Comparison

Monolithos Core vs Hemory

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

Head to head
About

Monolithos Core

This app acts as a personal agent OS, connecting your knowledge, writing, and AI tasks in a local-first workspace. It helps you organize information, generate content, and manage projects with a focus on user control and data ownership.

Highlights
  • Local-first workspace
  • Organize notes into knowledge
  • AI-powered task execution
  • On-device transcription and insights
  • Markdown editing and file organization
  • Convert documents to audio podcasts
  • Create presentations from Markdown
Features
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YOUR PERSONAL AGENT STARTS WITH MEMORY. Monolithos connects your knowledge, writing and AI work in one local-first workspace. We are building a Personal Agent OS that remembers your context, helps move work forward and keeps you in control. Your memory is the foundation. What you do with it is the point. Bring your own Markdown vault. Turn notes into knowledge, meetings into next steps, and ideas into finished work. Your files remain yours to inspect, edit and take with you. MEMORY THAT BELONGS TO YOU - Two layers: Crystals organize what you know; a personal memory layer captures your preferences, judgment and patterns. - The Mirror: inspect how AI understands you, trace traits to their sources, and adjust or remove them. - Night Watch: discover connections and proposed memories from your work. You decide what to accept. - Recall: find relevant knowledge through keyword, graph and semantic retrieval, with sources you can inspect. - Private Domain: choose folders to exclude from cloud AI context while keeping them available for your own local work. FROM IDEAS TO ACTION - Flow: run multi-step AI tasks for research, writing and finished work. Steps that require your judgment pause for approval. - Black Hole: collect material through capture tools and the iPhone share sheet, then bring it into your workspace. - Minutes: record and transcribe on-device, separate speakers after recording, review insights and save Markdown meeting archives. Turn follow-up items into AI tasks. - Synapse: use AI actions on selected text, with access to multiple model families through one interface. - Deep Research: investigate a question across multiple steps and bring the findings into a structured report. CREATE, NOT JUST CHAT - Codex: write and edit Markdown, organize files and work directly with your own material. - Prism: a four-agent presentation workflow with 126 layouts and 14 themes. Turn Markdown into decks you can refine and present. - Audio Brief: turn documents into podcast-style audio in four formats across 12 languages. - Projects: keep related material and AI work within a defined scope. LOCAL-FIRST, WITH CLEAR BOUNDARIES Your vault is stored on your device as Markdown and YAML, without a proprietary file format. It is Obsidian-compatible, supports multiple vaults, and can sync between Apple devices through iCloud. Local-first does not mean every AI operation is offline. Cloud AI processes the context needed for the tasks you request. Private Domain content is excluded from cloud AI context. Minutes audio stays on your device. Live insights send transcript text to cloud AI; turning insights off stops further live analysis. Generating a summary sends the full transcript for cloud processing. Search your files with fast, Rust-native full-text search, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Use the interface in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese or Korean. BUILT AROUND YOUR WORK For researchers, writers, founders and anyone building knowledge over time. Keep your materials, develop your thinking and put AI to work without giving up ownership of what you create. Your memory. Your decisions. Your agent. Local file management, search and Markdown editing do not require an AI subscription. AI features require a subscription. Plans and pricing are available in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://monolithos.ai/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://monolithos.ai/privacy.html

About

Hemory

This app acts as a personal memory assistant, transcribing and organizing your conversations into searchable memories. It helps you recall details from discussions, identify speakers, and browse information by timeline, topics, or a connected graph. Your data is kept private and encrypted.

Highlights
  • Background conversation recording
  • Searchable memory recall
  • Automatic transcription and summarization
  • Speaker voice recognition
  • Timeline, topic, and graph browsing
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Hemory listens, always on — wiring real memory into your agents. Everything you live through settles into a private, searchable memory. What was decided in yesterday's meeting, what a client asked three weeks ago, the idea you had on a walk. No notes to take, nothing to dig through. WHO IT'S FOR Founders, consultants, salespeople, and lawyers—anyone whose work is more conversations than they can remember. HOW IT WORKS Pair Hemory once. Listening runs on iPhone and Apple Watch, manual or scheduled. A standard MCP server opens that memory to the agents you already use: Claude, Codex, and other MCP clients. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Audio stays on your listening device. You decide when Hemory listens, and you can turn it off anytime. Free Trial gives you a one-time 10 hours of listening. Choose a plan once you've used it up.

Screenshots

Monolithos Core4 screens
Hemory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hemory at 5.0 against Monolithos Core's 1.0. Hemory also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (22 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Monolithos Core sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per month and Hemory sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hemory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hemory has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monolithos Core ships an update every 5 weeks, Hemory weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Monolithos Core versus Hemory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonolithos CoreHemory
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings122 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB96 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMonolithos,LLCBEAUTIFUL ONES INC.

Customer experience

Monolithos Core

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Hemory

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Monolithos Core

Subscriptions4
  • THE CORE — Monthly7 Days trial$39.991 Month
  • THE MAX — Monthly7 Days trial$89.991 Month
  • THE CORE — Annual$349.001 Year
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  • THE MAX — Annual$859.001 Year
One-time4
  • 1,500 Creation Credits$11.99
  • MMC Memory Boost Pack$11.99
  • 3,500 Creation Credits$29.99
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  • 10,000 Creation Credits$79.99
3 purchases

Hemory

Subscriptions3
  • Starter$10.001 Month
  • Pro$20.001 Month
  • Max$50.001 Month

Questions

Is Monolithos Core free?
Monolithos Core is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hemory free?
Hemory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monolithos Core or Hemory?
Hemory is rated higher. Monolithos Core averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Hemory averages 5.0 from 22 ratings.
Do Monolithos Core or Hemory have ads?
Neither Monolithos Core nor Hemory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monolithos Core or Hemory?
Monolithos Core ships an update every 5 weeks, and Hemory weekly. Most recently, Monolithos Core was updated on October 13, 2026 and Hemory on October 19, 2026.

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