Comparison

Recall Contacts vs Roast Monkey

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

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About

Recall Contacts

This app helps you remember people by associating them with context like events, places, or relationships. It allows you to add photos and tags to contacts, making it easier to recall who they are and why they matter. It also includes tools for organizing and cleaning up your existing contact list.

Highlights
  • Tag people with context (events, places, relationships)
  • Attach selfies to contacts
  • Search contacts by tags and context
  • QR sharing for instant contact exchange
  • Duplicate contact finder and merger
  • Dyslexia friendly mode
  • Private by design, data stays on device
Features
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# RECALL After 25 years photographing people, I built RECALL for brains like mine. The kind that remember every face but forget every name. Then I realized it wasn't just my problem. Parents know every kid at school but can't remember their parents' names. Conference attendees collect dozens of contacts and forget who they met by the next day. Professionals build huge networks but lose the context that made those connections meaningful in the first place. RECALL helps you remember people the way your brain actually works: through context. Tag someone the moment you meet them. Add a quick selfie. Create your own memory system using places, events, relationships, and situations. When you see them again, you'll know exactly who they are. ## BUILT FOR REAL LIFE ### For Parents You've been standing beside another parent at soccer practice for three months. You know their kid's name. You know where they sit. You know they drive the blue Subaru. You have absolutely no idea what their name is. Tag parents to schools, sports teams, classrooms, playgroups, and activities. Search #soccer, #PS42, #swimteam, or #carpool and find exactly who you're looking for. ### For Conferences & Networking Collect contacts without losing context. Use RECALL's built in QR sharing system to instantly exchange information while controlling exactly what details you share. Tag people by event, company, project, industry, or conversation topic so weeks later you'll still remember why they mattered. ### For Contact Management RECALL isn't just for adding contacts. Use powerful maintenance tools to clean up and organize your network: • Find and remove duplicate contacts • Merge repeated entries • Manage and edit tags across your entire database • Quickly organize years of accumulated contacts ## HOW IT WORKS • Tag people the moment you meet them • Attach a selfie to help connect faces and names • Search by tags, places, events, schools, companies, or relationships • Sync seamlessly with Apple Contacts • Organize people the way your brain remembers them ## FAST, SIMPLE, ADDICTIVE Swipe through contacts and tag them in seconds. RECALL's fast swipe interface makes organizing your network surprisingly easy. Add context to old contacts, clean up your address book, and build a system that actually works. ## THREE WAYS TO START Choose the experience that fits your day: • Home for your everyday contact management • Recall for quickly finding people through context • QR Mode for conferences, events, and networking ## BUILT FOR DIFFERENT BRAINS RECALL was designed with neurodivergent users in mind. Features include: • Dyslexia friendly mode • Flexible organization systems • Context based memory tools • Private by design ## YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything stays on your device. No contact data is sold. No cloud profiling. No tracking your relationships. Just a better way to remember people. Names don't stick. Context does.

About

Roast Monkey

This app uses a humorous, tough-love approach to help you build and break habits. Track your progress with a reactive monkey character, unlock achievements, and engage in friendly competition or accountability with friends. It's designed for those who need a strong nudge to achieve their goals.

Highlights
  • Customizable savagery levels for feedback
  • Reactive monkey character with 12 moods
  • Track habit building and breaking
  • Streak milestones and badge unlocks
  • Fame and Shame leaderboards
  • Shame a friend feature
  • Private by default, no account needed
Features
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Most habit trackers are too nice. Roast Monkey isn't. Meet Roko — the monkey who tracks your daily habits, builds your streaks, and absolutely drags you when you skip a day. Build habits. Break habits. And get the brutally funny feedback that finally turns 'tomorrow' into 'today.' WHY ROAST MONKEY HITS DIFFERENT • ROASTS THAT SCALE — three savagery levels (Mild → Medium → Send Help), so you set how hard Roko comes for you. • ROKO'S 12 MOODS — cool, angry, flexing, shocked, asleep, and more. Your monkey reacts to every win, miss, and excuse. • BUILD OR BREAK — track workouts, reading, hydration, meditation, walks, sleep, journaling, screen time, productivity. Or break smoking, doomscrolling, junk food, and late-night brain rot. • STREAK MILESTONES — unlock badges at 3, 7, 21, 30, 66, 100, and 365 days. Receipt-grade pride. • SHAME & FAME LEADERBOARDS — climb the Fame board with long streaks. Or land on Shame. Either way, your group chat will know. • SHAME A FRIEND — send a custom shame card when your bestie ghosts the gym. Best feature, no notes. • PRIVATE BY DEFAULT — no accounts, no cloud, no data harvesting. Your habits stay on your phone. WHO IT'S FOR • The 'I'll start Monday' crowd • Group chats that need accountability with vibes • Friends of 75 Hard, Atomic Habits, and 21-day challenges who need one more nudge • Anyone who can take a joke and wants to take their life seriously WHAT YOU CAN TRACK Workouts, runs, reading, journaling, meditation, hydration, sleep, screen time, diet, productivity, walking — or anything you type in. Set goals from 1 week to 66 days ('Stick It'). WHY IT WORKS Habit science says streaks plus identity equals behavior change. Roast Monkey adds the third ingredient: stakes that don't feel like homework. The roasts make missing memorable. The streaks make hitting addictive. Roko makes the whole thing feel like a friend who actually cares — by giving you zero slack. FREE TO START Build unlimited habits. Set streaks. Get roasted. All free. Premium unlocks deeper savagery and more (coming soon). Download Roast Monkey. Get your life together. Or don't — Roko's already got the receipts. https://www.vertexstudios.online/terms https://www.vertexstudios.online/privacy/roast-monkey

Screenshots

Recall Contacts4 screens
Roast Monkey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recall Contacts at none against Roast Monkey's 3. Recall Contacts also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Roast Monkey's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Roast Monkey sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Recall Contacts 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 Recall Contacts against 5.0 for Roast Monkey. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Recall Contacts versus Roast Monkey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecall ContactsRoast Monkey
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB40 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLaan LabsVERTEX STUDIOS LTD

Customer experience

Recall Contacts

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Roast Monkey

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Recall Contacts

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Roast Monkey

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription Roast Monkey$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$39.99

Questions

Is Recall Contacts free?
Recall Contacts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roast Monkey free?
Roast Monkey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recall Contacts or Roast Monkey?
Recall Contacts and Roast Monkey are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Recall Contacts or Roast Monkey have ads?
Neither Recall Contacts nor Roast Monkey shows ads.

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