Comparison

Ancor vs Note to Self Memos

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Ancor4 screens
Note to Self Memos3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ancor versus Note to Self Memos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAncorNote to Self Memos
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAman R AgarwalSaleh Kayyali

Customer experience

Ancor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Note to Self Memos

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ancor

Subscriptions2
  • Ancor Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Ancor Pro - Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ancor Pro$11.99
None

Note to Self Memos

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ancor free?
Ancor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note to Self Memos free?
Note to Self Memos is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ancor or Note to Self Memos?
Ancor is rated higher. Ancor averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Note to Self Memos averages 1.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Ancor or Note to Self Memos have ads?
Neither Ancor nor Note to Self Memos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ancor or Note to Self Memos?
Ancor ships an update every 10 days, and Note to Self Memos every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ancor was updated on October 30, 2026 and Note to Self Memos on November 5, 2026.

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