Recall vs ActionPanda AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
ActionPanda AI
Instantly capture and share events from text or voice. This app uses your camera or photos to extract text and supports multiple languages for event detection. It also offers voice input for seamless event creation.
- Voice input for event creation
- Camera/photo text scanning
- Multi-language event detection
- English, Japanese, Spanish support
- Event sharing functionality
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ActionPanda turns everyday information into calendar events — fast. Scan a photo, screenshot, document, or flyer. Paste text or use your voice. ActionPanda finds the event details so you can review them and add them to your calendar in just a few taps. YOUR DAY, ON TRACK • Scan photos, screenshots, documents, and flyers • Detect event names, dates, times, and locations • Paste or type event details • Use voice input • Review details before adding them to your calendar • Keep detected events easy to find in History MEET HUGHUG Sometimes getting something onto your calendar is only the first step. HugHug gives you a little support when you need a push. Choose how you're feeling and get a supportive message for what’s ahead. ACTIONPANDA PLUS With ActionPanda Plus, you can create your own HugHug with a photo and personality that feels right for you. Plus also includes Daily HugHug — a simple daily check-in for a little extra support. PRIVACY ActionPanda does not require an account. Camera and Photo Library access are used to scan text from images. Photos used for scanning are not stored by ActionPanda. Your selected HugHug photo stays on your device and is not uploaded to our servers. Only text-based character settings are sent when generating a HugHug message. Microphone and Speech Recognition access are used only for voice input. Audio is not stored by ActionPanda. ActionPanda can make mistakes. Please review event details before adding them to your calendar. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ActionPanda AI at 5.0 against Recall's 4.2. ActionPanda AI also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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
Both are free to download. Recall sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and ActionPanda AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ActionPanda AI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.
Recall ships an update every 3 months, ActionPanda AI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recall | ActionPanda AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Masse | Hiroyuki Shibata |
Customer experience
Recall
ActionPanda AI
In-app purchases
Recall
- Small Coffee$0.99
- Medium Coffee$3.99
- Large Coffee$5.99
ActionPanda AI
- ActionPanda Plus$1.491 Month









