ArchiveME vs A Vital Archive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArchiveME
Create a personal or family legacy by documenting life events in a chronological timeline. Record achievements, learning experiences, and memories using photos, text, and video responses. Connect with family by sharing and discussing timelines, preserving stories for future generations.
- Chronological timeline feature
- Event creation
- Add photos to events
- Video or text responses to questions
- Preserve family legacy
- Plan future goals
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Build your story through our distinct timeline feature and then tell your story by answering questions from your family and friends with our unique vid logging feature. Save significant (SIGMOs) and core moments (COREMOs) in your chronological timeline with the ArchiveME app. Add photos, text, and video responses to some of your greatest achievements and most difficult learning experiences. Enrich family gatherings by reviewing and discussing family members’ timelines and open the discussion for new timeline entries. Get to know your family on a deeper level and preserve their memory for future generations. Backdate entries, update moments as they happen, plan and achieve future goals. Download and maintain ArchiveME to easily record and preserve the context of YOU. ArchiveME Features: -Chronological timeline feature -Event creation -Add photos to enrich your timeline events -Answer questions with video or text responses -More to come! Reflect on the past, record the present, and plan for the future. Preserve your family’s legacy. Download today.
A Vital Archive
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The AVA app (A Vital Archive) conserves valuable personal and genealogical information photographically and sets guardians to control that narrative so that future generations will know the history of an individual using the App directly. Users can share moments as they would in other similar Apps with much broader scope like Facebook. The AVA app limits the vast expanse of our experiences to the most essential and momentous ones, tailoring to the needs of those who cherish a legacy. The AVA app is intended to appeal to all various cultures linking a common heritage and bringing families closer. Its targeted user will appreciate the simplicity and significance of records which could be valued as history since never before have so many people been able to participate in an historical project due to technological advances. End User License Agreement (EULA): https://api.avitalarchive.com/eula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ArchiveME at monthly against A Vital Archive's every 3 months. 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.
ArchiveME ships an update monthly, A Vital Archive every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ArchiveME | A Vital Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ArchiveME LLC | A Vital Archive (AVA) LLC |
In-app purchases
ArchiveME
No in-app purchases
A Vital Archive
No in-app purchases









