Comparison

Zain vs Recall

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

Head to head
About

Zain

This app helps you cultivate positive habits, track fitness, and journal your thoughts. It offers a curated social experience and includes tools for meditation, budgeting, and prayer times. An optional Pro version unlocks advanced features.

Highlights
  • Habit tracking
  • Journaling with themed canvases
  • Apple Health sync for fitness
  • Built-in podcast player with note-taking
  • Slow social feed with friends
  • Meditation timer
  • Expense tracker
Features
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Zain turns a goal into a plan you can keep, one week at a time, and changes the plan when real life changes your week. Start with one sentence in your own words, such as "Help me run my first marathon" or "Help me get ready for my exams in January". Zain asks a few questions about where you are starting and how much time you have, then drafts a plan that sets out what each week asks of you. Weeks rarely go to plan, and Zain is built for that. At the start of each week, the weekly check-in shows how the last one went, with missed days marked in gray rather than red. If a week slipped, Zain rearranges the next one so the goal still holds, and you can move or skip anything with a tap or a sentence. Nothing changes until you agree, and the weekly check-in is free. Beside the plan Habits: each habit has one ring and takes one tap, and seven beads show how its week is going. Explore habits suggests new ones and says why each one fits. Prayer: Zain works out the five prayer times on your phone for your city, and your location stays on the phone. One tap marks each prayer, a reminder can come at the adhan or a few minutes before, and you can mark the prayer straight from the reminder. The month's record shows what you marked, a missed prayer can be marked as made up, and a prayer buddy, if you choose one, sees only the prayers you marked. Reading: your shelf keeps the page you are on and the lines you want to remember. You can read one book with a friend and see each other's page, while their notes stay sealed until you reach the page where they left them. Each morning the Bookshop sets out new books, including a blind date with a book that you unwrap by its first lines. Notes: journal, idea, reflection, gratitude and list each have their own page, and a series gathers notes on one subject so you can read them from the beginning. You can also say a note instead of typing it. Meditation: Zain times a quiet sit under a sunset sky and rings a bell at the end, even when the phone is locked. Together: keep a habit side by side with a friend, invite someone along with one card, or share a goal and see both your weeks on one dial. Workouts: connect Apple Health and your workouts appear in Zain, where a running plan can draw on the training you have already done. Free and Zain Pro Zain is free to start. The free version includes the weekly check-in, up to four habits, one note a day, one book at a time, prayer times and the prayer record, meditation, and one plan draft a month, which shows the shape of a plan and its first week. Zain Pro adds full plans, kept on your calendar and redrafted from the week you actually had, and with them shared goals, because a shared goal links two plans. Pro also lifts the limits on habits, notes and books, lets you ask Zain more questions each day, and adds insights on your notes, checklist habits and book collections. Zain Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that period ends. You can manage the subscription or turn off renewal in your Apple Account settings. If a free trial is offered, any unused part of it ends when you buy a subscription. Good to know Zain needs an account, so your plans, habits and notes stay with you on every device. Prayer times are worked out on the phone and notes are saved there first, so both work without a connection. Plans and Zain's answers are written with the help of an AI model, and the privacy policy explains what is sent and where. Zain speaks English, Arabic and Turkish. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thezainapp.com/privacy.html

About

Recall

Capture fleeting thoughts, photos, voice notes, and reminders in a private timeline. Easily search or filter your saved details later. Ideal for remembering errands, gift ideas, project specifics, and important notes.

Highlights
  • Private memory timeline
  • Capture thoughts, photos, voice notes
  • Tagging and filtering
  • Searchable memories
  • Data backup and export
  • Reminders for errands and follow-ups
Features
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Recall helps you save the little things before they slip. Capture quick thoughts, photos, voice notes, reminders, tags, errands, measurements, ideas, and details in one private timeline. When you need something later, search your memories or filter by photos, voice notes, and reminders. Use Recall to remember: - Errands and follow-ups - Gift ideas - Home project details - Receipts, labels, and paint samples - Parking spots, gate codes, and appointment notes - Voice notes when typing is too slow Your memories are backed up to your signed-in account, and you can export or remove your data from the app. Recall is built for the details that do not need a full note, calendar event, or task list, but still matter later.

Screenshots

Zain4 screens
Recall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recall at none against Zain's 2. 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. Zain sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Recall asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zain against 5.0 for Recall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Zain versus Recall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZainRecall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMohamed MobarakAVERY LANCE HOLTZCLAW

Customer experience

Zain

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Recall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Zain

Subscriptions2
  • Zain Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Zain Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Recall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zain free?
Zain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zain or Recall?
Zain and Recall are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Zain or Recall have ads?
Neither Zain nor Recall shows ads.

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