Spacebar Memory vs Gather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spacebar Memory
Effortlessly capture and organize everyday audio, from meetings to personal stories. This app transcribes speech to text, provides automatic highlights, and allows you to chat with your memories for recall and brainstorming. Share your captured moments with others.
- Effortless audio capture
- Speech-to-text transcription
- Automatic highlights
- Conversational memory interaction
- Organized memory library
- Memory sharing
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Spacebar is a memory app for everyday audio. Meetings, voice journals, coffee chats, brainstorms, dinner stories… - Effortless Capture: Just tap to start talking. Works in the background so you can focus on the moment. - Seriously Smart: Transcribes speech to text + provides automatic highlights. - Living Memories: Chat with any memory to recall or brainstorm. - Memory Library: Organize and revisit your captured moments. Share memories with colleagues, friends, family... Perfect for: - Professionals documenting meetings - Sharing a conversation with someone who wasn't present - Preserving family stories - Journalists and interviewers - Students capturing lectures - Anyone who wants to save fleeting thoughts and ideas --- WHY WE BUILT SPACEBAR *IRL beats URL* Virtual meetings suck. Meet your friends, classmates, colleagues, and family in real life. Spacebar is built to be used outside. *Stay In Conversation Flow* Get completely lost in conversation and don’t worry about missing anything. Spacebar helps you remember all the details. *AI Needs Humans* Ch@GPT doesn't get you... We've built one that can pull context from your real life. *Remember Together* Conversations and stories bring people together. Spacebar lets you share with everyone involved. --- Terms of Use: https://spacebar.fm/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://spacebar.fm/privacy-notice
Gather
Capture and organize your ideas, moments, and inspirations with a multimedia field recorder. This privacy-focused app allows quick collection of text, images, and videos, with offline functionality and on-device storage.
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-focused, no ads or tracking
- Quick multimedia capture
- Organize and connect notes
- Review moments in a feed
- Are.na integration
- Open-source
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Develop your curiosity and personal taste with Gather, a multimedia field recorder for cultivating your personal archive of ideas, moments, and rituals. Key Features: * Offline-Capable: Full functionality without internet connection * Privacy-Focused: No ads, no logins, no tracking and all data is stored on-device* * Quick Capture: Collect everyday inspiration and moments on-the-go as fast as texting yourself * Organize: Connect unorganized blocks later while in transit or after getting home, so you don’t have to worry about organizing when collecting. * Review: Revisit your favorite moments and curb your social media addiction while scratching your scroll itch in a TikTok-like feed Additional Benefits: * Multimedia support: collect text, images, videos, and links! Support for more types like audio on the horizon * Are.na Integration: Sync selected collections and blocks to give them an online home * Personalization: Customize app icons and configure the interface through detailed settings * Share extension: quickly save text, images, and links from other apps * Open-Source: Transparent, secure, and community-driven Gather was developed by a person (Spencer) for their own use, which means it has the best interests of the person using it in mind. No dark patterns or corporate shenanigans, ever. * this doesn’t include content that you decide to sync to external providers --- Gather is made and maintained by Spencer Chang, an indie engineer and internet artist based in San Francisco, California. You can learn more about the philosophy behind Gather in this interview with Are.na (https://www.are.na/editorial/an-interview-with-spencer-chang) Gather emerged from a personal need for a tool to facilitate my own archival practice—something that helped me collect the daily inspiration I encountered, connect them to relevant containers, and revisit ideas that important to me. More info: https://gather.directory/ Privacy Policy: https://gather.directory/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Gather at none against Spacebar Memory's shown. Gather also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Spacebar Memory's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Spacebar Memory sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month and Gather sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Spacebar Memory against 5.0 for Gather. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 29 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Spacebar Memory ships an update fortnightly, Gather every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spacebar Memory | Gather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (29 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Latent Spacebar, Inc. | Spencer Chang |
Customer experience
Spacebar Memory
Gather
In-app purchases
Spacebar Memory
- Unlimited Memory$5.001 Month
- Spacebar Membership$5.001 Month
- Pro Membership$14.991 Month
- Spacebar Booster$4.99
Gather
- Gather Contribution$2.99
- Gather Contribution$5.99
- Gather Contribution$9.99
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- Gather Contribution$12.99
- Gather Contribution$34.99
- Gather Contribution$59.99
- Gather Contribution$99.99









