Comparison

Onuri vs SmallButBig

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

Head to head
About

Onuri

Organize your thoughts and memories with a powerful note-taking app. It offers advanced search, filtering by people, places, and topics, and connects related entries. Premium features provide deeper insights and customization options.

Highlights
  • Advanced text search
  • Filter by people, places, dates, topics
  • Connected terms and related entries
  • Automatic draft saving
  • iCloud sync
  • TXT and CSV export
  • Premium insights and patterns
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Search across your writing with text, type filters and connected terms. Filter by people, places, dates, times and topics, and see related entries with similar meaning. FREE FEATURES • Unlimited notes and journal entries • Fast text search • Person, place, date, time and topic filters • Connected terms and filters • Related entries based on similar meaning • Automatic draft saving • Light and dark mode • Original colour theme and app icon • Optional Sign in with Apple • iCloud sync • TXT and CSV export ONURI PREMIUM • Insights into momentum, streaks, recurring themes and returning topics • People and place patterns across your writing • Semantic clusters and strongest connections • Mark entries as Ongoing or Done • Filter entries by status • Meadow, Dusk, Ocean, Ink and Blossom themes • Light and dark variants for every premium theme • Matching alternate app icons PRIVACY • Processing happens on-device • Your notes are stored on-device and synced through your iCloud • No ads • No analytics • No tracking Terms of Use (EULA): https://jhr1986.github.io/onuri-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://jhr1986.github.io/onuri-legal/privacy.html

About

SmallButBig

This app transforms your to-do lists into a visual timeline, helping you focus on one task at a time. It allows for detailed planning, light tracking of actual time spent, and provides honest records of your efforts, even when plans change.

Highlights
  • One task at a time scheduling
  • Three-stage planning (Someday, Date, Date & Time)
  • Lightweight time tracking
  • Honest record of actual time spent
  • Flexible task splitting and merging
  • Project management with Gantt charts
  • Habit tracking and pooled tasks
Features
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A big goal never arrives overnight. Getting one small day right — that's all this app does. SmallButBig turns a list into a timeline — decide when, track how long it took, and see the gap. ■ Requires a purchase There is no free version. Every feature below unlocks with a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. ■ One thing at a time · Tasks can't overlap. Drop one on a busy hour and it snaps to the nearest free slot. · Only one timer runs at a time. Start something else and the running one is settled first. ■ Planning in three stages · Someday → a date → a date and time. You never have to invent an hour you don't have. · Undated work waits in the inbox; day-only work waits in that day's drawer. ■ Tracking has to be light to last · No need to keep the app open — only a start and an end time are stored, and the Lock Screen counts. · Most things take about as long as planned — "Same as planned" is one tap. · If the timer already filled it in, finishing doesn't ask again. ■ An honest record · Even off plan, your best effort still leaves a number. · Actual time is asked when you finish a task, not when you create it. · Unfinished work rolls down to today, but the original plan stays frozen in its week. Last week's slip doesn't become this week's score. ■ When the plan breaks · Finish early and the card shrinks, freeing the rest of the block; run over and the overflow shows below it. · Split a card and each checklist item becomes a real task. Finished ones keep their slot; unfinished ones drop their time to the inbox. · Scattered pieces merge back into one, with a preview of what you'd lose. · Repeating events edit as "this one" or "this and all following". ■ What a day is made of · Alerts — at the start, 5/10/30/60 minutes before, or a time you pick. · Transit blocks — a mode and duration attach travel time ahead of the event. Split into legs (walk → bus → subway), each with notes. · Subtasks — attach steps or things to bring, and tick them off on the card. · Deadlines — when you'll do it and when it's due are separate axes. Move the date; the deadline stays. · Uses left — stock "Workout ×10" and each drag onto the timeline spends one. ■ Several projects at once · The whole folder tree lies open — drag straight into any depth, never across two screens. · Big work nests as tasks under tasks — split as fine as you like, nothing leaves the project. · Projects with start and end dates line up as a Gantt chart, today marked and days left per bar. · You see "3 of 7" and hours spent without opening a folder. When a stretch is over, file the lot into a month folder. ■ Looking back · Five categories: Focus, Admin, Growth, People and Rest. One axis — what that time was to you — so the weekly report becomes next week's decision. · When a week ends, planned and actual hours stand side by side, by category and by project. · Where the time leaked: open a project parent to child and follow the hours down. ■ Out of your way · Year → month → week → day. Two fingers move between the overview and the hour. · iPhone and iPad share the same data over iCloud. · 15 languages, switched instantly inside the app — no reinstall. · The Mac app is sold separately on the Mac App Store. ■ Purchases Using the app requires a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled before the period ends; manage them in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://lim394.github.io/smallbutbig-legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Onuri4 screens
SmallButBig4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SmallButBig at none against Onuri's 1. SmallButBig also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Onuri sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. SmallButBig asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onuri ships an update every 2 months, SmallButBig every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Onuri versus SmallButBig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnuriSmallButBig
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn Henry RocheJunbeom Lim

Customer experience

Onuri

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SmallButBig

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Onuri

Subscriptions1
  • Onuri Premium$2.991 Month
None

SmallButBig

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Onuri free?
Onuri is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SmallButBig free?
SmallButBig is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Onuri or SmallButBig have ads?
Neither Onuri nor SmallButBig shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onuri or SmallButBig?
Onuri ships an update every 2 months, and SmallButBig every 2 days. Most recently, Onuri was updated on October 11, 2026 and SmallButBig on October 9, 2026.

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