Palettes vs Memento Database
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palettes
Create and manage color palettes from various sources like photos, websites, or manually. Supports multiple color models and schemes for design projects. Offers import/export options and cloud backup.
- Create palettes from photos, websites, or manually
- Supports RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK, and Grayscale
- Import/export with design software
- Cloud backup and restore
- Color blending and schemes
- Color information display
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Palettes is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Great for creating color schemes. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. You may create and store any number of palettes. This application runs at one of three levels: Free, Basic, and Pro. The initial free version runs at the Pro level for a limited time allowing you to fully test the application. It will then revert back to the Free level. Use the included in-application purchasing to upgrade to either the Basic or Pro level at any time. Key features include: • Single universal application works on all your iOS devices including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. • Quickly create a color palette from a web site, image, camera, or color scheme. • Unlimited number of palettes (Free only supports 3). • 25 colors per palette (Free and Basic allows 5). • Undo/Redo support. • Import/Export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, Procreate, and OS X Color Chooser. (Pro) • Import/Export palettes via email. Team development made easy with one click import. (Pro) • Backup and restore your Palettes data directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or FTP servers. (Basic, Pro) • Import and export palette files directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, FTP servers, or another app. (Pro) • Email color palettes to friends and co-workers. (Pro adds more options) • Pick colors from: • RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders • Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes. • A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file (Pro)). • An image or camera. • Any valid CSS3 color representation. • Create colors via: • Color blending (Pro adds using 1 of 4 color models). • Color schemes (monochromatic (Pro), analogous, triadic, complementary (Pro), split complementary (Pro)). • Review color information: • Details (integer, hex, percent, decimal, CSS). • As both a foreground and background color. • "Palette Flow" (not on iPad) • Display a color full screen to compare against a real world item (press and hold color briefly). • Palette preview screen. • Backup a palette as an image in your photo library for later restore. • Rename, reorder, or delete palettes. • Sort palette colors by RGB, HSV/B, HSL, CMYK, or Gray color model. • All work is saved as you go. • Always remembers where you left off last. • Built in context sensitive help system. • Preferences can be set from within the application. (Basic, Pro) • Excellent customer support. Palettes can be used to create color palettes for: • Web site design • Marketing campaigns • Home decorating • Wardrobe • Artists • Color coordinating • Anywhere colors are needed - just use your imagination Please visit http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/palettes to see a more complete set of screen shots and additional information on the features of "Palettes". The website includes contact information for leaving feedback, asking questions, or reporting any issues. NOTE: Known limitation - this version is unable to import binary OS X palette files (.clr) from ~/Library/Colors. NOTE: Screenshots are after upgrading to the Pro level.
Memento Database
Organize and manage any type of information with customizable databases. Adaptable for personal lists, business management, and research, it offers a flexible alternative to spreadsheets and specialized apps. Features include offline access, cloud syncing, and an AI assistant for effortless data structuring.
- Customizable database creation
- AI Assistant for data structuring
- Offline data management
- Cloud synchronization
- Teamwork with access control
- Desktop access for Mac/PC
- Extensive field types
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Your data. Your rules. Memento Database turns chaos into clarity by giving you full control over how information is stored, organized, and automated. Simple enough for personal lists, yet powerful enough for business and research, it adapts to any workflow. More intuitive than spreadsheets and more flexible than specialized apps, Memento makes data management easy and powerful for everyone. PERSONAL USE Memento can replace dozens of apps, helping you organize your life and increasing your efficiency. ○ Lists of tasks and goals ○ Personal finance and shopping ○ Contacts and events ○ Time management ○ Collections and hobbies - books, music, movies, games, board games, recipes, and more ○ Travel planning ○ Medical and sports records ○ Studying ○ Home inventory See the use cases in the online catalog. It contains thousands of templates from our community that you can improve upon, or create your own. BUSINESS USE Memento allows building any business management system to meet your unique requirements. This could include: ○ Inventory ○ Project management ○ Personnel management ○ Production management ○ Assets management ○ Products catalog ○ CRM ○ Budget You can connect all the components of the application and build the logic of working with data in accordance with your business processes. The Memento cloud allows all of your employees to work with databases and provides a flexible system of access control. Small businesses with Memento get the opportunity to create an ERP at low cost. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS In addition to businesses, Memento is successfully used by non-profit organizations, including schools, hospitals, rescue services, charity funds, and libraries. TEAMWORK Memento allows the synchronizing of data with the cloud and provides the following tools for teamwork: • A flexible system of setting access rights up to the fields in the records • Comments to records in the database OFFLINE Memento supports offline work. You can transfer data in offline mode and synchronize it with the cloud later when your devices connect to the Internet. MAC & PC You can also work with your data on your Mac or PC. This is convenient, if you need to enter or analyze a large amount of information. In addition, the desktop version of the application provides a powerful reporting system based on Jasper Reports. AI ASSISTANT Elevate data management with Memento Database's AI Assistant. This feature lets AI effortlessly create a database structure and entries based on user prompts. Instruct the AI for seamless organization, population, and management of your data. Input and retrieve data effortlessly, gaining insights or performing complex operations with the AI Assistant. Streamline your workflow and maximize efficiency. KEY FEATURES • Dozens of types of fields, including text, integer, real, boolean, date/time, rating, checkboxes, radio buttons, currency, image, signature, file, audio, contact, calculation, JavaScript, geolocations, and others. * Performing Data analysis, including aggregation, sorting, charting, grouping, and filtering entries by any fields. • Displaying data in the form of a list, a set of cards, a table, or on a map. • Cloud storage and Teamwork. • Offline data entry. • Importing and exporting CSV files. • Populating database entries at the touch of a button with data from Web services and other sources. • Scripting in Javascript (fields, triggers, scripted data source). • Searching entries in database by barcode. • AI Assistant powered by ChatGPT. • Reminders. Privacy Policy: https://mementodatabase.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Memento Database at 4.6 against Palettes's 3.6. Memento Database also leads on ratings volume (308 vs 23) and review sentiment (58% vs 46%). Palettes's advantage is iOS requirement (8.1 vs 17.6). 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. Palettes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Memento Database sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Memento Database holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Memento Database has 308 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Palettes's written reviews are positive against 58% of Memento Database's.
Palettes ships an update every 4 months, Memento Database every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 3, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palettes | Memento Database |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (23 ratings) | 4.6 (308 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 57.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 308 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Maddy | MementoDB Inc. |
Customer experience
Palettes
Memento Database
Bugs and requests
Palettes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Memento Database
Reported bugs
12 issues- Add new selection list items bug
- Add field window disappears too quickly
- App crashes on opening
- App crashes multiple times during every use on iOS
- App keeps crashing on Apple tablet
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- Numeric field types don't work
- Crashes with new update on iPad
- Failed to upload entries
- V 10.2 on iPad can't get past welcome screen
- App crashes on iPad 6th IOS 15 after upgrade
- Cannot add more than one filter or aggregation after paying for a year of lite
- Location of photos is blocked and buried inside the app
Requested features
14 requests- Add shade name for color field
- Add autocomplete for tags
- Edit background color for iOS app
- Add folder system for databases
- Add wizard on iOS
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- Ability to sort entries by location
- Add Rotten Tomatoes rating for movies
- Add calculation on previous records for new records
- Sync from local database to cloud
- Zoom or preview ability for images
- Paste clipboard image into image field
- Easier font and size setting for fields
- Add separate groups for organization
- Sync with Google Sheets
In-app purchases
Palettes
- Upgrade Palettes Free to Palettes Basic$1.99
- Upgrade Palettes Basic to Palettes Pro$1.99
- Upgrade Palettes Free to Palettes Pro$3.99
Memento Database
- Lite$3.991 Month
- Pro$7.991 Month
- Pro Plus$11.991 Month
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- Team 5$29.991 Month
- Lite$35.991 Year
- Team 10$59.991 Month
- Pro$71.991 Year
- Pro Plus$107.991 Year
- Team 5$299.991 Year
- Team 10$599.991 Year
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