Comparison

Nota vs MemoryBalls Pro

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

Head to head
About

Nota

Features
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You had a great idea this morning. You were in the shower, or walking, or halfway through something else. By the time you sat down to write it up, it was gone. Not entirely β€” just blurry enough to lose the edge that made it worth capturing. Nota exists for that moment. Open the app and speak. Or type, if that is how you think. There are no rules about how you capture β€” only that you do. A quick voice note on a walk. A typed thought between calls. An imported recording from a meeting you wanted to revisit. Nota takes whatever you give it and turns it into something structured and useful, automatically. After you capture a note, Nota goes to work. It transcribes your audio on-device, privately, without sending anything to a server. Then it reads what you said and produces a clean summary, a list of action points, key moments you can jump to, and insights β€” patterns, risks, decisions β€” surfaced from your own words. You do not have to read back through everything. You do not have to organize anything manually. You open the note and the value is already there. If you want to go deeper, you can talk to your note directly. Ask it what decisions were made. Ask it to list the open questions. Ask it to summarize just the part about pricing, or the part about the timeline. The note assistant understands your content and answers in plain language. It is not a search bar. It is a conversation with your own thinking. That is what a single note gives you. But the real shift happens when your notes start talking to each other. Over days and weeks, you capture more. Customer calls. Product ideas. Research conversations. Weekly reflections. Each one is useful on its own. Together, they hold something larger β€” a pattern, a direction, a story about where things are heading β€” that you would never see by reading them one at a time. Smart Notes is how Nota surfaces that bigger picture. You give it a topic and a time range. It reads across your notes, finds what is relevant, and composes a single, coherent output. Your week of product thinking becomes a strategy document. Your last five customer calls become a list of the things people actually want. Your scattered ideas about a launch become the outline of a plan. You did not write any of that. You just captured, consistently, the way you already think. Nota is private by default. Transcription runs locally on your device using on-device AI. Nothing is sent to a server unless you choose to use cloud processing for longer or more complex recordings. There are no accounts to create, no logins, no data handed over before you have even decided if you trust something. You open the app, you capture, and what you say stays yours. Everything you produce β€” transcripts, summaries, action points, insights β€” can be exported in whatever format you need. The audio is yours too. Nota works for founders who want to stop losing what came out of a customer call. For creators who think through episodes out loud before they write a single word. For students who need to capture a lecture and come back to the key points without replaying the whole thing. For anyone who has ever had a good idea and watched it dissolve before they could use it. You think faster than you type. Start there. Capture anything. Understand it. Build on it. Terms of Service: https://trynota.ee/terms/

About

MemoryBalls Pro

This app helps you preserve and organize your meaningful moments with customizable backgrounds and smooth animations. Enjoy a distraction-free journaling experience to reflect deeply on your memories.

Highlights
  • Save videos to photo albums
  • Rename and sort memories
  • Customize background color
  • Enhanced animations
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Go deeper. Stay focused. Memory Balls Pro is designed for those who want to keep their memories longer, customize their space, and reflect without distractions. - Keep your moments safe Save recorded videos to your photo albums Preserve meaningful moments beyond the app Your memories don’t have to stay inside the ball. - Organize your archive your way Rename Boxes freely Sort memories by people, time, or emotions As memories grow, organization matters. - Make the space yours Customize the main screen background color Create an atmosphere that matches your emotions Your memory space should feel personal. - Smoother, richer animations Enhanced animations and transitions More natural motion and interaction between memory balls Memories don’t just play; they come alive. - A distraction-free experience Remove all ads, Flash while recording Enjoy a calm, uninterrupted journaling space Your emotions deserve full attention. Pro isn’t about more features. It’s about deeper reflection.

Screenshots

Nota4 screens
MemoryBalls Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nota at Free against MemoryBalls Pro's $0.99. MemoryBalls Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Nota is free to download; MemoryBalls Pro costs $0.99 up front. Nota sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. MemoryBalls Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
Nota versus MemoryBalls Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotaMemoryBalls Pro
PriceFree β€” better$0.99
Positive reviewsβ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
Monetizationβ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 β€” better26.2
Further details β€” not scored
Size52 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChipp Studio OUSuwhan Baek

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Nota

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • AI Credits: Small pack$8.99
  • AI Credits: Medium pack$22.99
  • AI Credits: Large pack$59.99
None

MemoryBalls Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nota free?
Nota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MemoryBalls Pro free?
MemoryBalls Pro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nota or MemoryBalls Pro have ads?
Neither Nota nor MemoryBalls Pro shows ads.

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