Comparison

Memota vs Cathedra

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

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Memota

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Turn anything into study-ready notes. Memota is your AI note-taking assistant that transforms voice recordings, photos, documents, web pages, and social media links into clean, summarized notes—with flashcards, quizzes, and mind maps built right in. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE, STUDY SMARTER Stop copying and pasting from a dozen sources. Just drop in a voice memo, snap a photo of your whiteboard, paste a link, or upload a PDF—Memota extracts the content, transcribes it, and gives you a polished summary in seconds. No manual formatting, no wasted time. AI THAT ACTUALLY HELPS YOU LEARN Memota doesn't just store your notes; it turns them into active study tools. Ask the AI chat assistant questions about any note, generate flashcard decks for quick review, take quizzes to test yourself, or explore mind maps to see how ideas connect. It’s like having a tutor built into your notebook. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH MEMOTA: - SMART SUMMARIES: AI-powered summarization turns long recordings, articles, and documents into concise notes you can actually use. - VOICE TO NOTES: Record a lecture or meeting and get a clean transcription with a summary—hands-free note-taking at its simplest. - PHOTO & DOCUMENT CAPTURE: Snap a photo or upload a PDF/DOCX. Memota extracts and organizes the text for you using advanced OCR. - WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Paste a URL from any website, YouTube video, or social media post and turn it into a structured note. - AI FLASHCARDS & QUIZZES: Generate study flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes from any note—perfect for exam prep. - MIND MAPS: Visualize the key concepts and connections in your notes with auto-generated mind maps. - AI CHAT ASSISTANT: Ask questions about your notes and get instant, contextual answers — grounded in your own content. - NOTE TRANSLATION: Translate your notes into 9 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Italian, and Russian. - FOLDER ORGANIZATION: Keep everything tidy with folders that make sense for your workflow. WHO IS MEMOTA FOR? - STUDENTS: Turn lecture recordings, textbook photos, and class handouts into summarized notes, flashcards, and quizzes—all in one place. - LANGUAGE LEARNERS: Capture content in one language and translate your notes into another. Study with flashcards in your target language. - RESEARCHERS & READERS: Save articles, web pages, and PDFs, then chat with the AI to pull out exactly what you need. - CONTENT CONSUMERS: Turn podcasts, YouTube videos, and social media posts into searchable, organized notes. PRIVATE & RELIABLE Your notes are yours. Memota processes your content securely and doesn't share your data with third parties. The app is built for speed—notes are processed in the background so you're never waiting around. GET STARTED FREE Memota gives you 3 free notes to try everything out—summaries, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and AI chat. Love it? Upgrade to premium for unlimited notes and full access to every feature. Download Memota and turn the way you capture into the way you learn. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Cathedra

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Cathedra records your lectures and turns them into text, so you can stop writing things down and actually listen. RECORD WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT Add your timetable once: Cathedra reminds you before each class, with recording one tap away on the Lock Screen. Lock the phone and leave it on the desk — recording carries on, and pauses for the break. READ IT BACK AFTERWARDS Every recording becomes a timestamped transcript. Tap any line to hear exactly what was said, at up to double speed. The original audio is always kept: the transcript is a convenience, the recording is the record. FIND ANYTHING, ACROSS EVERY LECTURE Search the full text of every lecture you have recorded and see every moment a term came up — including every time a lecturer said "this is in the exam". ASK YOUR LECTURES ANYTHING With Cathedra AI, ask about one lecture or a whole course — "what did the lecturer say would be on the exam?" — and get an answer from what was actually said, with the moment it was said. Ask it to put the exam in your calendar or find the lecture where a topic came up, and it does; every change can be undone. THE WHOLE LECTURE ON ONE PAGE Every lecture can become a summary: an overview, the key points with the moment each was made, the terms and what to revise. Turn the terms into flashcards, or quiz yourself on what was said. BUILT FOR ANY UNIVERSITY Semesters, trimesters, quarters, blocks, Dutch periodes or one continuous year: pick the shape your university uses and set the dates. Import your timetable from a calendar on your iPhone, or type it in. EXAMS AND DEADLINES ON THE SAME CALENDAR Your classes and exams in one month view, with the exams and deadlines a lecturer announces added for you. Cancel a class and its reminder goes with it; schedule a make-up for a new time. MORE THAN 40 LANGUAGES Set the language your lecturer speaks, per course. Your iPhone's own speech recognition covers more than forty; with Pro and Max, lectures are transcribed on Cathedra's server instead, which saves battery. The app itself is in 22 languages. ON EVERY DEVICE Sign in with just your email — no password — and your library lives in your Cathedra account, the same on every iPhone you sign in on and at cathedra.study. Without an account, everything but Cathedra AI works and stays on your iPhone. YOUR LECTURES ARE YOURS Without an account, your lectures never leave your iPhone. Signed in, your courses, timetable, transcripts, notes and questions are kept in your account on our servers. With a Cathedra AI subscription your recordings and photos are kept there too, and with Pro and Max lectures are transcribed there; Settings switches both off. When you use Cathedra AI, what it needs — the text, or a question you dictate — goes through our server to the AI service. No advertising, no tracking, no third-party code. Usage statistics say nothing about who you are, and Settings switches them off. WORTH KNOWING BEFORE YOU RECORD Recording a lecture captures someone else's voice, and local law and your university's rules decide whether you may. Please check them, and never publish a recording of someone who did not agree to it. CATHEDRA AI Recording, transcription, search, the timetable, and summaries and flashcards made on your iPhone are free. Cathedra AI — asking your lectures, adding exams to your calendar, quizzes, reading a lecture in your language, photographs of the board explained — needs an account and is an optional Pro or Max subscription, monthly or yearly; Max adds practice exams and study plans. It renews automatically until you cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cathedra.study/privacy

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Memota4 screens
Cathedra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Memota at 3 against Cathedra's 1. Memota also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Memota sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Cathedra sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Memota versus Cathedra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemotaCathedra
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMOBILECRAFT LLCREMZI ATASAGUN POYRAZOGLU

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Memota

Subscriptions3
  • premium$6.997 Days
  • premium$9.991 Month
  • premium$49.991 Year
4 purchases

Cathedra

Subscriptions4
  • Cathedra Pro$11.991 Month
  • Cathedra Max$24.991 Month
  • Cathedra Pro$69.991 Year
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  • Cathedra Max$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Memota free?
Memota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cathedra free?
Cathedra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memota or Cathedra have ads?
Neither Memota nor Cathedra shows ads.

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