echor|Idea Notes & Quotes vs Tidy Note
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.
Tidy Note
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No ads. No sign-up. No subscription. Add one room and color tracking starts right away. Each room's or task's tile slowly shifts through four colors — Sparkling, Tidy, Getting dusty, Time to tidy — based on the days since you last marked it done. The sakura cat never nags or shames you; it only ever suggests, like "Want to tidy up together soon?" ROOM LEVEL OR TASK LEVEL, YOUR CHOICE - Add a room and color tracking starts immediately - Break a room into tasks (sink, range hood, and so on) for finer-grained tracking - Choose a frequency for each: Daily, Weekly, Every 2 weeks, Monthly, or your own custom days NEVER PRESSURES YOU - No overwhelming list of everything you've been putting off, no streak-shaming - The sakura cat's messages are always phrased as a gentle suggestion HISTORY - See each room's and task's color history as a simple day-by-day chart - See at a glance how many times something reached "Time to tidy" EASY TO SEE, EASY TO USE - Color-blind friendly mode (adds a pattern, not just color) - Three text sizes; haptics can be turned on or off - 9 languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE - No account. Your records are saved only on your device - The app itself never connects to the internet (purchases are handled by your device's app store) - Copy your records as text (export) and paste them back in (import), for example when you change phones FREE TO USE - Up to 3 rooms, 3 tasks per room, with full color tracking (including custom thresholds) - History for the last 7 days - Every setting is free, including color-blind mode, text size and export/import The in-app purchase is a one-time purchase, and nothing renews automatically. It unlocks unlimited rooms and tasks, all-time history, and 2 cat-color themes. Colors are just a guide. Use this app at your own pace. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://apps.furimatch.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: echor|Idea Notes & Quotes at none against Tidy Note's 1. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tidy Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. echor|Idea Notes & Quotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes ships an update every 8 days, Tidy Note monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | echor|Idea Notes & Quotes | Tidy Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | dannpen | AKIHIRO MATSUYAMA |
In-app purchases
echor|Idea Notes & Quotes
No in-app purchases
Tidy Note
- Unlimited Rooms & History$0.99
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