Comparison

Memory Palace Builder vs Lociform

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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/

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Lociform

Features
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A memory palace is the oldest study technique there is. Lociform makes it practical. Type what you need to remember. Lociform binds each item to a spot in a place you already know, with a vivid image that actually interacts with that spot. Then it walks you through the route out loud and brings each item back on a spaced-repetition schedule. WHY PUT THINGS IN PLACES Your memory for places is far better than your memory for lists, so you smuggle the list into a place. Roman orators used this to deliver speeches without notes. When Eleanor Maguire's team scanned ten of the highest-ranking competitors at the World Memory Championships in 2003, nine of the ten were using the method of loci, and they were not smarter than the controls and their brains were not structurally different. FREE, WITH TWO PALACES - A worked sample palace, one tap from first launch - A three-minute before-and-after test, so you see your own two scores - Starter decks: the 12 cranial nerves, the 8 carpal bones, the Krebs cycle, the NATO alphabet - Memory Walks read aloud while you look at each locus - Spaced repetition built on FSRS-6, showing the real interval on every button - Build a palace from your own photo, rendered with real depth - Full VoiceOver support, and a designed flat mode for Reduce Motion VERIFIED, NOT GUESSED For factual material Lociform uses a human-written hook library, each entry carrying the etymology that justifies it. Scaphoid is a boat because scaphe is Greek for boat. On-device Apple Intelligence is only ever asked to phrase a hook it has been handed, never to invent a medical association. Every scene is labelled so you can see where it came from. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No servers. No analytics. No third-party SDKs of any kind. Lociform makes no network requests at all. The depth model and the language model both run on your iPhone, so your palaces, your photos and everything you memorise stay on the device. ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK Every feature is free. If you want more than two palaces, Unlimited Palaces is a single purchase that never renews and never expires. No feature is locked behind it, there are no ads, and if you ever lose access every palace you have built stays readable and walkable. HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS The method of loci is good at ordered lists of discrete things. It will not give you understanding, and two items per locus is the sensible limit. Lociform says so inside the app, and sets out what the research shows alongside where that research is weak.

Screenshots

Memory Palace Builder4 screens
Lociform4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lociform at none against Memory Palace Builder's shown. Memory Palace Builder's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Memory Palace Builder sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.39 per month and Lociform sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Memory Palace Builder versus Lociform: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory Palace BuilderLociform
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size120 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarvin PerziJOSHUA JOHN

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Memory Palace Builder

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

Lociform

One-time1
  • Unlimited Palaces$9.99

Questions

Is Memory Palace Builder free?
Memory Palace Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lociform free?
Lociform is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memory Palace Builder or Lociform have ads?
Memory Palace Builder shows ads; Lociform does not.

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