Comparison

Memory Palace Builder vs Memory Palace

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

Head to head
About

Memory Palace Builder

Features
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Create a memory palace with multiple locations. Add the individual stations you have at a location. Compress the images in the app to save storage. When finished, you can scroll through and search all location entries and create and save associations to the images. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Memory Palace

Create and organize memory palaces using text, photos, and panoramas. Review your routes step-by-step to enhance recall for speeches, lists, and sequences. This tool focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow.

Highlights
  • Create palaces and loci
  • Use photos as visual references
  • Mark loci on images/panoramas
  • Combine text, photo, and panorama loci
  • Refine locus order
  • Step-by-step route review
  • Walkthrough mode
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Build memory palaces with ordered loci, photos of places, and supported real-world panoramas — then review your palace route step by step. Memory Palace is a focused Method of Loci tool for building stable palace routes and keeping your loci and visual references organized in one place. A palace can be as simple as an ordered list of text-only loci. It can also be visual: import photos of rooms, streets, landmarks, or other places, add supported panorama scenes, mark one or more loci on an image, and keep those loci in the same palace route. Some loci may remain text-only when a photo or panorama is unavailable, or when the place exists only in your imagination. Create and manage your palace • Create palaces and loci • Use photos of places as optional visual references • Mark one or more loci on a photo or panorama • Keep text-only, photo-based, and panorama-based loci in one palace route • Refine the order of loci while building your palace route • Review existing palace routes without hunting through spreadsheets, documents, or annotated image files Review the palace route • Move through loci one by one in Walkthrough mode, following the same palace route each time • Revisit the visual reference when a locus has one • Return to saved panorama views for supported panorama loci Good for material with an order — or material you choose to arrange into one • Speeches, presentations, and scripts • Ordered lists, checklists, and procedures • Timelines, historical sequences, and event chains • Exam outlines, classification systems, and frameworks • Poems, quotations, passages, and other ordered content • Terminology or vocabulary lists you choose to organize into a route Memory Palace does not try to become another notes app, brain game, or deck-first flashcard app. It focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow: palaces, ordered loci, optional visual references, and Walkthrough mode. Memory Palace keeps the palace structure. You choose what each locus is meant to cue in your own memory. Built from real memory-sport practice: after placing 6th overall at the 2011 World Memory Championship, the creator built Memory Palace to solve a practical problem — keeping thousands of loci across more than a hundred palaces organized over years of use. Start with a palace, create your first locus, and walk the palace route to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Memory Palace Builder4 screens
Memory Palace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Memory Palace at none against Memory Palace Builder's shown. Memory Palace also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 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. Memory Palace Builder sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.39 per month and Memory Palace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memory Palace Builder ships an update every 3 months, Memory Palace every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Memory Palace Builder versus Memory Palace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory Palace BuilderMemory Palace
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarvin Perzi剑津 付

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Memory Palace Builder

Subscriptions2
  • Premium – 1 Month$1.391 Month
  • Premium – 1 Year$14.491 Year
One-time3
  • Just Coffee$0.99
  • Pro Version & Coffee$4.99
  • Pro Version!$28.49
2 purchases

Memory Palace

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Memory Palace Builder free?
Memory Palace Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memory Palace Builder or Memory Palace have ads?
Memory Palace Builder shows ads; Memory Palace does not.
Which is updated more often, Memory Palace Builder or Memory Palace?
Memory Palace Builder ships an update every 3 months, and Memory Palace every 11 days. Most recently, Memory Palace Builder was updated on September 25, 2026 and Memory Palace on October 5, 2026.

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