Comparison

Mem vs MakerFolio

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

MakerFolio

This app helps makers document their projects with photos, notes, material costs, and time tracking. Organize your creations with custom categories and export your work as PDFs or project files.

Highlights
  • Document projects with photos and notes
  • Track time and material costs
  • Calculate profit/loss
  • Create beautiful photo galleries
  • Organize with custom categories and tags
  • Share projects via .mfproject files
  • Export projects and catalog as PDF
Features
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Every maker has a project worth remembering. MakerFolio gives you the perfect home for all of them. Whether you build furniture in a garage, sew garments from scratch, throw pottery, cast jewelry, or wire electronics — MakerFolio is the dedicated portfolio app built for the way makers think and work. DOCUMENT EVERY BUILD Capture your projects the way they deserve to be remembered. Add photos straight from your camera or library, write detailed build notes, list materials and tools, record measurements, and track every step of your process. Your knowledge. Organized. Preserved. TRACK YOUR TIME & COSTS Know exactly what each project costs you — in money and hours. Log your materials cost, additional expenses, and time spent. Add a selling price and MakerFolio automatically calculates your profit or loss. Perfect for hobbyists, craft sellers, and small-batch makers alike. BEAUTIFUL PHOTO GALLERIES Your work deserves to look its best. Add up to 10 photos at a time, reorder them with drag-and-drop, write captions, and mark your best shots as the featured image or finished product. Your project gallery becomes a visual record of every build. STAY ORGANIZED YOUR WAY Create custom categories that match how you work — by craft type, skill level, project status, or anything else. Add tags for quick filtering. Sort and group your projects exactly the way you think about them. SHARE & EXPORT Share your project as a .mfproject file via AirDrop, Messages, or iCloud Drive — photos included. Recipients can open it directly in MakerFolio. Export a PDF of any project to share with clients, print for your shop, or post online. Export a full catalog PDF of your entire portfolio — great for markets, commissions, or just showing off. BUILT FOR iPHONE & iPAD MakerFolio feels right at home on any Apple device. On iPad, enjoy a split-view layout that keeps your project list and details side by side. Dark Mode supported, of course. PERFECT FOR: • Woodworkers & furniture makers • Sewers, quilters & fiber artists • Leatherworkers & cobblers • Jewelers & metalworkers • Potters & ceramicists • Electronics & hobbyist makers • DIY home improvers • Craft sellers & market vendors • Anyone who builds things and wants to remember them MakerFolio. Just your work, beautifully documented. Download MakerFolio and start building your portfolio today.

Screenshots

Mem4 screens
MakerFolio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: MakerFolio at 100% against Mem's 41%. MakerFolio also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Mem's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (130 vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Mem is free to download; MakerFolio costs $0.99 up front. Mem sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. MakerFolio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MakerFolio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mem has 130 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Mem's written reviews are positive against 100% of MakerFolio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mem ships an update every 3 days, MakerFolio weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mem versus MakerFolio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemMakerFolio
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (130 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings130 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMem Labs, Inc.Todd Haddaway

Customer experience

Mem

All ratings126 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive41.1%
Neutral9.3%
Negative49.6%

MakerFolio

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

MakerFolio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mem

Subscriptions10
  • Mem Plus$9.001 Month
  • Pro$12.001 Month
  • Mem Pro7 Days trial$29.001 Month
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  • Proactive7 Days trial$29.001 Month
  • Mem Pro 2x$49.001 Month
  • Proactive7 Days trial$59.001 Month
  • Mem Pro 5x$99.001 Month
  • Proactive7 Days trial$99.001 Month
  • Mem Pro 10x$149.001 Month
  • Mem Pro 20x$199.001 Month
None

MakerFolio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mem free?
Mem is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MakerFolio free?
MakerFolio costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mem or MakerFolio?
MakerFolio is rated higher. Mem averages 4.4 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while MakerFolio averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mem or MakerFolio have ads?
Neither Mem nor MakerFolio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mem or MakerFolio?
Mem ships an update every 3 days, and MakerFolio weekly. Most recently, Mem was updated on November 7, 2026 and MakerFolio on November 5, 2026.

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