Comparison

Memori vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

Memori

Create and organize your life with a visual journal that blends analog film aesthetics, multi-layer collage design, and 3D flip-through books. Capture moments with cinematic texture, compose layouts with precision, and manage daily tasks and habits through visual cards, all synced across devices.

Highlights
  • 3D Flip Books with realistic page-turn physics
  • Multi-layer Canvas Studio for precise collage design
  • Film Camera with real-time cinematic texture and grain
  • Echo Cards for visual life management (tasks, habits, notes)
  • iCloud Sync across iPhone and iPad (Pro feature)
  • Privacy-focused with local or iCloud data storage
Features
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Create and Record, Your Way memori blends analog film photography, multi-layer canvas design and 3D flip-through journals into one creative space. Capture moments with film texture, compose layouts with precision, bind them into books that turn like paper, and organize your days with visual cards, all synced across your devices. 3D FLIP BOOKS: JOURNALS THAT FEEL REAL Your photos don't just sit in a grid. They live inside lifelike journals with real page-turn physics. • Arrange up to 50 books on a 3D shelf with realistic materials and lighting • Each book holds up to 100 pages: single spreads, double layouts or panoramas split across two pages • Customize covers, accent colors and the surface your books rest on: linen, denim, wood, velvet and more • Turn pages with smooth animation, shadows and perspective • Add photos from your library or your canvas projects Your memories deserve to be bound, shelved and flipped through. CANVAS STUDIO: A MULTI-LAYER WORKSPACE A freeform collage editor built for precision and reuse. • Stack, rotate, scale and crop images with precise alignment • Apply masks, add styled text and snap to grids • Lift a subject off its background and save it to your Sticker Book to reuse anywhere • Choose a page background: 12 notebook papers from ruled and graph to kraft and manuscript paper, any color, or your own photo • Export in high resolution (Pro) or save to Photos Every canvas can become a journal page: design once, use everywhere. FILM CAMERA: TEXTURE IN REAL TIME Eighteen film looks, each named after a traditional Japanese color, with a live preview of exactly what you'll get. • Films like Mizuiro, Ruri, Beni and Sumi, applied as you shoot • Grain, vignette, soft bloom and color fringing • Multiple lenses, manual exposure and white balance, tap to focus • Square, 35mm, widescreen and more • A built-in album you can filter by film The grain and color are part of the capture, not an overlay, so the texture holds up when you zoom in. ECHO CARDS: YOUR DAYS ON PAPER Your books keep the past. Echo cards organize the present. • Five kinds of card: tasks, habits, journal entries, notes and countdowns • 92 realistic designs: receipts, train tickets, telegrams, legal pads, stamp cards, split-flap boards, air letters and more • Journal cards can carry the weather, temperature and place • Choose colors and fonts, and reorder cards by dragging memori treats tasks, habits and memories as part of the same creative practice. IN YOUR LANGUAGE memori speaks English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Switch anytime in the app. SYNC & PRIVACY • iCloud Sync (Pro): books, canvases and Echo cards sync across iPhone and iPad. • Privacy first: no tracking, no feed, no followers. Your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud. FOR PEOPLE WHO • Love film photos and paper journals • Want to make collages and flip through them like real books • Plan their days with visual notes, tasks and habits • Prefer calm, tactile design to cluttered tools WHY MEMORI? Most apps make you choose: camera, collage, journal or planner. memori brings them together. Shoot with film texture. Build collages layer by layer. Bind pages into books that turn. Track your days with cards that feel like part of your journal. One app. One workspace. One synced library. Download memori and start turning your life into a book. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ember

Features
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Ember is a diary for the things you wouldn't say out loud yet. The day you almost quit. The walk that fixed you. The sentence your mother said in 2007 that you still think about. It's not a notebook for productivity or a journal for habits. It's a place to write the way you'd write to yourself at three in the morning, when nobody is watching and the sentences don't have to be good. The page is plain on purpose. Fraunces or Lora for the writing, set at a size that doesn't make you squint. A title field that doesn't ask much. A small line for the weather, the mood, the song that was playing. Voice memos when typing feels like too much. Photos when a photo says it faster. A drawing layer for the days a doodle is the whole entry. Each morning, one prompt, if you want one. Ignore it if you don't. Everything you write stays on this iPhone, encrypted with AES-GCM the moment you tap save. There is no Ember server. No account to make. No analytics looking over your shoulder. We couldn't read your entries if we tried — we built it that way on purpose. Ember is free to download with everything unlocked. One small banner supports development — remove it anytime with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, no auto-renewal, no popups asking you to upgrade in eighteen months. Export to Markdown or PDF whenever you like, and take what you wrote with you. The diary is yours; we're just the room it sits in. Write something today. Even one line.

Screenshots

Memori4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Memori at none against Ember's shown. Ember's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Memori sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Ember sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memori ships an update every 12 months, Ember every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Memori versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemoriEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size267 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerzheng xu丽佳 施

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memori

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annually$24.991 Year
1 purchases

Ember

One-time1
  • Ember Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Memori free?
Memori is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memori or Ember have ads?
Ember shows ads; Memori does not.
Which is updated more often, Memori or Ember?
Memori ships an update every 12 months, and Ember every 3 weeks. Most recently, Memori was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ember on October 28, 2026.

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