Comparison

Note to Self Memos vs RawText

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

Head to head
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.

About

RawText

This app automatically removes all unwanted formatting and style elements when you paste text from various sources. It focuses on providing a clean, plain-text environment for writing, pasting, copying, and clearing content without distractions.

Highlights
  • Removes hidden formatting
  • Strips links and references
  • Cleans heading and font styles
  • Removes list and table remnants
  • Eliminates invisible control characters
  • Distraction-free writing environment
Features
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RawText is a plain-text editor built for users who work with content from different sources and want to avoid unwanted formatting. When text is pasted, the app automatically removes all style elements, regardless of whether the content originated from browsers, emails, documents, chat apps or spreadsheets. Only the actual text remains. The app removes: – hidden formatting – links and embedded references – heading levels and font styles – list and table remnants – invisible control characters Text typed inside RawText is not altered or automatically formatted, making the app ideal for situations where clean text needs to be reused in other programs. RawText focuses on four basic actions: – writing – pasting – copying – clearing Without saving, exporting or formatting features, the app provides a focused and distraction-free environment. It is particularly useful for emails, web forms, ticket systems, CMS tools, technical documentation and development workflows. About the developer: PCFFM.de is an IT service provider located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and offers RawText for free because a dependable plain-text editor is needed daily in customer support.

Screenshots

Note to Self Memos3 screens
RawText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RawText at 100% against Note to Self Memos's 0%. RawText also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.5) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 27.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RawText holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Note to Self Memos's written reviews are positive against 100% of RawText's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Note to Self Memos ships an update every 5 weeks, RawText every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Note to Self Memos versus RawText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNote to Self MemosRawText
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (2 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS27.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaleh KayyaliThomas Meroth

Customer experience

Note to Self Memos

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

RawText

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Note to Self Memos

No in-app purchases

None

RawText

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Note to Self Memos free?
Note to Self Memos is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RawText free?
RawText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Note to Self Memos or RawText?
RawText is rated higher. Note to Self Memos averages 1.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while RawText averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Note to Self Memos or RawText have ads?
Neither Note to Self Memos nor RawText shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Note to Self Memos or RawText?
Note to Self Memos ships an update every 5 weeks, and RawText every 2 months. Most recently, Note to Self Memos was updated on November 5, 2026 and RawText on October 30, 2026.

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