Comparison

ShortMemo vs Boop

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

Head to head
About

ShortMemo

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Ideas, templates, drafts, to-dos, bookmarks, reminders... Jot down various daily information in short memos. Organize your memos using the folder and customize themes, colors, and usability to your preference. A handy tool that's useful in daily life.

About

Boop

Access a vast library of Japanese text faces and emoticons directly from your keyboard. Easily find and insert kaomoji sorted by mood or searchable by keyword, with no need for copy-pasting.

Highlights
  • Extensive kaomoji library
  • Keyboard integration
  • Mood-based sorting
  • Keyword search
  • Customizable saved faces
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Boop is a kaomoji keyboard for iPhone: 24,563 cute Japanese text faces and emoticons, sorted by mood, searchable in a tap, and ready in every app you type in. EVERY FACE, ONE TAP AWAY Boop lives in your keyboard, so the faces come with you. Chats, DMs, notes, email, comments, anywhere there is a text field. Tap a face and it lands in your text. No copy and paste. SORTED BY MOOD 37 moods. Happy, love, sad, cats, dogs, bears, sleepy, dramatic, table flipping, shrugs, sparkles and more. Browse the mood you are in instead of scrolling one endless list. SEARCH THAT FINDS FACES Type happy, bear, angry, shrug or cat and get the faces that match, instantly, on a keyboard that feels like the real one. The whole library is indexed and searched on your phone. SAVE THE ONES YOU USE Press and hold a face to save it. Saved faces ride at the front of the keyboard, and they show up in the app too. BUILT TO FEEL FAST The library ships inside the app as a local database, so opening the keyboard, switching moods and searching never wait on anything. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. No analytics. No network code at all. ABOUT FULL ACCESS iOS asks for Full Access before any third-party keyboard can do more than type. Boop uses it for two things: keeping your saved faces in sync with the app, and haptic feedback when you tap a key. Boop has no network code, so nothing you type can leave your phone, ever. The keyboard works without Full Access too, you just lose sync and haptics. Kaomoji, emoticons, Japanese emoji, text faces, lenny faces, ASCII faces, whatever you call them. They are all in here.

Screenshots

ShortMemo4 screens
Boop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ShortMemo at 12.0 against Boop's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShortMemo ships an update every 9 days, Boop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ShortMemo versus Boop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShortMemoBoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB19 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperUT appMadhav Oberoi

In-app purchases

None

ShortMemo

No in-app purchases

None

Boop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShortMemo free?
ShortMemo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boop free?
Boop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShortMemo or Boop have ads?
Neither ShortMemo nor Boop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShortMemo or Boop?
ShortMemo ships an update every 9 days, and Boop weekly. Most recently, ShortMemo was updated on October 30, 2026 and Boop on October 31, 2026.

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