Nanoleaf vs Human Memory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nanoleaf
Control and customize your smart lighting experience with this app. Design layouts, set schedules, and explore community-created scenes. Integrate with smart home assistants for hands-free control.
- Virtual Layout Assistant
- One-touch RGB presets
- Full customization
- Remote on/off and brightness control
- Group and room control
- Scene creation and discovery
- Voice command integration
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Design, set up, manage, and control your Nanoleaf lights all in one place. From the virtual Layout Assistant, to one-touch RGB presets, to full in-depth customization like you’ve never seen before, prepare for a lighting experience that is Smarter by Design. Simple Control Use the App to scan your lights’ pairing code and get set up in seconds, then enjoy your smart light-switch. Remotely turn your lights on and off, adjust brightness (trust us they go BRIGHT), and select your color Scenes from anywhere within your home. Group your lights together for joint control with Group Scenes (because we love a team player), or segment by room to keep your lights as organized as you wish your life could be. Complete Customization Create custom dynamic Scenes by selecting palettes and colors with the intuitive color wheel, adjusting ratios, and choosing animated motions. Try vibrant RGB hues to set a total vibe, or put the “fun” in functional lighting with the whole range of white color temperatures. Advanced Automations Set Schedules to automate your daily lighting needs, from gentle morning light-alarms, to gradually dimming nightly reminders that Holy **** it’s 2AM again, you need to wake up in 4 hours, PLEASE go to sleep. Now You’re Talking Connect your lights with your smart home assistant (HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Samsung SmartThings) and use voice commands to control them hands-free. Just say “Hey Siri, turn on my TGIF” Scene” and instantly enter full relaxation-mode at the end of a long week. Join the Community Explore the App’s “Discover” tab for a huge collection of incredible Scenes created by users like you. Well, like you, just more creative. But if you too are the creative type, share your own Scenes and show the community what you’ve got! There are endless Scenes to discover for every mood and occasion, all the way from “Ho Ho Holidays” to “Netflix and Chill”. + More With a virtual AR Layout Assistant, curated Scenes and Playlists, Cloud Control (requires Apple home hub), and additional product information, the Nanoleaf App really is your smart lighting one-stop-shop. The Nanoleaf App supports all Nanoleaf manufactured products including by not limited to: Light Panels, Canvas, Shapes, Essentials, Elements, Lines, Blocks, Sense+ Smart Switch and Matter Wi-Fi products. Enjoy it today on the ever superior iOS operating system.
Human Memory
This app creates a personal, searchable record of your life using your phone's data. It maps your locations, timelines your photos, and organizes your contacts, offering a private vault for your digital life. Easily export and share this comprehensive data with professionals.
- Private map of everywhere you've been
- Day ledger of locations
- Timeline of photographs by place and person
- Record of people from contacts and messages
- Journal kept in encrypted vault
- Imports from various services (Google, Facebook, Tinder, etc.)
- Apple Health data integration
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A record you can hand to the experts in your life. Every intake form asks when, where, how often and for how long — and memory is the wrong instrument for those questions. Your phone already holds the answers. Human Memory turns your own recorded behaviour into a bounded record you can hand to a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant: a dated span, a per-day ledger and a line saying where the record has nothing. Human Memory for iPhone turns twenty-odd years of your photographs into a map you can walk, a timeline you can scroll, and the people who were actually there — reading your contacts and calendar to give the days real names instead of dates. It runs on the phone. Import the archives other services let you export — Google Takeout, Facebook and Instagram, Tinder and Hinge, calendars, bank files. Everything goes into an encrypted vault on your iPhone, where it stays. Search it, export it, and take it with you when you leave. WHAT YOU GET: - A private map of everywhere you've been (rounded coordinates only; your exact position never leaves your phone) - A day ledger: where you were each day, how many days in a place, with a coverage line where the record is empty - A timeline of your photographs, arranged by place and person - A record of people in your life, built from the contacts and messages you already have - A journal of your own, kept in the vault - Imports from Google Takeout, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, Hinge, ICS calendars and bank or card statements - Apple Health export import: heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, steps, active energy, sleep, State of Mind and medication doses — kept out of iCloud backup by default - Search across everything at once, find by date, place, or person NO ACCOUNT, NO PURCHASE: The Interview (in Vault) can use your own Anthropic API key (Vault → Use your own API key); the app takes no payment. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE — AND WHEN: We don't mine your data. Here is what does leave, in full. Every line is in the privacy policy with the file that makes it true: - Rounded location data to Apple, to turn a photo's GPS into a place name. Rounded to about 110 metres before sending, cached after the first request for each area. Your exact position never travels. - The part of the map you're viewing, to Apple: the map is a real Apple map and fetches tiles as you pan, like every other map on your phone. - Your questions and answers while an Interview is open: only when you press send, never in the background. Results can carry names, message text from archives you've imported, health records, exact dates and places rounded to about a kilometre, and each Interview also sends a by-month summary of your home, places, trips and named people; you're told before the first message and can withdraw permission at any time. Your own Anthropic API key sends it straight from your iPhone to Anthropic; there is no server of ours in between. - A request for one of your own photos, to Apple, when you tap Download from iCloud: one item, only when you tap, the same transfer the Photos app makes. - A calendar you publish, to the account you publish it to, only if you use Vault → Review & Publish to Calendar. - Your vault, to your own iCloud backup, only if you turn on Vault → iCloud Backup (off by default), under your own Apple ID. - A check with Apple's purchase system at launch and while the app runs, for any purchase an earlier version left unfinished. It carries nothing of yours. WHAT DOESN'T LEAVE: - No analytics. No telemetry. No account. No login. - Your photos stay in your Photos app and your vault; they're never copied to our servers. - Everything else is encrypted on your device. TAKING YOUR DATA OUT: Open Vault → Export My Vault to write your entire vault as plain markdown and JSON and send it anywhere you want — to AirDrop, Mail, or cloud storage you control. The archive is unencrypted and lives wherever you put it, so it's exactly as private as that place is.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Human Memory at 5.0 against Nanoleaf's 4.2. Nanoleaf's advantage is ratings volume (45K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Human Memory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nanoleaf has 45K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Nanoleaf | Human Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (45K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nanoleaf | Allison Bowman |
Bugs and requests
Nanoleaf
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lights randomly disconnecting
- Firmware updates failing or bricking devices
- Scenes not syncing properly across devices
- App crashes on launch or during use
- Delayed or unresponsive device controls
Requested features
5 requests- Improved app stability and reliability
- More intuitive scene creation and management
- Better integration with other smart home platforms
- Customizable animation speed and effects
- Ability to save and restore custom color presets
Human Memory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nanoleaf
No in-app purchases
Human Memory
No in-app purchases









