Ancor vs Note to Self Memos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ancor
This app helps you cultivate a stronger mindset by journaling your thoughts and insights. It encourages micro-journaling and building a personal wisdom collection to stay grounded and follow your intuition. Take control of your inner dialogue and make positive life changes through self-reflection.
- Micro journaling
- Personal wisdom collection
- Mindset control
- Intuition building
- Self-reflection tool
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This is a quiet and powerful tool meant to help you change your life. Ancor yourself to words that matter, and use them to stay grounded through all the ups and downs of life. Build the ultimate wisdom collection that is made by you, for you. Practice micro journaling and change how you approach daily situations immediately. Build the habit of listening to your own intuition and to write it down. Practice following the best of your own advice. You already know what to tell yourself. So just write it down, and stay ancored to it. Privacy Policy: https://aravue.org/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Note to Self Memos
Capture thoughts and ideas through typing or voice. Organize them into custom channels and threads, and easily find them later with intelligent search and AI-powered summaries. Keep your notes private and accessible only to you.
- Voice and text note-taking
- Customizable channels and threads
- AI-powered titles and tags
- Intelligent search and Q&A
- Reminders and pinned notes
- Share from other apps
- Thread and channel summaries
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Note to Self is a private chat with yourself. Write a note or say it, into channels you make for each part of your life, and carry a thought on in a thread when it keeps going. WRITE OR SAY IT Type a note, or hold the red button and talk. Voice notes are written down on your phone, and the transcript lights up word by word as it plays back. Recordings stay linked to the conversation they came from. CHANNELS AND THREADS Give each subject its own channel: ideas, work, reading, errands. Continue any note in a thread, and move a note, a whole thread or a handful of notes to another channel when they belong elsewhere. TITLES AND TAGS With Apple Intelligence, voice notes get a title, and every note a tag for what it’s for: a task, an idea, a question, a link, a plan, a reference, a reflection. Change either at any time, or make tags of your own. FIND IT AGAIN Search by the words you used or by what you meant, in any language you write in. Or ask a question, such as “What did I decide about the garden?”, and get an answer drawn from your own notes, with links back to them. REMINDERS AND LATER Have any note come back to you at a time you choose. Reminders and pinned notes wait together in Later. SEND TO SELF Keep things from other apps: share a link, a web page, selected text or a recording from Voice Memos to Send to Self, add a line of your own, and pick the channel. SUMMARIES Catch up on a long thread or channel in a few lines, posted back into it. YOURS Your notes stay on your phone. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Transcription and Apple Intelligence run on your phone. Long summaries can use Private Cloud Compute, Apple’s own model on Apple’s servers, only if you switch it on. Five palettes, in light and dark. In English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Chinese (Simplified), with full right-to-left layout in Arabic. Each note keeps its own direction. Export everything to a single file you keep, with a readable copy of every channel. Titles, tags, summaries and answers need an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on. Notes, voice notes, transcription, search and reminders work without it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ancor at 5.0 against Note to Self Memos's 1.5. Ancor also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). Note to Self Memos's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Ancor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Note to Self Memos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ancor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Ancor ships an update every 10 days, Note to Self Memos every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ancor | Note to Self Memos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aman R Agarwal | Saleh Kayyali |
Customer experience
Ancor
Note to Self Memos
In-app purchases
Ancor
- Ancor Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Ancor Pro - Annual$19.991 Year
- Ancor Pro$11.99
Note to Self Memos
No in-app purchases









