echor|Idea Notes & Quotes vs CatDays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
CatDays
This app helps you track important dates with a charming feline companion. Count down to future events or count up days since a past milestone, all while your chosen cat offers gentle reminders and poses. Home screen widgets keep your countdowns visible at a glance.
- Countdown and count-up functionality
- Customizable cat characters
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Automatic iCloud sync
- Gentle reminders for important dates
- Memory feature for past events
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CatDays is a minimalist countdown and day counter app. Choose a cat for every day that matters. It’ll wait with you for what’s ahead and remember how far you’ve come. Whether you’re looking forward to something in the future or marking a journey already underway, leave the counting to a cat. Every time you open CatDays, it’ll be right there, counting with you. ・Two ways to count: down and up Count down the days until something ahead, or count up the days since something began. Birthdays, trips, anniversaries, exams, or every day since you gave something up—CatDays can keep track of them all. ・The days you’ve lived are worth keeping Every season of anticipation and perseverance deserves to be remembered. One-time countdowns automatically move to Memories after they end. When a chapter comes to a close, you can stop a count-up on the exact day it ended. If you want to keep going, you can bring it back and continue counting anytime. ・A cat of your own Every date can have its own cat. Give it a tap and it’ll strike a new pose and talk to you—every cat has a personality of its own, so each moment together feels a little different. ・Your cat will remind you when it matters When an important day is near or arrives, your cat will send a gentle reminder. It’ll also check in when a count-up reaches a milestone worth marking. Turn reminders on or off and choose your preferred reminder time in Settings—quiet and never intrusive. ・Home Screen widgets put your cat where you’ll always see it Choose from Small and Medium countdown widgets and select the dates you want to display. A Medium widget can also show up to three countdowns at once. Your cat will change poses from time to time, so every glance feels a little different. Tap a widget to jump straight to the details in CatDays—a companion you can see every day. Lock Screen widgets are available too, so you can check the day count without unlocking your iPhone. ・Cat calendar widgets for every day Choose from a variety of cat calendar widgets featuring month, today, and week layouts. Pick your favorite cat and let it keep you company on your Home Screen every day. ・Automatic iCloud sync Your countdown data can sync automatically through iCloud across devices signed in to the same Apple Account, so it stays with you when you switch phones. Your content is stored on your device and in your personal iCloud and is never sent to our servers. ・Clean, calming, and free from distractions No ads, no subscriptions, and no complicated setup. Open CatDays and all you’ll see are your cats and the days that matter to you. 【Meet the Cats】 Included for free: Coco. More cats can be unlocked from the Cat Shop in Settings. Each cat is a one-time purchase and yours to use forever—no subscription required. Want to bring several home at once? Choose a pack for a better value. 【About Purchases】 CatDays is free to download, with all core features included. Additional cat characters are available as one-time purchases with no subscription fees. You can restore previously purchased content anytime from “Restore Purchases” in Settings. Let a cat keep track of the days that matter. Privacy Policy: https://catdays.app/en/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: echor|Idea Notes & Quotes at 4.8 against CatDays's 4.1. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. CatDays sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively.
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes ships an update every 8 days, CatDays every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | echor|Idea Notes & Quotes | CatDays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | dannpen | Lychee Intelligence Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes
No in-app purchases
CatDays
- Leo$2.99
- Luna$2.99
- Tofu$2.99
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- Ash$2.99
- Milo$2.99
- Pumpkin$2.99
- Leo & Luna Pack$3.99
- Original Cats Pack$4.99
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