Mem vs NeatNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mem
This app acts as an AI-powered thought partner, capturing and organizing your ideas, meetings, and research. It allows you to use voice to create and edit notes, and an AI assistant can recall, summarize, and reorganize your information. It also surfaces relevant notes automatically and offers powerful search capabilities.
- Voice-to-text note creation and editing
- AI-powered summarization and recall
- Automatic organization and structuring of notes
- Intelligent surfacing of related information
- Deep search for any note
- Cross-device synchronization
- Offline access
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Mem is your personal AI agent—a chief of staff that builds a living picture of your tasks, projects, and goals, then helps you follow through. Capture notes, meetings, ideas, research, and links without stopping to organize. Mem Agent uses that context to answer questions, recall details, plan, draft, summarize, and move work forward. YOUR WORKSPACE, KEPT FOR YOU Write it down, say it out loud, record a meeting, or save it from another app. Mem keeps everything connected, searchable, and ready when you need it. ASK ANYTIME. SKIP THE BRIEFING. Mem Agent knows the context you have saved, so you can ask what matters now instead of rebuilding the backstory. Recall a detail, summarize a week of meetings, connect related ideas, draft a message, or plan the next step. PROACTIVE WORK THAT SCALES Mem automatically detects and tracks tasks and projects from the notes you create or edit. With Mem Pro, add custom routines that prepare briefings, do research, organize notes, and send scheduled reminders. Connect tools like Gmail, Slack, and Todoist so Mem can use more of your work as context. VOICE NOTES THAT STAY USEFUL Record a thought, meeting, or reminder. Mem keeps the audio and transcript together and helps turn rough input into clear, structured notes. FIND ANYTHING YOU’VE SAVED Search by topic, person, project, or a vague memory. Mem helps retrieve information even when you do not remember the exact wording. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Use Share to Mem to save text, links, webpages, files, and more from other apps. Capture quickly, then return to the work in front of you. AVAILABLE ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Use Mem on iPhone, Mac, Windows, and the web. Work offline on iPhone, then sync when you are connected again. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes start private. Share them only when you choose. Every plan includes Mem Agent; usage limits vary by plan. Custom routines and connections require Mem Pro or higher. Trial eligibility and pricing are shown in the app. Privacy Policy: https://get.mem.ai/pages/privacy Terms of Service: https://get.mem.ai/pages/terms-of-service
NeatNotes
Organize and take notes quickly with a clean interface. See full note previews, customize note styles, and set reminders. Features smart grouping and automatic link title generation.
- Full note previews
- Customizable note styles (plain, sticky, lined)
- Home screen widgets
- Paragraph-based reminders
- Smart Stacks for automatic note grouping
- Readable link titles
- Photo integration
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Less is more, when it’s done right. NeatNotes gives you only what you need to organize and take notes quickly. While other apps show you a really tiny preview, with NeatNotes you can see the real note before you open it. This makes the app more fun and easier to find your notes. Make your notes personal with three different note styles. * A plain note, with extensive formatting options. * A sticky note, with large fonts, colors and checklists. * A lined note for that nostalgic yellow pad. Mini Spreadsheets. No Tables. NeatNotes lets you perform spreadsheet-like calculations directly in your notes. Type a simple math expression and the answer is suggested underneath it. Reuse a number by dragging and dropping it elsewhere in your note. This creates a reference, so when you change the original number, every reference and related calculation updates automatically. Make a list of numbers and the total is suggested above the keyboard. You can then calculate splits and averages or count the lines in a list. You can also use units of measurement for length, volume, weight and temperature in your calculations. Convert between more than 150 fiat currencies, popular cryptocurrencies, gold and silver using the latest available exchange rates. Widgets that make sense. You can see your notes on your Home Screen with widgets. You can navigate your note by paragraph, check off checklist items, open links and even see photos in your notes. Create Multiple Reminders. Make any paragraph a reminder. Just tap the bell icon on the keyboard and you can set the date and time of the reminder. It will ring and notify you on the lock screen. When you tap the reminder, it will open the note and take you to the paragraph where you set it. Smart Stacks. All notes apps let you search your notes, but Smart Stacks takes it to the next level. Smart Stacks automatically groups notes that share a trait, into one stack — like notes with contact info, or notes with checklists. You can also enter any word, and it’ll create a stack, with all the notes that contains the word. Photos and Readable links. You can add photos to your notes from your phone camera or photo library. You can even copy and paste them from another app like Safari. When you copy and paste a link, it automatically gets a readable title. So instead of seeing a complicated URL you see the title. This makes it easier for you to understand what the link is about rather than having to visit the link every time. No account needed. Use iCloud to Store and Sync. You don’t need to create another account. Just download the app and start using it. All your notes are automatically stored in iCloud and synced to other devices in your account. Privacy Your notes are extremely personal and we can't see them. In fact we don't even store them. Apple does in iCloud. We recommend that you turn on "Advanced Data Protection" in your iCloud settings, if you wish to prevent even Apple from having access to your notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NeatNotes at 100% against Mem's 41%. NeatNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Mem's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (123 vs 37). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Mem sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month and NeatNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NeatNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 123 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Mem's written reviews are positive against 100% of NeatNotes's.
Mem ships an update every 3 days, NeatNotes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mem | NeatNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (123 ratings) | 5.0 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mem Labs, Inc. | Fusion Engineering |
Customer experience
Mem
NeatNotes
Bugs and requests
Mem
Reported bugs
20 issues- Notes disappearing without trace or recovery option
- Bottom navigation bar covering key buttons
- Settings popup incorrectly prompts to download app already installed
- Black bar covering AI tool input field on web version
- Photos not saving or disappearing after one day
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- List formatting becomes corrupted and uneditable
- Sync failures between web and mobile versions
- Tags not linking to existing tags, only creating duplicates
- Recent search results not clickable
- Starred mems not displaying
- AI chat getting stuck and unable to respond
- Payment charged multiple times without proper plan activation
- Unable to cancel subscription (confirm button non-functional)
- Login issues across different platforms and devices
- App freezing when switching between apps
- Categories functionality inconsistent and buggy
- Pull-to-refresh gesture removed with no alternative
- Search function returning irrelevant results or no results
- Slow performance and lag on mobile devices
- AI unable to reference or update notes properly
Requested features
19 requests- True hands-free voice activation with Siri shortcuts
- Widget support for voice notes and Apple Watch
- Node/mind map graph visualization of note connections
- PDF and document export functionality
- Full markdown support
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- Folder/collection organization system
- Web scraping and webpage chat integration
- Multi-language support (Russian, French, etc.)
- Voice recognition in multiple languages
- Templates on mobile app
- Tagging and categorization on mobile
- API access for third-party integrations
- Import from Obsidian, Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes
- Light mode option
- PDF import and annotation
- Audio recording and playback
- Better iPad/Stage Manager support
- Email-based login option
- Automatic task carry-over to next day
NeatNotes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mem
- Pro$12.001 Month
- Proactive7 Days trial$29.001 Month
- Proactive7 Days trial$59.001 Month
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- Proactive7 Days trial$99.001 Month
NeatNotes
- Lifetime Unlock$7.99









