Recall vs TextMeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
TextMeter
This app analyzes text to provide insights into sentence length, vocabulary difficulty, and frequently used words and phrases. It visualizes this data through interactive graphs and a word cloud generator, all processed offline on your device.
- Offline text analysis
- Word cloud creation
- Sentence length analysis
- Vocabulary difficulty assessment
- Interactive graphs
- Batch importing and exporting (paid)
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TextMeter is a fast, offline text analysis and word cloud creation tool built for readers, writers, editors, and anyone who loves the written word. What TextMeter does best is count. But as it turns out, counting, combined with visualizing, can be quite a powerful thing. TextMeter will help you find the longest sentences, the toughest vocabulary, the words and phrases a document leans on the most, and will visualize that information for you via interactive graphs with powerful filtering options, and a totally "what you see is what you get" word cloud tool that lets you turn your documents into highly personal creations. Analysis runs entirely on your device: no account, no advertising, and no tracking. A full-length novel takes seconds to analyze. Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. All analysis features are free. A one-time purchase — no subscription — adds history for more than one analysis, iCloud sync, batch importing, and exporting. Find some text and press a button. Then, it's off to the races.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TextMeter at 100% against Recall's 53%. TextMeter also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Recall's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (129 vs 4). On price, 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. TextMeter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Recall asks for nothing beyond the download.
TextMeter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recall has 129 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Recall's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextMeter's.
Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, TextMeter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recall | TextMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (129 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 129 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Richards | Andreas Beyer-Bowden |
Customer experience
Recall
TextMeter
In-app purchases
Recall
No in-app purchases
TextMeter
- TextMeter Pro$0.99









