Comparison

My Little Firsts vs Memory Handoff

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

Head to head
About

My Little Firsts

Capture and cherish your baby's first years with beautifully designed keepsake cards. Track over 100 milestones, add custom photos, and create elegant slideshows. Everything is stored privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Track over 100 baby milestones
  • Create custom keepsake cards
  • Milestone Camera with overlay styles
  • Elegant slideshow player
  • Save and share high-resolution cards
  • Private, device-only storage
Features
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My Little Firsts is a quiet, beautiful place to remember every milestone of your baby's first years. From the first smile to the first steps, every moment becomes an editorial keepsake card — typeset in elegant serif fonts, paired with the photo you took, and stamped with the date and your baby's age. No social feeds. No ads. No accounts. Just a private, gorgeous record of who they were on the day it happened. — FEATURES — • Track over 100 carefully chosen milestones across Expressions, Movement, Communication, Feeding, Social, and Holidays — plus add your own. • Five editorial card templates inspired by classic print design: Studio, Inscribed, Imprint, Bookplate, and Colophon. Restyle any moment in a single tap. • Decorative holiday frames for Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, the 4th of July, and the first birthday — illustrated borders that turn any photo into a seasonal keepsake. • A built-in Milestone Camera with six hand-drawn overlay styles — Editorial, Garden, Polaroid, Heirloom, Moonlit, and Ribbon — so the photo and the caption are designed together from the start. • Slideshow Player — gather your favorite moments into a calm, elegant montage with optional ambient music. Perfect for grandparents, nurseries, or just looking back. • Save and share cards as high-resolution images, ready for the family group chat, a baby book, or the wall. • Everything stays on your device. No cloud, no tracking, no account required. — PREMIUM — The first 5 moments are free. Premium unlocks unlimited moments, the full Milestone Camera, sharing and saving, the Slideshow Player, and every restyle template — for $4.99/month or $19.99/year (save 67%, with a 7-day free trial). — ABOUT — Made by a parent, for parents who want something more lasting than a photo dump. Every detail — the typography, the layouts, the holiday illustrations — was designed to feel like something you'd keep on a shelf, not scroll past. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Memory Handoff

Capture fleeting childhood moments with daily prompts. Record videos, photos, or notes to build a beautiful, lasting memory book for your child. Your memories are private and stored on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily memory prompts
  • Record video, photo, or text
  • Organized memory collection
  • Timeline view from birth to 18
  • Create printable scrapbooks
  • Generate memory reels (films)
Features
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You will forget almost everything — not the milestones, but the small ones. The mispronounced word. The song they invented in the bath. Their first opinion about clouds. Memory Handoff is built to catch them before they're gone. HOW IT WORKS Every day, one gentle question — chosen for your child's age. Answer it in thirty seconds: record a video, snap a photo, scan a drawing, or type a line. Then let it go. WATCH A CHILDHOOD TAKE SHAPE • Today — your daily prompt and the fastest way to capture a moment • Memories — every kept moment, beautifully collected • The Arc — see all the days from birth to eighteen, and the moments you've saved along the way • Keepsake — turn it all into something to hold YOUR MEMORIES REMAIN YOURS Everything is stored on your device and backed up to your own iCloud. Nothing is ever sent to our servers. No ads. No selling your data. Ever. CREATE SOMETHING TO HAND THEM When the time comes, weave every video, photo, and note into a printable Scrapbook or a Memory Reel — a little film of the small things — and give your child a piece of a childhood they could never have remembered on their own. Start today. By their eighteenth birthday, you'll have something no one else could give them. PRICING & TERMS Memory Handoff is free to use. Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription — $6.99/month or $49.99/year — or a one-time $399 lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your device Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://memoryhandoff.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

My Little Firsts4 screens
Memory Handoff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Memory Handoff at every 5 days against My Little Firsts's every 2 weeks. Memory Handoff also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. My Little Firsts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Memory Handoff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for My Little Firsts against 5.0 for Memory Handoff. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Little Firsts ships an update every 2 weeks, Memory Handoff every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
My Little Firsts versus Memory Handoff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Little FirstsMemory Handoff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBRIAN CHARLES BRAKERCompassCare LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Little Firsts

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Annual Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Memory Handoff

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$399.00

Questions

Is My Little Firsts free?
My Little Firsts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Handoff free?
Memory Handoff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Little Firsts or Memory Handoff?
My Little Firsts and Memory Handoff are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do My Little Firsts or Memory Handoff have ads?
Neither My Little Firsts nor Memory Handoff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Little Firsts or Memory Handoff?
My Little Firsts ships an update every 2 weeks, and Memory Handoff every 5 days. Most recently, My Little Firsts was updated on October 18, 2026 and Memory Handoff on October 11, 2026.

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