Comparison

Remember Basic vs Maozai

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable colors and fonts
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Markdown support
  • Optional page titles
  • Standalone Apple Watch use
Features
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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!

About

Maozai

This virtual pet app brings a cat companion to your iPhone and Apple Watch. It syncs with your health data to prompt healthy habits and offers AI-powered chat interactions. Customize your experience with different breeds and features.

Highlights
  • Virtual cat companion
  • Syncs with Apple Health data
  • AI-powered chat interactions
  • Customizable cat breeds
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Daily diary feature
Features
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Maozai is a cat that keeps you company on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Bring home one of six free kittens and give it a name. From then on it has a day of its own: it works, knits, zones out, and goes to bed at night. And it keeps an eye on yours. IT GETS HUNGRY WHEN YOU SHOULD EAT At mealtimes it sits by an empty bowl and comes to find you. Tell it you're eating with one tap and it eats too. Between meals it gets thirsty, which means it's time for a glass of water. At night it tells you it's off to bed, and in the morning that it's up. IT MOVES WHEN YOU MOVE With your permission, Maozai reads your steps, exercise minutes, heart rate and activity rings from Apple Health. Go for a run and it works out along with you. Every 2,000 steps earns it a fish treat. Close all three rings and it puts on a party hat. If your heart is racing while you're sitting still, it comes to check on you. IT TALKS BACK, BRIEFLY Say good night and it curls up. Tell it about your day and it answers in character, in your language. Its replies are short, because it's a cat. If you allow it, an AI language model writes the replies; if you'd rather not, it answers from simple rules on your phone and nothing you write leaves it. IT KEEPS A DIARY One line a day about the day you actually had: the steps you walked, the meals you ate together, how many times you petted it. ON YOUR WRIST On Apple Watch the cat is one glance away. Hold to pet it, turn the Digital Crown to tease it, and answer its reminders with a single tap. Your iPhone and your watch stay in step. MYSTERY BOXES Six more breeds come in cardboard boxes: Ragdoll, Minuet, Bengal, British Golden, American Shorthair and Norwegian Forest, $1.99 a box. Before you pay, the box lists who could be inside and the odds of each. You never get a cat you already have, so six boxes always bring all six. The cats you open are yours to keep: bring any of them home whenever you like, and every cat keeps its own chats and diary. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. The diary and your health data never leave your devices. Chat messages are sent to an AI language model only after you say yes, are processed in the United States, and are not kept. FREE, WITH OPTIONAL BOXES AND SUBSCRIPTION The six free kittens and every feature are free: the cat, its reminders, the diary, Apple Watch, and 20 chat messages a day answered by the AI language model. Mystery boxes are one-time purchases, separate from the subscription. Maozai Plus removes that daily limit (fair-use cap: 600 messages a day). $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the United States; prices vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weivwang.github.io/maozai-site/privacy.html Maozai is not a medical device, and nothing the cat says is medical advice.

Screenshots

Remember Basic4 screens
Maozai4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maozai at 100% against Remember Basic's 50%. Maozai also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). Remember Basic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Maozai sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Remember Basic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Maozai holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remember Basic has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Remember Basic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Maozai's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remember Basic ships an update every 10 days, Maozai daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Remember Basic versus Maozai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemember BasicMaozai
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB68 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVirtual GS威卫 王

Customer experience

Remember Basic

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Maozai

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Remember Basic

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Maozai

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • Gift a Mystery Box$1.99
  • Mystery Box 2 of 6$1.99
  • Mystery Box 3 of 6$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Mystery Box 1 of 6$1.99
  • Mystery Box 4 of 6$1.99
  • Mystery Box 6 of 6$1.99
  • Mystery Box 5 of 6$1.99

Questions

Is Remember Basic free?
Remember Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maozai free?
Maozai is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remember Basic or Maozai?
Maozai is rated higher. Remember Basic averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Maozai averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Remember Basic or Maozai have ads?
Neither Remember Basic nor Maozai shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remember Basic or Maozai?
Remember Basic ships an update every 10 days, and Maozai daily. Most recently, Remember Basic was updated on October 24, 2026 and Maozai on October 29, 2026.

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