Memorize By Heart vs PlayTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memorize By Heart
This app helps you learn and retain any text, from poems and scripts to study material. It uses proven techniques like letter removal, fill-in-the-blanks, and spaced repetition to strengthen recall and long-term memory. Collaborate with others for added motivation and accountability.
- Letter and word removal for familiarity
- Fill-in-the-blank and unscramble exercises
- Spaced repetition for long-term memory
- Group memorization and progress tracking
- Text-to-speech for auditory learning
- Multi-language support
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Need to memorize text quickly and remember it long-term? Memorize By Heart is a memory training and study app designed to help you learn speeches, poems, verses, scripts, lines, lyrics, language text, and exam material by heart using proven memorization techniques. Used by students, professionals, actors, and language learners, Memorize By Heart helps you learn faster, practice recall, and improve long-term memory MEMORIZE AND LEARN ANY TEXT BY: 1. Building familiarity • Gradually remove letters and words to strengthen memory • Tap to reveal hidden parts of the text • Listen to the text using text-to-speech while studying 2. Strengthening recall • Unscramble sentences and words • Fill-in-the-blank memory exercises • Type the first letter of each word • Practice active recall instead of passive reading 3. Testing your memory • Multiple-choice memory quizzes • Type the text from memory • Recite the entire text by heart • Custom games like "Run Scene" for different memorization types Get instant feedback on accuracy! SPACED REPETITION FOR LONG-TERM MEMORY Review your memorized text at scientifically optimized intervals using reminders and notifications. Spaced repetition helps you remember more while spending less total study time. MEMORIZE TOGETHER WITH GROUPS Study and memorize as a group to stay motivated and accountable. • Share memorizations with friends, classmates, or teams • See each other’s memorization progress and recall accuracy • Track rankings and compare progress within your group Creating a group requires Premium, but anyone can join a group for free. CHUNKING (Premium) Break long texts into smaller sections to make memorization easier and more effective. EASY TEXT INPUT • Copy and paste any text • Download popular memorization content • Scan images with text (Premium) • Upload PDF files (Premium) MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT Practice memorization and recall in multiple languages — ideal for language learning and pronunciation practice. PREMIUM FEATURES • Unlimited memorizations • Cloud sync across devices • Advanced memory and recall exercises • Group creation for shared memorization • Scan images, take photos of text, or upload files for instant memorization Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited upon purchase. Terms of Service: https://memorizebyheart.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://memorizebyheart.app/privacy-policy
PlayTime
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PlayTime is a small illustrated encyclopedia that lives where your feeds used to. When you reach for your phone, it offers a few beautiful pages instead. Open it and the shelf is yours: ten hand-illustrated worlds to wander, from Australian animals and the deep sea to space, maps, flags and machines. Every fact is real, checked, and told the way a favourite teacher would tell it. READ A LITTLE, PLAY A LITTLE Each outing is one short chapter and five quick questions. It ends at camp, a natural stopping point with a curio worth keeping. There is no endless scroll and nothing autoplays. The book simply closes. ASK THE BINDERY Tell the bindery what you are curious about. Formula 1, whales, chess, the city you just moved to. It presses an illustrated volume on that subject, just for you, and puts it on your shelf. TAKE THE LONG WAY Choose a pace of 7, 14, 21 or 28 days and a volume becomes a journey: one chapter each day, read then play, pressed into your journal as you go. THE CLEARING With your permission, PlayTime keeps a gentle ledger of the scrolling time you take back. It counts in about-numbers, never to the minute, and it never takes anything away. Reclaimed hours grow a clearing and press special editions of your journal. CATCH YOURSELF REACHING An optional one-time setup with the Shortcuts app turns the reach for a feed into an open book: your phone opens today's chapter instead. A QUIET BOOK No ads. No streaks, timers or guilt. No comments and no strangers. Nothing to buy inside. Your journal fills with stickers and editions you earned by reading, and that is all. WORKS OFFLINE The whole shelf travels with you. An account exists only so your journal can follow you onto a new phone, and you can delete it, and everything with it, from inside the app. Made in Canberra, Australia.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlayTime at none against Memorize By Heart's 6. PlayTime also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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. Memorize By Heart sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PlayTime asks for nothing beyond the download.
Memorize By Heart ships an update every 2 weeks, PlayTime every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Memorize By Heart | PlayTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Walker | Samvit Jain |
Bugs and requests
Memorize By Heart
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Syncing issues between devices
- Slider feature not working properly with non-English text
- Save button hidden behind keyboard
Requested features
5 requests- Add more free features
- Improve voice recognition accuracy
- Allow reordering and organizing of memorizations
- Provide more customization options
- Add support for more languages
PlayTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Memorize By Heart
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 1 month$4.991 Month
- 6 months$9.996 Months
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- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- 12 months$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99
PlayTime
No in-app purchases







