Memory Photo History vs Simple Video Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memory Photo History
Relive memories by viewing photos from this day in previous years. Offers various sharing templates, displays EXIF data, and provides convenient collection management with daily photo statistics.
- View photos from this day in past years
- Variety of sharing templates
- Display EXIF information
- Convenient collection management
- Daily photo statistics
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What were you doing today last year? Reminisce about today's photos from previous years! Peculiarity: 1. Today's historical photos 2. A variety of sharing templates 3. Exif information 4. Convenient collection management 5. Daily photo statistics
Simple Video Tools
Easily edit videos with a suite of essential tools. Create GIFs, extract frames, trim clips, convert formats, and manipulate audio. Features like smart face blur and auto-generated subtitles enhance your video projects.
- GIF Generator
- Frame Extraction
- Clip Creation
- Video Conversion
- Audio Manipulation
- Smart Face Blur
- Auto-Generated Subtitles
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Quickly edit videos with Simple Video Tools—a focused collection of powerful tools without the complexity of a traditional video editor. • Trim & Crop: Create precise clips, freely crop the frame, or use preset aspect ratios. • Convert & Compress: Change video formats or reduce file size for easier sharing. • GIFs & Frames: Create animated GIFs or capture the perfect still image. • Playback: Speed up, slow down, or reverse your videos. • Audio: Extract, remove, replace, mix, or record and insert audio. • Transform: Mirror videos or change their rotation. • Privacy & Branding: Automatically obscure faces or add customizable text and image watermarks. • Subtitles: Generate subtitles from speech or create and edit them manually. • Combine Clips: Insert a second clip at any point, or stitch two clips using horizontal, vertical, and overlay layouts. Choose videos from Photos or Files, switch between tools without repeatedly importing your video, and save finished results to Photos or Files. Settings let you choose export quality, appearance, default sources, and automatic saving. Simple Video Tools is designed for iPhone and iPad, including landscape, Split View, and multitasking support on iPad. No account required. Simple Video Tools does not collect your data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Video Tools at every 2 weeks against Memory Photo History's every 7 months. Simple Video Tools also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Memory Photo History against 5.0 for Simple Video Tools. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Video Tools has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Memory Photo History ships an update every 7 months, Simple Video Tools every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Memory Photo History | Simple Video Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 苏 王 | Ktisis Web, LLC |
Customer experience
Memory Photo History
Simple Video Tools
In-app purchases
Memory Photo History
No in-app purchases
Simple Video Tools
No in-app purchases
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