Strive Journal vs Memo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strive Journal
This app helps you achieve your long-term goals through structured planning, journaling, and supportive exercises. Track your progress, share your journey with others, and reflect on your achievements.
- Goal setting and planning
- Progress journaling
- Shareable goals
- Daily Gratitude exercises
- Affirmations
- Dear Future Self letters
- Wheel of Life assessment
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Increase your chance of achieving your long term goals and/or help others achieve theirs. Goal setting & Journaling Set goals, make a plan, visualize and stay focused. These are the key ingredients to achieving long-term goals. Write about your progress and look back on your life with appreciation on what you have achieved. Share your goals with friends and family, or keep them private for yourself. Add extra incentive to achieve your goals or the goals of others by adding supports. Once the objective has been finished, you choose to give it or not. Strive Journal comes with several exercises to increase your chance of succeeding: - Daily Gratitude - Affirmations - Dear Future Self - Wheel of Life Daily Gratitude A daily practice to focus on the positive instead of the negative Affirmations Set affirmations for yourself to embed beliefs and activate the law of attraction Dear Future Self Write letters to your future self. Predict what your future will look like and by visualizing and writing about it, increase your chance of actually getting there. Wheel of Life Discover which area in your life needs extra attention and set goals for this. Track your progress over the long term
Memo
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Memo helps you remember the people who matter, and show up for them. We all have friends we mean to call, birthdays we forget, and little details that slip away. Memo is a calm, private space to keep your people close: who they are, what's going on in their lives, and when to reach out. No feeds. No noise. No guilt. Just a gentle nudge before you drift, and a place to remember why these people matter. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Keep everyone in one place: friends, family, anyone you don't want to lose touch with • Remember the small things: notes for each person, their dog's name, the new job, the thing they were nervous about • Reminders that fit your rhythm: weekly for close friends, every few months for the rest • Journal your life and the moments you share: a big catch-up, a milestone, or an ordinary day worth keeping • Never miss a birthday PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your friends, notes, and journal entries stay on your device. We run no analytics, use no third-party trackers, show no ads, and sell nothing. The only thing on our server is the identifier and email from Sign in with Apple, so you can sign back in on a new device. You can delete your account, and everything with it, in two taps. FREE TO START Track up to 3 people for free, with no time limit. Memo Pro unlocks unlimited people, unlimited notes, custom reminder rhythms, and journaling. Made with care in Paris, by someone who's also bad at texting back. Memo Pro is an auto-renewable subscription (weekly, monthly, or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://lagrange-romain.notion.site/Memo-Terms-of-Use-35f1adc1e47f80ecb003e83ce66f94b3 Privacy Policy: https://lagrange-romain.notion.site/Memo-Privacy-Policy-35f1adc1e47f806397d3d40035534113
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strive Journal at none against Memo's 4. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Memo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Strive Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Strive Journal ships an update fortnightly, Memo every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive Journal | Memo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Remco Simonides | Romain Lagrange |
In-app purchases
Strive Journal
No in-app purchases
Memo
- Memo Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- Memo Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- Memo Pro Yearly$34.991 Year
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- Memo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year









