Pico vs echor|Idea Notes & Quotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pico
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Pico is a calendar-style task and schedule planner that brings your schedule, tasks, journal, and habits into one daily flow. When your days feel filled with plans and to-dos, Pico helps you move through them at your own pace instead of just trying to keep up. See what needs your attention today, set your priorities, and keep a gentle record of your days as you go. Timed events, tasks without a set time, daily notes and reflections, and habits you want to continue can all live in the same place. What you can do • View today’s schedule in a timeline See the flow of your day and organize events and tasks around it. • Manage tasks without a set time Keep track of things you want to do later or finish sometime today, separate from scheduled events. • Create recurring tasks Add weekly habits and regular plans, then bring them into your daily schedule. • Track progress with checkmarks Check off finished tasks and quickly see how your day is moving forward. • Journal your day Record what happened, what you noticed, and the moments that do not always show up in a task list. • Reflect on your habits Look back on what you continued and what was difficult, so you can adjust your habits without pressure. • Use notifications and widgets Make important tasks easier to remember and check today’s schedule and tasks from your Home Screen. Pico is for anyone who wants to organize today’s tasks and daily records in one place, without switching between a calendar, to-do list, journal, and habit tracker.
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes
This app provides a quiet space to capture fleeting thoughts, memorable quotes, and creative seeds without the pressure of organization. It allows you to revisit your saved entries unexpectedly, fostering new connections and rediscovering forgotten ideas. The app also supports longer notes and offers backup and sharing functionalities.
- Capture thoughts instantly
- No folders or categories required
- Rediscover saved entries unexpectedly
- Support for longer notes
- Copy and share entries
- Backup and restore functionality
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: echor|Idea Notes & Quotes at none against Pico's 2. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Pico's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). On price, ads 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. Pico sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pico ships an update every 2 days, echor|Idea Notes & Quotes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pico | echor|Idea Notes & Quotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | satoru ogawa | dannpen |
In-app purchases
Pico
- Pico Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pico Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes
No in-app purchases
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