Comparison

Recall vs GoodQuotes

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 focuses on recording past events to provide a detailed view of your life, goals, and trends. It offers rich event creation with tags, photos, and links, and intelligently tracks progress towards your goals.

Highlights
  • Record past events
  • Track goal progress
  • Rich event details (photos, links, maps)
  • Personalized tags for grouping
  • Dynamic calendar layout
  • Monthly and daily summaries
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Recall is a modern calendar app, designed for you to find Presence, Excitement, and Progress in your life. Recall focuses on the real events and activities you spend time on to provide an accurate view of the goals, memories, and trends in your day-to-day life. CALENDAR, IN REVERSE Unlike other calendars, Recall is about recording events that have already happened, not planning those that will. This provides a detailed and accurate summary of your life. - Intuitive user interface for quickly creating, editing, and viewing events - Dynamic and customizable Calendar layout to view, compare, and recall several days at a time - Monthly summaries to show when and where you’ve spent the most time - Daily Summaries to provide rich, interpersonal insights to your events RICH EVENTS Recall lets you create rich, information-filled events, so you can remember every detail of your best memories - Personalized Tags to automatically color and group similar events - Event Carousel to easily browse and enjoy memories - Photos, Links, and Maps to provide additional context to events - Favorite Events to always find and remember great moments INTELLIGENT GOALS TRACKING Recall intelligently looks at your events to track progress to various goals in your life. - Tags automatically count events to your goals, without extra work on your end - Clean executive summary graphics make things simple - Goal Priorities let you focus on what’s important RECALL, EVERYWHERE Recall seamlessly syncs across all your devices, so you always have access to your best memories. Whether on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, Recall keeps you connected. IN THE DETAILS Recall is crafted with intention and an eye for details. From the refined color palettes to the fluid goal sheets, Recall elevates your life with thoughtful design.

About

GoodQuotes

Easily capture, organize, and revisit meaningful quotes from any source. Build a personal collection and share your favorite words with friends and groups in a simple, thoughtful interface.

Highlights
  • Capture quotes from any source
  • Organize quotes into a personal vault
  • Revisit quotes when they matter
  • Share quotes with friends and groups
  • Add context and photos to quotes
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Quotes for whatever kind of day it is. GoodQuotes is a place to discover quotes, thoughts, and little things worth keeping - from topics you love and people you know. Find something that hits. Save it. Come back to it later. Send it to your friends. Or leave a few of your own. Find more of what you're into Choose topics like motivation, affirmations, positivity, stoicism, night out, and more. Your For You feed gets shaped around what you actually want to see. See what your friends are keeping Follow friends and discover the quotes, thoughts, jokes, and lines they save and share. Keep the ones that hit Like a quote and it stays on your profile, building a collection that's actually yours. Let good quotes come back around Set a Revisit and have a quote return when you want to see it again. Your group chat, but quotes Create groups with friends and keep the things your people say, share, and don't want to forget. Leave a few of your own Post a thought, type a quote, scan one from a page, or add a photo. A good line every day Set a daily quote time and add GoodQuotes widgets to your Home Screen or Lock Screen. GoodQuotes is for the things worth keeping. Quotes, thoughts & friends. Terms of Use: https://www.goodquotes.io/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.goodquotes.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
GoodQuotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GoodQuotes at 100% against Recall's 33%. GoodQuotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Recall sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and GoodQuotes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GoodQuotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Recall's written reviews are positive against 100% of GoodQuotes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall ships an update every 3 months, GoodQuotes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Recall versus GoodQuotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallGoodQuotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings815 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB77 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBrian MasseTwo Palms Software LLC

Customer experience

Recall

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

GoodQuotes

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Recall

One-time3
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$3.99
  • Large Coffee$5.99
1 purchases

GoodQuotes

Subscriptions1
  • GoodQuotes Pro$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoodQuotes free?
GoodQuotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recall or GoodQuotes?
GoodQuotes is rated higher. Recall averages 3.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while GoodQuotes averages 5.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Recall or GoodQuotes have ads?
Neither Recall nor GoodQuotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall or GoodQuotes?
Recall ships an update every 3 months, and GoodQuotes fortnightly. Most recently, Recall was updated on October 24, 2026 and GoodQuotes on October 19, 2026.

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