Comparison

Memory Palace vs Persuasion

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

Head to head
About

Memory Palace

Create and organize memory palaces using text, photos, and panoramas. Review your routes step-by-step to enhance recall for speeches, lists, and sequences. This tool focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow.

Highlights
  • Create palaces and loci
  • Use photos as visual references
  • Mark loci on images/panoramas
  • Combine text, photo, and panorama loci
  • Refine locus order
  • Step-by-step route review
  • Walkthrough mode
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Build memory palaces with ordered loci, photos of places, and supported real-world panoramas — then review your palace route step by step. Memory Palace is a focused Method of Loci tool for building stable palace routes and keeping your loci and visual references organized in one place. A palace can be as simple as an ordered list of text-only loci. It can also be visual: import photos of rooms, streets, landmarks, or other places, add supported panorama scenes, mark one or more loci on an image, and keep those loci in the same palace route. Some loci may remain text-only when a photo or panorama is unavailable, or when the place exists only in your imagination. Create and manage your palace • Create palaces and loci • Use photos of places as optional visual references • Mark one or more loci on a photo or panorama • Keep text-only, photo-based, and panorama-based loci in one palace route • Refine the order of loci while building your palace route • Review existing palace routes without hunting through spreadsheets, documents, or annotated image files Review the palace route • Move through loci one by one in Walkthrough mode, following the same palace route each time • Revisit the visual reference when a locus has one • Return to saved panorama views for supported panorama loci Good for material with an order — or material you choose to arrange into one • Speeches, presentations, and scripts • Ordered lists, checklists, and procedures • Timelines, historical sequences, and event chains • Exam outlines, classification systems, and frameworks • Poems, quotations, passages, and other ordered content • Terminology or vocabulary lists you choose to organize into a route Memory Palace does not try to become another notes app, brain game, or deck-first flashcard app. It focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow: palaces, ordered loci, optional visual references, and Walkthrough mode. Memory Palace keeps the palace structure. You choose what each locus is meant to cue in your own memory. Built from real memory-sport practice: after placing 6th overall at the 2011 World Memory Championship, the creator built Memory Palace to solve a practical problem — keeping thousands of loci across more than a hundred palaces organized over years of use. Start with a palace, create your first locus, and walk the palace route to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Persuasion

Features
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Ideas do not win on merit alone. They win when they are understood, trusted, remembered, and acted on. Persuasion helps people communicate with more clarity, confidence, and impact. Whether the goal is to pitch an idea, grow a business, perform better in sales, lead a team, prepare for an interview, negotiate more effectively, or simply become more convincing in everyday life, Persuasion teaches the principles that help messages land. Built around timeless influence principles and modern behavioral insight, Persuasion turns the psychology of persuasion into practical skill. Inside the app, learners can explore how influence really works, why people say yes, why they resist, how trust is built, and how stronger communication creates better outcomes in work and life. WITH PERSUASION, USERS CAN: • Learn core principles of influence in a clear, engaging format • Build stronger instincts for communication, trust, credibility, and buy-in • Understand concepts like authority, social proof, reciprocity, scarcity, framing, and more • Apply persuasive thinking to sales, leadership, marketing, negotiation, interviews, presentations, and everyday conversations • Strengthen confidence in high-stakes moments where words matter most DESIGNED FOR: • Sales professionals • Founders and entrepreneurs • Marketers and creators • Managers and leaders • Job seekers and professionals • Students • Anyone who wants to communicate more effectively Persuasion is not about manipulation. It is about understanding human behavior, presenting ideas more clearly, and creating genuine influence in an ethical, practical way. For anyone who wants to become more compelling, more strategic, and more effective when it matters, Persuasion is a smarter way to learn the art and psychology of influence.

Screenshots

Memory Palace4 screens
Persuasion4 screens

Verdict

The call

Memory Palace and Persuasion are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Memory Palace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Persuasion sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memory Palace ships an update fortnightly, Persuasion every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Memory Palace versus Persuasion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory PalacePersuasion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer剑津 付ADAM W WOOD

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memory Palace

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Persuasion

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$6.99

Questions

Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Persuasion free?
Persuasion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memory Palace or Persuasion have ads?
Neither Memory Palace nor Persuasion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memory Palace or Persuasion?
Memory Palace ships an update fortnightly, and Persuasion every 3 weeks. Most recently, Memory Palace was updated on October 28, 2026 and Persuasion on October 24, 2026.

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