Comparison

Mem vs Cluing

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Cluing

Features
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Build upon your second brain from online sources. Quickly capture any insight from the web, youtube, linkedin, kindle or even real-life events. HIGHLIGHTING AND SAVING → Highlight & Save - Easily highlight important text from various webpages and PDFs COLLABORATION AND ORGANIZATION → Leave Comments - Write as many comments per highlight as you need and save the data for later → Share & Collaborate - Create public links, add permissions to specific users, and get insights from everyone involved in the research → Searchable System - Organize highlights into different topics or Clusters, add tags, and search for them later INTEGRATION AND RESEARCH ASSISTANCE → AI Research Suggestions - Check out the in-app AI suggestions and see if they can bring you one step closer to finding the answer → Integrations with LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube - Save posts in a single click and locate them even when you’re not logged in → Traceable History - Everything is saved, tracked, and organized for easy access and reference → Import Highlights from Kindle - You can now import all your Kindle highlights and notes in Cluing and start collaborating over them as well CLUING AI → Chat & Summarize your Insights - Learn faster from what you've saved and explore more topics from the web → AI Canvas - Collaborate with Cluing AI on a document, write your social media post, blog, marketing strategy or sales letter Terms of Use (EULA) → https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mem4 screens
Cluing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mem at every 3 days against Cluing's every 10 days. Cluing's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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. Mem sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month and Cluing sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mem ships an update every 3 days, Cluing every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mem versus Cluing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemCluing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (123 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews
Number of ratings123 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMem Labs, Inc.Collabwriting Inc

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

Cluing

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Mem

Subscriptions4
  • 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
4 purchases

Cluing

Subscriptions4
  • Personal Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Personal Pro Yearly$144.991 Year
  • Superhuman$199.991 Month
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  • Superhuman Half-Yearly$719.996 Months

Questions

Is Mem free?
Mem is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cluing free?
Cluing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mem or Cluing have ads?
Neither Mem nor Cluing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mem or Cluing?
Mem ships an update every 3 days, and Cluing every 10 days. Most recently, Mem was updated on September 21, 2026 and Cluing on September 21, 2026.

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