Comparison

Remember vs Blinking

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

Blinking

This app offers a minimalist approach to journaling and reflection, providing a distraction-free workspace to capture daily thoughts and track habits. It features offline processing for complete privacy and offers spoken notifications and shareable graphic cards.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free 'My Day' workspace
  • Captures daily priorities, notes, and habit summaries
  • Spoken voice notifications for routines
  • Elegant shareable graphic cards
  • Offline visual insights and analytics
  • 100% private and offline processing
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Traditional note apps get cluttered, and daily journaling takes too much time. Welcome to Blinking — a quiet place to assemble life. Designed for minimalist productivity and mindful self-reflection, Blinking removes the friction of long-form writing. It gives you a calm, distraction-free 'My Day" workspace to capture what matters right now, ensuring your thoughts never get lost in the noise. NEW IN VERSION 1.2.0: - Spoken Voice Notifications: Toggle the speaker icon next to any routine in your daily summary to hear your habits announced out loud—built to keep you focused without staring at a screen. - Minimalist Share Cards: Instantly turn any daily priority, note, or milestone into an elegant graphic card to share with your circle. CORE FEATURES: - My Day Workspace: A single, unified view tracking your daily calendar, blinking notes, and habit summaries side-by-side. - Active Visual Anchors: Our signature blinking mechanic acts as a gentle, unmissable reminder of your primary focus throughout the day. - Offline Visual Insights: Track your behavioral trends over time with clean, built-in analytics charts. 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE Your privacy is our absolute priority. All text inputs, calendar logs, and habit charts are processed entirely on your phone's local hardware chip. Zero data is tracked, collected, or transmitted to an external server. Even your voice notifications are rendered completely on-device. YOUR 21-DAY EXPEDITION: Enjoy full, unrestricted access to every premium feature for 21 days completely free. If you love having a private space to organize your mind, unlock permanent lifetime access with a simple, one-time purchase of $19.99. No subscriptions, no hidden fees.

Screenshots

Remember4 screens
Blinking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Remember at 5 against Blinking's 1. Blinking's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Blinking 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 Blinking. 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. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remember ships an update every 10 days, Blinking every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Remember versus Blinking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRememberBlinking
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian Dr. KlepperOrbace Technologies LLC

Customer experience

Remember

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blinking

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remember

One-time1
  • Remember Plus$3.99
1 purchases

Blinking

One-time1
  • Blinking Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Remember free?
Remember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blinking free?
Blinking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remember or Blinking?
Remember and Blinking are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Remember or Blinking have ads?
Neither Remember nor Blinking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remember or Blinking?
Remember ships an update every 10 days, and Blinking every 3 weeks. Most recently, Remember was updated on September 14, 2026 and Blinking on September 11, 2026.

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