Saving Memo vs Hexbrew
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Saving Memo
Test your working memory with a character who performs various jobs to care for their cat. Success in each job depends on how well you recall information, directly impacting task completion speed. This game offers insights into real-world memory application.
- Working memory challenges
- Character-driven gameplay
- Job-based progression
- Cat care simulation
- Real-world memory application insights
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Saving Memo is a new way to test working memory. Your character works different jobs to feed your cat Memo. Each job challenges your memory in different ways where the more you remember the faster that you can get the job done. This program can help us understand how people use their memory in real world challenges.
Hexbrew
Deduce the secret potion recipe by placing ingredients in the correct order. Use logic and feedback from the cauldron to solve the daily puzzle within six attempts. Enjoy unlimited practice with random recipes offline.
- Daily deduction puzzle
- Ingredient placement logic
- Cauldron feedback system
- Offline play
- Unlimited practice mode
- Spoiler-free sharing
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Every night the cauldron wants a different potion: four ingredients, four slots, one correct order — the same secret recipe for every player in the world. You get six brews. The cauldron never speaks. It answers in smoke: a green puff for every ingredient in its right slot, an amber puff for every ingredient that belongs in the brew but sits in the wrong place. Which puff belongs to which ingredient? That's your problem. And when tonight's cauldron settles, the floor opens: the Hex Trials, a descending gauntlet of ever-crueler cauldrons — silent omens, fewer brews, no mercy. One spoiled brew ends the run. How deep can you go? • A new deduction puzzle at midnight, every night, same for everyone • The omen: each night reveals how many Living, Celestial and Elemental ingredients the recipe wants • Aggregate smoke feedback — pure logic, no letter knowledge needed • After three failed brews the cauldron spits out one wrong ingredient • THE HEX TRIALS: an endless gauntlet below the daily — each tier a fresh recipe on harsher terms, one loss ends the descent, deepest trial is your mastery mark • ESSENCE: every potion bottled pays essence — fewer brews pay more, deeper trials pay richer; earned only by play, never sold • Spend or survive: essence buys a mid-trial Whisper (one true ingredient) or exclusive sigils — you can't hoard both • COVEN CONTRACTS: three fresh bounties every night — bottle it swiftly, read three greens, descend the Trials, hold a streak — each paying essence, a new reason to open the app tomorrow • THE AUGURIES: twenty lifetime marks of mastery to unseal, from your first potion to Trial X and a hundred tiers cleared — a collection to chase for months • THE GRIMOIRE: every daily win bottles a named potion — Flawless, True, or Scraped by your brew count — with collection milestones that pay essence • Climb the Coven Ladder: nine ranks from Kitchen Hedge to Coven Matriarch, each earned by potions bottled • Coven Sigils that tint your brew — five earned by rank, three more bought with essence • A quiet, original cauldron score with soft reactive sound (music and SFX toggles), plus a calm drifting ambient • Streaks, win distribution, and a spoiler-free emoji share card • Practice cauldron with unlimited random recipes once the daily is done • A hands-on first brew that teaches itself — no wall of rules • Entirely offline and private — nothing collected, ever Six brews. Choose them well. Then see how deep the Trials go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hexbrew at 5.0 against Saving Memo's 3.0. Hexbrew also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 50 months). Saving Memo's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hexbrew holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Saving Memo ships an update every 50 months, Hexbrew every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Saving Memo | Hexbrew |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 50 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California Riverside | Jordan Wegner |
In-app purchases
Saving Memo
No in-app purchases
Hexbrew
No in-app purchases









