Comparison

Monologue vs Momento

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

Head to head
About

Monologue

This journaling app offers a unique, text-message-like interface for recording thoughts. Organize entries into stories, reply to past thoughts, and privately save notes from any app. Your journal remains secure and accessible only on your device.

Highlights
  • Text-message style journaling
  • Organize entries into stories
  • Reply to older entries
  • Share extension for web comments
  • Private and device-only storage
Features
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Monologue is a new kind of journaling app that's as easy as texting. Just type and send, and your entries will be grouped by time, like your texting app. You can also group your entries into stories, and reply to your older entries. + Journal like you're texting. + Reply to older entries. + Organize your entries into stories. + Comment on webpages in Safari via the iOS Share extension. Works in any other app that supports sharing a URL, like Yelp, Foursquare, Google Maps, etc. + All entries are private and never leaves your phone.

About

Momento

This app helps you privately capture and organize life's memories using notes, photos, and videos. It automatically imports your digital history from social networks and apps, creating a beautiful, searchable journal of your life story.

Highlights
  • Capture notes, photos, and videos
  • Import digital history from social media
  • Powerful search and explore functionality
  • Unified timeline for reliving moments
  • Share moments and day summaries
  • Passcode and TouchID protection (Premium)
Features
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Introducing Momento — the smart private diary/journal app that helps you capture and collect memories to search, explore, relive and share your life story. Momento not only helps you privately capture moments in just a few taps (with notes, photos, videos, people, places and tags) but it also automatically collects your daily activities, posts and photos from the social networks, apps and devices you use everyday! Each and every moment is automatically organised and crafted into a beautiful private journal that chronicles your life story and stays up to date effortlessly. Momento is perfectly suited for all types of journal (such as personal, professional, study, travel, pregnancy, dream and health). Keeping a journal can also have profound benefits for mental health, memory and creativity. - - - - - - - - - - - - Essential Features - - - - - - - - - - - - QUICK AND EASY CAPTURE • Write notes and add photos and videos • Add people, places and tags for context • Custom reminders and streaks encourage capture EFFORTLESSLY COLLECT • Import your digital history from social networks and apps • Posts, tweets, check-ins, photos, videos and activities • Stays up to date effortlessly SEARCH AND EXPLORE • Powerful search and explore (keyword, people, places, tags) • Group and bookmark moments with ‘Events’ • Navigate by calendar or day, month and year timelines RELIVE AND REDISCOVER • Moments are grouped by day on a unified timeline • Browse by day, month, year and ‘on this day’ timelines • Summaries to relive and remember at a glance SHARE THE MOMENTS THAT MATTER • Share moments and day summaries • Share beautiful photo grids and notes • Export data as plain text (Premium) SAFE AND SECURE • Passcode and TouchID Protection (Premium) • Local & iCloud Backup & Restore • Local Media Storage - - - - - - - - - - - - Supported Feeds - - - - - - - - - - - - • Facebook posts, photos and videos • Twitter tweets • Instagram photos and video • Flickr photos • Swarm check-ins • Spotify saved tracks • Medium stories • Goodreads reading history, rating and reviews • RSS & Atom web feeds Capture and view 365 days of feed activity for free! Unlimited historic feed activity is available as part of Momento Premium. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Momento Premium & Premium Gold - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Upgrade to access exclusive ‘Premium only’ features including: • Unlimited Feed History • Export • Hourly Feed Updates • Passcode / TouchID / FaceID Protection • Add Multiple Photos to moments • Themes • Formatting Momento Premium Gold is for the dedicated user who would like to contribute more towards ongoing development of Momento and provides access to Priority Support. Momento Premium and Momento Premium Gold is an auto-renewing subscription. Momento will automatically charge your iTunes Account at the end of your subscription or free trial period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but no refunds can be provided for unused portions of the subscription. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited if any subscription in Momento is otherwise purchased. Subscriptions cannot be shared using Family Sharing. If you have previously purchased Momento Premium or any of the individual features through our previous in-app purchase options, you can use the 'Restore Purchases' option in the 'Premium' settings screen to restore access. Prices will vary depending on your iTunes Account settings. Full terms and conditions can be found at https://momentoapp.com/terms/

Screenshots

Monologue4 screens
Momento4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Monologue at 95% against Momento's 49%. Monologue also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1). Momento's advantage is ratings volume (878 vs 66) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Monologue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Momento sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Monologue holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Momento has 878 ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Monologue's written reviews are positive against 49% of Momento's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monologue ships an update every 3 months, Momento every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Monologue versus Momento: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonologueMomento
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (66 ratings) — better4.1 (878 ratings)
Positive reviews95.2% of reviews — better48.5% of reviews
Number of ratings66878 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMinima Softwared3i Ltd

Customer experience

Monologue

All ratings66 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

Momento

All ratings879 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral4.6%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews340 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative40.9%

Bugs and requests

Monologue

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Momento

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Facebook and Instagram feeds not working
  • Photos disappearing from old entries
  • Backup and restore functionality issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when changing dates

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add text formatting options (bold, italic, etc.)
  • Ability to print or export journal entries
  • Sync across devices (iPhone, iPad, desktop)
  • Customizable color themes and appearance
  • Option to selectively share entries with others
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  • Improved location and time zone handling

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monologue

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
6 purchases

Momento

Subscriptions3
  • Momento Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$3.491 Month
  • Momento Premium$14.991 Year
  • Momento Premium Gold$37.991 Year
One-time3
  • Lock Code$0.99
  • Multiple Photos$1.99
  • Additional 3 Feeds$2.99

Questions

Is Monologue free?
Monologue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Momento free?
Momento is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monologue or Momento?
Monologue is rated higher. Monologue averages 4.8 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Momento averages 4.1 from 878 ratings.
Do Monologue or Momento have ads?
Neither Monologue nor Momento shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monologue or Momento?
Monologue ships an update every 3 months, and Momento every 6 weeks. Most recently, Monologue was updated on October 21, 2026 and Momento on October 22, 2026.

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