Remember Basic vs Zents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remember Basic
Personalize your iPhone and iPad home screens with customizable sticky notes. Choose colors, fonts, and frames, and display them as widgets. Send notes to your Apple Watch for quick access and dictation.
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable colors and fonts
- Apple Watch integration
- Markdown support
- Optional page titles
- Standalone Apple Watch use
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Show stickies on iPhone/iPad Home Screen! Customise stickies with colors, fonts and beautiful frames! 【 iPhone / iPad 】 • select text and page color. • change font and text alignment. • add widgets to show on home screen or lock screen! • send text to Apple Watch. (standard version) 【 Apple Watch - only on standard version 】 • enter text directly or transfer from iPhone app. • setup as widgets on watch faces or smart stack. • select text/page color (used in color watch faces*). • dictate on watch and sent the text back to iPhone! • use emojis to design your own watch faces. 【 NOTES 】 • you need to open the app first before adding widgets to home screen. • you can use some Markdown syntax. • every page can have different notes and customisation. • you can add optional title to the page. • Apple Watch version can be used standalone without iPhone. Upgrade to standard version for more pages, iCloud and Apple Watch sync!
Zents
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Zents — A Quiet Library for the books you love. A clean, cloud-based ebook reader that keeps your library safe, synced, and readable anywhere. Import EPUB, PDF, TXT, CBZ, CBR, FB2, MOBI and DJVU and read them beautifully on iPhone, iPad and the web — with progress that follows you everywhere. Your library, in the cloud - Books stored securely, synced automatically. - 8 formats with beautiful Chinese & English typography. - Organize your shelf, mark finished, resume where you left off. Read offline, sync automatically - Download once, read anywhere — flights, subways, no signal, no problem. - Books open instantly from your device. - Offline reading positions and annotations merge back automatically when you're back online. - Real-time sync across iPhone, iPad and web — no manual steps, across every format. A focused reading experience - Clean, distraction-free pages; adjustable font and spacing. - Light & dark themes. - EPUB TOC, links and images; PDF zoom; CBZ/CBR comics and DJVU scans with pinch-to-zoom. Private & simple - Passwordless email sign-in. No tracking, no ads, no data selling. Getting started Free to use — create an account and sync your books. Want more? Visit zents.app for plans with higher limits and expanded storage. Terms of Service & Privacy: https://zents.app/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Zents at every 4 days against Remember Basic's every 10 days. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Remember Basic ships an update every 10 days, Zents every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remember Basic | Zents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtual GS | Apuretto, Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Remember Basic
No in-app purchases
Zents
No in-app purchases
