Comparison

Kinopio vs Names to Remember

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

Head to head
About

Kinopio

This app provides a freeform digital canvas to visually organize thoughts, brainstorm ideas, and plan projects. It supports images, links, and collaborative features, working intuitively like the human mind. Exclusive iOS features enhance the user experience.

Highlights
  • Freeform digital canvas
  • Visual thought organization
  • Brainstorming and planning tool
  • Image and link support
  • Collaborative spaces
  • Backlinked tags
  • Rich URL previews
Read full description

Kinopio is a thinking canvas for new ideas and hard problems. Get your thoughts out and visually connect them together. Kinopio works the way your mind works. Use it for brainstorming, planning, mood-boards, journaling. Basically for figuring stuff out – by yourself or collaboratively. No sign up required. Exclusive iOS features: - Dark theme support - iOS widgets - Enhanced UI Creative lively freeform spaces with: - Images and links - URLs with rich previews - Backlinked [[tags]] - Comments Terms: https://help.kinopio.club/posts/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://help.kinopio.club/posts/privacy-policy/

About

Names to Remember

Easily save and recall details about people you meet, including their name, face, and where you met them. Search by name, notes, or location, and organize contacts with smart lists and reminders. Syncs across devices and offers robust privacy.

Highlights
  • Quickly save name, photo, and location
  • Search by name, notes, city, or tags
  • Organize contacts with smart, self-updating lists
  • Set reminders for follow-ups and birthdays
  • Link people and define relationships
  • Export contacts to vCard, CSV, or JSON
  • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
Read full description

You met someone great. Two weeks later you can still picture the face, the bar, the fact that they'd just come back from Lisbon — everything except their name. Names to Remember fixes that. Save a face, a place, and a couple of details in seconds. Find them again however you happen to remember them. ADD SOMEONE BEFORE THE MOMENT PASSES • Quick Capture: a name, a photo, and where you are — filled in for you • Snap a photo, pull one from your library or Files, or search the web for one • Share a contact card into Names from anywhere in iOS • Import straight from your Contacts FIND THEM HOWEVER YOU REMEMBER THEM • Search forgives spelling — look for "Kristin," still find Kirsten • Search everything at once: names, notes, places, cities, tags, companies • Suggestions when you need a nudge: people nearby, birthdays coming up, recently added, your most-used tags and cities • Find anyone from the iOS home screen, or just ask Siri THREE WAYS TO LOOK AT YOUR PEOPLE • List — tune the rows to show photos, places, notes, and tags • Faces — a photo-first grid, because that's how you actually remember people • Map — everywhere you've met someone, sorted by how close you are right now LISTS THAT KEEP THEMSELVES CURRENT Build a list out of filters — a tag, a city, everyone within a mile of you, birthdays in the next 30 days, anyone you owe a follow-up — and it updates itself. Or make a list by hand and add people yourself. NEVER DROP THE THREAD • Set a reminder to reach back out, and mark it done right from the notification • Birthday reminders arrive the morning of HOW PEOPLE CONNECT Link people to each other and label the relationship — sister, colleague, neighbor. Labels that read the same both ways fill themselves in on the other person's card. KEEP IT TIDY • Merge Duplicates finds anyone you've saved twice and folds them into one, keeping the notes from both • Select several contacts to tag, list, export, or merge them at once • Export to vCard, CSV, or JSON — or send them to your Contacts app YOURS, ON EVERY DEVICE • iCloud sync keeps everything in step across your iPhone and iPad • Lock the app behind Face ID or Touch ID • Everything is included — no subscriptions, no locked features, no ads Made for conferences and networking events, for sales calls and new jobs and new neighborhoods — and for anyone who has ever nodded through a conversation hoping the name would come back to them. Your data is yours. Everything lives on your device, synced through your own iCloud account and nowhere else.

Screenshots

Kinopio4 screens
Names to Remember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Names to Remember at free against Kinopio's free with in-app purchases. Names to Remember also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Kinopio's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kinopio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Names to Remember sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Names to Remember holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kinopio has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kinopio ships an update every 2 months, Names to Remember every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Kinopio versus Names to Remember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKinopioNames to Remember
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPirijan KetheswaranGrow Creative Group, LLC.

Customer experience

Kinopio

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Names to Remember

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Kinopio

Subscriptions4
  • Legacy - Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$9.001 Month
  • Legacy - Yearly Subscription$69.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Yearly Subscription$90.001 Year
1 purchases

Names to Remember

One-time1
  • Names to Remember Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Kinopio free?
Kinopio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Names to Remember free?
Names to Remember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kinopio or Names to Remember?
Names to Remember is rated higher. Kinopio averages 4.7 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Names to Remember averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Kinopio or Names to Remember have ads?
Neither Kinopio nor Names to Remember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kinopio or Names to Remember?
Kinopio ships an update every 2 months, and Names to Remember every 3 months. Most recently, Kinopio was updated on November 3, 2026 and Names to Remember on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons