Comparison

Memento vs Forward

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

Head to head
About

Memento

This app offers a streamlined approach to managing your daily tasks and important items. Create organized lists with time or location-based alerts to ensure nothing is forgotten. It integrates with your devices and virtual assistants for seamless management.

Highlights
  • Create organized lists
  • Time and location alerts
  • Powerful notifications
  • iMessage app for sharing
  • Widgets for quick access
  • Siri support
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Memento is the simple, fast reminders app for people who actually rely on their reminders. There's no clutter and no learning curve, just your reminders, showing up at the right moment. Whether it's errands, groceries, chores or everyday to-dos, Memento makes it quick to jot something down and easy to remember what matters. It works with the reminders you already have in Apple's Reminders, synced through iCloud. Everything you need, nothing you don't: • Time and location alerts that remind you at the right moment or place • Due dates that nudge you on the day, at the time you choose • Priorities you can spot at a glance • Lists with their own colors and icons • Four layouts to see your reminders your way: Minimal, Peek, List or Card • Scheduled shows what's coming up by day, week and month. Drag a reminder to reschedule it • Links keeps every saved web page in one place, with previews • Search finds any reminder by its title, notes, list or date, even with a typo • Sort by hand, date or priority, with filters throughout • Actionable notifications, so you can get things done without opening the app • Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts • Send reminders to friends in Messages • Keyboard shortcuts, dark mode and full VoiceOver support • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro Memento is fast, energy-efficient and private. • No tracking • No accounts required • Optional anonymous crash reports, which you can turn off in Settings. Never your reminders. Your reminders stay on your devices and sync securely through iCloud. Since 2016, Memento has been made by one independent developer who believes reminders should be calm, quick and reliable. If that sounds like you, Memento is built for you.

About

Forward

Capture ideas and tasks to be delivered to you at a future date, up to a week in advance. This app acts as a rapid note-taking tool and a time-independent reminder system.

Highlights
  • Quickly capture ideas
  • Schedule notes for future dates
  • Set reminders up to a week ahead
  • Time-independent reminders
  • Rapid note taking
Features
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Have a thought you don't need right now? Email it to your future self. forward is part rapid note-taker, part time-shifted reminder. Type what's on your mind, pick the day it matters - now, tomorrow, or any day this week - and it lands in your inbox that morning. All of a day's notes arrive gathered into a single email: one tidy list, not ten pings. Your inbox is the one list you already check - forward simply puts things there on time. WHY IT WORKS • Capture instantly - open the app and type; your note is one tap from sent. • Share from anywhere - push links, text, and ideas into forward from any app. • Schedule by day - notes for the same day travel together, in one email. • Forget on purpose - write it tonight, see it Thursday morning, think about it never in between. NEW IN 1.7 • Dark Mode - follows your system theme, or stays dark for good. • Sign in with your email - no usernames to remember. • More dependable scheduled delivery. A SMALL APP WITH A LONG STORY forward began as a weekend project by Dan Hopwood of drivn.co - an app called Jot, born in 2014. We used it every single day, so when it shut down in January 2017, we bought it and brought it back, renamed for what it does: pushing notes forward to the day you need them. We've been emailing our future selves ever since.

Screenshots

Memento4 screens
Forward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Forward at 5.0 against Memento's 4.4. Forward also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Memento's advantage is ratings volume (313 vs 5) and device support (5 vs 3). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Memento costs $7.99 and Forward $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Forward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Memento has 313 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Memento's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forward's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memento ships an update every 5 weeks, Forward every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Memento versus Forward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMementoForward
Price$7.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.4 (313 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings313 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark DiFrancowestlink

Customer experience

Memento

All ratings313 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.4%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews212 reviews
Positive61.3%
Neutral17.9%
Negative20.8%

Forward

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Memento

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Reminders not syncing across devices
  • App crashing on launch or when editing reminders
  • Location-based reminders not triggering
  • Reminders disappearing or not marking as completed

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to rearrange reminders within lists
  • Option to set reminders on a weekly schedule
  • Expanded widget functionality
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Improved sorting and filtering options
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  • Ability to add notes, attachments, and more details to reminders

Forward

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Memento

No in-app purchases

None

Forward

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memento free?
Memento costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forward free?
Forward costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Memento or Forward?
Forward is rated higher. Memento averages 4.4 out of 5 from 313 ratings, while Forward averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Memento or Forward have ads?
Neither Memento nor Forward shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memento or Forward?
Memento ships an update every 5 weeks, and Forward every 2 weeks. Most recently, Memento was updated on October 26, 2026 and Forward on October 8, 2026.

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