Comparison

Flipshotz vs Memily

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

Head to head
About

Flipshotz

Easily create personalized photo books from your phone's media. This app offers a social media-inspired interface for effortless design, with options for text narration, custom layouts, and collaboration. Preserve your memories in beautiful, tangible photo albums.

Highlights
  • Social media-inspired interface for easy creation
  • Voice-to-text for adding narrative
  • Customizable layouts, backgrounds, and stickers
  • Tag photos with date and location
  • Collaborate on books with friends and family
  • Upload short videos as QR codes
  • In-app digital library with smart filters
Features
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Capture Life's Moments with FlipShotz! Enjoy making quality photo books that will keep your memories alive to cherish for a lifetime. Forget about the hassle of traditional photo book apps. With the FlipShotz app’s social media like interface, it’s fun, easy and affordable to get your photos off your phone and onto the pages of your custom photo book. Capture your latest vacation, wedding, or child milestone as memories are created, or rediscover old moments in your camera roll. FlipShotz helps you tell your story one page at a time. Our voice to text feature makes adding narrative super easy ensuring your memories never fade. Features that Inspire: - Effortless Creation: Our user-friendly interface is inspired by social media so you can create a new book, or add pages to an existing one in just a few taps. - Easy Access: Capture new moments or rediscover old ones straight from your camera roll, and easily add text to tell your story using your phone's keyboard or voice-to-text. - Customizable Layouts: Get creative with a wide selection of photo collage designs, themed backgrounds, and fun stickers that make every page uniquely yours. - Taggable photos: Ability to add the date and tag a location on every page. - Collaborate with Others: Partner on drafts with friends and family by providing them access to add pages to your book. - Video Memories: Upload short videos to your book. They will appear as QR codes in your printed book. Just scan to relive the moments! - In-App Digital Library: Move your completed photo books to our in-app digital library and use the smart filter function to quickly find and revisit your favorite memories. - Fun Sharing: Share your finished photo books with others in the app or on social media right from the library. Comments on your book from other users of the app can be easily added to the back pages of your hard cover printed book. - Affordability: There is no cost to download the app and create your photo books. Host up to 10 books for FREE. If you enjoy our digital library feature, add more books to your account with a paid membership. Order your printed hard cover Photo Books at our everyday low prices, or download soft copy PDF versions of your book for a small fee. - Privacy First: We take your privacy seriously. Your photos and data are safe and secure, only shared with trusted partners for book creation. We do not sell your personal data. Why You'll Love Flipshotz: - Super Easy to Use: Designed to be intuitive, making the creation of photo books an absolute joy. - Budget-Friendly: Enjoy wallet-friendly printing options and subscribe for extended digital storage and sharing. - Personal Touch: Every page is a canvas — customize it to reflect your unique story. - Total Flexibility: Add, rearrange, or delete pages with a simple drag-and-drop, whenever you want. - More than a photo book maker: Use FlipShotz as a tool to make photo journals, scrapbooks, or family photo albums. Flipshotz brings your photos to life in beautiful, printed photo books. Start creating, sharing, and treasuring your memories today. Download Flipshotz now and let your story unfold!

About

Memily

This app provides a private space to store and share personal media like photos, videos, and voice notes with family. It focuses on preserving the stories behind moments, not just the visuals, offering gentle prompts to help users capture meaningful reflections.

Highlights
  • Private media storage
  • Add photos, videos, voice notes
  • Preserve stories behind moments
  • Share with family circles
  • No public feeds or followers
  • Gentle prompts for reflection
Features
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The people you love, shared only with the people you trust. Memily is Personal Media™: a private place to share photos, videos, voices, thoughts and stories with the people you choose. Unlike traditional social media, Memily is built for trusted circles, with no public audience, no ads and no selling personal data. Moments and their stories stay together for you to revisit and keep. Personal Media™, not social media. Memily begins with privacy-conscious families and close friends, especially parents who do not want to post children publicly. Personal Media™ names the category: moments made for the people who matter, rather than content made for followers. 1) PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Choose the people you invite and who can see each Memily. Share within trusted circles, not with a public audience. • Anyone you invite can download Memily, see your Memilies and comment, free. 2) MORE THAN PHOTOS • Because the everyday moments are worth remembering just as much as the big ones. The little conversations, passing thoughts, and stories behind your photos deserve a place of their own. Together, searchable, and easy to revisit. • Everything the camera missed. Your voices, thoughts and stories shared. Add the words, voices and stories behind a moment, and share them so your circle can react and comment together. • Add photos, videos and voice notes as they happen, or pull them from your camera roll when you have a minute. Gentle prompts help when you're stuck. No streaks, no schedules. • Keep memories together and easily searchable, so you can find and revisit what matters. 3) NO ADS. EVER. • Your Memilies are yours. No advertising. We never sell personal data. Your memories remain yours to keep, with options to download them at any time. • Download everything, any time, in open formats. Whatever you've added stays yours to see and download, paid or not. Personal Media™, not social media. Privately share photos, videos, voices, thoughts and stories with the people you choose. Keep the meaning behind every moment together, organized and easy to search, find and revisit. Choose from three plans: 1) MEMILY (FREE) • Free to use, no time limit • Voice notes, Stories and sharing included • Grandparents and family see and comment free, no time limit • No ads 2) MEMILY INDIVIDUAL • Unlimited photos and videos • Everything in Free • No ads 3) MEMILY FAMILY • Unlimited photos and videos for four (4) family members • Everything in Individual • No ads Make your first Memily tonight. Memily is free to use. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://memily.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://memily.com/terms-of-service Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flipshotz4 screens
Memily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Memily at weekly against Flipshotz's every 3 weeks. Memily also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2). Flipshotz's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Flipshotz sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Memily sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flipshotz against 5.0 for Memily. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Memily has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flipshotz ships an update every 3 weeks, Memily weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flipshotz versus Memily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlipshotzMemily
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB132 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperFlipshotz, LLCMemily Inc.

Customer experience

Flipshotz

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Memily

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Flipshotz

Subscriptions5
  • Bronze Plan$4.991 Month
  • Sliver Plan2 variants$7.991 Month
  • Gold Plan$16.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Bronze Plan$45.991 Year
  • Gold Plan$179.991 Year
10 purchases

Memily

Subscriptions10
  • Family$19.991 Month
  • Family – 6 Seats$31.991 Month
  • Family – 8 Seats$43.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Family – 9 Seats$49.991 Month
  • Family – 10 Seats$55.991 Month
  • Family – 11 Seats$61.991 Month
  • Family – 12 Seats$67.991 Month
  • Family – 10 Seats$619.991 Year
  • Family – 11 Seats$689.991 Year
  • Family – 12 Seats$749.991 Year

Questions

Is Flipshotz free?
Flipshotz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memily free?
Memily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flipshotz or Memily?
Flipshotz and Memily are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do Flipshotz or Memily have ads?
Neither Flipshotz nor Memily shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flipshotz or Memily?
Flipshotz ships an update every 3 weeks, and Memily weekly. Most recently, Flipshotz was updated on October 30, 2026 and Memily on November 5, 2026.

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