Memory Frames vs Stress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memory Frames
A memory game where players repeat elemental note patterns. It features increasing difficulty and aims to improve brain memory. Ideal for family fun with engaging graphics and music.
- Elemental note pattern repetition
- Increasing difficulty
- Brain memory improvement
- Amazing graphics
- Relaxed sound music
- Record best scores
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The Elements, Water, Earth, Wind, Fire, creates notes patterns by pushing Frames. You must repeat this Elements note pattern using your memory ability, each Frames is associated with a color and note, Blu for water, Yellow for Earth, Green for Wind and Red for Fire! These Elements help you to remember as the correct pattern. Record your best scores and enjoy playing anywhere. Key Features: • Amazing graphics • Cool relaxed sound music • The difficult increase by 1 frame • Improve your brain memory • Ideal for all family Great Game great Fun!
Stress
This classic card game challenges you to clear a pyramid by pairing cards that sum to 13. Enjoy a relaxing experience with no timers, unlimited undos, and multiple game modes. Save your progress and compete on global leaderboards.
- Pair cards to sum to 13
- No timers, relax and play
- Unlimited undo support
- Three distinct game modes
- Automatic progress saving
- Global high score leaderboards
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Boy Howdy's Pyramid Solitaire is the best Pyramid Solitaire app ever, and it's 100% FREE! • Pyramid is a classic solitaire game where you make pairs that add up to 13 in order to clear the pyramid of cards from the board. • Fast and intuitive controls - Just tap on a pair of cards to remove them! • Beautiful, easy to read cards! • No timers at all! Just relax and have fun! • Unlimited undo support, with no penalties if you want to go back and try things a different way! • 3 different Game Modes to keep things interesting! • Fun Mode deals out 3 cards at a time and you can use any of them to make matches • Hard Mode deals out 3 cards at a time in a stack and you can only use the top one • Strategy Mode deals out all the cards at the beginning of the game, in 8 stacks of 3, so you can see everything ahead of time and think carefully to make the matches you need • Global high score leaderboards with Game Center • Your progress is automatically saved, all the time, so go ahead and take that call or jump out to any other apps - you can come back and pick up playing right where you left off! • Sounds can be disabled if you want a quiet game • You can even listen to your own music while you play Thanks for playing! Search for Boy Howdy to see all our free games!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stress at 93% against Memory Frames's 0%. Stress also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 49 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 1). Memory Frames's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Memory Frames holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stress has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Memory Frames's written reviews are positive against 93% of Stress's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Memory Frames ships an update every 49 months, Stress every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Memory Frames | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 49 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giuseppe Calcagno | Boy Howdy Technology LLC |
Customer experience
Memory Frames
Stress
Bugs and requests
Memory Frames
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Stress
Reported bugs
2 issues- Friends list and leaderboards not loading
- Difficulty switching between daily, weekly, and all-time leaderboards
Requested features
3 requests- Add an undo button
- Provide a score tracking system
- Include a hint or tip feature
In-app purchases
Memory Frames
No in-app purchases
Stress
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Memory Frames free?
Is Stress free?
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Do Memory Frames or Stress have ads?
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