Recall vs Elements
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Recall
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Recall - Remember Where It Is We all forget. Where did you put your passport? Which drawer has the charger? Who did you lend that book to? Recall is the personal item tracker that gives your memory a permanent upgrade. Log anything โ physical objects, important documents, borrowed items โ and find them instantly whenever you need them. No more searching. No more stress. TRACK EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS Whether it's your keys, a warranty document, a borrowed tool or a box in the loft โ if it matters to you, Recall remembers it. Organize items by your own categories and location tags so everything has a place. KNOW THE STATUS AT A GLANCE Mark items as In Place, Missing or Lent Out. Filter by status, and instantly spot anything nobody has confirmed in a while. ONE LIST PER PLACE Home, the office, the holiday flat, the workshop. Each list keeps its own items, its own categories and its own locations, so nothing bleeds between them. SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LIVE WITH Send a link or show a QR code. Whoever joins sees the same list, updated as it changes, and you decide whether they can edit it or only look. No accounts to hunt down, no setup. Sharing is not behind the paywall โ every free account can share one list, keep three of its own and join three more. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The "Where Is It?" widget shows whatever needs your attention โ anything lent out or missing โ or the items you have pinned. Put one on the Home Screen or the Lock Screen and point each at a different list. NEVER FORGET AGAIN WITH REMINDERS Set a reminder on any item and get notified at the right time. Made for lent-out things, expiring documents, and anything you need to act on later. SEARCH IN AN INSTANT Search finds anything by name or notes as you type. Combine it with filters to narrow down exactly what you are after in seconds. A FULL HISTORY OF EVERY ITEM Every status change, location update and confirmation is logged automatically. So you always know not just where something is, but where it has been. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Recall works offline and keeps your things on your device. There is no account to create and nothing to sign up for. Turn on iCloud sync and your lists move through your own iCloud account โ never through a server of ours. RECALL PREMIUM Free covers most people: three lists of your own, three you have joined, one shared list, three reminders, and everything above. Premium lifts the caps: - Unlimited lists and reminders - Saved filter presets - Bulk actions on many items at once - Preferences that persist across sessions Available as Recall Premium Annual, an auto-renewing yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial, or Recall Premium Lifetime, a single one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Available in English, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Privacy Policy: https://hristosc.github.io/recall-support Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Elements
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Aesthetic widgets that match โ because you designed them that way. Elements is a design system for widgets: set the typeface, the accent, the background and the density once, and 33 kinds of widget wear it โ on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy, CarPlay, and on your Mac. 173 designed faces. 267 backgrounds, 118 of them photographs. 80 colour sets, 12 accent colours, or your own. 218 finished looks you can apply in one tap and then keep tweaking. 17 KINDS FREE, THE REST ONE AD AWAY Clock, weather, next event, calendar, battery and storage, world clock, countdown, days since, dots, today, sunrise and sunset, moon, prayer times, quote, word of the day, verse of the day and a groceries list are free to place and keep. Every other widget is free for 7 days after one short ad, as often as you like. Elements Pro removes the ads and unlocks everything for good. WIDGETS THAT KNOW SOMETHING โข Weather written as a sentence โ "31ยฐ now, feels 35ยฐ. Haze till 6pm." โข Your next event, your month at a glance, and how long until the next thing โข A groceries list you tick off from the Home Screen โข Steps, distance and sleep, read from Health โข Sunrise, sunset, the moon's phase, and how much daylight you lost since yesterday โข Prayer times, computed on device from five published methods โข Currency at the day's published reference rate โข Analog dials, world clocks, countdowns, a verse, a word, your own feeds CUT OUT A SUBJECT AND STICK IT ON YOUR SCREEN Pick a photo and Elements lifts the subject out of it. Size it, turn it, give it a paper edge, and let the widget rotate through your shelf. MINI-APPS YOU FILL YOURSELF Habits you check off. Tallies you count. Subscriptions with renewal reminders. A focus timer. A fasting window. Places, moments, quotes and words of your own. Readings your Shortcuts write into. A canvas you compose from blocks. Habits and tallies keep their streaks and totals, and all of it stays on your phone. FED BY YOUR SHORTCUTS Your automations can write straight into a widget: a reading, a habit, a counter, a canvas block. State how often your shortcut runs and the widget will say "as of 9:41" when it misses โ a stale number never poses as a fresh one. CORRECT, OR IT TELLS YOU WHY The most common complaint about widgets is that they go stale, blank or wrong. Every widget knows how fresh its data is and says so. Every failure is named โ "no location fix", "offline", "not allowed" โ instead of one shrug. Widget Health shows what actually reloaded today. PROGRESS WITHOUT PRESSURE Streaks, totals and a small celebration when you reach a goal โ and you can switch celebrations off. No streak repairs to buy, no leaderboards, and no red marks for a day you missed. THREE THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Ink Bento, Dawn Glass and Pop. Each design can pin its own theme and light/dark, so one widget stays dark while another follows your phone. PRIVACY Calendar, Reminders, Health and everything you type stay on your device. Health access is read-only and the widget extension never touches it. Weather sends your location, or a place you pin, to Apple for a forecast; a few widgets fetch public data such as exchange rates or feeds you add. There are no accounts. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Ads are personalised only if you allow tracking when asked; otherwise they are less personal. In the UK and EU you choose in a consent form, and can change it any time in Settings. Elements Pro has no ads. ELEMENTS PRO Every widget, every face, every photograph and colour set, the bundled typefaces and icon styles, unlimited saved designs, and no ads. Yearly, monthly or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://thesolanalabs.com/elements/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Recall at none against Elements's shown. Recall also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Elements's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Recall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year and Elements sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Recall ships an update every 3 months, Elements every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recall | Elements |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hristos Condrea | Touseef Hassan Nasir |
In-app purchases
Recall
- Recall Premium Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Recall Premium Lifetime$24.99
Elements
- Elements Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Elements Pro Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
- Elements Pro Lifetime$49.99









