Comparison

OWrite vs oThings

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

Head to head
About

OWrite

A simple yet powerful notepad app for recording daily life with text and images. It allows you to create shareable photo notes and secure your entries with a password. Rediscover the joy of writing with a fluent and elegant user experience.

Highlights
  • Record text and images
  • Generate shareable photo notes
  • Set boot password for privacy
  • Fluent and elegant interaction
  • Rediscover the joy of writing
Features
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OWrite is a simple but elegant notepad application, which can provide a quick and convenient way to record everyday life. OWrite is a more powerful "Notes", which can save your text and images, generate beautiful and elegant photos to be shared on Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, Mail etc. You can also set a boot password so that no one can peek at your private notes. It also has some more practical features and can provide a fluent way of interaction. OWrite will let you rediscover the joy of writing!

About

oThings

This app helps you meticulously document and showcase your cherished possessions and memories. Organize items with multi-condition classification, tag filtering, and diverse display layouts. Share your favorite things with friends and record their value in various currencies.

Highlights
  • Tag filtering for memories
  • Multi-condition classification
  • Diverse screen layout options
  • Record item value and currency
  • Shareable item cards
  • Map and chronological display
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Your life experience is unique, and your uniqueness is reflected in your loved things. These things may be your favorite collections or precious memories of events, but as time passes and things accumulate, the memories of these things may gradually fade away. oThings is an application designed specifically for your life memories, allowing you to focus on noting your loved things. Key Features - Love unique: Even things of the same type have their uniqueness. oThings offers tag filtering so you can flip through your memories as you please. - Love Meticulous: With multi-condition classification, you can manage your things more precisely and systematically. - Love Showcase: Enhance the diversity of screen layouts, offering you various ways to display and appreciate your loved things. - Love Perfect: The value of things is not only measured by money, but also by the depth of connection with your life experiences. oThings allows you to record information about things through various linking methods. - Love Share: Share the joy of your favorite things with your friends through the oThings shareable card. - Love Infinite: Explore the world to pursue what you love. oThings allows you to record amounts in different currency units and exchange rates without constraints. Additional Features - Love Batch: The love for loved things often cannot be satisfied with just one. oThings meets your need to record a large number of loved things at once. - Love Instant: Capture the precious moment by taking a photo as you add a new note. - Love Marker: Your notes are footprint markers of a wonderful life journey. oThings provides a map search and display function to mark the spatial coordinates of your memories. - Love Stamp: Your notes are timestamps of a wonderful life journey. oThings allows you to replay your memories in chronological order. Make oThings your exclusive note platform for loved things, where every loved thing leaves a unique mark. Download oThings now.

Screenshots

OWrite4 screens
oThings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: OWrite at 100% against oThings's 50%. OWrite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). oThings's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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. oThings sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. OWrite asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OWrite ships an update every 4 weeks, oThings every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OWrite versus oThings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOWriteoThings
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer琳钧 黄Kaiyu Lei

Customer experience

OWrite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

oThings

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

OWrite

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

oThings

One-time2
  • Display Case$0.99
  • Display Case Set$2.99

Questions

Is OWrite free?
OWrite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is oThings free?
oThings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OWrite or oThings have ads?
Neither OWrite nor oThings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OWrite or oThings?
OWrite ships an update every 4 weeks, and oThings every 10 days. Most recently, OWrite was updated on November 6, 2026 and oThings on November 12, 2026.

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