MemoTaro vs Pastecard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MemoTaro
Securely store your notes with a password lock and biometric authentication. Easily organize, edit, and share your memos with intuitive drag-and-drop and swipe gestures. Find information quickly with powerful search and customize your viewing experience with font settings.
- Password lock with Touch ID/Face ID
- Drag-and-drop memo organization
- Swipe to delete notes
- Direct sharing to messages, mail, social media
- Memo search and character search
- Customizable font size and color
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MemoTaro is a memo app with ease of operation, utility, password lock function. Compatible with Touch ID / Face ID. ◆ Password lock function: · Password lock can be selected. · When lock setting is done, it will be locked when in the background etc so it is safe. Compatible with Touch ID / Face ID. ◆ Editing function: · Movement of memo is possible by drag & drop. Deleting notes can also be done with swipe, and operability is simplified. · Because you can lock the edits, if you keep the important memo locked, you can prevent mistakes that you accidentally erase. · Selective deletion, all deletion function is also installed ◆ Activity function: · Functions that can post directly to messages, mail, LINE, Twitter etc. ◆ Search refinement function: · It is also possible to narrow down the target memo and display it by entering a search word. ◆ Character search function on the edit screen: ・Even if you write a lot of notes, it is easy to find where you wrote it. ◆ Font setting: The font size and font color (select from black and gray) of the list screen and memo edit screen can be changed. * The maximum number of characters that can be entered in one memo is 100,000 (6.0 or later). * When you delete an application, the saved memo data will be deleted. * If the password becomes unknown, third parties can not invalidate the lock, so please be careful when managing the setting. ◆ Note: Ads will be hidden if you pay.
Pastecard
A minimalist digital notepad for quick notes and reminders. Easily add, edit, or delete entries, and access them via a home screen widget or web browser. Integrates with Siri for hands-free interaction.
- Single-page note-taking
- Edit and erase notes
- Home Screen widget
- Siri integration
- Web browser access
- Share sheet integration
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A little app for little things to remember. Pastecard is a small, single page for notes. You can add to, edit, or completely erase it however you like. It’s like the digital version of writing on the back of your hand. - Tap to edit - Swipe up for the menu - Bookmark a URL or add selected text from the share sheet - View your card in a Home Screen widget - Ask Siri “What’s on my Pastecard?” or “Add something to my Pastecard” The Pastecard iPhone app can either save your card text only to your phone or sync it online. With a (free!) Pastecard account, you can access your card from any web browser at pastecard.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MemoTaro at Free against Pastecard's $0.29. MemoTaro also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). Pastecard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, 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
MemoTaro is free to download; Pastecard costs $0.29 up front. MemoTaro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pastecard asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MemoTaro against 5.0 for Pastecard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MemoTaro has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MemoTaro ships an update every 9 days, Pastecard monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MemoTaro | Pastecard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.29 |
| Rating | 4.9 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masashi Sasaoka | Brian Sutorius |
Customer experience
MemoTaro
Pastecard
In-app purchases
MemoTaro
- Ad-free$1.99
Pastecard
No in-app purchases
