Comparison

Moose vs Memex

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

Head to head
About

Moose

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Moose is your personal knowledge weaver — an AI-powered note manager that doesn't just store your notes, it connects them. Write down your ideas, research notes, meeting thoughts, and scattered inspiration. Moose keeps everything organized with projects, tags, and favourites — then its AI weaving engine discovers connections between your notes that you never saw coming. A brainstorm from last week links to today's research. A project brief connects to notes you forgot you wrote. Moose weaves your thinking together. Everything stays private. Your notes live on your device, and with Moose Pro, they sync seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. WHAT MOOSE DOES • Create and organize notes with a clean, distraction-free editor • Organize your work into Projects with custom icons and colors • Tag notes for flexible cross-project organization • Pin important notes to the top and favourite the ones you love • Search across your entire knowledge base instantly • Sync notes across all your Apple devices with iCloud (Pro) • Beautiful themes to match your style — Light, Dark, and three Pro exclusives WORKS WITH YOUR MAC Moose is built for both platforms. Notes you create on your iPhone appear on your Mac and vice versa. Edits, deletions, favourites, and pins all sync in real time. Start a thought on your phone during your commute, flesh it out on your Mac at your desk. The macOS version adds powerful features: folder monitoring that automatically ingests documents, an AI weaving engine that discovers connections between your notes, and a full knowledge graph visualization. Together, Moose on iPhone and Mac gives you a complete personal knowledge system. AI KNOWLEDGE WEAVING On your Mac, Moose's AI weaving engine analyses your notes using on-device processing to find hidden connections — shared themes, overlapping keywords, even contradictions. The iPhone app surfaces these insights so you always have your connected knowledge at hand. PRIVACY FIRST Your notes never leave your device. All processing happens locally. iCloud sync is optional, end-to-end encrypted by Apple, and only available to Pro subscribers who choose to enable it. MOOSE PRO Unlock the full experience: • iCloud Sync — Access your knowledge base across all your Apple devices • Trash & Restore — Safely recover deleted notes with configurable retention • Pro Themes — Midnight Gold, Vintage Rose, and Parchment exclusive themes Free 7-day trial available with Monthly and Yearly plans. Lifetime option also available. --- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. --- Privacy Policy: https://splashroad.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://splashroad.com/terms-of-service/ --- ## What's New (for version 1.0) Moose arrives on iPhone! Create, organize, and search your notes on the go. Sync with your Mac via iCloud. Beautiful themes. Projects, tags, favourites, and more.

About

Memex

Organize your Markdown notes and PDFs on an infinite canvas. Connect documents, sketch with Apple Pencil, and use an AI chat to ask questions about your gathered information. Your files remain private and accessible via iCloud Drive.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for notes and PDFs
  • AI chat to query your documents
  • Apple Pencil handwriting and sketching
  • Markdown rendering as live cards
  • Organize and connect content with arrows
  • Export content as images
Features
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Memex puts your Markdown notes and PDFs on an infinite canvas, with an AI chat that reads them. Any document can sit on the canvas as a live, readable card. Arrange and connect your cards, write around them with Apple Pencil, and ask the chat about what you have gathered. ON THE CANVAS - Markdown documents render as live cards, not links - PDFs sit on the canvas as cards showing their first page - Draw arrows between cards and gather them into groups - Handwrite and sketch next to your typed notes with Apple Pencil - On iOS 27, search finds your handwriting as well as your typed notes - Push cards to another canvas as your thinking changes - Type @ to link to anything in your library, or @here to link the spot you are on - Add text, code blocks, tables, images and embeds CHAT WITH YOUR NOTES - Add a card, a whole document or a PDF to the chat, or type straight in - Ask about your notes in plain words - Put any reply back on your canvas as a card - The chat is there on canvases, documents and PDFs MAKE IMAGES - Select typed text, or handwriting on iOS 27, and tap Make image - The picture lands on your canvas and in your library YOUR FILES STAY YOURS - Documents and canvases are plain files in your iCloud Drive, visible in the Files app - No Memex account, no lock-in - The AI sees only what you add to the chat. Your messages and that context go through our server, which stores none of it, to OpenAI via OpenRouter BUILT FOR IPAD AND APPLE PENCIL Memex is designed for iPad first, with Pencil writing directly on the canvas. It also runs on iPhone and Mac. ONE SUBSCRIPTION One Memex subscription unlocks the complete app, including 500 AI credits a month: a chat message uses 1 credit and an image uses 10. Credits reset on the 1st of each month (UTC) and don't roll over. Take the hands-on welcome tour, then try the chat with 5 free messages before you subscribe. Eligible new subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Choose $9.95 monthly or $79.99 yearly. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Memex at none against Moose's 3. Memex also leads on device support. On price 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. Moose sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Memex asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Moose versus Memex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMooseMemex
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Freemium
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSplash ColorsAlex Morris

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Moose

Subscriptions2
  • Moose Pro/Month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Moose Pro/Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Moose Pro/Lifetime$99.99
None

Memex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moose free?
Moose is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memex free?
Memex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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