Comparison

Shared Reminders vs PlaceMemo

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

Head to head
About

Shared Reminders

Features
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Remember the right thing at the right place, and remind the people you live with. OnTheGo reminds you the moment you arrive somewhere or leave. Buy milk when you reach the market, grab your umbrella as you leave home, pick up the prescription at the pharmacy. NEW: TOGETHER Send your partner or housemate a reminder that rings on their phone when they reach a place, or at the time you pick. • "Get the medicine" rings when they arrive at the pharmacy • See when it reached their phone, when it rang and when they finished it • Make groups for home, family or friends • Receiving reminders is free; sending them is part of Premium LOCATION REMINDERS • Get reminded when you arrive at a place or when you leave it • Choose how wide the reminder area is, from 100 m to 5 km • Add a delay, like "15 minutes after I get home" • Snooze a reminder for 15 minutes or an hour • Let it ring as an alarm that cuts through silent mode (iOS 26 or later) • Works in the background, even when the app is closed DAYS AND TIMES • Limit a reminder to certain days and hours • Repeat it daily, weekly or monthly, even on the first Monday of the month • Quick reminders: one tap where you are, they ring once and clean themselves up YOUR PLACES • Save Home, Work and your favorite places • Start a reminder from a saved place in one tap • Pick any spot on the map, or search for it HOME SCREEN WIDGET See your active reminders at a glance. FREE iCLOUD SYNC Keep reminders, favorites, Home and Work the same on all your devices with your own iCloud account. Only you can see this data. PRIVACY • No account, no ads, no tracking • Your location stays on your iPhone • Purchases are verified with RevenueCat; your reminders and places are never sent to it PREMIUM • Turn on your location reminders, up to 20 at once (the most iOS allows an app) • Send reminders to your people with Together Choose a yearly plan, with a free trial for new subscribers, or pay once for Lifetime. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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PlaceMemo

Features
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Save notes and to-do checklists at real places. Get a notification with your memo or remaining tasks when you arrive nearby. A HOME FOR EACH PLACE • Browse a notebook-style home with a tab and memo count for each saved place. • Use the center + button to add a note or to-do linked to your selected place. • Check off tasks from the home list and see your progress count. • Search notes, to-dos, and addresses across all places. ALERTS ON ARRIVAL • See the place and note or to-do type in each arrival alert. • To-do alerts show unchecked tasks. • Combine a place with chosen days and times. • Background arrival alerts need Always location permission. You can still write and view memos without it. FIND AND KEEP • Pick a place on the map or search by keyword or address. Nearby results are sorted by distance. • Attach photos to notes and checklists. • Restore deleted memos for 30 days. • Unsaved edits are protected when leaving, and save failures keep your draft. • No sign-up needed. Choose from several color themes and use the app in 34 languages. FREE AND PREMIUM • Free: up to 10 memos and 5 places, with an alert radius of 50–500 m. • Premium: a one-time purchase removes memo and place limits, allows a radius from 10 m, and enables cloud backup and restore. • Premium backup uses iCloud or Google Drive on iOS, and Google Drive on Android. • Arrival detection depends on your phone's location accuracy.

Screenshots

Shared Reminders4 screens
PlaceMemo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PlaceMemo at 15.1 against Shared Reminders's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Shared Reminders sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and PlaceMemo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shared Reminders ships an update every 3 weeks, PlaceMemo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Shared Reminders versus PlaceMemo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShared RemindersPlaceMemo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSalih GoleLake514 Inc.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Shared Reminders

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Beacon$1.991 Month
  • OnTheGo Weekly$1.997 Days
  • OnTheGo Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • OnTheGo Lifetime$9.99
  • OnTheGo Lifetime$12.99
1 purchases

PlaceMemo

One-time1
  • PlaceMemo Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Shared Reminders free?
Shared Reminders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PlaceMemo free?
PlaceMemo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shared Reminders or PlaceMemo have ads?
Neither Shared Reminders nor PlaceMemo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shared Reminders or PlaceMemo?
Shared Reminders ships an update every 3 weeks, and PlaceMemo fortnightly. Most recently, Shared Reminders was updated on October 28, 2026 and PlaceMemo on October 30, 2026.

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