ForgetMeNot vs Memory Jar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ForgetMeNot
Capture and organize life's moments, big and small, in private or shared digital memory jars. Relive memories through photos, videos, and notes, and revisit them anytime.
- Capture photos, videos, and notes
- Organize memories into jars
- Private or shared jars
- Collaborative memory building
- Random memory recall
- Browse memories as a timeline
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ForgetMeNot is for remembering our lives. Not just the big stuff like birthdays and epic trips, but also the countless smaller moments we have with our friends, family, and ourselves. Like when your friend said something so dumb and funny you were laughing until it hurt. These times are the easiest to forget, but also what gives life real meaning. Now you can collect them all in your own memory jars. Keep them private, or build them together with the people who were there. And whenever you need it, pull a memory out at random and be back there for a minute. WHO WE ARE We're just two people with a couple of cats. Come say hi: https://instagram.com/forget.me.not.app WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FORGETMENOT A memory jar app for photos, videos, and notes, kept privately or shared with the people you love. Capture memories - Save photos, videos, and written notes as memories - Each memory keeps its date, so a jar doubles as a timeline you can scroll - Make as many jars as you like: a family jar, a couple's jar, a travel jar, a baby's first-year jar, a pet jar, a gratitude jar Relive memories - Pull a random memory from any jar whenever you want to look back - Browse any jar as a dated photo journal Share memories with family and friends - Invite people to a shared jar so everyone adds their own photos, videos, and notes - Collaborative jars for couples, families, friend groups, and long-distance relationships - Send a single memory to someone who was there Private by default - Jars are private unless you invite someone - No public feed, no followers, no strangers Whether you use it as a memory keeper, a shared photo journal, a family diary, a digital scrapbook, a time capsule, or a gratitude jar, ForgetMeNot is a place to put the moments you don't want to forget, and a way to find them again when you need them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://forget-me-not.co/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://forget-me-not.co/privacy-policy
Memory Jar
This app helps parents and family members preserve precious childhood memories from pregnancy through age 18. It functions as a digital scrapbook, allowing users to capture photos, voice memos, and written notes, organizing them into a "living book" that grows over time. Features include a flipbook for growth tracking, sealed letters for future delivery, and year-in-review yearbooks.
- Living book organized by child's milestones
- Flipbook for time-lapse growth videos
- Sealed letters for future delivery
- Yearly review summaries
- On This Day memory recall
- Voice memo capture
- Family contribution with approval
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MEMORY JAR A book that grows from pregnancy to eighteen. The years go fast. The notes pile up. The photos get lost. The things they said — the small, perfect, fleeting things — slip away. Memory Jar is a beautiful, unhurried place to keep them. Built like a book, not a feed. Designed for the long arc of parenthood — from the first sonogram to the day they leave home. WHY MEMORY JAR IS DIFFERENT The Living Book. Everything you capture composes itself into your child's book — chapters by month, season, and year, told entirely in your own words and photos. Begin with Chapter One, a few questions about how it all started. Then answer one short prompt a day, and the pages keep turning. A real book that writes itself — and nothing in it is ever AI-written. The Flipbook. Take a growth photo now and then — Memory Jar reminds you when it's time. It quietly lines up your child's eyes from one photo to the next, then plays them back as a smooth time-lapse. Watch them grow up, right before your eyes. Share the clip whenever you like. The whole arc, in one place. Most apps focus on baby, or toddlerhood, or a single year. Memory Jar holds eighteen years of your child's life — and the months before they were born. One book. Many chapters. Sealed Letters. Write a letter today. Set the delivery date for their eighteenth birthday, their wedding day, the morning they leave for college. Memory Jar keeps it sealed until that exact moment. The Yearbook. At the end of every year, Memory Jar gathers that year's quotes, milestones, places, and firsts into a year in review — built entirely from the moments you captured. On This Day, every day. Each morning, Memory Jar surfaces a memory from the same calendar date in past years. The thing they said two years ago. The photo from last summer. The quote you'd forgotten you saved. Voice memos as crown jewels. Their first laugh. Their first guitar chord. The way they said your name at three. Memory Jar treats voice as a chapter, not a footnote. Built for the whole family. Co-parents, grandparents, and anyone you invite can contribute memories — with your approval before they land in the book. One book, many hands. Print the chapter. Export any year as a beautiful PDF photobook with serif typography and your photos, ready to print and hold forever. PRIVACY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Memory Jar never sees your data. Your family's memories sync directly between your iCloud accounts — nothing about your child's life is ever sent to a server we operate. And nothing is invented: every word in your child's book is one you wrote yourself. WHO IT'S FOR For parents, grandparents, and anyone who has ever caught a moment they wished they could keep. For first-time parents, fifth-time parents, expecting parents, and parents whose kids are already grown. For anyone who knows that the small things, written down, become the only things that last. INCLUDED IN THE FREE PLAN Unlimited capture (photos, voice, written notes) The Book and Memories for one child The Flipbook — your child's growth time-lapse Quote of the Week and On This Day MEMORY JAR PREMIUM With a 14-day free trial. Multi-child support Co-parent, contributor, and viewer invites with approval flow Sealed Letters for future delivery The Yearbook, year by year Time Machine: year-by-year On This Day Photobook PDF export — — — Built by parents, for parents who don't want to forget. From Branch Labs. — — — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://memoryjar.branchlabsapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Memory Jar at free against ForgetMeNot's free with in-app purchases. ForgetMeNot's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.4). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. ForgetMeNot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Memory Jar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ForgetMeNot against 5.0 for Memory Jar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.
ForgetMeNot ships an update every 6 days, Memory Jar every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ForgetMeNot | Memory Jar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dendric LLC | Gregory Branch |
In-app purchases
ForgetMeNot
- Timeless (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Timeless (Annual)$24.991 Year
- Jar Permanent Growth$4.99
Memory Jar
- Memory Jar Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Memory Jar Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$39.991 Year









