Comparison

PVChess Premium vs Memory Palace

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

Head to head
About

PVChess Premium

Features
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Premium version of PVChess with full access, no ads, and offline play. Before purchasing PVChess Premium, try the free, ad-supported PVChess: Chess Tutor first. It offers the same core gameplay, so you can decide whether PVChess is right for you.

About

Memory Palace

Create and organize memory palaces using text, photos, and panoramas. Review your routes step-by-step to enhance recall for speeches, lists, and sequences. This tool focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow.

Highlights
  • Create palaces and loci
  • Use photos as visual references
  • Mark loci on images/panoramas
  • Combine text, photo, and panorama loci
  • Refine locus order
  • Step-by-step route review
  • Walkthrough mode
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Build memory palaces with ordered loci, photos of places, and supported real-world panoramas — then review your palace route step by step. Memory Palace is a focused Method of Loci tool for building stable palace routes and keeping your loci and visual references organized in one place. A palace can be as simple as an ordered list of text-only loci. It can also be visual: import photos of rooms, streets, landmarks, or other places, add supported panorama scenes, mark one or more loci on an image, and keep those loci in the same palace route. Some loci may remain text-only when a photo or panorama is unavailable, or when the place exists only in your imagination. Create and manage your palace • Create palaces and loci • Use photos of places as optional visual references • Mark one or more loci on a photo or panorama • Keep text-only, photo-based, and panorama-based loci in one palace route • Refine the order of loci while building your palace route • Review existing palace routes without hunting through spreadsheets, documents, or annotated image files Review the palace route • Move through loci one by one in Walkthrough mode, following the same palace route each time • Revisit the visual reference when a locus has one • Return to saved panorama views for supported panorama loci Good for material with an order — or material you choose to arrange into one • Speeches, presentations, and scripts • Ordered lists, checklists, and procedures • Timelines, historical sequences, and event chains • Exam outlines, classification systems, and frameworks • Poems, quotations, passages, and other ordered content • Terminology or vocabulary lists you choose to organize into a route Memory Palace does not try to become another notes app, brain game, or deck-first flashcard app. It focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow: palaces, ordered loci, optional visual references, and Walkthrough mode. Memory Palace keeps the palace structure. You choose what each locus is meant to cue in your own memory. Built from real memory-sport practice: after placing 6th overall at the 2011 World Memory Championship, the creator built Memory Palace to solve a practical problem — keeping thousands of loci across more than a hundred palaces organized over years of use. Start with a palace, create your first locus, and walk the palace route to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PVChess Premium3 screens
Memory Palace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Memory Palace at Free against PVChess Premium's $0.99. Memory Palace also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). PVChess Premium's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Memory Palace is free to download; PVChess Premium costs $0.99 up front. Memory Palace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PVChess Premium asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PVChess Premium ships an update every 2 months, Memory Palace fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
PVChess Premium versus Memory Palace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPVChess PremiumMemory Palace
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJianfeng Wu剑津 付

In-app purchases

None

PVChess Premium

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Memory Palace

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is PVChess Premium free?
PVChess Premium costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PVChess Premium or Memory Palace have ads?
Neither PVChess Premium nor Memory Palace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PVChess Premium or Memory Palace?
PVChess Premium ships an update every 2 months, and Memory Palace fortnightly. Most recently, PVChess Premium was updated on October 28, 2026 and Memory Palace on October 31, 2026.

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