Comparison

Recall vs STRIKEWHEEL

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

Head to head
About

Recall

This app creates a personal knowledge base by summarizing online content like videos, articles, and podcasts. It automatically categorizes and links saved summaries, aiding in content discovery and connection. It also employs spaced repetition and active recall techniques to enhance long-term knowledge retention.

Highlights
  • Summarize any online content
  • Save summaries to personal knowledge base
  • Automatic categorization of summaries
  • Automatic linking of related content
  • Spaced repetition reviews
  • Active recall testing
Features
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Every AI gives you the same answers. Recall gives you yours. Join over 500K professionals, students and lifelong learners who are saving hours and turning their knowledge into their edge. One living space for your knowledge and the AI model of your choice. Save what matters, write what you think. Over time, you curate an AI that knows what you know. SAVE, SUMMARIZE & ORGANIZE INSTANTLY Share YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs, TikToks, recipes, and more with the Recall app. We do the rest. AGENTIC AI CHAT Ask questions across your entire knowledge base, search the internet, or combine both in one conversation. Choose your AI model. Switch models mid conversation. No lock in. LISTEN MODE Turn any content into a summary you can listen to in a custom voice you create. Learn on the go, your way. AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION See how everything you've saved connects. Your content is automatically categorized and linked, no manual filing. Explore your knowledge visually and discover relationships you didn't know existed. QUIZ & RETAIN Stop doom scrolling and start learning. Generate quizzes on any content. Challenge friends with public quizzes. Spaced repetition and active recall resurface what you've saved at optimal intervals to lock it into long-term memory. BUILT FOR POWER USERS Bulk summarize, tag, connect, and generate quizzes at scale. API and MCP access lets you connect your knowledge base to any other AI tool. CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Start on mobile, finish on desktop. Don't break your workflow.

About

STRIKEWHEEL

Features
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STRIKEWHEEL is a start engine, not a task manager. It never shows you a list. It deals you one card. You hold the button, feel five beats under your thumb, and a timer lights. That's the whole app. WHY IT WORKS THIS WAY If the problem were knowing what to do, a list would have fixed it by now. The gap isn't between not knowing and knowing — it's between knowing and starting. Lists make that gap wider, because every line is one more decision at exactly the moment you have none left. So STRIKEWHEEL takes the deciding away. One card. If it's the wrong one, swipe it away — as often as you like, forever, with nothing held against you. STARTING IS THE ACHIEVEMENT Every strike counts for life, and the number only goes up. There are no streaks here, nothing that breaks, and nothing that turns red when you disappear for a week — because a broken streak is the most common reason people quit apps like this, and almost nobody comes back after losing one. Instead, everything you start feeds a fire. It grows with you. It never goes out. WHAT'S INSIDE • One card at a time — never a list, never a decision at a low moment • Hold to strike — the same five-beat ritual every time, so starting becomes muscle memory instead of a choice • A timer that fills instead of draining — stopping early still counts • Your burn lives on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so the phone can go face down • Too big? Split it — a heavy card becomes small first steps, worked out on your own device • The Thaw — something you've avoided for weeks arrives frozen. Melt it with your thumb and sit with it for two minutes. Contact is the win. • Brain dump — one line per thought. Sorting is the app's job, not yours. • A small flame that sits with you while you work • Four themes with matched fonts, and one optional card a day. Never more. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Your cards live on your iPhone and nowhere else, and the core app works fully offline. Smart Splitting is the one feature that can use the internet, it is off until you switch it on, and it sends only the text of the single card you are splitting. Made by one person, for a brain that needed it.

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
STRIKEWHEEL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Recall at 3 against STRIKEWHEEL's 1. Recall also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recall versus STRIKEWHEEL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallSTRIKEWHEEL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (125 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings125 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul RichardsJoshua Wilfred Sekar

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

None

STRIKEWHEEL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is STRIKEWHEEL free?
STRIKEWHEEL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recall or STRIKEWHEEL have ads?
Neither Recall nor STRIKEWHEEL shows ads.

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