Lognote vs Memex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lognote
Capture thoughts, meeting notes, or daily reflections with automatic timestamps. Organize your entries using groups, folders, and hashtags. Enjoy offline-first note-taking with optional cloud sync and rich text formatting.
- Automatic timestamps
- Offline-first note-taking
- Customizable Quick Notes
- Rich text formatting
- Groups, folders, and hashtags
- Optional cloud sync
- Multiple export formats
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Quick notes for everyday life. Clear records for work. Lognote automatically adds the date and time, so you can capture a thought, an update or a moment and remember when it happened. Save a gift idea, keep meeting notes, document a project or write a few lines about your day. Each entry becomes part of a timeline you can return to later. OFFLINE FIRST. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED. YOUR NOTES, YOUR CHOICE. Start writing without an account. Your notes are saved locally first. Optional Pro Cloud Sync keeps the same offline-first approach. CAPTURE NOW. ORGANIZE LATER. Write directly in a group or drop a thought into Inbox. For things you record regularly, create your own predefined Quick Notes. One tap saves a new timestamped entry, without typing the same text again. Use them in all groups or only the groups you choose. KEEP LIFE AND WORK IN ORDER. Organize projects, trips and routines with groups, folders and hashtags. Pro adds separate Workspaces, each with its own groups and Inbox. KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. AND WHEN. Every note gets an automatic timestamp, down to the second. Keep a daily journal, meeting log, shift record or project history without typing the time yourself. Prefer a simpler notebook? You can hide timestamps, too. MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES. Capture on iPhone, spread out on iPad, use tabs and split views on Mac, and add quick text entries from Apple Watch. Features • Your own predefined Quick Notes: save recurring entries with one tap • Make Quick Notes available in all groups or only selected groups • Spacious editor for longer notes, with rich text formatting • Slash menu: type / to add headings, checklists, lists, quotes and code blocks • Text formatting, clickable checklists and typing shortcuts • Unlimited text notes and groups • Automatic timestamps, down to the second, with the option to hide them • Inbox for quick thoughts to organize later • Bubble, Journal and Classic note views on iPhone and iPad • Hashtags, custom tag colors and note search • Up to two folders per workspace • Optional link previews • Writing statistics and Memories to rediscover entries from previous years • Daily Inbox reminders • Widgets, plus Inbox capture with Siri and Shortcuts • Export as PDF, plain text, CSV, JSON, Markdown, Rich Text or HTML • Local backups, automatic backups and recovery of deleted notes • Basic Audit Log to review saved changes • Turn notes into shareable Story images • Offline note-taking without an account Pro Features • Optional Cloud Sync across your devices • Offline first, even with Cloud Sync enabled. Keep writing without an internet connection. Your changes sync when you’re back online. • Multiple Workspaces, each with its own groups and Inbox • Unlimited folders and subfolders • Photos, videos, files and audio attachments • Voice memos and transcription on supported iPhone and iPad devices: keep the text, recording or both • Create shared groups and collaborate with others • Favorites, priorities and archiving • Calendar and map views • Location tagging and location-based reminders with geofences • Group locking with Face ID, Touch ID or PIN • Custom filters and combined tag filters • Custom accent colors and alternate app icons • Export selected date ranges • Advanced Audit Log search, filters and export Write it down. Keep the context. Get on with your day. NEED HELP OR MISSING A FEATURE? Please get in touch whenever you need help, run into a problem or feel something is missing. I respond quickly to support requests, questions and feature suggestions. Contact me through the app or at https://lognoteapp.com/contact. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lognoteapp.com/legal/privacy-policy Support: https://lognoteapp.com/contact
Memex
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Memex is for the line you would never open a notes app for. One field, ready when you open the app. Nothing to decide before you write. Press send and the line is saved with its day, in the notebook shown beside the field: the one you were last in, or another with a tap. Later, turn any notebook, topic or week into a prompt you can paste into any AI chat, with nothing leaving your device until you press Copy. With Memex Pro, every date your notes mention comes together on one screen, and the people you write about get a page of their own. No account, and no server of ours. Your notes sync through your own iCloud. WRITING Every line is its own note, easy to find or move by itself. Tap the notebook beside the field to choose another, with a topic if you want one. Type @ or # inside a note to link one. Prefer typing? An option in Settings lets a note that starts with @ or # choose where it goes, and can keep that notebook for a set time. Talk, and notes appear as you speak, cut where you pause. Or scan text with the camera. On iPad, a compatible Apple Pencil opens a full page to write on. While you write, the closest thing you wrote before can appear above the field. MAKE A PROMPT Start from a notebook, a topic, or the past week or month. Pick what it is for, such as catching up, drafting a follow-up or preparing for next time. Read the whole thing first. Names it finds are swapped out by default, and the key stays on your device. Memex does not send your notes to any AI service. You paste the prompt where you choose. READING Each notebook reads as a document, grouped by day and topic. Topics cut across notebooks. A timeline of everything, with a calendar to jump to any day. Search your notes, or find a notebook by name, nickname or folder. Every notebook and topic shows the notes elsewhere that mention it. Dark, Light or System, with one Text Size setting for the app. WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE On supported devices, using the model on your device. You can turn these off in Settings. Ask a question and get an answer, with the notes it came from listed underneath. Share a screenshot of a conversation and it comes apart into separate notes, with who said it, dated from the picture. Suggested topics, headings over bursts of notes, and a recap you can share. PRIVATE Turn on Face ID and reading, search, Ask and prompts ask for it. Writing does not, in the app, on the Lock Screen, in Control Center, with Siri or on your watch. Writing, reading, Ask and prompts work in aeroplane mode. Export as Markdown or JSON whenever you like. Import from a file, or with our free Mac tool. EVERYWHERE ELSE Write from a widget, the Lock Screen, Control Center, the Action Button, Siri or Apple Watch. Shortcuts actions to write, ask your notes or make a prompt. Share into Memex from any app. Send a note to Apple Reminders or Apple Calendar. Two columns on iPad. Also runs on Mac. MEMEX PRO One payment. Not a subscription. Everything else in Memex is free and stays that way. Upcoming: every day and time your notes mention, on the day it means, alongside anything you set with Remind Me. Each row says how it got there and whether it will alert you. You can turn automatic alerts off. Remind Me: hold any note and choose when it comes back. People: a notebook you keep for someone can become their page, with where you left off, the questions you wrote down and what you settled. Meeting briefs: where you left off and what is worth raising, on your Lock Screen as the meeting starts. Handoff between iPhone and iPad. Supports iPhone Duo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Lognote at 16.0 against Memex's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Lognote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Memex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lognote ships an update every 6 days, Memex every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lognote | Memex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (56 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Stolte | Charity Bribes |
In-app purchases
Lognote
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Lognote Pro Lifetime$200.00
Memex
- Memex Pro$14.99







