Goldfish Notes vs Memova AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Goldfish Notes
Capture and organize your thoughts effortlessly with AI-powered note-taking. This app transforms messy ideas into structured notes, automatically selecting the best format and highlighting key information. It also offers seamless integration with Obsidian for centralized note management.
- AI-powered thought capture
- Automatic note formatting
- Extracts key information
- Obsidian integration
- Intuitive interface
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Goldfish is the most intuitive way of capturing your fleeting thoughts the go. It transforms your messy thoughts into clear, structured notes using AI—automatically choosing the best format and keeping only what matters. It also integrates seamlessly with Obsidian, making it easy to manage all your notes in one spot.
Memova AI
Capture, organize, and recall your thoughts and conversations with AI-powered transcription and intelligent search. Integrates with Apple Health for deeper insights into your recordings. Offers both local and cloud-based features for flexible memory management.
- AI-powered transcription
- Timeline organization
- Intelligent search
- Offline recording
- Apple Health integration
- Idea exploration
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Memova brings your recordings, notes, and ideas together in Timeline, Records, and Search. Record on iPhone or Apple Watch, then transcribe on your device—even offline. Keep the original audio for playback alongside your transcripts. Start locally without an account, and choose whether to enable automatic transcription for new recordings. Timeline organizes your Apple Watch recordings by hour. Optional Pro cloud features create hourly notes, identify daily events, suggest ideas, and prepare My Day reviews using your selected work hours. Read your review as a clear narrative with relevant words from your day. Use Records to capture notes, save drafts, and revisit conversations. Send an idea to Spark to discuss it, explore questions, and develop it further. Search your saved material, or use Ask to ask questions with relevant context from your records. My Voice helps identify your own speech on device. With your permission, Memova can associate existing Apple Health heart-rate measurements with your identified speech. Health access is optional. When cloud generation is enabled, relevant words and their matching heart-rate measurements may be sent together for AI processing. Local recording and transcription remain available without Pro. Cloud features require an account, internet access, and an active Pro subscription. Purchase or restore subscriptions through the App Store and view billing details in Memova. Obtain permission before recording conversations, and review important AI-generated results before relying on them. Privacy Policy: https://memova.ai/privacy Terms of Service: https://memova.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Goldfish Notes at free against Memova AI's freemium. Goldfish Notes also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). Memova AI's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 Goldfish Notes against 5.0 for Memova AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Goldfish Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, Memova AI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Goldfish Notes | Memova AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 748 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ka Man Carmen Li | MEMOVA LLC |
Customer experience
Goldfish Notes
Memova AI
In-app purchases
Goldfish Notes
No in-app purchases
Memova AI
No in-app purchases
