Comparison

Simple Memo vs Stack

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

Head to head
About

Simple Memo

Features
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Simple Memo - Checklist is a simple memo app that lets you quickly use both memos and checklists. Write down ideas as they come to you, or manage to-dos and shopping with checklists. With no complicated settings or operations, you can start writing whenever you need to. Use it as a memo pad, to-do list, or shopping list for everything from quick everyday notes to organizing your tasks. 【Main Features】 ・Quickly switch between memos and checklists ・Manage to-dos and shopping with checklists ・Swipe left or right to move between pages ・Create up to 10 pages ・Reorder and delete items ・Rename pages freely

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Stack

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Stack is a project planner built the way a Mac app should be. Lay work out on boards, see the same work on a calendar, and watch it run on a timeline — on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with everything synced privately through your own iCloud. BOARDS THAT MOVE Lists and tasks you can drag anywhere. Colour-coded labels, cover images, checklists, due dates, priorities, attachments and comments. Give a board a key and every task gets a number you can quote — HRB-14. THREE WAYS TO SEE THE SAME WORK Columns when you are running the work. One long list when you are working through it. A month calendar when you need to know what lands when — and a timeline of lanes and bars when you need to see the whole project at once. PLAN ITEMS, NOT JUST TASKS "Design freeze". "Launch". Dates a project has to remember that are nobody's to-do. They sit on the calendar and the timeline beside the work without pretending to be tasks. TODAY, THIS WEEK, FLAGGED Saved views that cut across every board, so you can start the day in one place instead of opening four boards to find out what is due. FIND ANYTHING Full-text search across every board — titles, descriptions, checklists and attachment names — with the board and list each result came from. SHARE A BOARD Invite someone with a link. They see your board, you see their edits, and it all runs on iCloud sharing. No accounts to create, no seats to buy. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK Quick add from anywhere. A menu bar item on Mac. A share extension so anything you are looking at can become a task. A home-screen widget for what is due today. Shortcuts and Siri support for the rest. WORKS OFFLINE, ALWAYS Every read and every write happens on your device first. Sync catches up when the network does. A plane, a basement, a bad hotel — the app does not care. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No tracking. No ads. Your boards live on your device and sync through your personal iCloud — nobody else can see them, including us. Free, with no subscription and nothing to unlock. Built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac, localized into six languages, and designed to feel at home on every screen size.

Screenshots

Simple Memo4 screens
Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stack at none against Simple Memo's 1. Stack also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Simple Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Simple Memo versus Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple MemoStack
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSota YamamotoSouthIndus Labs

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Memo

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.49
None

Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Memo free?
Simple Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stack free?
Stack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Memo or Stack have ads?
Simple Memo shows ads; Stack does not.

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