MemoryBalls+ vs openote

Capture your emotions in 5 seconds Memory Balls is a simple journaling app that lets you record a moment with a 5-second video and one emotion. No long writing. No complicated organization. Just how you felt, right now. Short records, vivid memories Record a moment with a 5-second video Choose an emotion — joy, sadness, anger, anxiety, love Each emotion becomes a colored memory ball Your memories are saved as colors and motion, not words. Memories you can touch Memory Balls is not a flat list of entries. Your memories live in a 3D space, rolling, colliding, and waiting to be opened. Tap a ball to relive the moment inside. Experience memories as objects, not files. Your private emotion archive Organize memories into themed Boxes Reflect on days, people, trips, and seasons See emotional patterns through simple statistics A quiet, personal space just for you. Record it instantly Home Screen widget for quick access Control Center button (iOS 18+) Start recording with a single tap Memories may fade, But emotions can be revisited. Save today’s feeling as a single glowing ball.

openote — Markdown notes with free sync. No account. No subscription. Other note apps charge a yearly fee just to sync your own devices. openote syncs iPhone, iPad and Mac through your iCloud Drive — free, with no account to create. Your notes stay plain .md files. Open them in the Files app or any Markdown editor, and take them anywhere. No proprietary format, no lock-in. --- WHY OPENOTE Free iCloud sync Notes sync through iCloud Drive on your own Apple account. No sign-up, no subscription. Plain Markdown files Every note is a standard .md file. Front matter, checklists and [[wiki links]] are kept exactly as you wrote them. Safe across devices If a note changes on another device while you're editing, openote keeps both versions instead of silently overwriting one. Your last words are saved even if you switch apps or quit right away. Mermaid diagrams Flowcharts, sequence diagrams and more render live from Markdown. Start from a template, pinch to zoom, tap to edit the code. Rendering works offline. On-device AI On devices with Apple Intelligence, summarize a note, get tag suggestions, or turn a sentence into a diagram. It runs entirely on your device — nothing is sent to a server. --- FEATURES Editor - Rich Markdown editing, with a source mode when you want the raw text - Checklists, tables and code blocks - Auto-save - Word and character count Organize - Folders and #tags with autocomplete - [[Wiki links]] between notes - Full-text search in English, Korean and Japanese Sync & files - iPhone, iPad and Mac via iCloud Drive - Browse your notes in the Files app - Export a note as PDF Shortcuts & Siri - Create, open and search notes from Shortcuts and Siri - Notes appear in Spotlight search --- PRIVACY - No account, no email - No tracking - Your notes stay in your iCloud and on your devices - AI runs on your device Everything is free. openote has no in-app purchases. openote — Your notes, your files.