Comparison

Pintale vs Memory Log

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

Head to head
About

Pintale

Easily save and organize your favorite locations on a personal map. Add photos, notes, and tags to remember cafes, shops, travel spots, and everyday discoveries. Create custom lists of places you want to visit or have already enjoyed.

Highlights
  • Save favorite places on a map
  • Add photos and notes to locations
  • Organize places with custom tags
  • Manage places to visit and visited spots
  • Create personal place lists
Features
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Pintale is a place-recording app that lets you save your favorite places and spots you want to visit on a map, together with photos, notes, and tags. From cafés you love and shops you want to revisit to views you find on a walk, places recommended by friends, and memorable spots from a trip, Pintale helps you keep the places you care about on your own map. For each saved place, you can add photos and notes. You can also organize places with tags such as “cafe,” “food,” “walk,” “date,” “shopping,” and “scenery,” making it easy to find the places you want to revisit later. Pintale is not just for travel memories. It is also perfect for saving meaningful places you discover in everyday life. Save interesting shops, places you want to visit someday, and favorite spots to build your own personal place list. What you can do with Pintale: • Save your favorite places on a map • Add photos and notes to each place • Organize places with tags • Manage places you want to visit and places you have visited • Record cafés, shops, parks, walking spots, and memorable places • Create your own personal place list From favorite cafés and interesting shops to memorable places and spots you want to visit again, Pintale helps you keep them on your own map. Terms of Use: https://creatom.jp/termsofservice Privacy Policy: https://creatom.jp/privacypolicy

About

Memory Log

Features
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Trips, clubs, family, fandom. The photos from that day are scattered across everyone's camera roll. Memory Log keeps a memory as one thing: the photos, the place, and the map. Share memories with a group of up to 20 people. WHAT EVERYONE SAVES LANDS ON ONE MAP - Save photos and a place together as a single memory - What your group posts appears on the same map and timeline as yours - People who join later can see past memories that remain in the group - Shared photos are stored in the cloud for 1 year after upload INVITING IS A QR CODE OR A LINK - You choose how long the link works and how many people can use it - Made a new link? The old one stops working - No account, no email address KEEP YOUR CIRCLES APART - Travel friends, a club, family — you can be in several groups at once - Switch from the top of the screen. The color around the edge tells you where you are - Your own private space has no color, so you always know when nobody else is looking YOU DECIDE WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE - Choose where each memory goes - "Remove from the group" and "delete everywhere" are separate choices - Notifications are per group PLACES YOU WANT TO GO, TOGETHER - Share "want to go" pins with your group - Been there? Turn the pin into a memory — the name, note, photo and link all carry over - Your own pin clears itself; pins other people added stay, for members who haven't been yet - Open any pin in Maps or Google Maps ALSO IN THE APP - Four ways to look back: Home, Timeline, Map, and Library - Year in review, a world map, and a travel passport - Tag filters, widgets, and reminders on the anniversary of a memory - No ads WHAT'S FREE - Keeping memories is unlimited — both how many, and how many photos in each - Joining groups you're invited to, and receiving everyone's memories, is unlimited too - You can share up to 15 memories of your own (3 photos each). Unshare one and the slot comes back - You can create up to 5 groups (family, trips, clubs — keep them separate) MEMORY LOG PRO (one-time purchase) - Share unlimited memories with your groups - Share up to 99 photos per memory (up from 3) - Create as many groups as you like - Backup and restore, travel footprints, PDF photo books, and recap cards - Face ID lock, original-photo cleanup, and notification and widget options Keep the places you went, together.

Screenshots

Pintale4 screens
Memory Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Memory Log at none against Pintale's shown. Pintale's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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. Pintale sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Memory Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pintale ships an update every 3 days, Memory Log every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 4 level
Pintale versus Memory Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPintaleMemory Log
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreatom LLCHaruo Nakayama

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pintale

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$2.991 Month
1 purchases

Memory Log

One-time1
  • Memory Log Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Pintale free?
Pintale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Log free?
Memory Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pintale or Memory Log have ads?
Pintale shows ads; Memory Log does not.
Which is updated more often, Pintale or Memory Log?
Pintale ships an update every 3 days, and Memory Log every 4 days. Most recently, Pintale was updated on October 31, 2026 and Memory Log on November 1, 2026.

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