Comparison

Memory Palace vs Lucya

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

Lucya

Improve your study methods and organization with structured programs and short sessions. Learn practical strategies, complete exercises with personalized feedback, and track your progress to succeed in your academic endeavors.

Highlights
  • Structured programs in short sessions
  • Practical exercises with personalized feedback
  • Progress tracking
  • Daily reminders
  • Topics: memorization, stress management, concentration, organization
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Lucya est une application visant à améliorer ta méthode de travail et d’organisation, pour t’aider à mieux réussir tes études. Sur l’app, tu pourras suivre des programmes structurés en séances courtes. Chaque séance présente une stratégie concrète, des exemples, puis des exercices d’applications que tu peux utiliser immédiatement sur tes propres cours. CE QUE TU TROUVES DANS L'APP - Des programmes découpés en séances quotidiennes de quelques minutes - Des exercices pratiques et des quiz, avec une correction personnalisée de tes réponses - Un suivi de ta progression séance après séance - Des rappels quotidiens optionnels pour maintenir ton rythme LES THÈMES ABORDÉS Mémorisation durable, gestion du stress, concentration, organisation du travail, procrastination, motivation, et bien plus encore. POUR QUI Étudiants du lycée et du supérieur : classes prépas, PASS/LAS, licence, préparation du bac, des partiels ou d'un concours. Lucya s'appuie sur les travaux de chercheurs en Sciences Cognitives et en Sciences de l’Éducation, sur nos études menées auprès de plusieurs milliers d’étudiants, ainsi que sur les témoignages d’étudiants ayant réussi leurs études. L'accès aux programmes nécessite un abonnement.

Screenshots

Memory Palace4 screens
Lucya4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lucya at none against Memory Palace's 2. Lucya also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, 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. Memory Palace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lucya asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memory Palace ships an update fortnightly, Lucya every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Memory Palace versus Lucya: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory PalaceLucya
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer剑津 付Lucya SAS

Customer experience

Memory Palace

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lucya

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memory Palace

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
None

Lucya

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lucya free?
Lucya is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Memory Palace or Lucya have ads?
Neither Memory Palace nor Lucya shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memory Palace or Lucya?
Memory Palace ships an update fortnightly, and Lucya every 3 days. Most recently, Memory Palace was updated on October 28, 2026 and Lucya on October 31, 2026.

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