MemoryPie vs Strophe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MemoryPie
This app helps you memorize text by gradually hiding letters as you learn. It supports various input methods, syncing across devices, and organizational tools. Ideal for anyone needing to quickly and effectively learn long passages of information.
- Add text by typing or pasting
- Progressively hide letters
- Long-press for word hints
- iCloud sync across devices
- Organize texts with folders
- Special font for clarity
- Import/export via CSV
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MemoryPie is a unique app designed to help anyone memorize any long passage of text quickly and easily. As you learn the text better, you can hide more letters from each word until you have everything memorized. Although the app is simple, it can be truly useful to many people no matter what they want to learn. features: * Easily add any text to memorize - simply type the text or copy and paste * Store as many texts as you want in a simple list view * Need a quick hint? just long-press a word, and you'll get a preview of that word * Use iCloud to sync your texts across all of your devices * Use folders to group related texts together * Special font that makes it easier to distinguish l's (L's) from I's (i's) * Import or export multiple texts using CSV files * Dark Mode support * VoiceOver support * Multiple window support on iPad * WatchOS app * Handoff between iOS and Mac * Also available as a web app
Strophe
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Learn a song, a poem, or a speech by heart — one line at a time. Strophe is a prompter for memorizing text word for word. Paste in the lyrics you're learning, or pick a piece from the built-in library, and practice it the way you'd actually perform it: line by line, in order, start to finish. RECALL BEFORE YOU SEE Strophe shows you nothing to begin with. You try to remember the first line, then tap to reveal it and check yourself. Tap again for the next. Nothing is on screen that you haven't already earned — a prompter that shows you the line first isn't an easier setting, it's no exercise at all. BE HONEST ABOUT THE HARD ONES Fumbled a line? Mark it shaky or missed. The walk doesn't rush on: you get a moment to work out what comes next, because the moment you admit you missed a line is the moment you've just read the correct one. IT DECIDES WHEN YOU PRACTICE At the end of a run, Strophe reads your line-by-line verdicts and schedules the next session — using FSRS, the same spaced-repetition algorithm serious memorizers use. Pieces you know come back rarely. Pieces you're still learning come back soon. You can always overrule it. BUILT FOR WHOLE PIECES A song is not a stack of flashcards. Strophe never shuffles your lines or drills them out of order, because the order is the thing you're learning. Verses, stanza breaks and section markers stay where they belong. Paste a long speech and it can split it into clause-length lines you can actually hold. NO STREAKS, NO BADGES, NO NAGGING One reminder a day at an hour you choose, and nothing else. No points, no congratulation, no pressure to come back. The session summary tells you what happened and what's next — that's all. FOUR PIECES TO START Kipling's If—, Henley's Invictus, Ehrmann's Desiderata, and Donne's "No man is an island." Every one taken from an archival source, word for word, and read in full before it shipped. Add your own by pasting them in. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Practice on your phone, or put your Mac on the music stand. Your pieces and your progress sync over iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Your texts stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strophe at none against MemoryPie's 1. 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. MemoryPie sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strophe asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MemoryPie | Strophe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (80 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Kindle | Thorbjørn Throndsen Bonvik |
In-app purchases
MemoryPie
- Advanced Features$2.99
Strophe
No in-app purchases









