Comparison

Notion vs Memo

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

Head to head
About

Notion

An AI-powered workspace for notes, tasks, and project management. Organize personal to-do lists, class notes, or team projects with customizable tools and AI assistance for streamlined workflows.

Highlights
  • AI-powered notes and task management
  • Project organization and collaboration
  • Customizable templates and building blocks
  • AI Meeting Notes with summaries
  • Interactive Maps View for databases
  • Integration with tools like Figma and Slack
Features
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Notion is an AI-powered all-in-one workspace that helps individuals and teams write notes, manage tasks, organize projects, and collaborate in one place. Whether you’re tracking personal to-do lists, writing and organizing class notes, or managing projects with a team, Notion helps users plan work, stay organized, and achieve goals. "AI's everything app" — Forbes Notion is a productivity app where you can write, plan, and organize your notes, projects, tasks and more. Ask Notion AI about project updates, upcoming tasks, and suggestions for a more streamlined workflow. Simplify writing notes, project and task management, and collaboration. Whether for personal, student or professional use, Notion scales to meet your individual needs with customization tools for everyone. NEW features: • AI Meeting Notes: Perfect meeting memory. Your notetaker catches every detail and delivers actionable summaries, right where you work. • Maps View: Turn databases into interactive maps. Use the new Place property to pin restaurants, trips, offices, clients, and more. FREE FOR PERSONAL USE Individuals manage day-to-day tasks, notes, and personal organization. • Create as many notes, docs, and content as you want. • Use one of thousands of templates to get started. FREE TO TRY WITH YOUR TEAM Teams run on Notion every day, from next-generation startups to established enterprises. • Import Google Docs, PDFs, and other content types easily to get started • Write and organize meeting notes, or transcribe with AI. • Collaboration and team work at your fingertips, in one connected workspace. • Connect tools like Figma, Slack, and GitHub to Notion. FREE FOR STUDENTS Students organize notes, assignments, and study plans in one place. • Your study planner, class notes, to do lists and more, your way. Loved by millions of students worldwide. • Get organized for your best school year yet with beautiful, customizable templates created by students, for students. NOTES & DOCS Communication is made efficient with Notion's flexible building blocks. • Create docs with beautiful templates, images, to-dos, and 50+ more content types. • Meeting notes, projects, design systems, pitch decks, and more. • Find exactly what you need using Search with powerful filters to find content across your workspace. TASKS & PROJECTS Catch all details big and small in any workflow. • Workflow manager: Create your own priority labels, status tags, and automations to choose the exact info you want to track. • Capture every detail in a table. Break projects into manageable tasks to get the work done. AI One tool that does it all - search, generate, analyze, and chat - right inside Notion. • Create notes. Transcribe meeting notes with AI. • Turn databases into interactive maps. Use the new Place property to pin restaurants, trips, offices, clients, and more. • Write better. Use Notion AI to help write and brainstorm. • Get answers. Ask Notion AI questions about all your content and get answers in seconds. • Autofill tables. Notion AI turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable information — automatically. SYNCS WITH BROWSER, MAC, AND WINDOWS APPS. • Pick up on mobile where you left off on desktop. MORE PRODUCTIVITY. FEWER TOOLS. • Track to-dos, write notes, create docs, and manage projects in one connected workspace. THINK IT. MAKE IT.

About

Memo

Keep important short notes visible on your lock screen and in notifications. Ideal for lists and reminders that need frequent checking without opening an app.

Highlights
  • Add notes to Notification Center
  • View notes from lock screen
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Mark notes as done with strikethrough
  • Share notes as Markdown
  • Save URLs via Share Extension
  • Import line-by-line lists
Features
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See the note you need today the moment you check your phone. Memo is for short notes you look at repeatedly: shopping lists, things to bring, tasks for today, quick checklists, URLs, and small reminders you do not want buried inside a full note app. Select the notes that matter now and keep them available from the lock screen and Notification Center, so you can check them without opening the app and searching through a long list. Use it when a reminder is too heavy and a long note is too easy to forget. A grocery list while you are walking through a store. Things to pack before you leave. A short set of steps you need to follow. A URL you want to keep with the rest of your notes. A few tasks that should stay visible today. What you can do with Memo: - Add selected notes to Notification Center - Check frequently viewed notes from the lock screen - Organize notes with tags such as shopping, work, home, or travel - Mark notes as done with strikethrough — completed notes stay visible but dimmed - Share notes as Markdown with tag headings and checkbox support - Customize up to four floating action buttons for quick access to your most-used actions - Save URLs from Safari and other apps with the Share Extension - Import line-by-line lists from a text file - Move finished notes to the archive - Delete notes you no longer need - Create an iCloud backup and restore it when needed Memo is intentionally simple. It is not trying to replace a full notebook, calendar, or project manager. It works best for the small pieces of information you want to see quickly and repeatedly. If you need to write a long document, use a note app. If you need an alarm at a specific time, use a reminder. If you want a short note to stay close at hand, use Memo. Strikethrough lets you mark notes as done without deleting them. A completed shopping item or finished step stays in the list but appears dimmed, so you always know what is left. When you are done, move the checked items to the archive in one step. When you want to share a set of notes, export them as Markdown. Tags become headings, and notes marked with strikethrough are written as [x] checkboxes. Useful for sending a list to someone else or pasting it into another app. Tags help keep the list manageable as your notes grow. You can separate shopping, errands, work, home, travel, and personal notes, then choose only the items that should appear in Notification Center. Finished items can be archived so your active list stays focused, while older notes remain available when you need them. The Share Extension makes it easy to send a URL or text from another app into Memo. When you find a page, product, recipe, or reference you want to check later, save it with a tag and keep moving. Text import is useful for preparing a list on another device or in another app, then bringing it into Memo as individual notes. For small notes that need to stay visible, not buried, keep them on your lock screen and in Notification Center with Memo.

Screenshots

Notion4 screens
Memo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Notion at none against Memo's shown. Notion also leads on ratings volume (91K vs 1) and chart position (#50 vs unranked). Memo's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 54%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Notion sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Memo sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Memo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notion has 91K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Notion's written reviews are positive against 85% of Memo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notion ships an update every 3 days, Memo every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Notion versus Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotionMemo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (91K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.4% of reviews84.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings91K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#50 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size498 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNotion Labs, IncorporatedToshihiko Arai

Customer experience

Notion

All ratings90,634 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews3,577 reviews
Positive54.4%
Neutral12.7%
Negative32.9%

Memo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%

Bugs and requests

Notion

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Columns glitchy on mobile
  • Inability to edit titles
  • Keyboard issues on iPad with Bluetooth keyboard
  • Notion logging out users periodically
  • Notion deleting user data without warning
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  • Sync issues between desktop and mobile
  • Inability to copy/paste multiple blocks of text on mobile
  • Notion app freezing and crashing
  • Inability to access offline data
  • Inability to move/rearrange to-do list items on mobile

Requested features

16 requests
  • Apple Calendar integration
  • Time blocking for morning & night routines
  • Offline mode
  • Multiple tabs for iPad
  • Ability to edit titles
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  • Ability to change font, size, and better calendars
  • Handwriting support
  • More font options
  • Ability to resize images on mobile
  • Ability to move pictures from side to side on mobile
  • Password protection for pages and databases
  • Widgets
  • Ability to adjust text size on iPad
  • Ability to split screen 2 documents at once
  • Default mode settings (minimal page comments, backlinks off)
  • Offline sync

Memo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Notion

Subscriptions4
  • Notion – Plus Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Notion Business$23.991 Month
  • Notion – Plus Yearly$119.991 Year
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  • Notion Business$239.991 Year
4 purchases

Memo

One-time4
  • Buy me a coffee$4.99
  • Buy me two coffees$9.99
  • Memo Pro$10.00
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  • Big support$19.99

Questions

Is Notion free?
Notion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memo free?
Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notion or Memo?
Memo is rated higher. Notion averages 4.8 out of 5 from 91K ratings, while Memo averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Notion or Memo have ads?
Memo shows ads; Notion does not.
Which is updated more often, Notion or Memo?
Notion ships an update every 3 days, and Memo every 6 days. Most recently, Notion was updated on November 9, 2026 and Memo on November 2, 2026.

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