept library • Gentle optional reminders for older saved ideas • Subtle spaced-repetition weighting without flashcards • Local storage for manually captured content • No advertising or cross-app tracking Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.ideonapp.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Peoplebox4 screens
Ideon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ideon at every 5 days against Peoplebox's every 3 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Peoplebox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Ideon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Peoplebox against 5.0 for Ideon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Peoplebox ships an update every 3 months, Ideon every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Peoplebox versus Ideon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeopleboxIdeon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer慧慧 高Mohamed Abdelsalam

Customer experience

Peoplebox

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ideon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Peoplebox

Subscriptions2
  • Peoplebox Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Peoplebox Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Ideon

One-time1
  • Ideon Lifetime$2.99

Questions

Is Peoplebox free?
Peoplebox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ideon free?
Ideon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Peoplebox or Ideon?
Peoplebox and Ideon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Peoplebox or Ideon have ads?
Neither Peoplebox nor Ideon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Peoplebox or Ideon?
Peoplebox ships an update every 3 months, and Ideon every 5 days. Most recently, Peoplebox was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ideon on October 28, 2026.

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