Orbit vs Columemo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Orbit
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Orbit is a calm, capable place for everything you want to plan, capture, organize, and find again. Tasks, notes, lists, collections, files, media, and reminders stay close together without turning your workflow into clutter. No costs, no account, no internet connection needed. It just works. Plan your day in day, list, and month views. Work with flexible tasks, priorities, times, durations, reminders, and recurrence rules. Move tasks with gestures, collect ideas in the pool, and keep an eye on tasks that have been postponed. Notes in Orbit are flexible and expressive, with formatting, fonts, colors, alignment, attachments such as images, files, audio recordings, and drawings, plus a clean full view for reading. When needed, you can export notes with their content and media as a PDF and share them. Orbit is more than just text: Record audio directly in Orbit, capture visual ideas with drawings, and organize information in tables. For structured information, Orbit includes many list types with clever designs and advanced features such as shopping lists, routines, recipes, diaries, documents, password lists, birthday lists and more. Collections bring related things together: tasks, notes, lists, files, media, websites, and custom elements can be organized like projects. Search helps you quickly find content across tasks, notes, lists, and collections. Orbit is designed with privacy in mind. Your organizer data stays locally on your device. Notes, lists, and collections can be locked with a PIN, password, or device lock, with optional biometric unlock. Backups, import, export, ZIP/PDF output, and Orbitshare (for sharing and importing content between Orbit apps) give you control over how you save or share your data. The app itself can adapt to the way you work: design, automatic theme switching, background images, start screen, language, sorting behavior, date and time format, additional favorite buttons for tasks, and more can be adjusted in detail. Orbit is made for people who carry a lot in their head and still want a clear, thoughtful way to stay organized.
Columemo
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See your notes more clearly, one column at a time. Columemo is a local-first note app for arranging information into rows and columns. It offers the clarity of a table without requiring spreadsheet formulas, making it easy to compare, record, and plan. KEY FEATURES ⢠Add, delete, and rearrange rows and columns ⢠Adjust column widths and row heights ⢠Copy and paste cells, select ranges, undo, and redo ⢠Apply text colors, backgrounds, bold, and italic styles ⢠Use templates for comparisons, trackers, travel planning, schedules, and more ⢠Switch between Japanese and English COLUMEMO PRO ā ONE-TIME PURCHASE ⢠Remove the memo-count limit ⢠Expand row and column limits ⢠Use full-text search, tags, and folders ⢠Unlock additional templates and themes ⢠Export as PDF, PNG, CSV, TSV, or Markdown ⢠Create and restore local backups Your notes are stored locally on your device. Columemo does not require an account and does not use advertising SDKs, AI services, or developer-operated cloud synchronization. You choose where exported files and backups are saved. The free version supports up to 10 memos, 8 columns and 80 rows per memo, and one custom template. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Orbit at 3 against Columemo's 1. Orbit also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Orbit sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Columemo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Orbit | Columemo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Lindenberger | DTLF |
In-app purchases
Orbit
- Support Orbit - 1ā¬$0.99
- Support Orbit - 3ā¬$2.99
- Support Orbit - 5ā¬$3.99
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- Support Orbit - 10ā¬$8.99
Columemo
- Columemo Pro$9.99









