Comparison

Contact Manager vs Memo

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

Head to head
About

Contact Manager

This app helps you remember important dates and follow-ups for your contacts. It organizes your address book with notes, tags, and custom reminders to strengthen personal relationships. Enjoy a clean interface and offline access.

Highlights
  • Personal CRM
  • Contact organization
  • Birthday reminders
  • Follow-up reminders
  • Contact notes and tags
  • Offline-first experience
  • iCloud backup
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Remember people, not just names. heycontacts is a personal CRM, contact manager, and relationship manager that helps you stay consistent with the people who matter most. It combines contact tracker, contact organizer, and contact reminder workflows in one clean daily system. Keep your address book and phone contacts organized: • Import contacts and maintain one clear contact list • Add contact notes, tags, where-you-met context, and key details • Track birthdays, anniversaries, and custom important dates • Get a birthday reminder before every key date and use HeyContacts as a birthday tracker year-round • Create a follow up reminder after meetings, calls, and check-ins with recurring follow up reminders • Save gift history and shared moments for stronger personal relationships Built for real life: • Fast daily check-ins without clutter • Widgets for upcoming dates and top contacts • Offline-first experience • Optional iCloud backup and restore • Free plan for up to 30 contacts • Premium unlocks unlimited contacts and advanced workflows Perfect for personal relationship management, networking, founders, creators, freelancers, sales professionals, and anyone who wants lightweight CRM without enterprise complexity. Important: heycontacts is an organizational and reminder tool. It does not provide legal, medical, or financial advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://heycontacts.com/privacy

About

Memo

Features
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Memo - Quick Notes is a fast, lightweight notepad you can start writing in the moment it opens. No folders, no deep hierarchies. Jot something down, share it, and move on. ■ Add a memo exactly where you want it Spread two fingers apart between two memos and a new memo slides into that spot. Press and hold to reorder, swipe right to pin, swipe left to archive. Organize your list with your fingertips. ■ An editor that gets out of the way - Plain text, headings, and bold - Bulleted, numbered, and checklists - Completed items can move to the bottom automatically (optional) - Return continues a list; an empty line ends it ■ Powerful copy and share - Copy as plain text or with formatting (press and hold to reuse the last format) - Share as text to LINE, Messages, Mail, AirDrop, and more - Share as image: the whole memo rendered as one clean, tall image ■ 20 themes and flexible typography Snow, Linen, Ink, Nocturne, Lagoon, Honey, Ember, Blossom, and more. Choose from San Francisco, Rounded, Serif, or Monospaced, six text sizes, and adjustable line spacing. ■ Feels good to use Subtle sounds and haptic feedback the moment an action lands: checking an item, copying, archiving, adding a memo. Both are kept quiet and can be turned off in Settings. ■ Your list, your way - Group by date (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days…) - Sort by Date Edited, Date Created, Title, or Manual; newest or oldest first - Instant search - Press and hold the app icon to start a new memo right away ■ Your data stays yours - iCloud sync across devices signed in to the same Apple Account - Export and restore JSON backups - Archived memos can be restored at any time - Your memos are never sent to our own servers ■ Remove Ads (one-time purchase) Every feature is free. A single purchase hides the ads shown in Settings. Available in Japanese and English.

Screenshots

Contact Manager4 screens
Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Memo at none against Contact Manager's 2. Memo also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Contact Manager's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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. Contact Manager sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Memo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact Manager ships an update weekly, Memo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Contact Manager versus Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact ManagerMemo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladyslav DmytriievTakahiro Kimura

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Contact Manager

Subscriptions2
  • heycontacts Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • heycontacts Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contact Manager free?
Contact Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memo free?
Memo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Contact Manager or Memo have ads?
Memo shows ads; Contact Manager does not.
Which is updated more often, Contact Manager or Memo?
Contact Manager ships an update weekly, and Memo daily. Most recently, Contact Manager was updated on October 2, 2026 and Memo on October 8, 2026.

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