Comparison

WhereMate vs Almanack

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

Head to head
About

WhereMate

Record where you store items using voice, text, or photos. Quickly retrieve the location, associated notes, and images of anything you've saved. Organize items within boxes and print QR labels for easy scanning.

Highlights
  • Log items with voice, text, or photos
  • Fast retrieval of item location and notes
  • Organize items within boxes
  • Printable QR labels for boxes
  • Private, on-device storage
  • Light and Dark mode support
Features
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Put it away. Find it later. Just say where you put something — "the charger is in the kitchen junk drawer" — and WhereMate files the thing and the place. Months later, ask, and see the place, the photo and your note. • Say it, type it, or snap a photo. One sentence is enough. • Find anything fast: the place first, then the box, the photo and your note. • Every save shows what was saved, with Undo and one-tap fixes. • Places hold boxes, and boxes hold things. Know what's in every box. • Print a QR label for any box, or save it as a PDF. Scan the label with WhereMate to see inside. • Made for iPhone and iPad, in Light or Dark. Private by design Your library stays on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing is sent to us. Speech and photo recognition run on your device. On supported devices, Apple's on-device language model helps understand what you said; everywhere else WhereMate's own rules do the same job, on your device. Simple pricing Free for your first 5 things. One purchase unlocks unlimited things and every label design. No subscription. If you used WhereMate before version 6.0, unlimited things stay free for you. Great for passports and documents, rings and keepsakes, chargers and spare keys, seasonal bins, storage units and moving boxes.

About

Almanack

Capture fleeting thoughts and conversations with ten-second voice notes that are automatically transcribed, titled, and organized. Ask questions later to retrieve information from your own spoken words, and even integrate with other AI assistants.

Highlights
  • Ten-second voice note capture
  • Automatic transcription and titling
  • AI-powered question answering
  • Meeting recording and summarization
  • Multilingual support (99 languages)
  • Note conversion to emails, tweets, etc.
  • Integration with ChatGPT and Claude
Features
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You have a hundred thoughts a day. You lose the best ones. Almanack catches each one in a ten-second voice note, then hands it back in your own words the moment you ask. HOW IT WORKS Talk. Almanack cleans up the ramble and files it for you. Ask. Weeks later, ask a question and get the answer, pulled only from what you actually said. That is the whole app. No folders to build, no notes to re-read, no system to maintain. ASK YOUR OWN MEMORY "What did I decide about pricing in March?" "What was that idea I had on the walk?" Ask, and Almanack answers in your own words, sourced only from your own notes. If you never said it, it says so instead of making something up. TALK, IT FILES ITSELF Hit record and think out loud. Almanack transcribes it, titles it, and organizes it in the background. You never sort anything into a folder. A messy ten-second ramble becomes a clean note you can actually find. Capture from your Lock Screen, a home-screen widget, or just by asking Siri, without opening the app. RECORD MEETINGS AND CALLS Hit record and set your phone down. Almanack captures the whole room, never loses it, and gives you a clean transcript, a summary, and the next steps. Ask the meeting anything later. No bot joins your call. SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE Talk in English, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, any of 99 languages. Almanack writes it back in the language you spoke, not a forced translation. Mix two languages in one meeting and it keeps both. Need a note in another language? Turn it into dozens more. TURN A NOTE INTO ANYTHING A rambled note becomes a clean email, a tweet, a meeting brief, study notes, or a summary in seconds. Teach Almanack your writing style once and the drafts sound like you, not a robot. USE YOUR MEMORY FROM ANY AI Connect Almanack to the AI you already use, like ChatGPT and Claude, and ask your own notes from inside it. Your memory stops living in one app. Every assistant you use can draw on it, scoped to only what you said. YOUR COMMITMENTS COME BACK ON THEIR OWN Say "I need to send Dixon the deck Friday" and Almanack pulls it out, dates it, and reminds you Friday. The things you said you would do come back to you, instead of dying in a list you never reopen. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED Your capture is never lost. Almanack saves the second you speak, so a dead battery or a closed app never costs you the thought. Answers come from your own words, never invented. Your data is encrypted, yours to export or delete anytime, and never sold or used to train anything. WHO IT IS FOR People who think faster than they can write it down. Founders and makers juggling forty open loops, writers who work ideas out loud, anyone who has lost a good thought on a walk and wished they could get it back. WHY IT IS PAID Almanack works for you, not for advertisers. You can start free to see how it works. Every capture runs real AI, so unlimited capture and recall is a paid subscription, never a free tier funded by ads or your data. One subscription, and your memory stays yours. 95.99 dollars a year, about eight dollars a month. Talk it out. Ask it back. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Almanack is free to start, with limits on how much you can capture and ask. Almanack Premium unlocks unlimited capture, recall, meetings, and everything in the app. Reading and exporting your own notes is always free. Plans (US pricing, may vary by region): Yearly: 95.99 dollars per year, the best value at about 8 dollars per month Monthly: 14.99 dollars per month Weekly: 7.99 dollars per week Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Have feedback or ideas? Email support@echoforge.to, we'd love to hear from you. Terms of Use: https://usealmanack.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://usealmanack.com/privacy

Screenshots

WhereMate4 screens
Almanack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Almanack at 5.0 against WhereMate's 4.2. WhereMate's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. WhereMate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Almanack sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Almanack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhereMate has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
WhereMate versus Almanack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhereMateAlmanack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHS Technologies, LLCFabio Jonathan Arifin

Customer experience

WhereMate

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Almanack

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

WhereMate

One-time1
  • Unlock WhereMate$9.99
3 purchases

Almanack

Subscriptions3
  • Almanack Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Almanack Monthly$18.991 Month
  • Almanack Yearly$95.991 Year

Questions

Is WhereMate free?
WhereMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Almanack free?
Almanack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WhereMate or Almanack?
Almanack is rated higher. WhereMate averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Almanack averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do WhereMate or Almanack have ads?
Almanack shows ads; WhereMate does not.

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