Comparison

The Days We Keep vs Memory Handoff

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

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About

The Days We Keep

A peaceful digital journal for parents to record their baby's precious moments, from major milestones to everyday reflections. Capture photos, write notes, and design custom memories, with options to sync and back up your cherished entries.

Highlights
  • Capture photo memories and milestones
  • Write letters and reflections
  • Design custom memories
  • Mark special moments as keepsakes
  • View memories by timeline or feeling
  • Track growth and milestones
  • Export memories as PDFs
Features
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Keep this day. You'll be glad you did. The little voice calling from the other room. The drawing taped to the fridge. The question she asked for the hundredth time this week. The Days We Keep is a private home for your family's ordinary days, from the first ultrasound to the first day of high school, and every Tuesday in between. SEVEN WAYS TO KEEP A MEMORY - Photo, and the story behind it - Voice: the laugh, the lullaby, the word she still says wrong - Letter: words for someone to read later - Reflection: what today was really like - Feeling: how the day felt, in a few taps - Milestone: the firsts, and the quiet seconds - Canvas: a scrapbook page of photos, stickers and words ONE SENTENCE IS ENOUGH Some weeks you'll save a dozen moments. Some weeks you won't open the app at all. Nothing piles up. When you want somewhere to start, there's a question waiting each day, and reminders come only when you ask for them. TOGETHER, AND PRIVATE Invite your partner, the grandparents and the people who were there. Each of them adds what they saw, on their own phone, and comments and reacts to yours. You decide who sees each memory: just you, parents only, grandparents, the whole family, or people you pick. Nothing is ever public, and there's no feed. A STORY FOR EACH OF YOU Give everyone their own profile: a pregnancy, a child, or anyone you love. Then open Whole Family to see everyone's memories together. THEN ONE DAY, IT'S A STORY - Story Timeline: everything you keep, in order, like a book - Photo Journey: last spring next to this week - Growth charts and milestones for each child - Pregnancy journal, bump photos and appointments - Yearbooks and keepsakes you can print SOME THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE READ LATER Write a Time Capsule. Add a letter, photos and a voice note, seal it, and choose when it opens: on a date, on her 18th birthday, or on a day nobody can predict. SAFE AND BACKED UP Everything is backed up, so a new phone is just a new phone. Save memories offline; they sync when you're back online. In English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. MADE BY A MOM Hi, I'm Carmen. I built The Days We Keep for my own son's photos and stories, and it grew into a home for the whole family. A real person reads every message: support@thedayswekeep.com PLANS AND FREE TRIAL Start with a free 7-day trial on either plan. - Essentials: up to 3 family members on 1 device, all 7 memory types, timeline, growth, pregnancy journal and cloud backup. - Unlimited: everything in Essentials, plus Time Capsules, up to 10 family members on any number of devices, unlimited profiles, premium stickers, and downloadable yearbooks, keepsakes and growth reports. Each plan is offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://thedayswekeep.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://thedayswekeep.com/en/privacy/

About

Memory Handoff

Capture fleeting childhood moments with daily prompts. Record videos, photos, or notes to build a beautiful, lasting memory book for your child. Your memories are private and stored on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily memory prompts
  • Record video, photo, or text
  • Organized memory collection
  • Timeline view from birth to 18
  • Create printable scrapbooks
  • Generate memory reels (films)
Features
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You will forget almost everything — not the milestones, but the small ones. The mispronounced word. The song they invented in the bath. Their first opinion about clouds. Memory Handoff is built to catch them before they're gone. HOW IT WORKS Every day, one gentle question — chosen for your child's age. Answer it in thirty seconds: record a video, snap a photo, scan a drawing, or type a line. Then let it go. WATCH A CHILDHOOD TAKE SHAPE • Today — your daily prompt and the fastest way to capture a moment • Memories — every kept moment, beautifully collected • The Arc — see all the days from birth to eighteen, and the moments you've saved along the way • Keepsake — turn it all into something to hold YOUR MEMORIES REMAIN YOURS Everything is stored on your device and backed up to your own iCloud. Nothing is ever sent to our servers. No ads. No selling your data. Ever. CREATE SOMETHING TO HAND THEM When the time comes, weave every video, photo, and note into a printable Scrapbook or a Memory Reel — a little film of the small things — and give your child a piece of a childhood they could never have remembered on their own. Start today. By their eighteenth birthday, you'll have something no one else could give them. PRICING & TERMS Memory Handoff is free to use. Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription — $6.99/month or $49.99/year — or a one-time $399 lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your device Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://memoryhandoff.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

The Days We Keep4 screens
Memory Handoff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Memory Handoff at every 5 days against The Days We Keep's every 6 weeks. Memory Handoff also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. The Days We Keep sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Memory Handoff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Days We Keep against 5.0 for Memory Handoff. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Days We Keep ships an update every 6 weeks, Memory Handoff every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Days We Keep versus Memory Handoff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Days We KeepMemory Handoff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1714.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB22 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAgubit TechnologiesCompassCare LLC

Customer experience

The Days We Keep

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Memory Handoff

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

The Days We Keep

Subscriptions4
  • Essentials Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Essentials Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Memory Handoff

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$399.00

Questions

Is The Days We Keep free?
The Days We Keep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Handoff free?
Memory Handoff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Days We Keep or Memory Handoff?
The Days We Keep and Memory Handoff are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do The Days We Keep or Memory Handoff have ads?
Neither The Days We Keep nor Memory Handoff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Days We Keep or Memory Handoff?
The Days We Keep ships an update every 6 weeks, and Memory Handoff every 5 days. Most recently, The Days We Keep was updated on October 24, 2026 and Memory Handoff on October 11, 2026.

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