Comparison

Remember vs Lately

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

Head to head
About

Remember

This app helps you capture and organize your life experiences with GPS location, personal notes, and custom categories. All your memories are saved on an interactive map for easy exploration and retrieval. Enjoy a private and secure journaling experience without ads or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • Automatic GPS location tagging
  • Interactive map of experiences
  • 100 customizable categories
  • Journal entries with title and text
  • Star ratings for experiences
  • Filter and search functionality
  • 100% private and secure data storage
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Remember is your modern journal for the 21st century. Capture your most beautiful moments — with GPS location, categories and personal notes. All your experiences are saved on an interactive map, ready to explore anytime. Start free — no account, no sign-up. YOUR EXPERIENCES ON THE MAP Every activity is automatically pinned on the map. Discover your personal world map of experiences. AUTOMATIC GPS LOCATION Remember detects your location automatically. No manual typing needed — just create an activity and go. JOURNAL WITH TITLE AND TEXT Write down your thoughts, memories and experiences. Your personal diary, always with you. 30 FREE CATEGORIES — 100 WITH PLUS From hiking to restaurants to concerts — the perfect category for every moment. With vibrant icons and colors. Start with 29 categories for free. RATINGS Rate your experiences with 1–5 stars. Find your highlights at a glance. FILTER & SEARCH Filter by category and find every moment instantly. YOUR DATA BELONGS TO YOU No ads. No account. No cloud. All data stays on your iPhone — 100% private and secure. REMEMBER PLUS Unlock unlimited activities and all 100 categories — once for €4.99. No subscription. No hidden costs. Start today and capture your most beautiful moments forever.

About

Lately

This app helps you stay in touch with the people who matter by tracking when you last connected. Set custom contact cadences and receive reminders for who to reach out to next. It offers a private, offline experience with optional iCloud syncing.

Highlights
  • Custom contact cadences
  • Overdue contact reminders
  • Private contact notes and timeline
  • Offline-first design
  • iCloud syncing
  • Rolodex-style interface
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Lately is an address book that tracks who you're overdue to reach out to. Set a cadence for each person (ex: weekly, monthly, yearly) and Lately tells you who's next. The whole app is one screen: your people, sorted by who you've been out of touch with the longest. Each person has a timer based on the cadence you set. Tap their name when you've reached out and they drop to the bottom. Cadences are flexible. Weekly for your mom, quarterly for your college roommate, yearly for the mentor you still owe a thank-you. When you log a catch-up, you can add a one-line note ("texted about her new job"). Those notes build into a private timeline for each person you can scroll back through years later. Notifications Push notifications are off by default. The list sits there with your overdue people at the top whenever you open it. Turn push on in settings only if you want them. Privacy This isn't a social app. Nobody follows anyone, there's no feed to scroll, and your data never leaves your phone except to sync to your other devices through your own iCloud. We don't run a server, so there's nothing on our end to leak or monetize. Pricing Free for up to three people. $4.99 unlocks unlimited people and birthday reminders, paid once. That's the only purchase in the app. Design Laid out like a physical address book: Instrument Serif for names, Inter for the small type, one ink color. Drag the alphabet rail on the side and the home screen flips into a rolodex. Who it's for If you've thought "I should really text them back" three months running, this is for you. Lately is an address book that stays on your phone, not rented from a company that makes its money by knowing who you know. It works for any kind of friendship or family tie worth maintaining.

Screenshots

Remember4 screens
Lately4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Remember at 5 against Lately's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Remember sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lately sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Remember against 5.0 for Lately. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remember has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remember ships an update every 10 days, Lately fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Remember versus Lately: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRememberLately
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian Dr. KlepperJacob Weeces

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remember

One-time1
  • Remember Plus$3.99
1 purchases

Lately

One-time1
  • Unlock everything$4.99

Questions

Is Remember free?
Remember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lately free?
Lately is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remember or Lately?
Remember and Lately are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Remember or Lately have ads?
Neither Remember nor Lately shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remember or Lately?
Remember ships an update every 10 days, and Lately fortnightly. Most recently, Remember was updated on September 14, 2026 and Lately on September 11, 2026.

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