Comparison

AspenUC vs Memex

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

Head to head
About

AspenUC

Manage your home or office phone system remotely. Make and receive calls using your landline number over WiFi or mobile data, and seamlessly transfer calls between devices. Add video to calls and manage voicemail and faxes.

Highlights
  • Join audio and video conferences
  • Make/receive calls over WiFi/mobile
  • Seamless call transfer between devices
  • Add video to calls
  • Use landline caller ID
  • Voicemail and fax management
  • Sync contacts across devices
Features
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AspenUC – Provided by LS Networks – www.LSNetworks.net ***** With AspenUC, you can take control of your home or office telephony services from anywhere. FEATURES • AspenMeeting: Join audio and video conferences that you are invited to • Make and receive calls over WiFi and mobile networks using your landline number • Move calls between your landline, mobile and tablet devices seamlessly, without hanging up • Add video to your calls on the fly • Make calls from any device using your landline caller ID • Receive new voicemail alerts • Playback voice and video messages and view faxes • View transcribed voice messages • Control how incoming calls are handled • Sync your AspenUC contacts across devices NOTE: All features listed above are available with AspenUC Business and Professional subscriptions. Contact LS Networks for additional information. The AspenUC App also requires mobile data or WiFi access. Use of these services may incur additional charges

About

Memex

Organize your Markdown notes and PDFs on an infinite canvas. Connect documents, sketch with Apple Pencil, and use an AI chat to ask questions about your gathered information. Your files remain private and accessible via iCloud Drive.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for notes and PDFs
  • AI chat to query your documents
  • Apple Pencil handwriting and sketching
  • Markdown rendering as live cards
  • Organize and connect content with arrows
  • Export content as images
Features
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Memex puts your Markdown notes and PDFs on an infinite canvas, with an AI chat that reads them. Any document can sit on the canvas as a live, readable card. Arrange and connect your cards, write around them with Apple Pencil, and ask the chat about what you have gathered. ON THE CANVAS - Markdown documents render as live cards, not links - PDFs sit on the canvas as cards showing their first page - Draw arrows between cards and gather them into groups - Handwrite and sketch next to your typed notes with Apple Pencil - On iOS 27, search finds your handwriting as well as your typed notes - Push cards to another canvas as your thinking changes - Type @ to link to anything in your library, or @here to link the spot you are on - Add text, code blocks, tables, images and embeds CHAT WITH YOUR NOTES - Add a card, a whole document or a PDF to the chat, or type straight in - Ask about your notes in plain words - Put any reply back on your canvas as a card - The chat is there on canvases, documents and PDFs MAKE IMAGES - Select typed text, or handwriting on iOS 27, and tap Make image - The picture lands on your canvas and in your library YOUR FILES STAY YOURS - Documents and canvases are plain files in your iCloud Drive, visible in the Files app - No Memex account, no lock-in - The AI sees only what you add to the chat. Your messages and that context go through our server, which stores none of it, to OpenAI via OpenRouter BUILT FOR IPAD AND APPLE PENCIL Memex is designed for iPad first, with Pencil writing directly on the canvas. It also runs on iPhone and Mac. ONE SUBSCRIPTION One Memex subscription unlocks the complete app, including 500 AI credits a month: a chat message uses 1 credit and an image uses 10. Credits reset on the 1st of each month (UTC) and don't roll over. Take the hands-on welcome tour, then try the chat with 5 free messages before you subscribe. Eligible new subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Choose $9.95 monthly or $79.99 yearly. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AspenUC3 screens
Memex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Memex at 5.0 against AspenUC's 4.5. Memex also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). AspenUC's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Memex holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AspenUC has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AspenUC ships an update every 4 months, Memex fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
AspenUC versus Memex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAspenUCMemex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLightspeed Networks IncAlex Morris

Customer experience

AspenUC

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Memex

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AspenUC

No in-app purchases

None

Memex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AspenUC free?
AspenUC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Memex free?
Memex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AspenUC or Memex?
Memex is rated higher. AspenUC averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Memex averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do AspenUC or Memex have ads?
Neither AspenUC nor Memex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AspenUC or Memex?
AspenUC ships an update every 4 months, and Memex fortnightly. Most recently, AspenUC was updated on October 26, 2026 and Memex on October 28, 2026.

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