Comparison

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes vs ScreenZoo

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts instantly
  • No folders or categories required
  • Rediscover saved entries unexpectedly
  • Support for longer notes
  • Copy and share entries
  • Backup and restore functionality
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.

About

ScreenZoo

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ScreenZooは、"脱スマホできた時間が、動物になってあなたのもとにやってくる"とっても気軽で可愛いスマホ依存脱却アプリ! あなたがやることは、ScreenZooをインストールしてスマホを置くだけ! こんな経験はありませんか? ・SNSを開いて気づけば15分経っている ・スクリーンタイムを見て自分の使用時間に驚く ・集中タイマー系のアプリを何度も試して続かなかった ScreenZooにやる気は要りません。タイマーもボタンもなく、なんならアプリを開く必要もありません。 最初にちょっとした設定を済ませたら、あとは非使用時間が自動で計測され、脱スマホできた分だけ動物がやってきます。 スマホを触らないでいると、何もなかった土地に草木が生え、草陰から気配が覗き、60時間で動物があなたのもとへやってきます。 ホーム画面のウィジェットからも様子を確認できるので、「気づいたら動物がやってくる」状態をお楽しみください。 広告なし、アカウント登録なし、(今のところは)課金なし! とりあえずインストールして普段通り生活するだけで、動物たちが集まってくる楽しさを味わってみてください。 利用規約(EULA):https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ プライバシーポリシー:https://screen-zoo.com/privacy

Screenshots

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes4 screens
ScreenZoo4 screens

Verdict

The call

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes and ScreenZoo are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes ships an update every 8 days, ScreenZoo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes versus ScreenZoo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterechor|Idea Notes & QuotesScreenZoo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdannpenRyohei Okita

In-app purchases

None

echor|Idea Notes & Quotes

No in-app purchases

None

ScreenZoo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is echor|Idea Notes & Quotes free?
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScreenZoo free?
ScreenZoo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do echor|Idea Notes & Quotes or ScreenZoo have ads?
Neither echor|Idea Notes & Quotes nor ScreenZoo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, echor|Idea Notes & Quotes or ScreenZoo?
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes ships an update every 8 days, and ScreenZoo every 4 days. Most recently, echor|Idea Notes & Quotes was updated on October 28, 2026 and ScreenZoo on October 24, 2026.

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