Comparison

Remember vs Cairn

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

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About

Remember

Awaken in a disturbing morgue with no memory and solve intricate puzzles to uncover your identity. Explore eerie 3D environments and piece together clues in this atmospheric horror escape game for adults.

Highlights
  • Horror room escape adventure
  • 100+ challenging puzzles
  • Intriguing story
  • Eerily beautiful 3D environments
  • Expertly crafted sound and music
  • Built-in hint system
Features
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You awake in a cold, damp morgue reeking of death and with no recollection of who you are, where you are, or why you're here. As you solve puzzles across an increasingly disturbing world, abundant yet disjointed clues will offer insights into those seemingly simple questions. Will you Remember? This horrifying new room escape experience from inDgenious is intended for adult audiences! Immerse yourself in our handcrafted world through our eerily beautiful 3D environments, formidable puzzles, intriguing story, and our expertly-crafted auditory experience! Objectives range from routine hidden object / item finds to interactive puzzles that will challenge you both in mind and manual dexterity. * This is the FULL version of the game. You get absolutely everything unlocked upfront with NO ads or In App Purchases! * What are you waiting for? It's OK to be scared. FEATURES: + An intense Horror Room Escape adventure intended for mature audiences! + 100+ challenging and interactive puzzles! + Intriguing story wrapped in eerily beautiful 3D environments! + Expertly crafted sound effects and music! + Built-in hint system so you never get stuck! + All hints and objectives available in FULL version, LITE version requires unlocking with reward videos or a one-time in app purchase. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is our biggest game yet and has a huge amount of high quality, pre-rendered graphics. An additional ~100MB of FREE downloadable content is required to play the entire game. DETAILS: See this game and more at: https://www.indgenious.com/ Come talk with us on our page at: https://www.facebook.com/RememberMobileGame Find us on Twitter at: https://www.twitter.com/indgenious Or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remember_game/

About

Cairn

This app serves as a player for classic text adventures, allowing you to bring your own story files. It automatically generates visual maps as you explore, offers a built-in notebook for notes, and supports attached reference materials like PDFs and images.

Highlights
  • Automatic live mapping
  • Session notebook saved with games
  • Support for Z-machine story files
  • Attached PDF and image materials
  • InvisiClues hint browsing
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Cairn is a player for classic text adventures. It does not include any games — you bring your own story files. Many classic and modern titles are available free from the Interactive Fiction Database and community archives. If you own Infocom games, Cairn plays those too. One app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, included with a single purchase. Your stories, saved games, materials, and the maps Cairn draws all travel with you through iCloud — begin an adventure on your Mac, continue it on your iPad, and check a hint on your phone. Unlike traditional interpreters, Cairn automatically builds a visual map of the world as you explore, so you can focus on puzzles and discovery instead of keeping graph-paper maps by hand. Cairn is a rich play desk for classic adventures. Attach your own PDFs and images to each story — manuals, maps, feelies, and other reference materials — then read them beside the game. PDFs include page navigation, single- and two-page layouts, and fit and zoom controls. Cairn also supports user-supplied InvisiClues hint files in a compatible JSON format. Hints appear in their own tab, grouped into booklet-style sections, and reveal one clue at a time. Every playthrough carries a notebook. Write down door codes, maze mappings, and the thing to come back to once you find the lamp, in a tab beside the story rather than on paper. A button drops in where you are, what you are carrying, your score, the move count, or the last thing you typed. Notes travel in the saved game, so restoring a save brings back what you knew at the time along with the map and the transcript. An at-a-glance inventory bar shows what you are carrying below the transcript, without typing an inventory command and without costing you a turn. The live map is flexible too: rooms take custom shapes, and you can hide or restore any of them. On iPhone and iPad the story takes the whole screen, and the map, your notes, and every attached document are one tap away. Readable themes include IBM PC Color and DEC VT241-inspired options. Cairn supports the complete classic Infocom Z3, Z4, and Z5 catalog, including Beyond Zork with its original on-screen map, stat bars, and character setup, and also plays Z-machine version 7 and version 8 stories, opening the door to modern Inform 6 and Inform 7 interactive fiction beyond the Infocom era. Version 6 graphical stories are not supported. Compatible adventures include classics such as Zork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, Enchanter, Trinity, Bureaucracy, Suspended, Deadline, Wishbringer, Spellbreaker, and many more. Features - A session notebook saved with each game - Automatic live mapping as you explore - Support for Z3, Z4, Z5, Z7, and Z8 story files - Beyond Zork's original screen, or a classic status line, at the flick of a switch - Attached PDF and image materials - PDF page navigation, layouts, fit, and zoom controls - Image zooming and scrolling - InvisiClues hint browsing from compatible JSON files - Spoiler-safe clue reveal controls - At-a-glance inventory bar - Adaptive side-panel tabs for maps, notes, PDFs, images, and hints - Custom room shapes, hidden rooms, and per-connection line routing, stroke, and labels - Separate map and text presentation options - Library management for your adventures - Tag your stories, then filter and search by tag, and group by tag or date - Add several stories at once, with covers and descriptions from the Interactive Fiction Database - One app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a single purchase - Stories, saved games, and materials synced across your devices with iCloud - Native menus and keyboard shortcuts on Mac and iPad - Layouts that adapt from iPhone to ultrawide displays IMPORTANT! Cairn does not include any game files, manuals, maps, images, or hint files. You supply your own from your personal collection or other legal distribution channels.

Screenshots

Remember4 screens
Cairn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Remember at $2.99 against Cairn's $19.99. Remember also leads on ratings volume (108 vs 10) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.2). Cairn's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On ads, 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

Remember costs $2.99 and Cairn $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cairn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remember has 108 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Remember's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cairn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remember ships an update every 3 weeks, Cairn every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Remember versus Cairn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRememberCairn
Price$2.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.6 (108 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings108 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDavid WhiteDaniel Ducat

Customer experience

Remember

All ratings107 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral4.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral7.9%
Negative13.2%

Cairn

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Remember

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Bomb puzzle wire terminals at screen bottom
  • Sound cuts out, requires app restart
  • Bug in the Dining Room cupboard
  • Timed puzzle difficulty (book flipping)
  • Game shifts scene during timed puzzle

Requested features

5 requests
  • Replace certain puzzles
  • Allow replaying scenarios
  • More games from developers
  • Option to skip timed puzzles
  • Add a camera feature

Cairn

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Remember

No in-app purchases

None

Cairn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remember free?
Remember costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cairn free?
Cairn costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remember or Cairn?
Cairn is rated higher. Remember averages 4.6 out of 5 from 108 ratings, while Cairn averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Remember or Cairn have ads?
Neither Remember nor Cairn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remember or Cairn?
Remember ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cairn every 5 days. Most recently, Remember was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cairn on November 5, 2026.

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