Comparison

Memory Palace vs BlurtLab

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

BlurtLab

Features
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Stop rereading. Start remembering. BlurtLab turns your own study materials into active-recall sessions that reveal what you truly understand — and what you still need to learn. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add your material Upload a document, paste your notes or choose a ready-made topic. 2. Blurt from memory Study the material, hide it, then write everything you can remember without looking back. 3. Get instant AI feedback BlurtLab compares your answer with the source, highlights the ideas you covered, identifies important gaps and explains what to improve. 4. Review at the right time Choose your next review date, revisit weaker areas and watch your knowledge grow over time. WHY STUDENTS USE BLURTLAB • Study actively instead of passively rereading • Find knowledge gaps before an exam does • Get clear, personalised feedback in seconds • Turn notes and documents into focused revision • Track past blurts and improvement over time • Organise learning by subject and topic • Share study materials with classmates by email • Practise with guided sessions or study at your own pace BUILT FOR REAL REVISION Use BlurtLab for GCSEs, A Levels, university courses, class tests, assignments, professional qualifications or any topic you want to remember. Whether you are revising biology, history, psychology, law, medicine, languages or another subject, BlurtLab helps you move beyond familiarity and test what you can actually recall. LESS REREADING. MORE KNOWING. Start your 7-day free trial and make every revision session count. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled through your Apple Account settings before the end of the current billing period. Privacy Policy: https://blurtlab.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://blurtlab.com/terms Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Memory Palace4 screens
BlurtLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

Memory Palace and BlurtLab 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 BlurtLab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memory Palace ships an update every 2 weeks, BlurtLab fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Memory Palace versus BlurtLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory PalaceBlurtLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer剑津 付Emma Green

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memory Palace

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

BlurtLab

Subscriptions2
  • BlurtLab Pro Monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
  • BlurtLab Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlurtLab free?
BlurtLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memory Palace or BlurtLab have ads?
Neither Memory Palace nor BlurtLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memory Palace or BlurtLab?
Memory Palace ships an update every 2 weeks, and BlurtLab fortnightly. Most recently, Memory Palace was updated on October 22, 2026 and BlurtLab on October 25, 2026.

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