Instant Recall vs Your Smart Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instant Recall
Capture and recall details about places you visit. Automatically receive notifications with photos, text, and video to remember what you liked or needed at specific locations. Share location details with friends.
- Automatic location alerts
- Capture photos, text, and video
- Remember likes and needs
- Share location details
- Map and location markers
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Always know the details about where you have been. Remember what you liked or what you needed at that location. You might know some details, but you cannot remember everything. With pictures, text, and video automatically appearing on your phone from a notification from the the app, Instant Recall tells you what you need to know. This will save you time and money. Even better you can share the details about any location with friends. Why Instant Recall? ◦ Remember what happened or what you liked, or how to get there - Alerts come automatically ◦ Remember favorite dishes, grocery lists, places of interest ◦ Always be in control or your time and location details – with maps and location markers Be prepared to remember everything with Instant Recall. End User Licence Agreement Link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Your Smart Note
Capture your thoughts, organize tasks, and set daily goals with this intuitive note-taking application. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to prioritize your to-do list and manage your time effectively.
- Note taking
- Task prioritization
- Daily goal setting
- Time management
- Easy to use interface
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YourSmartNote is a beautiful, intelligent note-taking app that keeps your thoughts, tasks, and ideas in one place. FEATURES • Rich notes with title, text, due date, and custom accent color • Checklists with live progress tracking • Smart reminders with custom time • Pin important notes to the top • Tags with instant filtering • Search across titles and note content • At-a-glance stats — notes, reminders, and tasks in one view
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Your Smart Note at 5.0 against Instant Recall's 4.2. Your Smart Note also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Instant Recall's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Instant Recall sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Your Smart Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
Your Smart Note holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Instant Recall has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Instant Recall ships an update every 2 months, Your Smart Note every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instant Recall | Your Smart Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MVP Apps, LLC | Harut Gharibyan |
Customer experience
Instant Recall
Your Smart Note
In-app purchases
Instant Recall
- IR Monthly Subscriptions$3.991 Month
Your Smart Note
No in-app purchases
