My Glimpact vs Human Memory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Glimpact
Assess your environmental footprint based on your lifestyle choices. Understand your impact across 16 categories and discover strategies to reduce it, using a scientifically recognized method. Facilitate ecological transition for individuals and businesses.
- Assess environmental footprint
- Understand lifestyle impact
- Identify reduction strategies
- Utilizes PEF/OEF method
- Covers 16 impact categories
- Facilitates ecological transition
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With its two apps, Glimpact empowers citizens to take action on their own lifestyles to reduce their individual environmental footprint (My Glimpact), as well as to steer their purchases towards the least impactful products (Glimpact Scan). Glimpact enables the creation of a virtuous circle to facilitate the ecological transition of both citizens and businesses. My Glimpact allows you to assess your overall environmental footprint based on your lifestyle and discover to what extent you are contributing to exceeding the nine planetary boundaries beyond which the planet becomes destabilized. It helps you understand the causes of your impact and identify effective strategies to reduce it. My Glimpact is based on the only method recognized by the scientific community and adopted by the European Union for measuring each individual's environmental impact: the PEF/OEF method. This method goes beyond measuring carbon footprint to consider all 16 categories of human activity impact on the planet (such as water consumption, fossil fuel consumption, and land use). Because when it comes to the environment, if we cannot see everything, we see nothing.
Human Memory
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A record you can hand to the experts in your life. Every intake form asks when, where, how often and for how long — and memory is the wrong instrument for those questions. Your phone already holds the answers. Human Memory turns your own recorded behaviour into a bounded record you can hand to a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant: a dated span, a per-day ledger and a line saying where the record has nothing. Human Memory for iPhone turns twenty-odd years of your photographs into a map you can walk, a timeline you can scroll, and the people who were actually there — reading your contacts and calendar to give the days real names instead of dates. It runs on the phone. Import the archives other services let you export — Google Takeout, Facebook and Instagram, Tinder and Hinge, calendars, bank files. Everything goes into an encrypted vault on your iPhone, where it stays. Search it, export it, and take it with you when you leave. WHAT YOU GET: - A private map of everywhere you've been (rounded coordinates only; your exact position never leaves your phone) - A day ledger: where you were each day, how many days in a place, with a coverage line where the record is empty - A timeline of your photographs, arranged by place and person - A record of people in your life, built from the contacts and messages you already have - A journal of your own, kept in the vault - Imports from Google Takeout, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, Hinge, ICS calendars and bank or card statements - Apple Health export import: heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, steps, active energy, sleep, State of Mind and medication doses — kept out of iCloud backup by default - Search across everything at once, find by date, place, or person NO ACCOUNT, NO PURCHASE: The Interview (in Vault) can use your own Anthropic API key (Vault → Use your own API key); the app takes no payment. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE — AND WHEN: We don't mine your data. Here is what does leave, in full. Every line is in the privacy policy with the file that makes it true: - Rounded location data to Apple, to turn a photo's GPS into a place name. Rounded to about 110 metres before sending, cached after the first request for each area. Your exact position never travels. - The part of the map you're viewing, to Apple: the map is a real Apple map and fetches tiles as you pan, like every other map on your phone. - Your questions and answers while an Interview is open: only when you press send, never in the background. Results can carry names, message text from archives you've imported, health records, exact dates and places rounded to about a kilometre, and each Interview also sends a by-month summary of your home, places, trips and named people; you're told before the first message and can withdraw permission at any time. Your own Anthropic API key sends it straight from your iPhone to Anthropic; there is no server of ours in between. - A request for one of your own photos, to Apple, when you tap Download from iCloud: one item, only when you tap, the same transfer the Photos app makes. - A calendar you publish, to the account you publish it to, only if you use Vault → Review & Publish to Calendar. - Your vault, to your own iCloud backup, only if you turn on Vault → iCloud Backup (off by default), under your own Apple ID. - A check with Apple's purchase system at launch and while the app runs, for any purchase an earlier version left unfinished. It carries nothing of yours. WHAT DOESN'T LEAVE: - No analytics. No telemetry. No account. No login. - Your photos stay in your Photos app and your vault; they're never copied to our servers. - Everything else is encrypted on your device. TAKING YOUR DATA OUT: Open Vault → Export My Vault to write your entire vault as plain markdown and JSON and send it anywhere you want — to AirDrop, Mail, or cloud storage you control. The archive is unencrypted and lives wherever you put it, so it's exactly as private as that place is.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Human Memory at 5.0 against My Glimpact's 3.3. My Glimpact's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Human Memory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Glimpact has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | My Glimpact | Human Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yukan | Allison Bowman |
In-app purchases
My Glimpact
No in-app purchases
Human Memory
No in-app purchases









