Little Memory vs TimeOut Ticker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Little Memory
This app encourages daily reflection by prompting users to write one sentence a day. It saves these entries and sends them back to you in the future for reflection, helping you notice patterns and gain self-awareness. Premium features offer enhanced storage, search, and security.
- Daily one-sentence journaling
- Future memory recall (1 week, 1 month, 1 year)
- Daily reminders
- Photo uploads
- Favorite memories
- Streak tracking
- Insights and emotion graphing
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Tried journaling before? Quit after a week? Little Memory is a journal for people who have a hard time keeping a journal. Write one line about your day, that's it. Fifteen seconds, done. A week, a month, a year from now, your words come back to you. You'll notice patterns you never expected, see how far you've come, and rediscover moments you would have lost. Featured in Apple Staff Favorites, Dear Diary, and Apps for Writers. "A clean, beautiful time machine." — App Store review "If the idea of keeping a journal is daunting, Little Memory is perfect." — Elite Daily What if there was a simple way to keep the moments that bring meaning to your life? A chance encounter, a first step, a perfect smile: saved in a quiet space that's all your own, and returned to you later, when you need them most. That's Little Memory. What you get: ■ Memories resurface on their anniversaries: a week, a month, a year later ■ A morning memory: your own words from a year ago, back on your lock screen ■ Nightly reminders and a streak saver, so a good run never slips away ■ Attach photos and note how each day felt ■ Mark your favorites, share a memory as a beautiful card ■ Streaks and stats that show the days adding up ■ iCloud sync across your devices ■ Wide-screen layout for iPad and iPhone Duo ■ Private by design: your memories live on your device and your personal iCloud ■ Export all your memories anytime Premium: ■ Calendar: flip through every day you've written ■ Search across all your memories ■ Unlimited photos: preserve every detail ■ Photo grids: arrange a day's photos into a collage ■ Tags: organize your memories your way ■ Location: remember where you were ■ Extended insights: the people, places, and feelings your years are made of ■ Automatic Dropbox backup "The beauty of Little Memory is that it actually restricts you to short entries so keeping up with your journaling doesn't feel like a chore." "Oscar Wilde said that our memories are the diaries we carry around with us. I love Oscar, but the diary I carry around with me is the Little Memory." "A telegraph-style of journal. Evocative." Questions? ivan@thelittlememory.com https://thelittlememory.com Terms: https://thelittlememory.com/help/terms-and-conditions Privacy: https://thelittlememory.com/help/privacy
TimeOut Ticker
This app helps parents manage child timeouts by calculating the appropriate duration based on age. It allows tracking multiple children, starting and stopping timers, and visualizing timeout trends over time with graphs.
- Age-based timeout duration calculation
- Multiple child profiles
- Start/stop countdown timer
- Timeout completion alerts
- Trend analysis with line graphs
- Total timeout bar charts
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This App can track the time a child spends in timeout. The user can add multiple children to track. The user enters the age of the child and the name. The App then calculates the time a child can spends in timeout. For each year of a child's age, one minute is added to the total timeout. When the timeout start, the user selects the child's name and presses the start button. The timer then counts down. The app alerts the users when the time out is over. Multiple children can be tracked at the same time. The user can stop the timer and reset it for each child. The user can plot each children trend of timeouts and the total timeouts over a period of time. The app will display this information in a line graph for trend an a bar chart for total timeout over a period of time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Little Memory at none against TimeOut Ticker's shown. Little Memory also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (73 vs 5). TimeOut Ticker's advantage is iOS requirement (14.5 vs 26). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Little Memory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $26.99 per year and TimeOut Ticker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Little Memory against 4.8 for TimeOut Ticker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Little Memory has 73 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Little Memory's written reviews are positive against 80% of TimeOut Ticker's.
Little Memory ships an update monthly, TimeOut Ticker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Little Memory | TimeOut Ticker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (73 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nerd Tower | Dina Technologies Inc |
Customer experience
Little Memory
TimeOut Ticker
Bugs and requests
Little Memory
Reported bugs
6 issues- Login required error despite being logged in
- Cannot add memories on iOS 11 and later
- Keyboard size issues on iPhone 6 Plus
- Memory recall not showing 1 month/3 month entries
- Glitchy behavior (intermittent)
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- App crashes when adding memories
Requested features
16 requests- Dark mode/grey mode option
- Offline mode for areas without connectivity
- Ability to upload 4 photos instead of 1
- Calendar feature on mobile app (available on web)
- Edit and delete memory functionality
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- Add entries for multiple past days
- Line break/return key support
- Follow friends feature
- Thumbs up/down rating for days
- Export memories to email or other services
- Sync with Tumblr or Evernote
- Android version
- Ability to tag people in memories
- Better photo credit explanation/tutorial
- More affordable subscription tier
- Unlimited photo usage option
TimeOut Ticker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Little Memory
- little memory: premium annual7 Days trial$26.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99
TimeOut Ticker
- TimeOut Charts$0.991 Month









