Comparison

a memo to self vs Triorities

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

Head to head
About

a memo to self

Display essential rules, reminders, and life principles directly on your home screen. Keep your most important thoughts visible and accessible at a glance.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Display rules and reminders
  • Keep important thoughts visible
  • Customizable text widgets
Features
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keep your most important rules, reminders, and life principles front and center – right on your home screen.

About

Triorities

Features
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Pick three. Triorities is a daily-priority app built around a simple idea: each day, choose the three things that — if you do them — will make today a good day. Skip the rest. The point is focus, not a long list. This isn't a todo list—it's a priority list. THREE FOR TODAY Open the app and you see today's three slots. Tap an empty slot to name a Triority, or use Plan today to walk through all three at once. Drag to reorder. Tap the ring to mark one done. When all three are done, today's footer reads "Three for today." LIFE PRIORITIES The day's three are short-term. Life Priorities are the longer themes underneath them — Health, Family, the book you're writing, the project you keep meaning to start. Link a Triority to a Life Priority and over time you can see, honestly, where your days actually went. PLANS A Triority is the headline. The Plan is how it gets done. Attach Reminders and Calendar events to any Triority and they live alongside it. Triorities never duplicates your Reminders or events — it links to them, so anything you change in Apple's apps stays in sync. HISTORY, KEPT Every day you complete is preserved. Past days lock their titles and Life Priority links, but you can still toggle done/undone and add a short reflection to each one. Scroll back through weeks and months to see what you actually did. REFLECTIONS After you mark a Triority done, a small Reflect affordance fades in. Tap it to write a sentence or two about how it went. Auto-saves as you type. Optional — skip it whenever you want. DAILY AUDIO JOURNAL At the end of the day, record up to two minutes of audio. Triorities transcribes it on-device using Apple's speech recognizer so you can read the day back later. Audio and transcripts stay in your private iCloud database — they are never sent to Triorities or any third party. ON YOUR MAC, TOO Triorities is a true Mac app, not a phone app stretched. A menu bar icon shows today's three at a glance with one tap to mark them done. Standard macOS Preferences. Cmd+, for settings. SYNCED, PRIVATELY Triorities uses your private iCloud database to sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. There is no Triorities server, no account to create, no analytics, no tracking. Your data stays yours. CUSTOMIZE THE DAY Set the day boundary to whatever "tomorrow" means to you — midnight, 4am, whenever you actually go to bed. Choose the calendar new events get added to. Pick the Reminders list new reminders get added to (Triorities will create one called "Triorities" if you want). PRICING Try Triorities free for 14 days of planning. After that, a one-time unlock keeps the app yours forever — no subscription, no ads.

Screenshots

a memo to self2 screens
Triorities4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: a memo to self at none against Triorities's 1. a memo to self also leads on iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). Triorities's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Triorities sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. a memo to self asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

a memo to self ships an update every 2 months, Triorities every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
a memo to self versus Triorities: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametera memo to selfTriorities
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYi Yan TaySteven Hovater

In-app purchases

None

a memo to self

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Triorities

One-time1
  • Triorities Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is a memo to self free?
a memo to self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Triorities free?
Triorities is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do a memo to self or Triorities have ads?
Neither a memo to self nor Triorities shows ads.
Which is updated more often, a memo to self or Triorities?
a memo to self ships an update every 2 months, and Triorities every 5 weeks. Most recently, a memo to self was updated on October 30, 2026 and Triorities on November 5, 2026.

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