Current vs Memoire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Current
Personalize your lock screen with custom text. Display any phrase or letters you choose directly on your device's lock screen and StandBy mode. Enhance your device's appearance with unique text widgets.
- Customizable text display
- Lock screen widgets
- StandBy mode integration
- Personalized phrases and letters
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You can configure what phrase or letters you want to display on your lock screen. Privacy Policy: https://current.anybox.cc/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://current.anybox.cc/terms-of-service
Memoire
Effortlessly capture your thoughts by speaking them aloud. This app transcribes your voice into a beautifully organized journal, offering various transcription styles and multi-language support. Organize entries into private libraries and export them for safekeeping.
- Voice-to-text journaling
- Multiple transcription styles
- Multi-language support
- Private library organization
- Export to text/PDF
- Face ID/Touch ID lock
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Why type when you can just talk? Memoire is the simplest, most natural way to keep a journal. Just tap record, speak your thoughts, and watch them transform into a beautifully organized book of reflections. Whether you’re capturing fleeting ideas, daily gratitude, or deep late-night thoughts, Memoire makes journaling feel effortless. Seamless Recording Hit the microphone and start speaking — it’s that simple. Every recording becomes a new entry in your journal. Prefer to write? Tap the + button to add a manual page. Swipe left or right to flip through your entries like a real book, edit transcriptions if needed, or search to instantly find that one idea you recorded weeks ago. Powerful Settings Memoire is as simple or as smart as you want it to be. Lock your journal with Face ID or Touch ID for extra privacy. Choose your transcription style. Keep it raw with Verbatim, let Cleaned smooth things out, pick Clarified for polished readability, or go straight to Summary when you just need the highlights. Switch seamlessly between languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese) and even choose your preferred transcription engine — Apple AI for speed and privacy, or Whisper for older iPhones. Add in thoughtful touches like bookmarks, and subtle haptics, and you’ll see how Memoire quietly adapts to you. Your Private Library Organize your thoughts into as many books as you like. One for daily reflections, one for creative ideas, another for dreams or projects. Your Private Library keeps them all safe and easy to navigate. Search across every book at once, export your writing as text or PDF, or print them for safekeeping. And soon, you’ll even be able to order a beautifully bound hard copy. Your very own book, made from your own words. Designed for Simplicity Memoire isn’t about throwing dozens of features at you. Every screen is designed to keep you focused on what matters most, your thoughts. The design is clean, calm, and distraction-free, so you can open the app and immediately feel at home. Why Memoire? Because journaling should feel natural, not like homework. Speaking is faster than typing, more honest than scribbling, and often the clearest way to capture what’s really on your mind. Memoire takes that simple truth and turns it into a tool you’ll actually enjoy using every day. Your voice. Your story. Your journal. Download Memoire today and start keeping the journal you’ll never want to put down. This app is designed for iPhone 15 Pro or later and iOS 26
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Memoire at Free against Current's $0.99. Memoire also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Current's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On ads 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
Memoire is free to download; Current costs $0.99 up front. Current sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Memoire asks for nothing beyond the download.
Memoire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Current has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Current's written reviews are positive against 100% of Memoire's.
Current ships an update every 2 months, Memoire every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Current | Memoire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anybox LTD | Alexander Benz |
Customer experience
Current
Memoire
In-app purchases
Current
- Buy Me a Soda$0.99
- Buy Me Some Chips$1.99
- Buy Me a Coffee$4.99
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- Buy Me a Pizza$9.99
Memoire
No in-app purchases
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