Comparison

Griffee vs HighMemo

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

Head to head
About

Griffee

Features
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Griffee is your all-in-one personal life manager designed to help you stay organized, productive, and focused. Whether you’re managing Tasks, jotting down quick Notes, or handling larger Projects, Griffee provides a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy to stay on top of everything. With Griffee, you can: β€’ Quickly add notes and ideas to capture your thoughts on the go. β€’ Organize and prioritize tasks effortlessly, so you always know what to focus on next. β€’ Manage larger matters by breaking them down into actionable steps. β€’ Track your progress with built-in statistics to keep your productivity on point. Griffee adapts to your workflow and helps you streamline your day, giving you more time to focus on what truly matters. Whether you’re planning your week, organizing a project, or just trying to stay on top of your daily to-do list, Griffee is here to make life easier.

About

HighMemo

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HighMemo saves every memo to your device first, shows how your memos relate, and adds AI, Drive sync, and calendar only when you connect them yourself. No account. No API key. No setup. HighMemo works before you connect anything β€” and you decide what to connect. Sync across mobile and desktop Connect Google Drive to keep the same memos, images, and attachments in sync across iPhone, iPad, Android, and the HighMemo desktop app. Saving never waits The memo is on your device the moment you send it, and any tidying happens afterwards in the background. If that tidying fails, nothing you already had is erased. Share a link from any app and it lands as a memo β€” the title, summary and thumbnail fill in behind you. Attach a photo from your library and it stays with the memo. How your memos relate Memos that share a tag gather together, and the tag's name sits at the centre. Link two memos yourself, or mention one inside another with @ β€” those links are never removed by an automatic rebuild. Folders, tags and pinning work with no account and no AI. Type to filter by title, body or tag; #tag matches that tag exactly. Organized automatically when you connect an AI Once an AI provider is connected, HighMemo automatically creates a title, summary, tags and category for every memo, helping you review and organize captured information with less manual work. On supported Apple devices, choose Apple Intelligence and start using AI immediately without a separate API key or model download. Processing uses Apple's on-device system model. Connect Google Calendar and your schedule sits beside your memos β€” access is read-only, so HighMemo never creates, edits or deletes an event. Save a memo and HighMemo suggests the events it looks related to; you choose whether to link it. Open an event and tap Add memo to start a memo already attached to it. Reminders that know when and where Put a reminder on a memo β€” once, daily, weekly or monthly. Or pin a place: when you arrive, the memo comes back. Arrival is decided on the device and the notification is created there too β€” it fires once per visit. Your storage, not ours Connect a Google account and your mobile devices and HighMemo desktop app see the same memos. They live in your own Google Drive app-data folder β€” there is no HighMemo server and no HighMemo account, so we cannot look at them. Images and attachments travel too. Sync runs when you open the app and every 5 minutes while it is open, plus a button whenever you want. Your AI, your key β€” or no AI at all You bring the AI. Paste the API key of a service you already pay for and requests go from your device straight to that provider β€” there is no server of ours in between. Or use a supported on-device model so your memo text never leaves the device. Or connect nothing at all and keep using the app. Export everything as one JSON file, with your attached photos embedded in it. Before you install - HighMemo shows ads. There is no paid or ad-free version. - On first launch HighMemo asks whether to download a small model (about 330 MB) used for search and related memos. Decline and the app keeps working. - Connecting Google for sync asks for app-data folder access and read-only calendar access together. - Location access is requested only when a memo actually has a location reminder. - The interface is in English. AI output follows the language of your memo, or a language you pick in Settings. Most memo apps decide where your memos live and which AI reads them. HighMemo makes both of those your choice β€” and works before you choose either.

Screenshots

Griffee4 screens
HighMemo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Griffee and HighMemo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Griffee versus HighMemo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGriffeeHighMemo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Fortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size24 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan SlusarzJeongwon KO

In-app purchases

None

Griffee

No in-app purchases

None

HighMemo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Griffee free?
Griffee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HighMemo free?
HighMemo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Griffee or HighMemo have ads?
Both Griffee and HighMemo show ads.

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